SPEAKING SECTION
Task 1 |
Your university of planning to replace paper books with electronic books, what is the advantage and disadvantage of this plan? |
Sample response |
The advantage of replacing paper books with electronic versions is that it would be environmental friendly. Trees will not be cut for making paper any more and also it will decrease water pollution in the process of making paper. Another benefit is that it might save money for students as e-books always are much cheaper than paper books. However, the disadvantage will be that it is not good for students watching the computer screen for long time when reading. |
Task 2 |
Do you agree or disagree with the statement that it’s easier to teach primary school students than to teach university students? |
Sample response |
I don’t quite agree that it’s much easier to teach primary school students than to teach university students. First, children is much more difficult to handle, because the time that they could focus on one thing is limited. Therefore, teachers have to design more activities and tasks for them to do. And these require loads of time and heavy work. Second, teachers have to pay more attention on primary school students’ safety issues than university students. Over half of the time, teachers have to be more careful on avoiding them being in dangerous situations. For example, eating wrong things, jumping around the classroom so and so forth. |
Task 3 |
【提议】Modern literature has become more and more popular, so the university has adopted two approaches to enroll more students. The first way is to change small classrooms into bigger ones, the second way is have more session in the evening.
【学生议论】The man disagrees with this.
理由1:more convenient
理由2:have part time jobs in the evening and lack time to attend class.
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Sample response |
Modern literature has become more and more popular, so the university has adopted two approaches to enroll more students. The first way is to change small classrooms into bigger ones, the second way is have more session in the evening. The man disagrees with this. First, it is much more convenient to have group discussions in small classroom while the bigger classroom the group discussion session might not work at all. Second, some students have some part time jobs in the evening, they may lack time to attend the class. |
Task 4 |
【名词解释】Aggressive recruiting. It means that the sellers offer discounts during promotion period to appeal customers, then after big sales they start to charge to make profits.
【教授举例】In the lecture, the professor uses an example of gym to explain how effective the strategy is. During sales season, members can get free tutoring, but this free policy stops after a month. Surprisingly, most of the customers continue this service and the gym actually increases its customer basis. |
Sample response |
Aggressive recruiting. It means that the sellers offer discounts during promotion period to appeal customers, then after big sales they start to charge to make profits. In the lecture, the professor uses an example of gym to explain how effective the strategy is. During sales season, members can get free tutoring, but this free policy stops after a month. Surprisingly, most of the customers continue this service and the gym actually increases its customer basis. Therefore, because of the increasing of customer basis, the gym begin to make money. |
Task 5 |
【学生困难】A girl was in bad mood because she made a vase in ceramic class and was supposed to hand in on Wednesday but unfortunately she broke it into pieces this morning.
方案一: glue it together as the pieces are not tiny
方案二: make a new one |
Sample response |
The girl has a problem that she was in bad mood because she made a vase in ceramic class and was supposed to hand it in on Wednesday but unfortunately she broke it into pieces this morning. There are two solutions from their conversation. One is to glue it together and another is to make a new one. If I were her, I would choose the second solution. First, the professor will discover and give her a low score. Second, it could not cost he too much time for making another copy because this is the second time he do this. So she could have enough time to prepare her final test for another course which she really needs to prepare. |
Task 6 |
【讲课要点】
The professor talks about two ways how sea bottom dwellers feed themselves. The first way is active method. For example, sea anemone camouflages into plant and parasite on other sea animals and the host will release poisonous chemicals, so sea anemone can prey easily. The second way is passive method. For example, oysters don’t move a lot but wait for tiny organism sent by sea water and waves. |
Sample response |
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In the lecture, the professor talked about two ways how sea bottom dwellers feed themselves. The first way is active method which means that sea animals do something for preying food. For example, sea anemone camouflages into plant and parasite on other sea animals and the host will release poisonous chemicals, so sea anemone can prey easily. The second way is passive method which means that sea animals don’t do things for preying food. For example, oysters don’t move a lot but wait for tiny organism sent by sea water and waves. |
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