Task 3
Reading
Proposal: The university should require business students to take aninternship.
Reason 1: Students can acquire a lot of useful skills and experiences fromthese kinds of internships.
Reason 2: The university could provide financial aid for students given thatsome students won’t get paid from the internship.
Conversation
Man disagrees
Reason 1: Not all the internships are going to be as productive as the onementioned by the letter. (阅读材料中有提到一个internship的例子说这段经历怎么怎么好，而听力第一点则攻击的这一点。男生在听力中用了his brother’s experience 作为例子。) His brother did the same thing last summer, but all he did was printing stuff and running small errands. He didn’tget much out of the experience.
Reason 2: The university is not likely to provide funding for students, it’susually the other way around.
Sample answer:
A student has written a letter to propose that business majorstudents should be required to take an internship. Because students can get alot of useful skills and experiences from it. And the university could providefinancial aid for students with an unpaying internship. But the man in theconversation disagrees with the proposal. First of all, he doesn’t think thatall the students can acquire a lot from the experience. He uses his brother’sinternship as an example. His brother did the same thing last summer, but allhe did was printing stuff and running small errands, he never had to doanything important. So, he didn’t get much out of this experience. Also, theman doesn’t think it’s possible for the university to give money to students.It’s usually the other way around. So the second reason in the letter isn’tvery realistic.
敲黑板：这道第三题的信息量稍微有点大，听力的第一个理由中包含一个举例，例子里还有一些细节(printing stuff & running small errands)，要听懂并记下还是有一定难度的。另外，考试时我特别注意了一下，这道第三题阅读时间有50秒，可能是因为阅读文章稍微有点长。
Task 4
Reading
Theory: End-of-historyIllusion
Definition: Even though people’s attitudes and thoughts towards certain thingshave changed in the past, they’d still think their attitudes wouldn’t change inthe future.
阅读文章比较绕，讲的内容基本上就是即便人们在从过去到现在对某些事物的看法改变了，但人们仍然不会觉得在将来他们对这些事物的看法会发生改变。这样的一种错觉就叫做End-of-history Illusion. 看阅读的时候可能会觉得有些懵，但接下来听完听力就会很清晰啦!
注意：这篇文章的阅读时间也是50秒哦
Lecture: 讲座基本上讲的就是一个经典实验。不同年龄的人(participantswith a wide range of ages) 参加了一个实验，实验中让他们描述自己十年前喜欢听的歌或者是喜欢的乐队。然后再问他们现在喜欢的歌和乐队这种，然后会发现基本上大家现在喜欢的和原来喜欢的都不一样了，但是当人们被问到十年之后是否还会喜欢现在你喜欢的这些歌的时候，基本上人们都还是觉得自己十年之后还是会喜欢它们的。
Sample answer:
In the lecture, the professor uses the example of an experiment toillustrate the concept of the end-of-history illusion. In the experiment,participants with a wide range of ages were asked to describe the type of musicand bands they loved listening to 10 years ago. And then when the researchersasked them if they were still listening to these songs, most of them said no,that they had begun listening to different kinds of songs. But when they wereasked if they would still like the songs they were listening to now 10 yearslater. Most people thought that they would, when, in fact, their attitudesabout the songs have changed in the past 10 years. And that is theend-of-history illusion, which means people would believe their thoughts andattitudes towards certain things won’t change in the future even though thesethings have changed in the past.
这是一道听力中只有单个例子的第四题，非常考察大家描述例子以及把控时间的能力，好在例子本身比较好理解。一般我们说在第四题看阅读的时候可能会是这样的状态：
但是不要担心，耐心听完听力之后，会对阅读材料理解得深刻很多!
Task 5
Problem:男生时一个reporter，在学校的一个journal工作，他们每周都会有一次meeting(once a week);本来这周的会是今天晚上开，但是editor临时通知会改到明天晚上开了;但与此同时他明天晚上已经说好了要去听一个朋友所在乐队的concert.
Solution1: 不听concert去开会
Cons1:他的朋友非常希望他去听，并且他已经和朋友说好了。
Solution2:不开会去听concert
Pros2: editor已经说了没关系，因为这件事情确实通知得很紧急。
Cons2:上周男生因为生病就没去开会，他不想连着两周不去。
Sample answer：
The man in the conversation has a problem.He works as a reporter in a school journal. And they have a meeting once aweek. This week’s meeting was supposed to be held tonight, but the editorchange it to tomorrow night in the last minute. However, the man has alreadypromised his friend that he would go to his band’s concert tomorrow night. Nowhe could either attend the meeting or he could go to see his friend’s concert.Personally speaking, I would recommend him to go to the concert. Because he hasalready made a promise to his friend. And his friend would be reallydisappointed if he doesn’t show up. On the other hand, since it’s a last-minutechange, it’s really not his fault that he has to miss two meetings in a row.Besides, the editor already said it’s ok. So, I think he should go to the concert.
描述第五题问题时一定要记得把背景也要说清楚，而在说解决方案时可以把优劣势留到论述偏好的时候去讲，否则很容易答不完哦!
Task 6
Main Concept: strong winds 会对鸟类的飞翔产生很大的影响，强风会让鸟儿们更难飞行，所以引出了鸟类的两种应对机制
Theory1: change the position of their wings
Sample1: eagles , 一般他们飞的时候their wings are stretched out，但如果有强风，他们就会收起翅膀(fold their wings for about half a second)变成一个streamline shape, 减少风的影响，而后又把翅膀打开，继续滑翔
Theory2: change the way they move
Sample2: hummingbirds 当有强风时 they would move their tailsback and forth to balance their bodies against the wind, 这样他们就不会受强风影响可以一直停留在花的位置去踩食了
Sample answer:
So,basically, strong winds can sometimes make it hard for birds to fly because itcreates a lot of resistance. So, birds have developed certain ways to cope withthis. And the professor in the lecture talks about two of them. The first wayis to change the position of their wings. For examples, eagles, normally theirwings are stretched out when flying. But when they encounter strong winds, theywould fold their wings for about half a second to form a streamline shape inorder to reduce the resistance. And then they would stretch out their wingsagain to keep gliding. The second way is for birds to change the way they move.For instance, when hummingbirds are drinking nectar from flowers when there arestrong winds, they would move their tails back and forth to balance theirbodies against the wind so that they could drink the nectar without beingaffected by the wind.
最后还要说的一点是，口语考试不仅仅要注意答题的内容，还有很重要的一点是大家的发音和语调，也就是我们说的打分标准中的delivery哦。所以也要记得平时多练习自己的发音啦!
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