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Conversation 1:

Passage 1

Man: Hi. Are you Paula?

$ Woman: Jim?

$ Man: Hi. Nice to meet you.

$ Woman: Glad to meet you.

$ Man: So, you need some tutoring in English?

$ Woman: Yeah. I'm taking English composition, and I'm not doing very well on my essays.

$ Man: Right. Um, well, first let's see if we can figure out a time to meet . . . that we're both free.

$ Woman: Okay.

$ Man: How about Mondays? Maybe in the morning? I don't have any classes until eleven on Mondays.

$ Woman: That would work, but I was hoping we could, you know, meet more than once a week.

$ Man: Oh. Well, Tuesdays are out. I've got classes and, uh, I work at the library part time on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bu t I could get together on Wednesdays.

$ Woman: In the morning?

$ Man: Probably nine-thirty would be best. That way we'd have an hour to work before I'd have to get ready for my eleven o'clock.

$ Woman: So that would be two hours a week then?

$ Man: I could do that.

$ Woman: Oh, but, would that be extra? You know, 2. would I need to pay you for the extra session连续授课时间?

$ Man: No. Um, just so you meet me here at the Learning Center, and we both sign in, then I'll get paid. Tutoring is free, to you, I mean. The school pays me. But we both have to show up. 3 If you don't show up and sign in for a session, then I don't get paid. So . . .

$ Woman: Oh, don't worry about that. I really need the help. I won't miss any sessions unless I'm sick or something.

$ Man: Okay then. So you want me to help you with your essays?

$ Woman: Right. I could bring you some that have, you know, comments on them. I'm getting C's and . . .

$ Man: Well, that's not too bad. Once I see some of your writing, we should be able to pull that up （名次提前）to a B.

$ Woman: You think so?

$ Man: Sure. But I need to explain something. Some of my students in the past . . . they expected me to write their essays for them. But that's not what a tutor is supposed to do.4. My job is to help you be a better writer.

$ Woman: Oh, I understand that. But you'll read my essays, right?

$ Man: Oh yeah. No problem. We'll read them together, and I'll make

suggestions.

$ Woman: Great. I think part of the problem is I just don't understand the teacher's comments. $ Maybe you can help me figure them out.

$ Man: Sure. Who's the teacher?

$ Woman: Simpson.

$ Man: 5. No problem. I've tutored a couple of her students, so I know more or less where she's coming from. Okay, then. I guess we'll meet here on Monday.

$ Woman: I'll be here. Nine-thirty you said.

$ Man: Just sign in when you get here.

Passage 2

Professor:

6. Okay, today we’re going to discuss the four major types of drainage patterns(排水系统).

7. I trust you’ve already read the chapter so you’ll recall that a drainage pat tern is the arrangement of channels that carry water in an area. And these patterns can be very distinctive since they’re determined by the climate, the topography(地形学,地形测量学), and the composition of the rock that underlies the formations. So, consequently, we can see that a drainage pattern is really a good visual summary of the characteristics of a particular region, both geologically and climactically. In other words, when we look at drainage patterns, we

can draw conclusions about the structural formation and relief of the land as well as the climate.

Now all drainage systems are composed of an interconnected network of streams, and, when we view them together, they form distinctive patterns. Although there are at least seven identifiable kinds of drainage patterns, for our purposes, we’re going to limit our study to the four major types. Probably the most familiar pat te rn is the dendritic (树枝状的) drainage pattern.

8. This is a stream that looks like the branches of a tree. Here’s an example of a dendritic pattern. As you can see, it’s similar to many systems in nature. In addition to the structure of a tree, it also resembles the human circulation system. This is a very efficient drainage system because the overall length of any one branch is fairly short, and there are many branches, so that allows the water to flow quickly and efficiently from the source or sources.

$ O kay, let’s look at the next example.

$ This drainage pattern is referred to as a radial(辐射状的) pattern. Notice how the streams flow from a central point. This is usually a high mountain, or a volcano. 9. It kind of looks like the spokes(辐条；) that radiate out from the hub(中心) of a wheel. When we see a radial pattern, we know that the area has experienced uplift and that the direction of the drainage is down the slopes of a relatively isolated central

point.

$ Going back to the dendritic for a moment. The pattern is determined by the direction of the slope of the land, but it, uh, the streams flow in more or less the same direction, and . . . so it’s unlike the radial that had multiple directions of flow from the highest point.

