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Luna6408UID：3140002

Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made in the reading passage. (TPO 17)

The reading passage claims that birds in the United States tends[tend] to become fewer and fewer due to the influence of increasing human activities, but the professor contends that the support of this argument is not convincing.

Primarily, although urban expansions may be bad for some bird species, according to the reading passage, the professor argues that human settlements actually create better and larger habitats for other kinds of birds. Some of the city dwellers even complain about an increasing number of birds referring to seagulls and pigeons as well as hawks and falcons which feed on the pigeons frequently appearing on the street[streets]. In fact, bird populations tend not to change in a[an] uniform way, some shrinking and some growing, as the professor points out.

Second, there is actually less and less wilderness areas being turned into lands of agricultural use, contrary to what is stated in the reading passage. The professor mentions that the increase production of agriculture is under way thanks to the introduction of a variety of crops, which may greatly enhance the produce per unit of land. Then there is no need to destroy more natural areas, not to mention to ruin the habitats of birds. Thus, bird populations in rural areas may not decline.

The professor finally argues that the traditional chemical pesticides in the reading passage are not likely to be put into use any longer. After a majority of people have known the potential detriment of the traditional pesticides, new and less toxic pesticides as well as genetically pest-resistant crops which are unattractive to pests are soon developed. These new technologies will not do harm[前面的新技术已经出现，后面就体现到了，是不是用do not harm 好点？] to the crops, nor to the birds, so the number of birds may not be affected.

In summary, the professor challenges the reading passage in terms of cities, agriculture and technology, holding that the decline of bird population is not likely to continue .
[如果改得不会请见谅哦，记得告诉我，谢谢]

Luna6408UID：3140002

It is often not a good thing to move to a new city or to a new country because of the losing of old friends. (20091031NA)

Moving to another city or country often seems exciting to people who always pursue a better life, referring to the different environment, new neighborhood, more convenient transportation, or more opportunities for success. However, those people who place a lot of emphasis on the advantage of living in a new place may be blind to the great loss of such movement, especially the losing of old friends.

To begin with, the considerble distance between the new city and the old one is very likely to undermine the possibility for friends to keep in touch. Dissenters may argue that with the help of Internet and other services, one moving to a new place is still able to continue the friendship by sending emails, postcards or presents. Nonetheless, the friendship built on written messages or symbolic objects is comparatively fragile due to the lack of face-to-face communication. Because of the geological distance, it may take several hours to return to the old place by car, by train or by air, so the sheer inconvenience is a big matter when scheduling to visit the old friends for once, let alone seeing them in person more frequently.

Second, getting to know new friends also poses a threat to maintaining the old friendship. New residents in a city or country have to join in another social network in order to adapt to a different job or a different living place, inevitably forgetting the old social relations. For instance, a teenager who goes to college abroad is going to be involved in a foreign adult society, where people talk as adults, dress as adults, and think as adults. His or her memory of the teenage friendship in the home country, on the other hand, is probably going to dim, because he or she may no longer behave casually and naively like a teenager.[friendship可能模糊，但是不是因为自己不能行为举止不能像teenager那样,而是应该周围没有类似的朋友,是自己忘却了] Also, it is possible that the young person adds the phone numbers of new friends into the cell phone but, owing to the limited storage, has to delete those of the old friends and to put an end to the old friendship.

Finally, in a world changing so quickly nowadays, the distinction between old friends who do not live in the same city or country may get more obvious, endangering the friendship. As an illustration, assume two teenage friends having both been interested in playing basketball were then separated to two different cities. One of them continued such hobby but the other, probably because of more schoolwork, stopped going to the basketball court. When common hobbies not longer existed, it may really be hard for them to remember the days spent together and to revitalize the friendship.

In summary, before moving to a new city or country, people have to take the loss of old friends into deliberation, questioning themselves whether they are ready for a different life and whether they can afford the significant change.
[写得很好，如果我改得不会，记得告诉我]

师走99UID：2857041

写的很好啊，学习了！
水平有限，没觉得有很多要改的orz……
还有改的太晚了，不好意思~
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JeniusUID：2964631

wilsonchen2011UID：3137568

19# Jenius
谢谢jenius细心的指点。你问我说我听到的东西怎么记那么细，老实说我觉得我就是因为个人对听到的信息太没把握重点的能力，所以听到什么都记下来，才导致Listening Section对题目问的重点把握不准，丢了一大堆分。你可能觉得这是优点，其实我觉得这是最大的硬伤，我要尽量减少笔记量、增加听力的理解度才行！加油！

xieqy0326UID：2653877

最近没写了？想学习学习的~~

wilsonchen2011UID：3137568

楼主强势回归，小报一下8.21托福战绩：
阅读 30  听力 27  口语 27  写作 28  总分 112
可见练那么久写作还是只上去了1分。
明显就是平时不注意单词拼写，考试时amount拼多了一个m。
为了准备和托福写作相似的SAT写作，我也来继续捧场。
Thank you！