On Sunday, we went to SF zoo with some friends.
Henry knew most animals now and were still very curious about them.
Last time he was 6 months old and could not recognize most of the animals.
The weather was the same as it was last time, cloudy and cold.
2009年10月13日 星期二
Manhattan Gmat Preparation
Finish 1 CAT test. Score is improved. Maybe Manhattan test is easier than other publishers.
There are still more work to be done.
There are still more work to be done.
2009年10月4日 星期日
10-4-2009 Bike Ride
It looks like a good day for a ride. It was a bit chilly though.
Today another friend joined the ride, Kelvin, who is a dentist.
According to him, he used to ride bike long time ago, and stopped riding after marriage.
Eddie and I rode to meet Kelvin near his home. It is about 5 mile distance.
Unfortunately, Eddie got a flat tire again. He noticed it before the ride started and decided to continue it. He stopped the ride earlier than us.
Kelvin and I rode the bikes on the same trail as I did last time.
Starting ...
Look like a nice day...
Home Start time: 9:10 am
Today another friend joined the ride, Kelvin, who is a dentist.
According to him, he used to ride bike long time ago, and stopped riding after marriage.
Eddie and I rode to meet Kelvin near his home. It is about 5 mile distance.
Unfortunately, Eddie got a flat tire again. He noticed it before the ride started and decided to continue it. He stopped the ride earlier than us.
Kelvin and I rode the bikes on the same trail as I did last time.
Starting ...
Look like a nice day...
Home End time: 12:30 pm
2009年10月3日 星期六
GMAT questions
- According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults,
- Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization
- Never before had taxpayers conmfornted
- Most state constitutions now
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as it was of earlier generations.
- Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization
that flourished at the same the as the civilizationsin the Nile delta and the river valleys of the Tigrie and Euphrates.
- Never before had taxpayers conmfornted
as many changes at once as they confornted inthe Tax Reform Act of 1986.
- Most state constitutions now
mandate that the stat budget be balancedeach year.
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2009年10月1日 星期四
GMAT preparation ...
Chapter 3:
- Make sure that the sentence has both a subject and a working verb.
- If you can remove a phrase from the sentence, and the sentence still makes sense, the phrase is likely to be a middleman or warmup.
- Even though they represent groups, collective nouns are almost always considered singular.
- When you look for the subject, do not forget to look after the verb: the subject and the verb could be inverted.
- Confusing subjects are more often singular than plural. Therefore, they usually require singular verb forms.
- Make sure that the sentence has both a subject and a working verb.
- If you can remove a phrase from the sentence, and the sentence still makes sense, the phrase is likely to be a middleman or warmup.
- Even though they represent groups, collective nouns are almost always considered singular.
- When you look for the subject, do not forget to look after the verb: the subject and the verb could be inverted.
- Confusing subjects are more often singular than plural. Therefore, they usually require singular verb forms.
GMAT preparation progress 9/30/09
- Using accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted ...
- The Iroquois were primarily planters, although they supplemented their cultivation of maize, squash and beans with fishing and hunting.
- Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun's poles or equator.
- double the figure
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Sentence Correction by Manhattan GMAT... hopefully finish in two- three weeks.
I will try to note down some summary .
Extracted from the book,
Chapter 1
- Do not rewrite the sentence in your own words! You must choose the best answer choice from among those available.
- Usually, the easiest slits to spot are at the beginning or end of the answer choices.
- Most sentence Correction problems test multiple issues of grammar and style. During the exam, you need only one path to the right answer.
- Make sure that the answer you choose works in the sentence as a whole.
Chapter 2
- Even though a sentence may sound natural, it may not be grammatically correct according to the rules of SWE.
- The right answer will always clearly reflect what the author meant to say.
- Little words, such as helping verbs, are extremely important to the meaning. Do not overlook them.
- Sometimes, changing the position of a single word can alter the meaning of an entire sentence.
- Words that are connected in a sentence, such as subjects and verbs or pronouns antecedents, must always make sense together.
- If two words in a GMAT sentence mean the same thing, check the sentence for redundancy. Only one of the words may be necessary.
- If you can express an action as either a verb or a noun, pick the verb. It will be shorter and stronger.
- The verb is the "engine" of a sentence. By picking a verb over a noun or adjective, you are making the engine stronger.
- Since adjectives are designed to modify nouns, they often do so more concisely than longer phrases.
- In some situations, the verb to be is unnecessary. Run an "Elimination BE" to get rid of excess occurrences of be.
- Avoid making the sentence too short. You might change the meaning of the sentence dramatically.
- Certain small words and phrases, such as That after a verb or That of /Those of, may be essential in the sentence.
- As you apply the Concision principle, avoid redundancy and wordiness, but don't make it too short.
- The Iroquois were primarily planters, although they supplemented their cultivation of maize, squash and beans with fishing and hunting.
- Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun's poles or equator.
- double the figure
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Sentence Correction by Manhattan GMAT... hopefully finish in two- three weeks.
I will try to note down some summary .
Extracted from the book,
Chapter 1
- Do not rewrite the sentence in your own words! You must choose the best answer choice from among those available.
- Usually, the easiest slits to spot are at the beginning or end of the answer choices.
- Most sentence Correction problems test multiple issues of grammar and style. During the exam, you need only one path to the right answer.
- Make sure that the answer you choose works in the sentence as a whole.
Chapter 2
- Even though a sentence may sound natural, it may not be grammatically correct according to the rules of SWE.
- The right answer will always clearly reflect what the author meant to say.
- Little words, such as helping verbs, are extremely important to the meaning. Do not overlook them.
- Sometimes, changing the position of a single word can alter the meaning of an entire sentence.
- Words that are connected in a sentence, such as subjects and verbs or pronouns antecedents, must always make sense together.
- If two words in a GMAT sentence mean the same thing, check the sentence for redundancy. Only one of the words may be necessary.
- If you can express an action as either a verb or a noun, pick the verb. It will be shorter and stronger.
- The verb is the "engine" of a sentence. By picking a verb over a noun or adjective, you are making the engine stronger.
- Since adjectives are designed to modify nouns, they often do so more concisely than longer phrases.
- In some situations, the verb to be is unnecessary. Run an "Elimination BE" to get rid of excess occurrences of be.
- Avoid making the sentence too short. You might change the meaning of the sentence dramatically.
- Certain small words and phrases, such as That after a verb or That of /Those of, may be essential in the sentence.
- As you apply the Concision principle, avoid redundancy and wordiness, but don't make it too short.
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