$ Now this pattern is very different from either the dendritic or the radial. $ This is called a rectangular (长方形的; 矩形的) pattern, and I think you can see why. Just look at all of those right-angle (直角) turns. The rectangle pattern is typical of a landscape that’s been formed by fractured joints and faults. And because this broken rock is eroded more easily than unbroken rock, stream beds are carved along the jointed bedrock.

10 Finally we have the trellis (格架) pattern. And here in this example, you can see quite clearly how the tributaries (支流的)of an almost parallel structure drain into valleys and . . . and form the appearance of a garden trellis. This pattern forms in areas where there are alternating bands of variable resistance, and by that I mean that the bands of rock that are very strong and resistant to erosion alternate with bands of rock that are weak and easily eroded. This often happens when a horizontal(水平的), plain folds and outcroppings (出露地表) appear.

$ So, as I said, as a whole, these patterns are dictated by the structure and relief of the land.

$ The kinds of rocks on which the streams are developed, the structural

pattern of the folds(褶层), uh, faults, and . . . uplift will usually determine a drainage system. However, I should also mention that drainage patterns can occasionally appear to be, well, out of sync with the landscape. And this can happen when a stream flows over older structures that have been uncovered by erosion or . . . or when a stream keeps its original drainage system when rocks are uplifted. So when that happens, the pattern appears to be contrary to the expected course of the stream. 11. But I’m interested in your understanding the basic drainage systems. So I don’t plan to trick you with test questions about exceptional patterns, but I expect you to know that exceptions to the patterns can occur when geological events influence them.

Passage 3

Professor:

$ Drawing is a very basic a rt form. It’s appealing because it can be used to make a very quick record of the ideas that an artist may be envisioning(imaginative), so, a drawing can serve as a visual aid for the artist to remember a certain moment of inspiration and maybe use it for a more detailed work later on. Okay, usually such sketches allow the artist to visualize the proportions and the shapes without much attention to details so these images can be used by painters, architects, sculptors—any artist really. And large renderings, sketches of parts of the whole . . . these

can be helpful in the creative process when a . . . a huge image might be more difficult to conceive of in its entirety. Or, a sketch of just one face in a crowd can allow the artist to . . . focus on creating just that part of the image.So, in many artists’ studios, countless drawings are strewn about as the final painting or sculpture takes form. And this gives us insight into the creative process, as well the opportunity to see changes from the images at the beginning in the images of the finished work. It’s rare, in fact, for an artist to use permanent materials to begin a piece of art. And some painters, for example, even sketch onto the surface of the canvas before applying the pigments. 13. 14. Now, architects are especially prone to（be likely to）sketches because, of course, their buildings are so large that an image in smaller scale is necessary to the imagination and implementation of such projects. So, uh, these studies become the basis for future works. And again, this is very interesting as a record of the creative process. Okay so far? 14

12. Okay, drawing has several other functions besides as a temporary reference. For centuries, artists have used drawing as a traditional method of education. By copying the great works, especially of the Old Masters, aspiring artists could learn a lot about proportion, how to capture light and shadow and . . . and so forth. In fact, some artists who later achieve recognition, still continue to use this practice to hone their skills or . . . or simply to pay homage to another artist, as is often the case when

a work of art originally created in another medium like a sculpture . . . when it’s recreated in the form of a drawing. Many examples of drawings of Michelangelo’s sculptures were re-created by well-known artists. One that comes to mind is the Study of Michelangelo’s Bound Slave by Edgar Degas. The original by Michelangelo was a marble sculpture that was, oh, about seven feet in height, but the small drawing was made in a sketchpad. In any case, the study is also considered a masterpiece, on a small scale, of course.

12. So . . . what additional purposes m ight be served by the medium of drawing?Well, let’s remember that photography is a relatively new art form, so prior to the use of photographs to record historical events, a quick drawing by an artist was about the only way to preserve a real-time visual account of an important moment. Although a more permanent visual impression might be rendered later, it would be based on memory and not on the artist’s actual observation. 15. Probably the most often cited example of a sketch t hat preserved a n historical record would be the small drawing of Marie Antoinette(玛丽安彤奈特) as she was taken to the guillotine(断头台) in a cart through the streets of Paris. Jacques-Louis David sketched this famous drawing on a piece of paper about the size of the palm of his hand. And the artist, the artist reporter, is still important even in modern times, when photography isn’t possible, for e xample, when judges won’t permit cameras in the courtroom.

