2014年9月27，希望对各位考生的备考有所帮助，祝每位烤鸭考试顺利，都能取得好成绩！
A套
Task3
Writing Center change
The author of the letter supports the changes in writing center. There are two changes, the first one is to hire more tutors, the second one is to open the center at weekends.
In the conversation, the woman agrees with this idea. Since there are only two tutors now, students always have to wait for a long time especially during the semester when there are so many paper to submit. The center will be not overcrowded if it’s open on weekends and those students who have no classes and no work to do can handle their paper on weekends.
Task4
The reading passage talks about a concept of psychology- Magnification, which means people always focus on negative affects but over lock positive things.
The professor uses an example of his son. His son loved acting and once he got a chance to play a big role in a play. The professor and his wife went to see his performance and enjoyed it a lot. But the boy told them that he had forgotten a few lines and considered him not to be a good actor. His sense of frustration was so strong that he gave up another chance to perform in the following semester.
Task 5
The woman’s problem is her father is staying away for a while and he will have a dinner with her, and then go to the theater after dinner. But there will be a biology test the next day.
There are two solutions.
1. cancel the dinner.
Pro: she has sufficient time to prepare the test
Con: she hasn’t seen his father for a long time and she misses his dad
2. go to the dinner but do not go to the theater.
Pro: meet his father and still have some time to prepare the test
Con: she might be tired after the dinner and the time left is little
Task6
The professor talks about two behaviors that help animals in tropical habitat survive in canopy.
1. Searching for food alone.
For example, apes. They eat plants that are scattered in large area. If they hunt for food alone，they will forage enough food, but if they do in groups, food will not be enough.
2.Making sound to mark their territories.
For example, monkeys. They have their own territory. If other animals intrude, they will make sounds. But sometimes because of the shade in the forest, animals can hardly seen the territory, so there might be unintentional intrusion, which will cause fight and injury. So the sound made by monkeys serves as a reminder to other animals.
B套
T3
The university is going to remove the vendor in student dormitory building because it sells junk food, which is bad for the students’ health and the student can go to the store off campus to buy food if they want.
The woman disagrees with it. First, it’s inconvenient to go to off campus store because students do not have enough break time and the junk food could be replaced by healthy food in the machine. Second, the shops outside of school usually close before 10 pm. It would be terrible if the students cannot buy food and stay hungry after they finish self-study.
T4
The generation effect
The professor gives an example of two commercials selling soft drink.
In the first commercial, the brand name is repeated several times but people being tested still cannot remember it. In the second commercial, the brand name is still repeated, but there’s a question in the end: what is the name of the drink? Then people would remember the name of the drink.
T5
The man’s problem is he has a heavy study load next term, he is concerned about whether he could balance the editor work with his study.
There are two solutions. First is to resign the editor job. But it’s useful. Second is to take the course in summer. But he has planed to go outing with his friends.
T6
The lecture talks about two ways marine animals to be buoyant.
The first one is to use special fin. For example, sharks. Fins not only help to swim but also have the power to push forward.
The second one is to use fish bubble. For example, pike. Even if the bubbles cannot help to swim, but they could help to keep float.