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We know global warming is sure to come. / The temperature of the air on the surface of the Earth/ is projected to increase at a rate more rapidly / than any temperature change in the last 10,000 years. /
Since species have adapted to climate change in the past, / why can’t they simply adapt to these changes? /
For one thing, they don’t have enough time and resources/ to adapt to such rapid climate change, / and that’s why many are expected to extinct / if global warming continues at its currently projected rate.
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Education Out of School
1. The origin of “Youth Hostel“
- German schoolmaster started “Youth Hostel“
- The little schoolhouse changed into a 【T1】______【T1】______
2. The current use of “Youth Hostel“
- Admission and price
- Show their 【T2】______in a hostel organization 【T2】______
- Use the facilities for a 【T3】______price 【T3】______
- “Hostelling“:
- The young learn from each other
- “Hostelling“ becomes a form of 【T4】______【T4】______
- Hostels provide the young with chances to 【T5】______【T5】______
3. 【T6】______Work 【T6】______
- Young people serve at a 【T7】______without pay 【T7】______
- They also see the 【T8】______, meet people, etc. 【T8】______
- They come to 【T9】______the communities 【T9】______
- Those who come to villages often 【T10】______【T10】______Education Out of School
Morning, everyone. Today we are going to talk about education out of school.
In 1907, a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory for the summer holidays. A few years later, the schoolhouse was far too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. Consequently, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel.
Today young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostels and get to know each other. When young people arrive at a hostel, they have only to show their card of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. This card will permit mem to use the facilities of hostels all over the world for a minimum price.
Often at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls of different ages from various parts of the country or the world, will happen to meet at the same hostel. One can learn a lot of things about other places, just by meeting people who come from those places. Hence, a few weeks spent “hostelling“ can be just as useful a part of one’s education as classes in school.
Since the end of World War II, hostels have been opened in Africa and Asia. In today’s world, where so much depends on understanding between nations, hostels are extremely important. They are more than convenient places for young travelers to spend the night, because they also give people the opportunity to meet and learn about each other.
Many groups of young people volunteer to serve at a work camp , without pay, during their summer holidays. There they spend several weeks or months working eight hours a day. In their free time they see the country, meet the people, and have discussion about world problems and problems of the region where they are working. Such volunteer groups do not work only in the poor areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia, but also in the rich countries of Europe and America. Even the most fortunate countries have large numbers of people who have not been able to find decent jobs or housing. When the volunteer workers come to help the community centers, organizing clubs and games for the children and young people, the formerly hopeless and discouraged members of the community see that all is not lost. Because of the work of volunteers, many small communities are learning that they can and should solve their problems themselves.
The fact that someone is interested enough to come to such villages and help them often works wonders. The people of the community become interested in helping themselves. They become less discouraged when they realize that they themselves can help make a better future. Even after the volunteers have gone, the villagers often keep in touch with their new friends.
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W1: How do you make your resume stand out with so much competition? We are talking this morning with Jason Lovelace. He’s been with us, urn, for the past several hours here. We appreciate you. He is the Area Vice President in Chicago with careerbuilder.com. We’ve been hooking you up here live on the air with people who need some help with their resumes.
Now we have Jannell Floyd on with us. Jannell Floyd, thank you for being here. You go right ahead. He has, uh, looked at your resume. You go right ahead and ask him here live what your question is about your resume?
W2: Good morning and thank you, my question is that I think 1 have done a pretty good job of selling my skills, outlining my experience, and I need to know what’s missing on my resume?
M: OK, that’s a great question, Jannell. First of all, you know I did review your resume and congratulations on your upcoming degree: it looks like you are graduating in June of this year. So that’s, that’s a big feat in itself but I took a look at your resume and the good news about your resume is that you do have a lot of important key words and information that should be at the top for recruiters to see. The unfortunate piece about your resume is that you are not doing a great job of marketing yourself, and what I mean is I’ll just give a couple of cosmetic information.
W2: Thank you so much!
M: First of all, the top of your resume. You have your contact information and it really takes up the first five to ten percent of that first page. It’s basically wasted space.You wanna try to condense that and make it a little bit more appealing.
W2: OK, I’ll try.
M: The other thing is there is really no attention grabber, why you? Why would a company select you? The other thing that you do is you highlight some of your awards and recognition, but you could probably do a better job of really showcasing those, letting companies know who you are, the awards that you’ve had throughout your career and really again highlighting those different points. And then the final thing from a cosmetic standpoint is you’re all paragraphs in your resume, long and difficult to read, and to a recruiter, time is money, and when they are shifting through resumes, you’ve gotta grab their attention. You should put bullet points with different things that you’ve accomplished but don’t expect them to read through paragraph after paragraph at each individual job. 1 think a couple of those things will help you and it should rise your resume to the top.