17. Ok ay, to review, we’ve talked abou t three functions for drawing—as a visual aid for the artist to complete a future work, as a method of educ ation f or aspiring artists or eve n practiced artists, and as a way to report an event. But the sketchbook has . . . other possibilities. $ Sometimes a drawing is the final execution of the art. Picasso produced hundreds of drawings in, well, every conceivable medium, but especially in pencil and crayon. I find it very interesting that Picasso did so much of this kind of work . . . drawing, I mean, in his last years. Some critics have argued that he was just laughing at the art world, which was willing to pay outrageous sums for anything with his name on it, and clearly, a drawing can be executed in a short period of time. But others, other critics, 16. they feel as I do that Pi casso was drawing because it was so basic, and because it was so spontaneous and so much fun. And also, think about how difficult it really is to produce a quick drawing with a few lines and, uh, no opportunity to . . . to recreate the original, either by painting it out or remodeling the clay or changing the building materials, or . . . or any of the other methods for revision of a finished artistic work that artists have at their disposal. So, what I’m saying is that drawing when it’s elevated to a finished piece, it must be done with confidence and it must show a high degree of creativity and mastery of the art form. In a way, it harkens back to the beginnings of art itself, when some unknown artist must have stuck a finger in the earth to draw an

image or . . . maybe he picked up a stone and made a drawing on the wall of a cave.

Okay, so, as a first assignment, I want you to make a couple of sketches yourself. I’m not going to grade them. This isn’t a studio art class. I just want you to use a few basic strokes to capture an image. You can do the first one in pencil, crayon, ink, chalk, or even charcoal . . . whatever you like. Then, I want you to sketch the same image in a different medium. So, if you do a face in pencil, I want you to do the same face but in chalk or crayon. Bring them to class next week and we’ll continue our discussion of drawing, but we’ll talk more about the ma terials artists use to produce drawings, and, uh, we’ll refer to your sketches as examples.

Passage 4

Student: Thanks for seeing me, Professor Williams.

Professor: Glad to, Alice. What do you have on your mind?

Student:18. Well, I got a little mixed up when I started to go over my notes from the last class, so I had a few questions.

Professor: Shoot.

Student: Okay. I understand the three basic sources of personnel for multinational companies.

That’s fairly self-explanatory.

Professor: Host country, home country, and third country.

Student: Right. But then you started talking about staffing patterns that . . . let me see . . . okay . . 19.. you said, “staffing pa tterns may vary depending on the length of time that t he multinational company has been operating,” and you gave some examples, but I got confused and now I can’t read my notes.

Professor: Okay. Well, one pattern is to rely on home country managers to staff the key positions when the company opens, but gradually moving more host country nationals into upper management as the company grows.

Student: So, for example, if a French company opened a factory in Canada, then French management would gradually replace themselves with Canadian managers. Is that what you mean?

Professor: Right. I think I used that very example in class. So do you want to try to explain the second pattern to me?

Student: Sure. 20.I think it’s the one where home country nationals are put in charge of the company if it’s located in a developed country, but in a developing country, t hen home country nationals manage the company sort of indefinitely.

Professor: Right again. 20. And an example of that would be . . . Student: . . . maybe using German management for a Swiss company in Germany, but, uh, they might send Swiss management to provide

leadership for a Swiss company in . . . in . . .

Professor: How about Zimbabwe?

Student: This is one of the confusing parts.

Zimbabwe has a very old and highly developed culture, so…Professor: . . . but it’s still defined as a developing country because of the economic base—which is being developed now.

Student: Oh, okay.21. I guess that makes sense. Then the example of the American company with British management . . . when the company is in India . . . tha t would be a third-country pattern. Professor: Yes. In fact, this pattern is fairly prevalent among multinational companies in the United States.Many Scottish or English ma nagers have been hired for top management positions at United States subsidiaries in the former British colonies-India, Jamaica, the West Indies, some parts of Africa . . .

Student: Okay. So I’ve got all the examples right now.

$ Professor: Anything else?

$ Student: Just one thing. There were some typical patterns for certain countries.

$ Professor: Like the last example.

$ Student: No. This came later in the lecture. Something about Japan and Europe.

$ Professor: Oh. Right. I probably said that both Japanese multinational

companies and European companies tend to assign senior-level home country managers to 22. overseas locations for their entire careers, whereas multinational companies in the United States view overseas assignments as temporary, so they may actually find themselves reporting to a senior-level manager from the host country who has more experience.

