新动力3册 unit8

Unit 8 Direction: Listen to the report taken from the VOA Special English and answer the following questions. Choose Y our Degree at an American college or University T oday, we answer a question from Martin in Mexico City. He asks about the kinds of degrees that can earn at American college and university. American higher education offers degrees in many areas of study. A community college student earns an associate degree after tow years of general study. The student may then continue at college or university for another two years to earn a bachelor’s degree. An undergraduate student at a four-year school earns a bachelor’s degree. Student majoring in an area of science receive the Bachelor of Science, also known by the letters B.S. Arts or humanities students get the Bachelor of Arts degree, or B. A. Students who continue in school may earn a master’s degree after two or three morn years of study. Many Americans earn master’s degrees at night or on the weekends while they are working. One example of this is the MBA, a master’s degree in business administration. Students learn to deal with all kinds of business situation. They develop skills needed by many companies. MBA program teach about economics, finance and marketing. They also teach about the structure of organizations and other subjects. Business is a popular subject for students who came to the United States. To be admitted to an MBA program , a foreign student must have a bachelor’s degree and good score on the TOEFL. Most students also take the Graduate Management Administration Test. Most of the 1,800 MBA programs around the word use these test scores. The Graduate Management Admission Council says foreign students should find out what difference schools do to help them find a job after they receive their degree .Representatives from many companies visit colleges to hire students. Y ou should how many companies are will to hire international students. The council says even the best schools may have fewer job placements for international graduates for others. Question: 1.What is this report about? (It is about the kinds of degrees that students can earn American college and university.) 2.What degree does a student in community college earn? (He earns an associate degree after two years of general study.) 3.What is MBA? (It’s a master’s degree in business administration. Students learn to deal with all kinds of business situations. They develop skills needed by many companies.) 4.What must a foreign student have in order to be admitted to an MBA program? (He must have a bachelor’s degree and a good score on TOEEF.) Conversation Directions: In this part you will hear 8 short conversation and 1 long conversation. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices mark A, B,C,D, and decide which is the best answer. Section A: short conversations 1.W: Ton said that Paris is a great place for conferences. Q: What does the man say about Tom? (B) 2.M: My toothache is killing me. I thought it was going away, but now it is getting worse and I can hardly bear it. W: I told you yesterday make an appointment. Q: What does the woman mean? (A) 3.W: of all the mouths June is my favorite. I was born in June. What about you? M: My birthday is December, but I like October best. Q: When the man was born? (D) 4.M: I’d like ask my teacher to the parity. Do you know her address? W: Sorry, but I can find it out. Q; what does woman mean? (C) 5.W: I had a hard time getting through the novel. M: I share your felling. Who can remember the names of 25 different characters? Q: what does the man imply? (C) 6.M: Is this 689213? I’m trying to reach the guest house. W I’m sorry. Y ou must have wrong number. This is a private residence. Q: Where did this conversation take place? (D) 7.W: what do you think of future for online education? Is it going to replace the regular schools? M: I don’t think so. Even more and more students are becoming learners, I still believe fewer of them will quit school altogether. Q: What does the man think of traditional schools? (B) 8.M: I haven’t seen you for a long time, Miss White. Have you moved or something? W: No. I’ve been on a visit to Italy for two weeks, and then stayed with my mother for two mouths. Q: How long has Miss White been away? (C) Section B: long conversation W: I’m going over to the gym. I want to do some running. M: Y eah, I suppose. I guess it isn’t healthy to run in this weather. I will go over to te gym too. W: Y es, why not? Just let me get my gym clothes together.. M: I didn’t know you could exercise. I always thought you were only good at lifting beer bottles to your mouth. W: No, not at all. I was on the swimming team in high school. And I’d like to some weight training. They have decent equipment at that gym. I want to start. I need to keep healthy, I feel my energy is low these past couple months. W: It’s true. If a person doesn’t exercise, they get inactive. That’s why I keep running. Even in winter. But lifting weight isn’t best thing. Y ou should do some kind of aerobic exercise. M: I know. But I want to start today with a little weight lifting. then I’m going to buy a swimming suit and goggles, and every other day I’m going to swimming in the pool. How does that sound? W: It’s still just surprised you really want to do it. It doesn’t seem to go with your character. M: Well, if that’s true, then maybe I need change my character, don’t I? I don’t want to come a fat and unpleasant person Question 9 to 12are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9.What will the women do? (B) 10.W hy does the man want to do some exercise? (A) 11.H ow often is the man going to go swimming? (C) 12.W hat impression does the woman always have about the man? (D) Passages Directions: In this part you will hear 2 short passages. At the end of passages, you will hear some questions. Both the question and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must read the four choices marked ABCD, and decide which is the best answer. Passage one T uition discount increase in popularity Hungry for the brightest students, many of stronger universities are actively discounting tuition. The practice is remarkably widespread, reaching almost all but the 30 or so Ivy and other first-class colleges. At the DePauw University Website, enter an SAT or ACT score, a computer program immediately tells you what kind of “award”. Only “the real unlucky” pay full price any more. About 76% of first-year students got some form of discount this year at 331 private schools. The average award per student is about 7,000 dollar. Students can even “bargain”with school if they are offered bigger awards at other schools. Much as banks and insures offer special rates to their best customers, schools are giving biggest breaks to their top students. Public four-year college, too, are offer discounting. The negative side of big discount is that less money is available to improve academic programs and keep schools infrastructure up to date. University that have shapely increased their tuition discount rates have seen graduation rates fall, and that’s true among even among highly selectively schools. Just as one teacher says, “they get the students in the door, but don’t have the services to keep them.” Questions 1 to 3 are based on the passage you have just heard. 