新视野视听说3（第二版）Unit1
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II. Basic Listening Practice
Keys: 1.C 2.D 3. B 4.D 5.A
III. Listening In
Task 1:On the first day
Keys:
(1)the first day
(2)changing
(3)really good
(4)hard workers
(5)went over her head
(6)explained
(7)notes
(8)Wednesday
(9)participation
(10)education
Task 2:How to select elective courses?
Keys:
(1)extra training
(2)chemistry
(3)accounting
(4)many fields of study
(5)better potential
(6)business degree
(7)challenging
(8)how to learn
(9)better understanding
(10)narrow-minded
Task3: How to get straight A's?
Keys:1.B 2.C 3. D 4.A 5.D
IV. Speaking Out
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V. Let?ˉs Talk
Task 1:Maintaining the quality or increasing the intake?
Keys:
(1)quality
(2)young
(3)25
(4)difficult
(5)government
(6)quality
(7)cut
(8)extra-cautious
(9)afford
(10)experience
(11)more
(12)blame
(13)budget
(14)puzzled
(15)service
Task 2:What's your answer?
According to the interviewee,
it's difficult to strike a balance between maintaining the educational quality and making sure as many people as possible receive university education.
In the past years, China has been confronted with the same problem.
The university enrollment has been on the increase and some institutions of higher learning do not have enough teachers and teaching facilities,
thus affecting the educational quality.
Task 3:Let's group work!
VI. Further Listening and Speaking
Listening Task:
Task1: Problems with our educational system
Script:
Hi, everybody. My topic today is "Problems with our educational system".
I disagree on a lot of the ways that things have happened for a long time in our educational system.
It seems that educators just want to give standardized tests,
which focus only on academic performance and neglect students' abilities and
interest in other areas.
I think there are a lot of people who are very intelligent,
but haven't had the opportunities they could have had if they had learned in a broader-minded educational system.
I feel that a lot of courses that students are required to take in high school are too academic, and, as a result,
many kids have lost their interest in cators often fail to recognize various kinds of intelligence.
They simply exert a lot of pressure on students to be as well-rounded as possible.
I think being well-rounded isn't really possible.
And as a consequence, some students I believe to be intelligent can't get into good colleges if they,
you know, haven't scored well on the math section, even if they are brilliant writers.
Another thing that disturbs me is that the so-called weak students are separated from the rest of the school.
Some kids are kept in a separate class if their grades are lower than others'. And they're very aware of their social position, you know.
I think it causes them to act in a way that is not really positive.
They're just acting in a way they are expected. Often their grades go from bad to worse. And that's pretty sad.
I think that many of the kids in those classes are intelligent,
but they never actually realize their potential because of the way they are treated early on in their education.
Keys:
(1)standardized tests
(2)abilities and interest
(3)interest
(4)pressure
(5)well-rounded
(6)get into good colleges
(7)the rest of the school
(8)from bad to worse
Task 2: The final exam
Script
At a university, there were four sophomores taking a chemistry course. They were doing so well on all the quizzes, midterms, labs, etc. that each had
