2014年8月23日
Speaking
独立口语A卷 Independent Speaking A
Task 1: Your university of planning to replace paper books with electronic books, what is the advantage and disadvantage of this plan?
Task 2: Do you agree or disagree with the statement that it’s easier to teach primary school students than to teach university students.
综合口语A卷 Integrated Speaking A
Task 3
Modem literature has become more and more popular, so the university has adopted two approaches to enroll more students. The first way is to change small classrooms into bigger ones, the second way is have more session in the evening.
The man disagrees with this. Firsily because it is more convenient to have group discussions in small classroom, secondly because some students have part time jobs in the evening, they may lack time to aft end the class.
Task 4
The sellers offer discounts during promotion period to appeal customers, then after big sales they start to charge to make profits.
In the lecture, the professor uses an example of gym to explain how effective the strategy is. During sales season, members can get free tutoring, but this free policy stops after a month. Surprisingly, most of the customers continue this service and the gym actually increases its customer basis.
Task 5
A girl was in bad mood because she made a vase in ceramic class and was supposed to hand in on Wednesday but unfortunately she broke it into pieces this morning.
Solution 1: glue it together as the pieces are not tiny, but she’s afraid that the professor will discover and give her a low score
Solution 2: make a new one but she has a final test for another course which she really needs to prepare.
Task 6
The professor talks about two ways how sea bottom dwellers feed themselves
The first way is active method. For example, sea anemoneQ#) camouflages into plant and parasite on other sea animals and the host will release poisonous chemicals, so sea anemone can prey easily
The second way is passive method. For example, oysters don’t move a lot but wait for tiny organism sent by sea water and waves.