1.Why are universities engaged in the practice of tuition discount? (A) 2.What can top student do if they get bigger awards at other schools? (C) 3.What is the disadvantage of tuition discounts? (D) Home schooling All children in the United States have to receive an education, but the law doesn’t say they have to be educated at school. A number of parents prefer not to send their children to school. There are about 300,000 home-school in the United States today. Some parents prefer teaching their children at home because they do not believe that public schools teach the correct religious values; others believe they can provide a better educational experience by teaching them at home. Interestingly, results show that home-schooled children quite often do better than average on national tests in reading and math. David and his wife teach their three children at home. He says that his children learn very differently from children in school. Learning starts with children’s interests and question. For example, when there is heavy snowfall on winter day, it may state a discussion or reading about climate, snow removal equipment, Alaska or polar bears. A spring evening when the family is put watching the stars is good time to ask question about satellites and the space program. Home schooling is often more interesting than regular schools, but critics say that home-school are outsiders who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life. Critics also say that most parents are not well qualified to teach their children. However, most parents don’t have the time or desire to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be where most children get their formal education. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the passage you have just heard. 1.Which of the following is one of the reasons for some parents to teach their children at home? (C) 2.Why David and his wife teach their three children at home? (C) 3.What is the opinion of critics about home schooling?(A) 4.Why will school continue to be the place where most children get their formal education? (D) Compound diction Direction: in this part, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 9 to 11, you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have you written. It is commonly believed in United States that the school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children (1) interrupt their education to go to school. The (2) distinction between schooling and education implied by this (3) remark is important. Education is much (4) wider than schooling. Education knows no (5) bounds. It can place anywhere whether in a (6) kitchen or on a bus, whether in the shower or in the job. The agents of education can (7)range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a (8) distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. (9) A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little he knows about other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on.it is a lifelong process. Schooling, on the other hand, is specific, formalized process. (10) Children arrive at school at about the same time, take assigned seats, use similar textbook,do homework, take exams, and so on. Many things are to be learned have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students know that (11) they’re not likely to find out in their class the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. Essay Appreciation Direction: listen to the answer the following question questions. The pleasure of reading All the wisdom of ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of book, but we must know how to take advantage of this treasure and how to get the most from it. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books. I’m most interested in people, in meeting them and finding out about them. Some of the most remarkable people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination, then on the page of his book, and then, and again, in my imagination. I’ve in books new friends, new societies, and new words. If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in “who” as in “how”. “Who”in the books includes everybody from science fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first figure in the story. “How” covers everything from the explanations of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries of science and of teaching manners to children. Reading is pleasure of mind, which means it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun not because the writer is telling you something, but might because it makes your mind work. Y our own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his, your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusion, and your ideas developed as you understand his. Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you “ought”to read, you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time, and if you become, as the result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered during the process. Question; 1.What is the essay main about? (The pleasure of reading. ) 2.According to the essay, what kind of people are most unfortunate? (The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.) 3.What has the author found in books? (He has found in books new friends, new societies and new words.) 4.What makes one a good reader? (His eagerness and knowledge and quickness make him a good reader.)