Hot Potato Exercise

I learned to use Hot Potato today and made a web page~

Here is the link of this quiz.

http://uk3.hotpotatoes.net/ex/148556/BIPXLZRJ.php

Research in COCA

COCA is an acronym for Corpus Of Contemporary American English. I searched for 3 words in COCA.

1.Silhouette(n.)

Part of speech: noun

Meaning: a dark shape seen against a light surface

Grammar and rules: the silhouette of someone

                                             a silhouette against the sky/window

                                             an adj.(that describes body figure) +silhouette 

                                             like a slim/tall/feminine/masculine silhouette

Examples  from COCA: 

These suits look great and stand out because they create a more structured, 

masculine silhouette, " says Jin. " The overlapping front flaps trim your waist, and

As always the ancient redbrick structure stood steadfast in the weather, 

a black silhouette against the midnight sky. 

war. I could hear my mother out on the back porch sobbing, 

the silhouette of her shuddering body visible from the living room.

sweaters, perfect against the chilly night, and black wool hats. The tallest silhouette.

 Lieutenant Darby, who wore an FDNY baseball cap, and Lieutenant Rogers,

the back of the boat frozen. Behind us, I could make out her silhouette in the moonlight,

 her shoulders bobbing up and down as she paddled,

My sentence of the word:

The murder happened so fast that the victim's neighbor only had a glimpse of the

murderer's silhouette against the moonlight.

2.Linear(adj.)

Part of speech: adjective

Meaning: consisting of or to do with lines

Grammar and rules: linear correlation/association
                                              model/theory

Examples from COCA:

A multivariate linear correlation was conducted 

 however, the multivariate linear correlation analysis indicated that 

 This is not a linear model with students moving smoothly

Linear theory allows for

suggesting robust linear associations for reported loci

My sentence of the word:  

Evidence proves that A and B have no linear correlations.

3.Correspond(v.)

Part of speech: verb

Meaning: a. to match or be similar or equal;

                       b. to communicate by writing a letter or sending an email

Grammar and rules:  correspond to/with

                                        correspond with someone

Examples from COCA: 

 How these syllables correspond to asking if someone has been pleased

 Jesus chose 12 disciples, who correspond to the 12 tribes of Israel,

 locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity.

he remain in his home and not correspond " with any of the officers or others


My sentence of the word:

The term "Rashomon" is commonly used when an incident happened and

witnesses' words do not correspond with each other.

Welcome to my blog and know about me.

Today I registered a Blogger account and this is my first blog.

Majoring in English literature, I am currently a junior student in Soochow University in Taiwan.I come from mainland China and to be specific, my hometown is Dalian(a coastal city in northeast China).

I am the only child in my family and my parents cherish me a lot. I am very curious about the world outside my hometown, so I insisted going to another place for college, the further, the better. I feel very grateful that my parents respect my opinion on this choice.

I love playing table tennis.
I'm learning Japanese as my second foreign language nowadays.

In July 2013, I got an overall band score of 6.5 in IELTS.(L7,S6,R7,W6)

In December 2015, I got 940 in TOEIC.

And now I'm preparing for my second time of IELTS test because the last one has expired.