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(Advisor) I??d like to talk with you about the number of courses you??ll be taking next semester.
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9 w5 s* F/ a4 Q( e2 T(Advisor) Well, ?? because you??re taking the maximum number of courses, I don??t think you have enough time to put sufficient time and effort into each of your courses.

PASSAGE 2

(Woman) This is an interesting assignment we have for psychology class.

(Man)   Interesting? It’s going to be a lot of work.

(Woman) What’s so hard about it? We just have to make up a survey questionnaire related to theories from the class.

(Man)   Making up a survey questionnaire isn’t so hard. But we have to find 50 people to fill out the questionnaire and then write up a report analyzing the data.

(Woman) It’ll be easy to find 50 people to fill out the questionnaire. We can do that in one afternoon at the student center. That actually sounds like fun to me.

(Man)   That’s good. I don’t mind preparing the questionnaire and analyzing the data, but getting 50people to answer the questionnaire does not seem like fun to me.

 

PASSAGE 3

(Professor) Our topic for today is Iroquois villages, and I’m going to have a rather unusual assignment for you based on this topic, so you need to listen carefully to the information. First of all, I’ll be describing an Iroquois village, and then, for your assignment, I want you to draw a village.

(Student)  Excuse me, Dr.Thomas. You want us to draw an Iroquois village?

(Professor) Yes, that’s exactly what I want you to do. I think this will help you to understand the efficient simplicity of the design of an Iroquois village.

                     Now, let me describe an Iroquois village consisted of a number of longhouses. Iroquois longhouses were long, single-story houses with U-shaped roofs, and they were very elegant in their simplicity. Iroquois an Iroquois village, there was usually a stockade, which is a defensive wall or barrier made of wooden posts. The stockade around an Iroquois village was typically hexagonal in shape, which means that it was six-sided. It had vertical wood posts around the outside of the stockade, and these posts had sharpened ends pointing upward for further protection.

                    Now, for the assignment … your assignment is to create a pencil drawing of an Iroquois village. You can use the information I just provide, and you can find more information in Chapter22 of the text.

(Student)  But, Dr.Thomas, what if I can’t draw? I’m not very good at drawing.

(Professor) Well, just try your best. I want you to make a good effort.

(Student)  Are you expecting just a simple drawing, or does the drawing need to be complicated?

(Professor) I’d like you to do the best you can do.

(Student)  Well, for me, my best might not be what you’re expecting.

 

 

 

 

PASSAGE 4

(Man)   Ok, I think we understand how snow and rain are formed. Now we need to discuss the formation of hail, and this part isn’t very clear to me. What exactly is hail? And how does it differ from snow and rain?

(Woman) Well, it’s not really too hard to understand Hail is really just frozen drops of rain.

(Man)   That’s right. Cumulonimbus clouds are very tall clouds. They can actually be as tall as six miles. Because they’re so tall, they’re much warmer at the bottom than at the top.

(Man)   That’s really tall.

(Woman) And sometimes air currents blow drops of water in a cloud up higher into the cloud.

(Man)   Where it’s colder, so the drops freeze into ice. Do the drops fall to the earth then?

(Woman) Usually not just after the trip up. Usually the drops aren’t yet heavy enough to fall to the Earth.

(Man)   So the drops rise and fall a number of times within the cloud, and each time a drop rises and falls, it adds another layer of ice?

(Woman) Yes, you’ve got it.

(Man)   Really? This isn’t as difficult as I thought. I can understand it.

(Woman) Yes, you can. A hailstone actually has a number of layers of ice on it, one layer for each time that it’s pushed up and freezes again. After it builds up enough layers, it gets too heavy.

(Man)   And that’s when it falls to Earth.

(Woman) Exactly.

汇总练习

(Professor)  ①Today we’re going to talk about a coin from early in the history of the United States. It was the first coin issued by the U.S government was established. Do you know when this was? … Any idea? … Come on, you must have some idea when this was. Yes, Sam?

(Sam)      Was it in the late 1700s?

(Professor)  That’s right, Sam. This coin was issued in 1789. It was known by two names; it was known as both the Fugio coin and the Franklin coin. First of all, can you tell me why it was called the Fugio coin? Laura?

(Laura)     It was called the Fugio coin because it had the word fugio on the front of the coin. Fugio is a Latin word that means“I fly”.

(Professor)  That’s right. Laura. And this coin was also called the Franklin coin. Why was it called the Franklin coin? It was because Benjamin Franklin was on it, wasn’t it?

(Doug)     No, it was called the Franklin was given credit for the wording on the coin.

(Professor)  That’s right.②Now, this is the coin we’re talking about. Let’s look at the front for me? Sam?

(Sam)      The front of the coin has a sundial in the middle with a sun shining down on the sundial.

(Professor)  Yes, both a sun and a sundial are there. And what else?

(Sam)      Well, … uh… there’s a date along one side and… um, … there seems to be some wording at the bottom.

(Professor)  Sam needs some help. Who ca help Sam answer the question? Yes, Doug?

(Doug)     The wording along the bottom is “mind your business.” This coin’s called the Franklin coin because Benjamin Franklin was given credit for the wording.

(Professor)  ③Now let’s talk about the other side of the coin. Let me describe the front of the coin for you. Oh, … excuse me, … did I say front? I meant back. On the back of the coin, there’s a large circle made up of 13 linked circles, and in the middle of the circle are the words“We re one.” Do you understand what these words mean?

(Laura)    I think so, particularly with the words“We are one.”This design on the back of the coin symbolizes the 13 original colonies linked into one country.

(Professor) That’s a very appropriate idea for the first coin issued by the United States

          after the country won its independence.

          ④Now, that’s all for today. However, I’d like to suggest that some of you might want to be somewhat more prepared for the next class. And just to check on whether or not you’re prepared, there just might be a quiz.