9月28日
I spent the first 10 minutes adjusting to the noisy environment, so the first section is a disaster. Everything else is fine. I went out first in the room. I think I deserve a score of 100+. Anyway, that is enough.
I Reading
1, Plants in North America
2, Catastrophism in Geology is wrong. Something in constrast is the topic.
3, European Agriculture in the middle ages. Improvements: land expansion, 3-round cultivation, and new technologies.
II Listening
1, Donating used clothes to charity
2, Observatories of native Americans, including Mayas.
3, The largest lake in Antarctica
4, A woman lost her purse containing her student ID and meal card. So she comes to replace them.
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6, Impressionist and Japanese Woodblock painting
7, A woman visits the professor to ask why the department does not provide a course on international politics next term.
8, Research on a kind of brain cells other than neurons
9, Wordsworth and Romanticism
III Speaking
1, Describe a place you want to visit and explain why.
2, Do you want to take some time off before your college life.
3, Reading Requirement for literature class next term. The man oppose by stating that: 1, some students may not have time to finish. They may lag behind as a result. 2, students don't meet during vacation. 3, students don't ordinarily discuss academic things during their leisure time.
4, Found objects. 1, modified: bathtub. 2, unmodified: hat rack
5, The woman wants to register her presentation on American impressionist or something, but another student has already register the same topic. Choice 1: stick to her choice. 2: change a topic.
6, Business: Advertisers utilize emotion to promote. 1: positive emotion, e.g., shampoo advertisements showing happy mothers with happy babies. 2: negative emotion, e.g. mobile phone advertisements showing a man with car broken down on road and without a cell phone.
IV Writing
1, online medicines. The ariticle says that they suffers from 3 problems. 1, some are not approved. 2, patients can't get advice from pharmacists. 3, quality may be low.
The lecturer points out that. 1, you can not prevent people from trying new medicines if their diseases can not be cured by current medicines. 2, patients can search online database, which is more efficient than 30-second meeting with a pharmacist. 3, medicines are the same, and may even be produced by the same factory or country.
2, Do you agree or disagree:
The most efficient way for the government to encourage energy conservation is to increase the price of gasoline and electricity.
7月18日
法華食堂為生存而飯畢,談及農民之生活問題若干,無不以大眾教育為罪魁禍首。費老欲樹批判之靶子,遂命吾談中國教育之方向。所謂在人之上,視別人為人;在人之下,視自己為人。我也不推辭,大發了番厥詞。大意如下。
小俞:一,中學為人文之體,西學為理工之用,尤應以英文教授數理化生。
費老:基本同意,但是日本人的英文也不怎么樣啊。
小俞:二,科技教育者當重儒耶,輕釋道。釋與道適合于靜止世界中經營和諧,科學之思辯則非擅長。
費老:我帶一幫人去農村支教的話,你去不去?教育還是需要民粹主義的精神的,并非紙上談兵可得。
小俞:三,推廣視頻教學。
費老:那我們這幫人就要失業了。不是每個人都能自覺的,需要與人的互動。