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心理学。阐述resilient(屏幕上会显示)。说精神上有这种特征的人happy不沮丧,时时保持积极的心态。说当人们遇到frustration,应该采取积极态度(有题)。有些人遇到frustration,就问“why it happened to me”,有人就会去寻求解决办法(有题,问你为什么举这个例子)。有同学问,这种特征是天生的还是可以后天学习的,教授说有天生的也有后天的(有题,问natural mentors是指什么),之后又强调家庭因素至关重要,如果你生在一个什么家庭,别人的积极态度就能影响到你,不仅是你父母,邻居也有影响等等。之后学生又问,当老师的是不是也应该这样做。教授先说了点别的,然后才回到学生的问题,说老师应该是这样的,所以需要patient。然后同学又问,人怎样才能让自己变得更加能积极面对问题呢。教授说包括两方面(有双选题):1,找出自己经常沮丧的原因。2,通过一些好朋友来帮助你形成这个性格,找一份具有挑战性的工作锻炼自己的责任感和意志(有题,问工作的作用是什么)。继续说这种心态的好处,找工作时或工作遇到问题,换个工作或怎么样(大概是指遇到困难,有良好心态的人会通过其它方法解决,不会一直抱怨,钻牛角尖等等。)
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天文学。教授提到了哈伯望远镜,说它给认识宇宙提供了重要数据。如何知道universe的年龄,以前是用telescope测算光年的,得出了在1317billion years这样的一个范围。但是有个女学生提出疑惑,她有读过一本书,说测算出的宇宙有13.7billion years old,那这是从哪里来的呢?教授说这是由一个新的技术WMAP(屏幕有显示出来)决定出来的。~WMAP是由一个电讯公司无意发现的,他们本来是想测量电话中的信号干扰,却收到了big bang 后的最早的microwave radium, 还因此得了诺贝尔奖(有题,问教授的态度,因为教授有提到unbelievable,所以选amusing)。这个技术是可以detect宇宙什么中的不同微小的温度变化,然后得出结果,还提到宇宙的爆炸theory。说microwave是爆炸初期宇宙的记录,就好像拍照,你有一个人孩童时候的照片,就可以推测出他婴儿时期的样子,而它提供的照片被认为是baby picture(有题,问为什么这么说)
加试:ID 浪漫主义 还有就是 神经元 都是经典
口语
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which of the following characteristic do you think is the most important in friendship, honesty, loyalty and humor?
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Some people get most of their news from newspapers and magazines. Others get information from TV or other things. Which source of news do you prefer and why?
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Reading:讲的是概率统计里面的sampling error. When people want to draw conclusions about a large group, sometimes, the group is so large that it is impossible to analyze it. So a sample is introduced. When a sample is accurate, it can represent the whole group. But when it is inaccurate, sampling error would occur.
Listening: a researcher conducted an experiment to research the amount of fish of different sizes—big fish, middle size fish, small fish. Because there are many fish in the lake so he wants to select a sample from the lake by his net. But there are just big fish and middle size fish in his net. He is surprised that there is no small fish in the lake. But he then figures out that this is because small fish has escaped from his net.
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男生:你的seminar准备得如何?女生:明天就要开了,所有事情处理好了,不过突然XX教授,今天说他明天不能来。男生:那是个很有名的well known教授啊。女生: 是啊,太可惜了,他怎么到最后一分钟才说不能来呢!我都不知道这段missing time要怎么办,那些同学会很失望的。男生:我认识一个local 的XX,虽然没他那么well known,但是他也有做过lake environment,我觉得他也不错,而且他应该原因过来,是available的。女生:可是你确定现在能来吗,在最后一分钟通知他来。 男生:嗯,那还有个办法,你去图书馆借点lecture的video来放吧,有些内容很震撼,也不错。女生:可是你确定放video不会让同学失望吗,毕竟看video和经历真人lecture很不一样,真人lecture会有互动,唉。问题:你的意见。Problem: there is a huge seminar in the environment club, a famous speaker is invited but he just cancelled his speech. Suggestions;to invite another professor who is not as well-known as the former one to come to the seminar; to use video.
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Mother animals are supposed to have a relative stronger mental ability than non-mother animals. An experiment is conducted to test this theory, a group of mother rats and a group of non-mother rats are involved in this experiment, they are forced to find out the only right way to the food. It turns out that mother rats have stronger memory, so they do not repeat turns and mistakes on the way and they are faster than non-mother rats. In wild, it is similar that mother animals also have stronger mental ability.
写作:
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综合部分
Reading说是Jane Austin的全身像因为:1,她family这样声称,2,跟她妹妹画的amateurish画像很像,3,时代是对的。
Lecture 反驳:1,她family也没有见到过活的Jane。2,她家很多姊妹,全身像跟她一个外甥女marry很像。3,画上canvas标的商人在那个时候还没做canvas生意。
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独立部分
说公共交通该不该收费。People should not pay for the public transportation. Do you agree or disagree.