第一套
Task 1
Describe how cellphones change people’s lives.Please give your answer with specific examples and details
Task 2
Some people prefer to go to the same place for a vacation.Others prefer to go to different places and spend less time at each place.Which do you prefer?
Task 3
Reading—Announcement: the school is planning toprohibit students ride bicycles on campus because there could be accidents.Instead, the school would provide free bus service.
Listening—Attitude: 女生反对
Listening—Reason 1: 事故都是晚上发生的，白天很安全
Listening—Reason 2: Bus 一小时才来一班，太浪费时间
Task 4
Reading—Test Customer: in order to see whetheremployee’s performance, the employer might hire a ‘customer’ that makespurchases in the store just like regular customers do, then the hired‘customer’ reports to the employer about the employee’s performance.
Listening—一个餐厅的 manager找一个人当 test customer，来测试员工的服务是否到位。
Task 5
Problem: The women is attending a play, but she’sbusy with her school work, so she’s afraid that attending the play mightinfluence her academic performance.
Solution 1: Quit the play
Comment: she’s majoring in theater, and she is notattending the play just for fun, it’s beneficial for her career Solution 2: Drop some of the required classes, takethem next semester
Comment: she has to start over on these classes,it’s a lot of trouble
Task 6
总括：不同电影拍摄技术可以赋予角色不同的特点
观点 1：从 low angle 拍显得比较 powerful
例子 1：电影 Queen of England 中的 queen 就采用 lowangle 拍摄
观点 2：从 high angle 拍显得角色比较 powerless
例子 2：拍一个沙漠中的男人，如果俯拍就显得他 hopeless
第二套
Task 1
What do you think is the most significant benefitthat internet brings to our life? Explain why you think this benefit isimportant. Please include reasons and details to support your response.
Task 2
Do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement: people live healthier lives now than they did 100 years ago? Pleaseuse specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Task 3
reading： School will remove the posters on the concrete wall outside the student centre. first it can improve the appearence. second，posters can be put in the dining hall on the bulletin board.
listening：
woman：disagrees. first，the concrete wall would be boring without the changing posters. Different posters can show different personalities.
second，not everybody eating in the dining hall. students may choose to eat in the snack bar or on the street. So posters in the dining hall will not be noticed by them.
Task 4
Reading—Coloration warning: Animals havespecial color or other features that surprise/startle the predators, so thenext time when predators see them, they wouldn’t come close.
Listening—Skunk【臭 鼬】 The predator of skunk is wolf. When wolves approach, they would emita unique scent to drive the wolves away. Skunk has bold black and whitecoloration which makes their appearance memorable. So the next time when wolvessee skunk, they know to stay away in order to avoid being sprayed by the scent.
Task 5
problem： the man has a conflict ：he wants to attend a film discussion meeting tomorrow but he also has to dine with his cousin tomorrow.
two choices：
1 the woman dines with cousin for the man advantage：cousin will know more people disadvantage：the cousin is shy，dining with the woman may be uncomfortable.
2 the man will not attend the meeting. disadvantage：the film discussion meeting is really interesting.
Task 6
总括：人们为什么对某些事情印象会非常深刻?对这种现象有两种解释
观点 1：我们在之前对它们有所了解
例子 1：没了解过音乐的人参加 classicalmusic concert，一年之后就不会对这个 concert有很多记忆;但是学习过音乐的人却可以记住其中的 details
观点 2：对特殊的人或事能记得更清楚
例子 2：在大教室中上课，人们更容易记住特别的人，比如 tallboy/intelligent girl