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	本週課文介紹	Columbus the Culinary Courier All About the World Games Global Food Quandary
	英語達人	英語達人
	Vocabulary Focus	open to debate, unprecedented, vice versa...
	活動快遞	促銷商品

Columbus the Culinary Courier

FOOD / 2009 April 27, 28

The New World brought about new foods

哥倫布發現「美食」新大陸

新大陸帶來全新的食物

What if Christopher Columbus had missed the New World? For those of us whose families hailed from outside the Americas that would have meant, among other things, no ketchup, no chocolate bars and no potato chips. Whether that would have been for good or ill is, like the impact of Columbus' voyages, still open to debate among culinarians and historians…

All About the World Games

SPORTS / 2009 April 29, 30 From korfball to canoe polo: It's all at the 2009 World Games 喜迎高雄世運從合球到輕艇水球：二○○九年「世運」動起來...


Global Food Quandary
WORLD / 2009 May 1, 2 More people and less food are leading to a major crisis 全球糧食緊缺的困境地球上人口愈來愈多，食物卻愈來愈欠缺，導致食物危機爆發... [詳全文]

英語達人

Q1: accessible (adj) a) unreasonable b) cheerful c) impossible d) available Q2: venue (n) a) place b) automobile c) menu d) reality 解答請至《活動快遞》

open to debate, unprecedented, vice versa...

open to debate (idiom) referring to something that is unresolved and still being discussed 有待公開討論；可受公評 This issue is still open to debate. The group was not able to come to an agreement about it. unprecedented (adj) never having happened or existed in the past 史無前例的；空前的 Arthur does not know what to do because he is facing an unprecedented problem. vice versa (adv) indicating that what you have just said is also true in the opposite order 反之亦然 On Saturday we can go to dinner and then see a movie, or vice versa. teeming (adj) filled with the activity of many people or things 熱鬧的 New York City is a teeming city, full of people and activity. It's known as "the city that never sleeps." hub (n) the central or main part of something where there is the most activity 樞紐；中心 Taipei Main Station is the central hub for public transportation in Taipei.