Listening: Fill in the blanks

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physicians

expertise

determining

preliminary

untrained

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calcium, electricity, investigators, stressed, mechanism

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hygiene, childhood, respiratory

Reading & Writing:Fill in the blanks (FIB)

  1. In addition tohis own research activities, Professor Couch has worked to support young researchers and provide public comment on astronomy internationally.
  2. These doodles helped him develop his classic style and he grew so prolific, doing up to 40 drawings a day, that it was not long before fame and a measure of fortune followed
  3. People are living longer and this longevity is good news for sales teams. It results in a much more right(答案:precise) customer base for them to work from. Why we are living longer is not the issue for anyone linked(答案:involved) in drawing up plans to market a product. What they focus on is the fact that there are now more age groups to target, which means that a sales pitch can be re-worked a number of times to more exactly fit each one. For example, by(答案:rather than) referring simply to ‘adults’, there are now ‘starting adults’, ‘young adults’ and ’established adults’. Similarly(答案:Similarly) , markets no longer talk about ‘children’, but tend to refer to a fuller range of categories that includes ‘kids’, ’tweens’, ‘pre-teens’ and ’teenagers’. We now have a very diverse population in terms of age, and that can only be a favour(答案:bonus) for business.
  4. Some of the factors that motivate people to move including(答案:include) seeking a better climate, finding more affordable housing, looking for work or retiring from work, leaving the congestion (答案:congestion) of city living, wanting a more pleasant environment, and wanting to be near to family and friends. 从句仍需要至少一个谓语动词,其本质仍是一个独立的句子
  5. This attitude is understandable, but it means that many local languages are dying out before anyone would have (答案:has had) the opportunity to study them. According to linguists, some of these languages could reveal a great deal of useful information about language learning and cognitive development.

Summarize Spoken Text

You will hear a short report. Write a summary for a fellow student who was not present. You should write 50-70 words. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points presented in the lecture.

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