Task 1：

1.(04/12/2015)What can parents do to help their children succeed in school?

2. (04/18/2015)Which kind of book you do not like: mystery, science, and biography?

Task 2:

1.(04/12/2015) Do you agree or disagree that students should join some social activities, such as joining clubs or sports groups?

2.(04/18/2015)Do you agree or disagree with the statement that talking face to face can make a better communication than sending email?

Task 3:

1.(04/12/2015)

Reading: car rent service on campus

Reason1: students can rent car on-campus and drive it off-campus, which can make it easier for students to travel.

Reason2: students who cannot afford a car, now they have chance to access to it.

Listening: the woman agrees with the proposal.

Reason1: the campus is so far away from the town, and the bus is 2 hour for a run. It will take hours to go to town by bus and if you wanna visit several places, it may take you a long time.

Reason2: as a student, she cannot afford a car. Apart from the cost of the car, the money of repairing is also high. So car rent service is a good thing to do.

2.(04/18/2015)

Reading: There is a letter from student and student suggests that university should not serve junk food in the dining hall on campus anymore.

Reason1: it’s much healthier to eat nutritious food, like vegetable and fruit.

Reason2: it can help students save a lot of money, cuz they always like to buy junk food after they are already full.

Listening: the woman disagrees with this idea.

Reason1: students are already nutritious enough and buying junk food occasionally will not hurt their health.

Reason2: junk food is necessary, especially after get those paper works done, and an ice-cream can definitely make life better.

Task 4:

1.(04/12/2015)

Reading: buffering 缓冲作用

Definition sentence: 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.

Listening: the professor talks about a monkey in Japan, in a group, the stronger monkeys always at the first line of food, and when the weaker monkey approach to them, the stronger monkeys always attack the those weaker ones, leaving few food to those weaker ones. After that those weaker ones will borrow baby monkeys from their mother, it picks it up and carries it in front of those stronger ones. As a result, those stronger ones does not feel offended, and even share some food to those weaker ones.

相关词汇：buffering 缓冲作用，aggressive 侵略性的，approach 接近

2.(04/18/2015)

Reading: rational ignorance

Definition: when people make less essential purchase, they are not willing to find information about the product; this is because the fact that they believe it is not worth doing it.

Listening: professor once bought a car, and he did a lot of research about the car, cuz it will cost him a huge amount of money. However, it’s different when he bought battery in another shop, the professor didn’t deal with it carefully and the brand and the lasting time are different. The professor just grabbed it and went away.

相关词汇：purchase购买，battery 电池，ignorance 无知，rational 理性的

Task 5:

1.(04/12/2015)

Problem: the woman has a schedule problem. She promises her sister to look after her baby, when her sister is out for a concert with her husband tonight, but she forgets she has a history essay need to be done.

Solution1: she needs to cancel the schedule and make the couple go to the concert other day.

Disadvantage: the ticket cannot be get day changed or refunded.

Solution2: she can take some books with her and she can look after the baby at her sister’s place. She can finish her essay while the baby goes to sleep.

2.(04/18/2015)

Problem: the woman has a problem about spring concert. The concert will be held at afternoon, but it might be rain based on the weather forecast.

Solution1: they can move the concert to the auditorium, but that will be less fun.

Solution2: they can change the schedule to Sunday, but she cannot guarantee that whether people will attend the concert or not, they always meet friends and families on weekends.

Task 6:

1.(04/12/2015)

Topic: how the method of building changed from the past to the current days.

Past: they used thick stone to build the base and the wall of high buildings. In this way, the thick stone can hold up the heavy weight on the top.

Drawbacks: it would make the inside room small and cramped.

Example: the castle

Now: they like to use steel, a relatively thin steel can hold up more weight.

Example: office building, the use of steel can make the space big and copious.

相关词汇：thick厚的，cramped狭窄的，castle城堡，steel 钢铁，copious丰富的

2.(04/18/2015)

Maze experiment

Definition: mother animals improve their mental competence when they have baby.

Theory: there are two groups of rats, the mother rats and normal rats without baby are put in one

end of the maze with food in the other side, in order to find the food, they have to explore the maze.

相关词汇：maze 迷惑，mental 精神的，competence 能力，rat 老鼠，explore 探索

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