2012年12月8日
1. What would you suggest to somebody if he was planning to come to your country to study abroad? Give details and examples to support your response. Begin your response after the beep.
There are three things that I would suggest if he was planning on studying in China. First, he should bring medicine that he uses at home, because foreigners sometimes get sick from Chinese food, and they are not that used to Chinese medicine. Another thing I would suggest is that he should bring gifts from his country, which represents its local culture, such as handcraft goods or paintings. In this way, he can share his culture with his Chinese friends and make more friends by giving them these gifts. The third suggestion is to read and learn everything he needs to know about China before he comes, such as Chinese culture, Chinese eating habits and famous tourist sites he should visit. These are the three things I would suggest to somebody planning on coming to China.
2. Do you think that people will read fewer books in the future than today? Give details and examples to support your response. Begin your response after the beep.
I think in the future people will read just as many books as they do now. What I think will change is that instead of printed books, people will be more likely to read electronic books. With the advent of technology, peoples’ reading habits have changed. Instead of reading newspapers and magazine, people simply search for subjects online and find out news that way. However that is not the case with books. People looking to read for pleasure still pick up a novel to read. I also think that even if a few people choose different writing formats over books, there will still be countless students who are assigned books to read. Yes there will be some students who will read the summary online, but students nowadays do that anyway, so nothing will have changed.
3.学校准备建一个art building。女生同意，因为可以容纳更多的学生上课，她去年选课就选不上，还有更大的screen看老师show pictures and sculptures可以更清晰。
解析：
阅读材料：学校要建(build)一个art building。
听力材料：女生态度，同意(agree, for…)。
理由一：可以容纳(accommodate)更多学生，女生举例去年就因为空间小选课没有选上。
理由二：可以有更大的screen，这样看老师show pictures and sculptures可以更清晰(clearer)。
按照以上主线将听力材料组织完全即可。
4. promotion risk. 听力举的例子是一个software designer因为工作很好，就升职做了supervisor of xxx department，但是这个人很擅长设计软件，但是不擅长管理，不能在deadline之前完成工作，不能motivate其他员工，但是又不能给他 降职，会让他很没面子，因而公司要承担给他升职的风险。
解析：
阅读材料：中心词是promotion risk，记录下该术语的definition或者explanation
听力材料：教授举例。
答题：按照阅读笔记复述术语概念，按照听力笔记将该例子复述即可。注意promotion risk与例子之间的联系。
5.男生的band需要找新的场地训练，一个选择是租music studio，但是很贵，第二是music building还是什么，时间上有问题，白天不能练习，晚上也不能练习太晚。。。
解析：
问题：男生的band需要找新的场地训练。
解决一：rent a music studio
解决二：practice in the music building
答题：陈述问题及两个解决方案之后，可以选择第一个方案，因为在music building里面练习时间很短，并且music studio的费用问题可以很简单地通过成员part-time job来搞定，不用担心经费问题。
6. 动物孵蛋孵卵需要moisture，有两种为卵keep moist的方式。青蛙把卵产在水里，水可以很容易进入卵，使卵保持moist。蛇蛋的shell有特殊的structure可以锁住水分所以就算下到干旱的地方也无所谓。
解析：
主题：动物孵蛋孵卵需要moisture，教授介绍了两种保湿的方法(the professor introduces two ways of keeping moist)。
方法一：青蛙把卵产在水里，水可以很容易进入卵，使卵保持moist。
方法二：蛇蛋的shell有特殊的structure可以锁住水分所以就算下到干旱的地方也无所谓。
按照听力笔记将两个方法完整叙述即可。