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1. Talk about a positive experience you recently had working with another person. Explain why this experience was important to you.
參考答案：
An important experience I’ve recently had with someone was preparing for a class presentation with my parents. I was asked to do a fifteen minutes presentation about my family in my English class. To start the project, I spent some time talking with my parents. I learned some interesting things about my family history from them. Next, my dad worked with me to get the slides right. He’s an expert because he gives lots of presentations at work being a project manager. At the end, I rehearsed my presentation with them for a few times and got many useful tips on how I could improve. Thanks to their help, I got a pretty good grade for it.
2. Some people prefer to plan what to do in their free time ahead of time, others prefer to not having such plans. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
參考答案：
I prefer to have plans for my free time for the following reasons. First of all, I can utilize my time to get as much done as possible. For example, on Friday night, I would make a short list of the things that need to be done on the weekend. Such as cleaning the apartment, going grocery shopping, taking a walk down the beach, reading for a few hour and spending sometime with the families. If such lists don’t exist, I could easily lose track of time and forget to do a thing or two. Doing so not only makes my life more organized, it also gives me a sense of achievement sometimes seeing just how much I can do within a short period of time.
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閱讀：學(xué)校要求所有同學(xué)參加career skill workshop, 增加學(xué)生的skills。
聽力：男學(xué)生不同意
理由一：他有很多工作，所以已經(jīng)有很多skills和工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)了，學(xué)不到新東西。不需要參加這個(gè)workshop，這個(gè)workshop只對(duì)一些人有用。
理由二：workshop時(shí)間conflicts with students‘ summer plan，很多學(xué)生有internship，而這個(gè)training是安排在暑假的
解析：
Key Points:
Reading: The school has an acquirement that all students should attend the career skill workshop in order to increase skills.
Listening: The boy disagrees with the acquirement.
Reason1: He has lots of work to do, from which he has learnt a great deal of skills and experiences. He thinks that it is necessary to only a small group of people.
Reason 2: The workshop training which is arranged in this summer conflicts with student’s summer plan because most of them have internships this vacation.
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閱讀：opportunity cost：the benefits people must give up when choose an option over another one.
聽力：一方面學(xué)校里沒有游泳池(swimming pool)，一方面圖書館(library)太小，放不了很多書。圖書館可以提供地方給學(xué)生study 和research。但兩個(gè)只能選一個(gè)，最后學(xué)校選擇造swimming pool，并且效果很好，但它就放棄了建library的好處。這樣做的機(jī)會(huì)成本就是圖書館的書不夠用，同學(xué)沒有足夠的空間去學(xué)習(xí)。
Key Points:
Listening: The professor gives an example to illustrate what is opportunity cost. On the one side, the school doesn’t have a swimming pool; on the other side, the library, which is a good place for students to study and do research, doesn’t have so many books for students them to do so. However, the school has to decide between the two. At last, it decides to build a swimming pool instead of enlarging the library. The opportunity in this example is that the library is too small to accommodate so many students.
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問題：女生因?yàn)橐峒?new apartment)去不了一個(gè)hiking trip
方案一：請(qǐng)搬家公司
評(píng)價(jià)：這樣既可以去hiking，家也搬好。但是搬家公司cost a lot of money，她打算存錢買camera，
方案二：hiking回來的晚上搬
評(píng)價(jià)：朋友可以在晚上的時(shí)候提供車幫女生搬，但那樣要熬夜，并且會(huì)很累。
Problem:
The girl has confronted with a time conflict that she is going to move to a new apartment this Saturday when she promised her friends to go on a hiking trip.
Solution 1: Ask for help from the moving company
Comment 1: She will have time go hiking with her friends.
Comment 2: But it will cost her a lot of money that she wants to save to buy a new camera.
Solution 2: She can move to the apartment in the evening after the hiking.
Comment 1: There will be someone who can help her.
Comment 2: But in that case, she has to stay late at night which is very tiresome.
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主題：earth worms 幫助植物生長(zhǎng)的兩種方法
方法一：結(jié)構(gòu)很獨(dú)特，吃葉子什么的，最后身體里面的東西會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)化成植物成長(zhǎng)的營(yíng)養(yǎng)。吃的葉子什么的通過消化以后又排出來，全留在土里，很有營(yíng)養(yǎng)。
方法二：爬的時(shí)候留下很多通道(create tunnels)，這樣就可以儲(chǔ)存空氣和水分，這里的水分更有利于根部吸收。就算是旱季也能保持植物的生長(zhǎng)。
Key Points:
Main idea: The professor introduces twos ways of earth worms to help plants grow.
Way 1: It has a special body structure. After eating some leaves, it will digest and then its excretion will remain in the soil, which is nutrient for plants to grow.
Way 2: It can create tunnels when it crawls. In this way, the soil has much space for water and air which is beneficial for roots to absorb. So, even in dry seasons, plants can also survive.