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1. Talk about a game, sport or other
group activity that is played
in your country.
Explain why you think the activity is enjoyable.
Basketball is one group activity that is
played in my country.
It’s enjoyable because
people can relax and get exercise from
playing
basketball. Almost every community in my country
has a
basketball court and every afternoon
adults after work and
children after school
come to play together. Adults play to relax
and to get rid of the tiring work in the
morning, while some kids
come to play for fun
and exercise. Some kids enjoy throwing balls
into the basket. Some enjoy running around,
dribbling and chasing
the one with the ball.
2. When looking for information for a
research project, some
students prefer to get
their information mainly from the Internet.
Others prefer to mainly use printed materials
such as books and
academic journals. Which do
you prefer, and why?
I prefer to use
Internet to look for information for the following
two reasons. First, it’s very fast to find the
information from
Internet. Since now we have
many search engines such as Google
and Bing, we just need to input key words and
the results will
be listed on the screen. From
the results, we can always find the
information related to the research project.
Second, Internet has
way more information than
do printed materials. Nearly all printed
materials now have e-version online. With may
scientific
databases, we can always find what
we need by title, author or
even content. So,
when we are doing research project, Internet
is more convenient than printed materials.
I’ll choose printed materials rather than
Internet. Even though
Internet has a lot of
information, I can’t find any useful
information. For example, when I was doing a
research project
about Asian History. There
wasn’t much related information
available
online. All the results from search engines or
databases
only gave me some introductions of
Asian History. But I need to
do deep research.
So I stopped using Internet and went to library
to find some old printed materials. Guess
what? I got many
relevant books and journals.
These printed materials are old, so
they don’t
have e-versions online. But they are precious, at
least
for my research project.
3. The woman expresses her opinion
about the university' s plan.
State her
opinion and explain the reasons she gives for
holding
that opinion.
The university
is planning to build a new athletic stadium in
order
to attract more top students and to
strengthen its relationship
with the town. The
woman doesn’t think it’ll work. Firstly, the
woman thinks some of the conditions on campus
are too bad to
attract top students. For
example, science labs have outdated
equipment,
library not enough books and student center being
too
small. Secondly, the woman says that since
our teams always lose,
people in the town
rarely come to watch the games. And it’s
impossible that the teams improve overnight.
Besides, adding
seats won’t help either.
People in the town won’t come to stadium
just
because it is bigger. So building this new stadium
is not
going to improve the relationship with
the town.
4. Explain what is meant by
examples provided by the professor.
Perceptual Constancy is our ability to
recognize the same object
in many
different contexts, even if the object may look
different
in different contexts. The professor
uses two examples to
illustrate this ability.
The first example is plate. If we put
a round
plate directly at our face, it is a perfect
circle. But
if we put it in a horizontal
position, it is no longer a circle
but an
oval. Still we recognize it as the same plate. The
oval
one is not a different object. Even if It
looks different, we still
perceive it as the
same. The second example is the professor
himself. He looks bigger to the students in
the front row than
those in the back row. If a
student sits in the front row today
and then
in the back row tomorrow, the student will still
perceive
him as the same professor, even if to
the student the professor’
s size has changed.
5. The speakers discuss two possible
solutions to the man‘s
problem. Briefly
summarize the problem. Then state which solution
you recommend and explain why.
The
man is supposed to drive everyone in the club to
see an
exhibition and he borrowed his mom’s
van. But the problem is that
the van broke
down and can’t be repaired in time. There are two
possible solutions to this
problem. First, he can rent a van. But
he
thinks it’s a little risky. Because only a few
people in the
club agree to contribute some
money to the van, it’s possible
that the man
will have to pay most of the bill. The second
solution
is to postpone the trip until his
mom’s van is in good condition.
But the man
says everyone will be disappointed if they find
out
that they can’t go to the exhibition when
they are ready.
Personally, I would recommend
the man to rent a van. Since some
of the
students have already promised to split the rent,
those
who haven’t replied will definitely
agree to contribute money
to the van. Even if
the man has to pay most of the bill, he has
to
pay because he is the president and he has the
responsibility
to complete his task.
6. Using the examples of the leafy sea dragon
and the cuttlefish,
describe two kinds of
camouflage and the benefits they provide.
Some sea animals have developed colors and
shapes to resemble
environmental features in
order to avoid predators. For example,
leafy
sea dragon has leafy protrusions sticking out like
arms.
Its shape and color resemble the green
sea plants so it blends
in well in
the environment. When it is swimming through green
sea
plants, predators have trouble seeing it.
But without green plants,
its camouflage
doesn’t work. Another example is cuttlefish.
Unlike leafy sea dragon, Cuttlefish’s
camouflage can work
anywhere. It changes color
to blend in any environment. It has
shifting
pigments and can change color instantly. If it is
swimming by the green sea plants, its color
can change to green.
If it is swimming by the
brown sea floor, its color changes to
brown