Task  1  

Which of the following  characteristics do you think would be the most important for a person who is  going to start a new small business?

A. being outgoing and friendly

B. being creative and  imaginative

C. being well organized

Task  2  

Do you agree or disagree that  it is not good for children to know too soon about life’s difficulties. Give  specific reasons to support your answer. 

Task  3

阅读：

标题：studio spaces to be  redesigned

改变：Reasons: 加强PEER的互相学习，可以给更多的地方去做art show

观点：The man feels disappointed  with the policy.

原因1：Students  need some privacies. They need to be concentrated. They don’t need feedback  when their works are not done yet.

原因2：Many  small rooms can help many students to exhibit their sculptures.  

Task  4

听力

概念：Availability Cascade.

定义：Media try to make news more important  than it supposed to be, to get more public attention.

阅读

例子： There is a travel site, which doing  well in the industry. But they met a problem that the system will  overcharged, maybe 15 dollars each time. Then because of AC, media starts to  exposure this. Although the website manager fixed this quickly and refund the  money back. But customers still don’t believe this website.

Task  5

问题：The  woman promised to attend bio prof’s party, but he also needs to read those  words that he retyped because of the issues from his computer.

解决方案1：Email the prof that he cannot come

优点：He can read his paper

缺点：prof cook a lot food and she might feel offended.

解决方案2：go to the party

优点：/

缺点：cannot read the paper

Task  6

标题：Two adaptations that  mammals have in hot dessert

概念：In order to cool down the  body temperature, mammals have two ways to achieve that.

要点1：Using  the shade

例子1：squirrels’back  face to the sun and use it’s big tail to create shade for body

要点2：Circulation  of blood.

例子2： rabbit’s blood vessels are exposure to the air and thus, cool down the blood  temperature and body temperature