$ Student: So, for example, a Japanese company in the United States would most probably have senior-level Japanese managers with mid-level managers maybe from the United States. But in Japan, the senior-level Japanese managers at an American company would probably have mid-level American managers reporting to them?

$ Professor: Well, generalities are always a little tricky, but for the most part, that would be a typical scenario. Because living as a permanent expatriate is a career move in Japan, but a temporary strategy in the United States.

$ Student: Okay. That’s interesting.

$ Professor: And important for you to know as a business major with an interest in international business.

$ You’re still on that track, aren’t you?

$ Student: I sure am. But, you know, I wasn’t thinking in terms of living abroad for my entire career.

$ That really is a huge commitment, and something to ask about going in.

Anyway, like you say, most American companies view overseas assignments as temporary. That’s more what I have in mind, for m yself, I mean.

Passage 5 astronomy 天文学

Professor:

$ Okay, let’s get started. Um, as you know today I promised to take you on a walk through the sola r system, so let’s start here with the central object of our solar system—the Sun. As you can see, the Sun is about five inches in diameter an d that’s about the size of a large grapefruit（柚子）, which is exactly what I’ve used to represent it here in our model. So, I’m going to take two steps and that will bring me to the planet closest to the Sun. That would be Mercury（水星）. Two more steps to Venus（金星）. And one step from Venus to Earth. Let’s continue walking three steps from Earth to Mars（火星）. And that’s as far as I can go here in the classroom, but we can visualize the rest of the journey.

24. Don’t bother writing this down. Just stay with me on this. So, to go from Mars to Jupiter（木星）, we’d have to walk a little over half the length of a football field, so that would put us about at the library here on campus, and then to get from Jupiter to Saturn（土星）, we’d have to walk another 75 yards, so by then we’d be at Harmon Hall. From Saturn to Uranus（天王星）, we’d have to walk again as far as we’d gone in our

journey from the Sun to Saturn, and so we’d probably be at the Student Union. From Uranus to Neptune（海王星）we’d have to walk the same distance again, which would take us all the way to the graduate dormitory towers. From Neptune to Pluto（冥王星）, another 125 yards. So, we’d end up about one third of a mile from this classroom at the entrance to the campus.

$ Okay. That’s interesting, but now I want you to think about the orbits of the planets in those locations. Clearly, the first four planets could orbit fairly comfortably in this room, but to include the others, we’d have to occupy an area of more than six-tenths of a mile, which is all the way from College Avenue to Campus Drive. Remember that for this scale, the Sun is five inches, and most of the planets are smaller than the lead on a sharpened pencil. Okay, with that in mind, I want you to think about space. Sure, there are some moons around a few planets, and a scattering of asteroids and comets, but really, there isn’t a lot out there in such a vast area. It’s, well, it’s pretty empty. And that’s what I really want to demonstrate with this exercise.

Now, it would really be even more impressive if you could actually make that walk, and actually you can, if you visit Washington, D.C., where a scale model is set up on the National Mall, starting at the National Air and Space Museum and ending up at the Arts and Industries Museum. I did that a couple of years ago, and it was, well amazing. Even though I

knew the distances intellectually, there’s nothing like the experience. Has anybody else done that walk?

$ Student 1:

$ I have. And you’re right. It’s an eye-opener. It took me about twenty minutes to go from the Sun to Pluto because I stopped to read the information at each planet, but when I made the return trip, it was about ten minutes.

$ Professor: Did you take pictures?

$ Student 1: I didn’t. But, you know, I don’t think it would ha ve captured it anyway.

25. Professor:

$ I think you’re right. What impressed me about doing it was to see what was not there. I mean, how much space was between the bodies in the solar system. And a photograph wouldn’t have shown that.

So back to our model. Here’s another tho ught for you. The scale for our model is 1 to 10 billion. Now, let’s suppose that we want to go to the nearest star system, the neighbor to our solar system. That would be the Alpha Centauri system, which is a little less than four and a half light years a way. Okay. Let’s walk it on our model. Here we are on the East Coast of the United States. So if we want to make it all the way to Alpha Centauri, we have to hike all the way to the West Coast, roughly a distance of 2,700 miles. And that’s just the closest one.

