Test	Test Date	Reading	Listening	Speaking	Writing	Total
TELXML	May 31, 2008	4	8	11	14	37

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果然不是一般的低阿,,,,1 Z6 p8 l! [/ |4 e' N
听力居然拖后腿了 还有不到一个月 怎么办能达到60多分呢???& ^. E$ \8 M3 Q, E+ m

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Reading  Skills	Level	Your Performance
Reading	Low(0-14)	Test takers who receive a score at the LOW level, as you did, typically understand some of the information presented in academic texts in English that require a wide range of reading abilities, but their understanding is limited. + G6 u$ X2 S2 @2 QTest takers who receive a score at the LOW level typically/ U* }" o: t9 @; u have a command of basic academic vocabulary, but their understanding of less common vocabulary is inconsistent; have limited ability to understand and connect information, have difficulty recognizing paraphrases of text information, and often rely on particular words and phrases rather than a complete understanding of the text; have difficulty identifying the author's purpose, except when that purpose is explicitly stated in the text or easy to infer from the text; and can sometimes recognize major ideas from a text when the information is clearly presented, memorable, or illustrated by examples but have difficulty doing so when the text is more demanding.
Listening  Skills	Level	Your Performance
Listening	Low(0-13)	Test takers who receive a score at the LOW level, as you did, typically understand the main idea and some important details of conversations. However, test takers at the low level may have difficulty understanding lectures and conversations in English that involve abstract or complex ideas and recognizing the relationship between those ideas. Test takers at this level also may not understand sections of lectures and conversations that contain difficult vocabulary or complex grammatical structures.; x9 Q4 u2 y3 N Test takers at the LOW level typically can % z; R9 m# L+ c$ R  D7 z% H& N understand main ideas when they are stated explicitly or marked as important but may have difficulty understanding main ideas if they are not stated explicitly; understand important details when they are stated explicitly or marked as important but may have difficulty understanding details if they are not repeated or clearly marked as important, or if they are conveyed over several exchanges among different speakers; understand ways that speakers use language to emphasize a point or to indicate agreement or disagreement, but generally only when the information is related to a central theme or is clearly marked as important; and make connections between the key ideas in a conversation, particularly if the ideas are related to a central theme or are repeated.
Speaking  Skills	Level	Your Performance
Speaking about familiar topics	Limited(1.5 - 2.0)	Your responses indicate some difficulty speaking in English about everyday experiences and opinions. Listeners sometimes have trouble understanding you because of noticeable problems with pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. While you are able to respond partially to the questions, you are not able to fully develop your ideas, possibly due to limited vocabulary and grammar. " W* ]8 w/ G3 Q9 g! X$ H) G; [
Speaking about campus situations	Limited(1.5 - 2.0)	Your responses indicate that you have some difficulty speaking in English about information from conversations, newspaper articles, university publications, and so on. While you are able to talk about some of the key information from these sources, limited grammar and vocabulary may prevent you from fully expressing your ideas. Problems with pronunciation make it difficult for listeners to understand you at times.* i$ B: G" F3 s- f  J+ h
Speaking about academic course content	Weak(0 - 1.0)	Your responses are incomplete. They include little or no information about the topic. Your speech is often difficult for listeners to understand, and the meaning is unclear.4 |' t- P3 O  j( @1 v1 o% y3 q& I
Writing  Skills	Level	Your Performance
Writing based on reading and listening	Limited(1.0 - 2.0)	Your response was judged as limited due to& i7 C; k. q' n3 q3 y: j* h failure to understand the lecture or reading passage; deficiencies in relating the lecture to the reading passage; and/or many grammatical errors and/or very unclear expressions and sentence structures.
Writing based on knowledge and experience	Fair(2.5 - 3.5)	You expressed ideas with reasons, examples, and details, but your response indicated weaknesses such as 0 F4 |6 T3 W: ~; g( J you may not provide enough specific support and development for your main points; your ideas may be difficult to follow because of how you organize your essay or because of the language you use to connect your ideas; and/or grammatical mistakes or vague/incorrect uses of words may make the writing difficult to understand.

这次考试之前单词量很少 现在也还是很少
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口语背的不熟 紧张时间掌握不好
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（1）今天晚上在线背单词上线，跟着在线背单词把单词关过了# A7 P) n' j) @- P! n7 u/ u

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在线背单词是什么阿?

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我听写过几个 基本上一晚上一篇巴郎 老师看看吧 蓝色红色都是写错了的不会写的 灰色也是写错了的句子比较长或者意思理解错的

1. Learning Center

9 L3 a. K9 n9 k/ n- B' f1 \0 X1 MYes, I am taking in English composition, and I am not doing very well on my essays.
2 Q9 a* D8 l0 e8 vWell, first, let’s see if we can figure out a time to meet, that we were both free.
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How about Mondays? Maybe in the morning, I don’t have any classes until 11’ clock on Monday’s.
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Well, Thursdays are out, I’ve got classes, and I work at the library part-times on Thursdays and Wednesdays. but I could get together on the Wednesdays." n; w  `$ t% `1 w1 v8 \( ?# _/ p
In the morning?- Y( q7 d+ y+ A
Probably in the 9 and 30
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So, that would be 2 hours a week then.
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Oh! But, would that be extra? You know would I need to pay you for the extra session?
+ E; N: \1 K" q2 @+ y* _" g. TNo, just so you meet me here at learning center and we both sign in, then I will get paid. Tutoring is free to you I mean. The school pays for me, but we both have to show up, if you don’t show up and sign in for a session, then I don’t get paid so…
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Don’t worry about that, I really need your help. I won’t miss any session unless I’m sick or something.6 V  k( D& v# a, v' R- i, V# k4 a
Okay then, so you want me to help with your essays?
2 ]6 c. ^3 f, i1 B- cRight, I could bring your some that have, you know, comments on them, I’m getting C’s and….) T; n: }' c2 j
Well that’s not too bad, once I see some of your writing; we should be able to pull that up to B( r5 a5 ]3 h* p( b! l
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Sure, but i need to explain something, some of my students in the past, they expected me to write their essays for them, but that’s not what a tutor is supposed to do. My job is to help you be a better writer.
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: T* a+ l$ x4 t  X. E1 dI understand that, but you will read my essays right?
" h  A6 U; a1 V' S7 eYeah, no problem, we will read them together, and I will make suggestions.
, ~' O) {: l/ x( _great, I think part of the problem is I just don’t understand the teacher’s comments. Maybe you could help me figure them out.3 O+ h) S/ \+ C
sure, who is the teacher?
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No problem, I’ve tutored a couple of her students, so I know more or less where she is coming from. Ok then, I guess we will meet here on Monday?3 E3 O& `7 L, K% `

