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I want to register for this mathematics course. I’m sorry registration has closed. Closed? The clerk told me I could come back and register any time during the first week of classes. Well, that’s not possible. The computer’s official student account has already been sent to the state. And that’s what our budget is based on. Who told you that anyway? Some woman here when I tried to register three weeks ago. She said I just had to pay a late fee. She must have been a temporary worker. They don’t have much training. Why didn’t you register then? She said I couldn’t until I had my birth certificate. Here it is. Your birth certificate? Well, I’m a new part-time student. So she ask for identification. I don’t drive so I don’t have a driver’s license. Huh. That’s no reason to demand a birth certificate. We only need to establish residency: a phone bill with your name and address on it would’ve been fine. Really? Only prove of my address? Yes. I’m afraid she gave you the wrong information. Still you’ll have to wait and take your math’s class next semester. But that’s not fair.Well, I sympathize with your problem, but frankly, I don't think there is anything anyone can do for you.  You were trapped in the system. If you want to you can talk to the director. She will help you if she can.Great. Don’t get your hopes up.

Hi, Mary. Do you want to start writing a lab report after we finish this experiment? I can’t. In fact I need to finish early because I’m going over to the psychology department to talk to Professor Smith about a job opening. You mean a job on campus? Yeah. And it sounds pretty interesting. It involves helping with your study on learning style. You know, about how some people learn best by sight, while others learn best by hearing or touch. Yeah. I know that’s an area of expertise. Right. Anyway for her study she’s taking some high school students who aren’t doing very well in their classes and testing them to find out what their learning styles are. Then tutors, people like me, will work with them presenting material to them in their particular learning style.Hey. That is interesting. Now will you mostly do the testing or the tutoring? Both I hope. I want to be involved from start to finish. Are you getting paid for this? I’m sure we’ll get something though, probably not much. Anyway it doesn’t matter to me, I just want to have some hands-on experience. Yeah. And it’ll be nice to help those high school students too. That’s what I thought when I saw the ad. You know you could do it too. You don’t have to be in her classes to work on the study. Really? Do you have any idea what the schedule is like? Late afternoon then evening for tutoring I think. After all the kids are in regular classes until three thirty. Actually that’s perfect for me. Then come along. We will save the lab report for later. But we’d better make sure we do a good job on our experiment first.

Hello, I'll be your tour guide today here at the art museum so I'd like to welcome you to this month's exhibit of native American pottery. We'll begin our tour in a few minutes. But first I'm going to tell you something about the way this pottery was created. Pottery was made all over ancient North America by many different groups of people. One of the earliest of these ancient American  cultures was the Hohokam people. They lived in what is now Arizona from about 300 BC to AD 1500. And it's their pottery that you will be looking at today. All of the pottery was made from clay. Like contains food and water. Some objects were mug, bowls and ladies for drinking and eating. You will also see finger rings and animal-shaped incense burners which we believe were probably used in special ritual. The Hohokam formed their pottery vessels from coils of clay. Then shaped them with special tools to create very thin sides on the vessels. Afterwards they painted the pottery with red design. Actually many of the pieces here have designs right on them that show how the pottery was used. Now I hope you'll enjoy the beauty and the uniqueness of the Hohokam pottery and that will give you some interesting insights about the people who created it. Please feel free to ask me any questions and thank you for joining us today.小

I’m going to introduce two current points of view about the motivation for writing the United States  Constitution back in 1787. The first one is called the idealist view. The idealists basically believe that the writers of the Constitution were motivated by ideas. Which ideas? The ideas of the revolutionary war, such as liberty and democracy. The idealists remind that the young country had a lot of problems: an economic depression, a large war debts, lawlessness and trade barriers between the states. They argue that the representatives needed to control these problems in order for the United States to survive. The other point of view is the economic view. The economic view is that the writers of the Constitution were concerned about their own financial interests. According to them most people were living wealth for the wealthiest people were afraid of losing their money. The writers wanted a strong central government that would promote trade protect private property and perhaps most of all collect taxes to pay off the United States’ large war debts. Because a number of those who wrote the constitution had loaned money to the government during the revolution. Which view is correct? Well , historians who wrote during the calm and prosperous 1950s found reasons to believe the idealist view. Those who wrote during the trouble of 1960s found support for the economic viewpoint. I’d say that neither view is complete, both the idealist and the economic perspective contribute a part to the whole picture.

Many egg-laying animals merely lay their eggs and leave. Turtles, for instance, and horseshoe crabs .The eggs hatch, and the little ones are on their own. The current theory about birds is that the earliest birds did just that when they were cold-blooded creatures living in warm places. However when they became warm-blooded creatures living in cold places they had to remain on the eggs to keep them warm. The process we call incubation. For this they needed a place a nest. Very likely the first nests were just primitive depressions scrape into the ground. Even now many species still lay eggs in this sort of crude nests. In fact every spring a mother killdeer lays her legs in some pebbles along the edge of the parking lot just outside this building. Primitive nests on the ground were fine for some birds but others began to elevate their nests in branches perhaps to avoid predators. These early elevated nests were probably loose platforms of sticks and twigs the types still built by ospreys and most Arians today. The latest evolvement in nest the most recent version, so to speak is the cup—shaped nest. This is the one we regard today as the typical bird’s nest, you know, like a robin’s nest.

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原帖由 walk_on 于 2008-3-27 09:53 发表 + S' d) b4 Q' A+ z
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I have been studying too much and need a change. So I’ve just made plans to go away during January break. Really? Where are you going? I’m planning to visit New Mexico. Hey, my sister and I vacationed there last year and we had a great time. Did you get into Albuquerque? Sure. Whenever we were skiing. Is it far from the mountains? Not at all. See even though Albuquerque is on a high flat plateau. There are even higher mountains near it. Just half an hour away from the city there are snow-covered slopes. Well. As the mountains are only thirty minutes away, I guess I should take my ice skate and my ski’s. [Definitely. I heard that the weather there is great. It is. No humidity, moderate temperatures, but you do need to be careful about high altitude. What should I do about that? Oh, just take it easy for a few days. Don’t go hiking up the mountains or exercise too vigorously. Just do everything gradually. I’m sure I will be fine. And I will let know all about my trip when I come back.

Hey Linda, did you get that letter about the new options for food service next year? Not yet. Are there a lot of changes? There sure are. Instead of paying one fee to cover all meals for the whole school year, we are now be able to choose how many meals per week we want and can contract just for that amount. We still have pay for the whole year at the beginning, but we can choose to buy seven, ten, fourteen or twenty-one meals per week. They give you a card with the number of meals you get for a week marked on it. That’s a big change Tom. And a complicated system. Yeah. But it will be much better for people who don’t eat three meals a day, seven days a week in the cafeteria because they don’t have to pay for meals they don't eat. So what’s the deal for those who do eat at school all the time? wIt’s better for them too. Because the more meals you contract for, the cheaper each one is. I see. It is still sound rather complicated. True. It took me several hours to figure it out. I decided to go with the ten-meal plan. Why is that? Well, I never eat breakfast and I often go away on weekends. So the ten-meal plan gives me lunch and dinner every weekday at a fairly low price. And I won’t be paying for meals I don’t usually eat. But what about the weekends when you are on campus? Well, there are often guests on campus at weekends. So they allow you to buy single meals on a walk-in basis on Saturdays and Sundays. The price per meal is much higher that way. But I am away so much that it will still be less money for me to pay single-meal prices on the weekends rather than sign up for the fourteen meal a week plan. Hmm, I guess I’ll have to sit down and figure out my eating pattern so I can get the best deal.- [$ t7 l. ~# g2 {( z
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