$ To make a model of the Milky Way Galaxy would require a completely different scale because . . . because the surface of the Earth wouldn’t be large enough to accommodate a model at the scale of 1 to 10 billion. Now, let’s stop here for a minute because I just want to be sure that we’re all together on the terms solar system and galaxy. 26. Remember that our solar system is a single star, the Sun, with various bodies orbiting around it—nine planets and their moons, and asteroids, comets, meteors. But the galaxy has a lot of star systems—probably 100 billion of them.Okay? This is important because you can be off by almost 100 billion if you get confused by these terms. Not a good idea. Okay, then, even if we could figure out a different scale that would let us make a model of the Milky Way Galaxy, even then, it would be challenging to make 100 billion stars, which is what you’d have to do to complete the model. How many would that be exactly? Well, just try to count all the grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. That would be about 100 billion. But of course, you couldn’t even count them in your lifetime, could you? If you’d started counting in 1000 B.C.E. you’d be finishing just about now, with the counting, I mean. But of course, that assumes tha t you wouldn’t sleep or take any breaks.

27. So, what am I hoping for from this lecture? What do you think I want you to remember?

$ Student 2: Well, for one thing, the e normous distances . . .

$ Student 3: . . . and the vast emptiness in space.

$ Professor:

$ That’s good. I hope that you’ll also begin to appreciate the fact that the Earth isn’t the center of the universe.

$ Our planet, although it’s very beautiful and unique, it’s still just one planet, orbiting around just one star in just one galaxy.

Passage 6

Professor:

$ Okay, we know from our earlier study of Freud that29. defense mechanisms protect us from bringing painful thoughts o r feelings to the surface of our consciousness. We do this because our minds simply can’t tolerate these thoughts. So, defense mechanisms help us to express these painful thoughts or feelings in another way, while we repress the real problem. The function of defense mechanisms is to keep from being overwhelmed. Of course, the avoidance of problems can result in additional emotional issue s. And there’s a huge distinction between repression and suppression. Anybody want to explain the difference? $ Student 1:

$ I’ll try it. 30. I think repression is an unconscious response to serious events or images but suppression is more conscious and deals with something unpleasant but not usually, well, terrible experiences.

$ Professor:

$ I couldn’t have said it better. Now remember that the thoughts or feelings that we’re trying to repress may include, just to mention a few, anger, depression, competition, uh . . . fear, envy, hate, and so on.

$ For instance, let’s suppose that you’re very angry with your professor.

31. N ot me, of cou rse. I’m referring to another professor. So, you’re very angry because he’s treated you unfairly in some way that . . . that could cause you to lose your scholarship. Maybe he failed you on an examination that didn’t really cover the material that he’d gone over in class, and an F grade in the course is going to be unacceptable to your sponsors. So, this wou ld be very painful, as I’m sure you’d agree. And I’d say it would qualify as a serious event.

$ So let’s take a look at several different types of defense mechanisms that you might employ to repress the feelings of disappointment, rage perhaps, and . . . a nd even violence that you’d feel toward the professor. Most of them are named so the mechanism is fairly obvious and one of the most common mechanisms is denial, which is . . .

$ Student 2: If I want to deny something, I’ll just say I’m not angry with the professor.

$ Professor:

$ Exactly. You may even extend the denial to include the sponsors, and you could tell your friends that they’d never revoke your scholarship. And

this mechanism would allow you to deny the problem, even in the face of direct evidenc e to the contrary. Let’s say, a letter from the sponsor indicating that you won’t receive a scholarship for the next term. . . . Okay on that one? Okay. How about rationalization?

$ Student 2: Well, in rationalization, you come up with some reasons why the professor might have given an unfair test.

$ Professor: And how would you do that?

$ Student 2: Well, you might defend him. You could say that he gave the test to encourage students to learn information on their own. Is that what you mean?

$ Professor: Su re. Because you’d be rationalizing . . . providing a reason that justifies an otherwise mentally intolerable situation. Okay, another example of rationalizing is to excuse the sponsor for refusing to hear your side of the situation. You might say that sponsors are too busy to investigate why students are having problems in their classes. And you might do that while you deny your true feelings that sponsors really should be more open to hearing you out.

$ Student 3: So when you deny something, I mean when you use denial, you’re refusing to acknowledge a situation, but . . . when you use rationalization, you’re excusing the behavior?

$ Professor:

$ Excellent summary. So, now let me give you another option. If you use

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