2 Q$ r- ^( S. I7 Y6 H* L) UI will be here, 9: 30 you said( V* `9 ^' _5 _8 B# A! M+ f3 E& {. \1 ?
Just sign in when you get here.
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2. Geology Class

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of channels that carry water in an area. And thesedrainage patterns can be verydistinctive, since they’re determined by the dimate, the topography and the composition of the rock that underlies the formations.
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Now, all drainage systems are composed of interconnected network of streams. And when we view them together, they form distinctive patterns. Although there are at least 7 identifiable kind of drainage patterns, for our purposes. We’re going to limit our study to the four major types.
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3. Art class drawing

Drawing is a very basic art form, it’s appealing感染力, because it can be used to make a very quick record of the ideas that an artist may be envisioning.
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And large renderings, sketches of parts of the whole… these can be helpful in the creative process, when a huge image might be more difficult to conceive of in its entirety.全部
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So in many artists’ studios, countless drawings are strewn about as the final painting or sculpture takes form. And this gives us insight into the creative process as well as theopportunity to see changes from the images at the beginning in the images of the finished work.
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Now, architects 建筑师are especially prone有…倾向的
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  Y) Q4 D# U& G( m0 Q( B4 ^Ok so far? Okay. Drawing has several other functions besides oftemporary临时的 reference参考.
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4. Conversation

Well, I got a little mixed up when I started to go over my note from the last class, so I’d few questions.

Shoot.

I understand thethese three basics sources来源 of personnel for multinational跨国公司 companies, that’s fairly self-explanatory.

Host country东道主, home country, and third country.

Right, but then you started talking about staffing patterns that… let me see… okay. You said staffing patterns may vary多样 depending on the length of time that the multinational company has been operating. And you gave some examples, but I got confused困惑的 and now I can’t read my notes.

Ok, well one patternis to rely on home country managers to staff the keypositions when the company opens, but graduallymoving more hose country nationals into upper management as the companygrows.

So, for example, if a French company opened a factory in Canada, then French management would gradually replace themselves with Canadian managers? Is that what you mean?

Right! I think I used that very interesting example in class, so you want to try to explain the second pattern to me?

Sure, I think it’s the one where home country nationals are put in charge of the company if it’s located in a developed country, but in a developing country, then home country nationals manages the company sort of indefinitely. 不确定地

Right again, and an example of that would be…

Maybe using German management for a Swiss company in Germany…but, they might send Swiss management to provide leadership for a Swiss company in,,,

How about Zimbabwe?

This one of the confusing令人困扰的 parts, Zimbabwe has a very old andhighly developed culture, so..

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清晰的as a developing country because of the economic base-which is being developed now.

Uh~ okay, I guess that makes sense感觉
( K6 d2 N4 m4 M3 D$ k; d3 n7 g功能. Then the example of the American company with British management... When the company is in India, that would be a third-country pattern格局?

Yes, in fact, this pattern isfairly prevalent 相当普遍among multinational companies in the United States. Many Scottish or English management have been hired for top managementpositions安置 at united states subsidiaries子公司 former样板 British colonies-India, Jamaica牙买加, the west indies, and some parts of Africa.

Okay, so I’ve got all the examples right now.

Anything else?

Just one thing. There were some typical patterns for certain某些
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Like the last example?

No, this came later in the lecture, something about Japan and Europe.

Oh! Right, I probably said the both Japanese multinational companies and European欧洲人的. i0 o& ~3 f7 U; E
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制定senior-level home country managers to overseas locations for their entire全体的 careers. whereas 然而multinational companies in the US view overseas assignment工作 as temporary临时工. So they may actually find themselves reporting to a senior-level manager from the host country who has more experience.

So, for example, a Japanese company in the US would most probably have senior-level, Japanese managers with mid-level managers maybe from the US. But in Japan, the senior-level managers at an American company would probably maybe have mid-level American managers reporting to them?

Well, generalities are always a littletricky狡猾的, but for the most part, that would be a typical scenario典型方案. Because living as a permanent expatriate is a career move in Japan. But a temporary strategy临时的策略 in the US.

Okay, that’s interesting.

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with an interest in international business. You are still on that track, aren’t you?

I sure am. But you know, I wasn’t thinking in terms of living abroad for my entire全部的 career. That really is a huge commitment委任n, and something to ask about going in. Anyway, like you say, most American companies view overseas assignments as temporary. That’s more what I haven mind for myself, I mean.

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我的颜色都不能显示 基本上错的漏的我都划线了

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% R& v# ]/ Y" e% p6 S[ 本帖最后由 mandyu 于 2008-6-18 12:04 编辑 ]

找到漏洞并没有结束……是刚刚开始……得为你的错误付出代价