2014年12月28日
Task 1: Your friend often feels nervous when speaking in front of a large group of people. What suggestions would you give him?
Sample
The following suggestions can be useful for someone who has stage fright. First, practice makes perfect. Don’t waste any chance to speak in public. He or she can start with an environment that’s not so intimidating, try giving a little talk at a family dinner first. When it’s time, move on to giving a presentation in class. Sooner or later, this person will be able to speaking in front of strangers. Second, be prepared for the speech. This means he or she should take the time write a draft, get the slides in order and rehears at the speech location if possible.
Task 2: When you take a trip, do you prefer to just look around, or do you prefer to take pictures and keep a journal on the trip.
Sample
I like taking lots of pictures on my trips. First, I enjoy taking photos. It’s even more fun taking photos at a place that I’m new to. When I’m visiting a new city, I get to see colors, shapes and lines that are so different than what I’m familiar with, they inspire me to take better pictures. Second, our memory is very limited and unreliable. We will forget about the things we did and the people we met in a week or so if we don’t have some kind of record. And these record can be shared with our friends and families too, it’s better to show them the highlights of our trip rather than just speak about them in words.
Task 3
A student proposes that the school should allow students to drink beverages in the library because students need coffee or tea to refresh their mind while reading in the library, and that they will be careful not to spill any drink.
In conversation, the woman disagrees with the proposal. First, there is a cafe near the library. Taking a few minutes off from the library and having a little walk is a good way to relax. Also, accidents do happen sometimes no matter how careful you’re, so in the long run, there will be stains on the books or damage to the computer.
Task 4
Information overload: amount of information exceeds people’s capacity to process it.
The professor gives two examples. First, when a company recruits, they might receive a lot of applications on the first day, but they don’t have time to go through every application, so they only look at some important information and ignore the rest. Second, sometimes when people receive too much information, like when they are recommended too many materials, they might just not look at anything at all.
Task 5
Problem: The woman is too busy with her study and part-time job to work out at the gym.
Solution 1: She can bike to school instead of taking the bus, but it takes a long time and it’s hot outside.
Solution 2: She can get up early to go to the gym and take a shower afterwards, but she doesn’t want to get up that early.
Task 6
The professor talks about two way animals in Arctic adapt themselves to the cold weather.
The first is basking. For example, butterflies open their wings to absorb solar energy to keep warm.
The second is freezing tolerance. For example, flies can freeze the water inside their body and release special chemicals to protect their body.
(编辑：Kitty)