Task 1
Your friend has been offered a job that's far away from his hometown. Do you think he should take it or not? Give specific reasons and details to support your response.
参考范文：I don't think he should start a job that's far away from home town for the following reasons. First, working far away from hometown means leaving his families and friends. And that might be hard to deal with if he ever runs into troubles. He won't have someone close to talk about his problems and get advice he need. Second, working far away from hometown means he has to adopt to a whole new life style. Such as getting use to new food or foreign cultures.
Task 2
Do you agree or disagree that teachers should encourage students to have class discussions during class? Give specific reasons and details in your response.
参考范文：I agree with the statement that teachers should be encourage students to have discussions during class. First, students will have better concentration if they speak up during class. Discussion keeps students fully focused on the topic. They might get distracted if the teacher going on and on without giving students a chance to speak. Second, students get to learn how to speak in public from doing class discussions. And these communicating skill will come in handing after they graduate.
Task 3
【讲座主题】The school is planning to set quiet time at 10:00 pm in the student dorms
【原 因】(1) cut down noise made my students ;(2)reduce conflicts between student
【学生态度】Woman agrees with the policy
【同意原因】(1)it can reduce the noise in the dorms. She has to study in the library now because the dorm is too noisy with all the parties going on. If this policy goes through, she can get things done in the dorms. And students can go to bed earlier, and get ready for early classes;(2)her friend had some arguments with her roommate because her roommate always listen to music at a high volume, she complained but the roommate won’t turn it down. It will make student’s life easier if University make the new plan a reality.
Task 4
【讲座主题】Impact Bias
【内容讲解】people have inaccurate expectations of the impact certain event will have on them. Both the intensity and how long it would last
【1个例子】The professors daughter wanted to apply to this University because her best friends are applying and the University’s got a great educational program. She thought he life will be ruined if she didn’t get it. It turns out she wasn’t accepted. She got very upset about it. But she was busy taking care of her high school graduation and planning her summer vacation. Pretty soon she forgot about her misfortune of being rejected by the school, and move on with her life.
Task 5
【一个问题】the man is invited to go to a conference in NYC with the professor he’s been working with, but only hotel will be covered, he will have to pay for transportation himself.
【解决方案】(1) he can buy a flight ticket and fly to NYC . Pro: meet people, opportunity to learn, more time to be prepared for presentation . Con: expensive ; (2) take the train to NYC . Pro: save some money. Con: train ride takes one day, he will miss an important class
Task 6
【讲座主题】The professor talks about how animals that doesn’t live underwater do to stay under the water.
【2种方式】(1) reduce movement in order to save oxygen. For example, alligators hunt under water by staying very still, basically no movement. In doing so, it can cut down heart rate, therefore cut down the need for more oxygen; (2)minimize the time spent under water. For example, brown pelican dives down to catch fish in the water. It doesn’t go to deep, and it has air sacks that open when in the water. That will help the pelican to get back to the surface as fast as possible for oxygen.