Vocabulary LEAP 3 Unit 3 - Assignment by Yilong Chen

1. definition:

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a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something

1. definition:

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a number that has a fixed value in a given situation or universally or that is characteristic of some substance or instrument

2. collocation:

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attribute success
example sentence:

He attributes its success to its topical political allusions.

attribute increase
example sentence:

 it had been 15 years earlier, and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years.

attribute lack
example sentance:

training seriously at least four times a week and attributed her total lack of educational qualifications to her athletic indulgences.

2. collocation:

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constant sttream
example sentance:

 There was a constant stream of visitors.

constant rate
example sentance:

 The increase has not been at a constant rate.

constant pressure
example sentance:

    This constant pressure on the spine is the main reason for people `shrinking' with age.

3. word families

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nothing

3. word families

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constant (adj)
constantly(adv)

4. picture

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4. picture

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5. story

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Some 50 years ago, NASA was struggling with how to write in space.It is well known that space is a vacuum state, and neither pen nor ballpoint pen can be used.They put offers in the newspapers and asked people across the country to come up with pens with special attributes to deal with the vacuum.In a short time, tens of thousands of letters were sent to the space agency from all over the country, but no solution satisfied the experts.Finally, the problem was solved when the expert turned to a letter from an eight-year-old boy.There was no precise drawing in the letter, only one sentence: Why not try a pencil?

5. story

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After the storm, two sailors were washed to a desert island.They had no food, so they prayed to God.God gave them a fishing rod and a pile of fish and said to them: this rod will catch one fish every two days, this is the constant.However, you can only choose one from the inside.The sailors each got what they wanted.A day later, the sailor who had chosen his pole failed to catch his fish and starved to death. A week later, the sailor who had chosen a pile of fish starved to death.A month later, two more sailors were washed up on the island, and God gave them the same choice.Unlike the previous group, the sailor with the fish Shared the fish with the sailor with the rod, and when they caught the fish they Shared it with each other.For two weeks they waited for help to arrive.