2015年4月12日大陆
口语：
1、What's the best way for parents to help their children successful in school?
2、Is it necessary for all university students to attend in social activities, such as social club and sports program?
3、Newspaper: car rent service on campus
Student can rent car on campus and drive it off campus, so that it will make easier for students to travel and make the students who can not afford a car access to it.
Conversation: the women is happy with the proposal
1)the campus is so far away the town, and the bus is 2 hour for a run. It will take hours to go to the town by bus, and if you have several places to visit in the town, it will take help a day.
2)She cannot afford to own a car as a student. Apart from the cost of the car, the maintenance and repair fee are also high. So car rent service is just the simple solution.
4、概念：buffering: in order to be less aggressive to the stronger animals, the weaker animals always use a baby as a buffer to approach to the stronger animals?
Example: monkey in Japan, in the group, the stronger monkeys always the at the first line for food, and when the weaker monkeys approach them, the stronger one always attack the weaker ones, and leave few food to the weaker monkeys. What the weaker monkeys do is borrow a baby monkey form a mother monkey. It picks it up and carry it in front the stronger monkeys. As a result, the stronger monkey does not feel offended and even share some food to the weaker monkey.
5、conversation:
the women have some problem with her schedule: promise her elder sister to look after her baby, when her sister is out for a concert with her husband tonight, but she forgets that she has a history essay to do tonight.
Two solutions:
1)cancel the schedule and make the couple go to the concert other day. But the ticket can not be get date changed or refunded.
2)Take some books with her and go her sister’ s home to take care of the baby, and do her history paper during the interval and after the baby goes to sleep
6、How the method of building change form the past to the current days?
Past: use thick stone build the base and the wall of high buildings. So that the thick stone can hold up the heavy weight on the top.
Drawbacks : make the inside room small and cramped
Example: the castle
Now: use steel, a relatively thin steel can hold up more weight.
Example: office building, the use of steel make the room space big and copious.