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Question:
Describe a class you have taken in school and explain why the class was important to you. Include details and examples to support your explanation.

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Question: Some universities require first-year students to live in dormitories on campus. Others allow students to live off campus. Which policy do you think is better for first-year students and why? Include details and examples in your explanation.
I think/the first-year students/should live on campus/that is because/the first year/especially the first semester/they will have a heavy load of subjects/they have to follow/and that means they ha/they have to be able to be/uh/on time/in campus//and also/uh/the first year of campus life/needs them to familirized/with buildings/withthe surroundings/with the environment/of the campus itself//so/more times in campus nee/will uh/help them to do that//and/also/you you have to have lots of friends to be uh/able to/make yourself at home/ in the campus//at least/this is the home for you/in the next four years/so it's important to socialize//
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Narrator
City University is planning to increase tuition and fees. Read the announcement about the increase from the president of City University. You will have 45 seconds to read the announcement. Begin reading now.
Reading Time： 45 seconds
Annoucement from the President
The university has decided to increase tuition and fees for all students by approximately 8 percent next semester. For the past 5 years, the tuition and fees have remained the same, but it is necessary to increase them now for several reasons. The university has many more students than we had five years ago, and we must hire additional professors to teach these students. We have also made a new commitment to research and technology, and will be renovating and upgrading our laboratory facilities to better meet our students’ needs.
Narrator
Now listen to two students discussing the article.（点击播放）（点击浏览录音原文）
Question：
The woman expresses her opinion of the announcement made by the university president. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives hor holding that opinion.
(Preparation time: 30 seconds, Response time: 60 seconds)
Important points （答题要点）
• The woman agrees it is a good idea to raise tuition(and to increase spending on hiring professors and upgrading equipment)
• She believes that classes are overcrowded, so students cannot get personal attention.
* lab facilities are inadequate, so she cannot get the practical lab experience she will need to compete for a job.
• The woman's support of the increase should be connected to her criticism of the university (the money will be used to hire more professors and to upgrade the lab facilities).
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Narrator
Now read the passage about animal domestication. You have 45 seconds to read the passage. Begin reading now.

Reading Time: 45 seconds
Animal Domestication
For thousands of years, humans have been able to domesticate, or tame, many large mammals that in the wild live together in herds. Once tamed, these mammals are used for agricultural work and transportation. Yet some herd mammals are not easily domesticated. A good indicator of an animal's suitability for domestication is how protective the animal is of its territory. Non-territorial animals are more easily domesticated than territorial animals because they can live close together with animals from other herds. A second indicator is that animals with a hierarchical social structure, in which herd members follow a leader, are easy to domesticate, since a human can function as the "leader".

Narrator
Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in an ecology class. 点击浏览录音原文

Question
The professor describes the behavior of horses and antelope in herds. Explain how their behavior is related to their suitability for domestication. 
Important Points（答题要点）
1. Horses are hierarchical in their social structure. They naturally follow a leader. Hierarchical animals will accept a human as their leader.
2. Horses are not territorial, so they can live close together/don't fight other herds that enter the same territory.
3. Antelopes are not hierarchical.
4. Antelopes are territorial and will fight fiercely with each other.
5. Application: Thus horses have the traits that make them suitable for domestication while antelopes are not suitable.
Notes: Many people carefully describe the examples but do not really sum it up in the higher-level application. There are two results of the horses' hierarchical nature: the ability to harness them together is in the lecture; the consequence for human leadership is in the reading. Few people mention them both. One method of answering is to focus on the presence of traits in the species and skip the negatives, i.e. horses are hierarchical and antelopes are territorial, without mentioning the absence of these traits in each other. 
Both horses/ and antelopes /are herd animals// but they are differ/ in the um domestication//horses are fo/ um/tend to follow /one horse at a time/ to/ in a herd //because they understand the hierarchy/ of the leader /of the group// whereas antelope/ does not follow/ this same pattern//this could be seen/ by the example of /um/ putting two males together /in the/ in the group of antelopes /and they will not/ let render the leadership /to another male antelope/ until they/one of them/wins in the fight//that means that/ it is not natural/ for the antelopes /to follow human/ as their leaders// and domestication/ efforts/they would fight/ and not easily tamed/ as horses do
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So we’ve been discussing the suitability of animals for domestication...
particularly animals that live together in herds. Now, if we take horses,
for example... in the wild, horses live in herds that consist of one male
and several females and their young. When a herd moves, the dominant male
leads, with the dominant female and her young immediately behind him. The
dominant female and her young are then followed immediately by the second
most important female and her young, and so on. This is why domesticated
horses can be harnessed one after the other in a row. They’re “programmed
” to follow the lead of another horse. On top of that, you often find
different herds of horses in the wild occupying overlapping areas--they
don’t fight off other herds that enter the same territory. But it’s
exactly the opposite with an animal like the uh, the antelope... which...
well, antelopes are herd animals too. But unlike horses, a male antelope
will fight fiercely to prevent another male from entering its territory
during the breeding season, ok--very different from the behavior of horses.
Try keeping a couple of male antelopes together in a small space and see
what happens. Also, antelopes don’t have a social hierarchy--they don’t
instinctively follow any leader. That makes it harder for humans to control
their behavior.
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Narrator
Now listen to a conversation between two students. 点击播放 点此浏览录音原文 
Question
The students discuss two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Describe the problem. Then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.
（Preparation time: 20 seconds, Response time: 60 seconds)
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Narrator
Now listen to part of a talk in a United States history class. 点击播放 点此浏览录音原文
Question
Using points and examples from the talk, explain how the automobile and the radio contributed to a common culture in the United States.
（Preparation time: 20 seconds, Response time: 60 seconds)
Important points（答题要点）
1. When automobiles became more widely available in the 1920s, more people were able to travel to nearby cities and take vacations to other parts of the country.
2. As a result of increased contact, people's attitudes and behavior began to change. For example, people in small towns began to adopt behaviors, clothes and speech that were popular in big cities.
3. Radio ownership increased at this time as well, so more people were exposed to the same popular radio programs and musical artists. This meant more people began to gain familiarity with similar information and speech patterns.
Notes: The notion of "common culture" is left rather vague in the lecture, so many responses may be vague on this as well, and just talk of common experiences. A number of respondents will emphasize the lack of common culture one hundred years ago, but that is not necessary to obtain score 4.
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Where would you like to go on your next vacation. choose a place and explain why you would like to go there.  Please include specific details and examples in your explanation.
On my next vacation, I would really like to go to France.  I've never been in western Europe, but among all the countries of the western Europe I would really like to visit France because it's a country of great culture with a lot history called heritage and being a Russian myself, er, we had French language as a second language, er, second common language for all aristocracy for more than two centuries. When I'm in France I would really like to see the river Thames. I would like to visit the Louvre and their galleries. I would like to walk in their old cities and to see... 
Narrator
Now listen to a part of a talk in an economics class. 点此浏览录音原文
Question
Important points（答题要点）
Under the broad definition, money is anything that can be used as payment (as a medium of exchange), e.g., coins/bills and barter. If you take a taxi ride, you could use vegetables as payment for the cab ride. Under a narrower definition, money is anything that must be accepted as payment (legal tender). In the United States, coins and bills are legal tender. A taxi driver must accept coins and bills as payment for the taxi ride. Vegetables and credit cards are not legal tender in the United States, so the taxi driver does not have to accept these as payment.

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