W1: OK, some good advice from Jason Lovelace there in Chicago, and Janncll, good luck to you, I hope you get the job that you want. Thanks for calling in.
This is the end of Conversation One. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1. Who is Jason Lovelace?
2. What does Jannell want to ask about her resume?
3. What is good about the woman’s resume?
4. How can the woman improve her contact information?
5. Why does the woman’s resume fail to grab recruiter’s attention? A TV host. The president of a website. A job seeker. A professor.
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M: Hello, Mary.
W: Hello, Bob. How did you get up here to the computer room on the sixth floor?
M: Well, by lift, of course.
W: I thought so. Lifts have changed our life.
M: Yes, this invention has had quite an effect on which floor people choose to live on.
W: Well, I suppose before the days of lifts rich people lived on the ground floor and poorer people lived on the top floors and had to use the stairs. Now though it’s the other way round.
M: Do you know when the first lift was invented?
W: I have no idea.
M: It was mathematician Archimedes who invented the first lift in 236 BC. In the Middle Ages there were examples of lifts being used for military purposes. Then they helped to move agricultural products around. They really became very useful in the Industrial Revolution.
W: And there was a wide range of methods used to drive them, too—water and steam power, electricity and so on. Today, tall buildings couldn’t exist without them.
M: But have you noticed why nobody says anything in a lift? Have you ever felt uneasy in a lift, Mary?
W: Actually yes, I have. Just this morning I was standing next to the big boss and neither of us knew what to say to each other.
M: Yes, it’s a strange one, isn’t it? It’s a very anxious experience the time you spend in a lift. I think everyone behaves very differently and awkwardly in a lift. If you have things around you, you take away that awkwardness. We all look at our phones sometimes or look down at the floor. Well, surely it’s better to look at advertisements on the walls.
W: Yes, it is. I think there are so many different ways to improve a lift with light boxes, with moving images, with television screens, it becomes quite exciting for us, and hopefully a little bit more interesting for the people who use lifts every day.
M: Yes, you’re right. By the way, have you heard of the elevator pitch?
W: Yes, I have. It’s something we can do when we’re stuck in a lift with someone.
M: Yes - people say that if you have an idea or product to sell you should be able to sell it - or pitch it - to someone quickly. So in other words, in the time it takes for an elevator - or lift - to reach the top of a building.
W: It’s a good idea if the lift doesn’t break down!
This is the end of Conversation Two. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6. How did lift change the floor people choose to live?
7. When was the first lift invented?
8. How did the woman feel when seeing her boss in the lift?
9. According to the woman, how can a lift be improved?
10. What is elevator pitch? Rich people prefer ground floor now. Poor people prefer ground floor now. Rich people move to the top floors. Poor people move to the top floors.
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“I’ve never claimed to be the know-all and end-all of China and Chinese culture, and I never will.“ The modal auxiliary verb “will“ in the sentence indicates______ prediction insistence possibility intention
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“Watch carefully now: first, I write with my ordinary pen: now I write with a special pen.“ The concept of time expressed in the sentence is______present. timeless limited instantaneous historic
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Among the four sentences below, sentence______is the most polite form. You want to see me? Did you want to see me? You want to see me, don’t you? Do you want to see me?
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- Do you have any idea what Jim does all Sunday?
- He spends as much time idling about as He does____. his study studying to study on his study
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I’m one of the students______never late for school. that is who are who am who is
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The visitors, men and women, old and young, had walked for many hours.______of them got very tired, but______of them would stop to take a rest. All.. .neither Both.. .none All.. .none Both.. .everyone
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Word came from my hometown_____an earthquake had taken place there,______200 persons their lives. where.. .to cost which.. .in order to cost that.. .costing that.. .cost
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If one____, he will be very particular about others’ clothing and appearance. has been overcome by vanity overcomes vanity is overcome by vanity has overcome vanity
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A survey was carried out on the death rate of new born babies in that region,______were surprising. as results which results the results of it the results of which
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If only the committee______the regulations and put them into effect as soon as possible. approve will approve can approve would approve
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Although some students graduate from high school, they are virtually illiterate_____writing a business letter. in the event of in the light of in case of in terms of
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The motion picture is only a series of still photographs which are split and viewed in rapid______to create the illusion of movement and continuity. sequence succession transmission conveyance
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Operations which left patients______and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable. exhausted abandoned injured deserted
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Some diseases are______by certain water animals. transplanted transformed transported transmitted
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His honeymoon expense is rather high in______to his income. comparison proportion association calculation
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We started burning some leaves in our yard, but the fire got______and we had to call the fire brigade to put it out. out of hand out of order out of place out of way
