数学周记-吸收英语
1. A friend of yours wants to go
to university next year but cannot
decide on a
major field of study. What advice would you give
your friend
to help make this decision?
My advice would be to follow your interests.
There is a famous saying
that you are good at
what you like and you like what you are good at.
If
my friend had an interest, I would suggest
he stick to it, even if it is not a
practical
field and it’s not gonna help find any jobs. But,
with interests,
one tries hard and makes the
best of oneself effortlessly. For example, if a
person is interested in history, this person
won’t feel bored reading
ponderous books. He
or she may enjoy reading hard-to-understand
materials or books of ancient while others may
feel it is tiring and boring.
2. Do
you think that eating healthy food is easier or
more difficult
today than it was 40 or 50
years ago? Use examples and details to support
your answer.
Yeah, I think so. I
think the first reason is that our pace of life
has
increased a lot. Most people in the city
don’t have enough time cooking.
They either
eat in the restaurant or eat fast food. And most
of the food
there are prepared hastily or they
are plain junk food. More importantly,
unlike 40 or 50 years ago, the fruits and
vegetables are mostly grown in
greenhouses
with heavy use of chemicals. Animals are raised in
factories
with extremely bad environments. So
the food sources are unhealthy.
Even if we
cook carefully, it’s still harder to eat healthy
food.
3. The man expresses his
opinion about the proposal described in the
letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then
state his opinion about the
proposal and
explain the reasons he gives for holding that
opinion.
The writer of the letter gives
two suggestions. The first suggestion is to
shorten the bicycle borrowing period so that
more bikes will be available.
The second
suggestion is to leave student cards instead of
cash when
students borrow bicycles. But the
man in the conversation does agree
with the
two suggestions. First of all, he thinks that
students borrowing
bicycles usually need
longer periods. For example, his friend and he
borrow bicycles every weekend to go off-
campus. They often go to the
state park and it
usually takes a whole day. Secondly, he thinks
that if
students leave their cards when
borrowing bicycles, they won’t be able to
get
into library or dining halls. This will create
inconvenience.
4. Explain the
concept of carrying capacity using the example of
the
moth and Ragwort.
The greatest number of animals a habitat can
support is called carrying
capacity. Carrying
capacity is not fixed. It changes according to the
environment. The professor uses the
relationship of moth and ragwort to
illustrate
this concept. Moth is a kind of insect that eats
ragwort. Ragwort
is a plant that grows in the
field. Normally, the number of moth in the
ragwort field is stable. But if there were a
lot less rain in a year, ragwort
wouldn’t grow
well. Moth wouldn’t survive and even those that
survived
lay fewer eggs. So the number of moth
would decrease. But if the rain
went back to a
normal level, the ragwort would grow well. Moth
would
have enough to eat and would lay more
eggs. And the number of moth
would also
increase.
5. Briefly summarize the
problem the speakers are discussing. Then
state which of the two solutions from the
conversations you would
recommend. Explain the
reason for your recommendation.
The man
has promised the girl to take her place to work
tonight. But he
didn’t know that he was going
to have a music rehearsal at the same time.
But the girl has already made her plan this
evening. So this is the problem.
There are two solutions. The man, Bob, quits
the music rehearsal and
goes to work as he
promised. Or, the girl cancels her plan with her
friends.
I would recommend the man to work as
he promised, because it’s he who
created the
problem. If he hadn’t promised the girl to take
her place, she
probably wouldn’t have made her
plan tonight. Even if there are new
songs he
hasn't practiced and tonight is the last practice,
he has to take
full responsibility of the
mess, which is made by him.
6. Using
the professor’s example of the pizza restaurant,
explain two
advantages of franchising.
The professor talks about two advantages of
franchising. The first
advantage is that the
established company will provide training for you
and all your employees. For example, if you
open a pizza restaurant by
franchising, the
company will teach you how to prepare the pizza,
how to
take orders and basically teach you how
to operate the restaurant like
other
restaurants of the company. You just follow its
plan to success. The
second advantage is its
established customer base. Because it is an
established company, its products are already
well known. People will
trust it even if it’s
in a new location. For example, the pizza
restaurant
you open has the same name as the
others’. People already know the
name and they’ll go to your restaurant because
they trust the name and
think they will
definitely have good experience.