2016年7月16日
Task1
Should students be required to evaluate their professors at the end of the semester?
Sample answer:
In my point of view, it’s ineffective to evaluate professors at the end of the course per semester.
Firstly, evaluation will influence professors’ mood, they won’t be happy to be criticized publicly about their teaching styles and teaching methods. In addition, they wouldn’t even bother reading the criticism because they think they are all negative comments. If they don’t take the evaluation seriously, they won’t be influenced anyway. There won’t be any change about teaching. Besides, the students who wrote the evaluations did it in a hurry way at the end of the semester, so there won’ t be any specific and helpful comments for professors to read and improve.
Task2
Do you think it is a good thing or not to change one’s appearance through plastic surgery?
Sample answer :
I think that would be good. Many 60-year-olds are still physically strong.
For people like civil servants, who have comfortable jobs or are in power, it is the later the better.
If our healthcare and children's education can be better guaranteed, I think I will still be able to work for five more years. But if the social security is inadequate, I will find it quite hard to work another five years. It depends on how the society can reduce the pressure that's on us.
Statistically, "actual dependency ratio"(实际赡养比)will be five to one in 2020. If China doesn't take itself to full employment, increase low-income people's earnings so that they can not only feed themselves but also elderly people, or push pack the retirement age. By 2020, we will become a seriously aged country. It will lead to a series of social problems and directly threaten our goal of having a prosperous society in 2020.
I think there are pros and cons. The positive side is that middle-aged and elderly professionals can continue to make contributions to society. The negative side is that young people may have difficulty finding jobs.In an aging society, the number of elderly people is growing. If we push back retirement by another five years, young people will have fewer and fewer opportunities.
Well, I totally think it’s a bad idea to improve one’s appearance through plastic surgery. The reasons are as follows. First of all, it will cause many problems if we change it forcely. People’s outlook is inborn, the most natural. Indeed, many people have changed their appearance successfully, but there are still many others who suffer from the failure of surgery. They were even hurt seriously both physically and mentally. What beauty means if we aren’t healthy any longer? Secondly, there is a famous old saying goes, nature is beauty itself. Man-made beauty would vanish sooner or later. We’d better love and cherish the unique body inherited from our parents.
Task 3
Reading：food carts outside the campus should be banned because 1. Leave lots of trash 2. Provide unhealthy food.
Listening：女生不同意该建议。
Because 1)：垃圾是不可避免的，垃圾之所以多，是因为垃圾桶不够多，学校应该多放置一些垃圾桶，而不应该只责备food carts产生垃圾;
2)有些事物比如水果、皮萨也是有利于学生健康的食品。女生说她自己经常吃苹果，有利于她集中精力学习。这在食堂是做不到的，所以不能取消。
Task 4
Learning transfer : 讲的是以前学的东西对以后所学内容有积极影响，也有消极影响。
教授举例说明：一是积极的影响，教授以前学琴，可以不看琴键弹奏，到高中学打字，就可以学以致用不看键盘就能打字。二是不利影响的例子，教授的同学开始学的是舞台表演，需要大声说台词，后来改学电影表演，要求自然地说台词，但是他改不了大嗓门的习惯了。
Task 5
Problem: 男生把眼镜落在父母家了，现在需要看几百页的东西，所以需要眼镜。
Solution 1：让父母送，但是需要一段时间;
Solution 2：男生自己回去取，但要忍受坐车之苦。
Task 6
讲了两种防止土壤salt accumulation的方法：
1.用pipe排水，顺便把salt也排出来。
2.种一些可以在salty land上生长的植物。举例：种植可以抵御盐的植物crop and beans等。