【正文】 y, you will have to repeat the year. Chris: All right, I‘ll take your advice. The library is going to be my new home, and in the dorm I‘ll be burning the midnight oil.Now Your Turn SAMPLE DIALOGA: We‘re going to have a test, and I also have a term paper to finish. But I haven‘t done a thing. I‘m really worried now. B: You‘re going to have to have to hit the books if you want to get good grades. A: But this course is so difficult that I already don‘t understand it at all. B: We could work together. Maybe some of my organized study habit can help you. A: Better yet, maybe you could write a term paper for me. B: Forget it! That would be cheating. A: All right, all right. I have yet to write it myself. Maybe I can download some articles from the Internet and piece them together. B: You could borrow ideas from those articles, but if you quote without giving the sources, you‘re plagiarizing. A: Also, the test next week will be a headache. If you don‘t help me, I‘ll have to prepare a cheatsheet and hide it in my hand during the test. B: Oh, no! If you‘re caught, the professor will definitely give you an F. A: I‘ll try to be careful. B: But if the professor catches you, you‘ll have to repeat the year. You‘re just going to have to study hard. A: Ok, I‘ll take your advice. The library‘s going to be my new home, and in the dorm I‘ll be burning the midnight oil.MODEL2Which class do you prefer?ScriptChris: First period is math with Mr. Woods. I don‘t know how am I going to stay awake? Nora: I like Mr. Wood. He‘s interesting. Chris: He‘s boring! He could put the entire basketball team to sleep—during the championship game! Who do you have for economics? Nora: Mrs. Jenkins. She‘s smart. Students really learn a lot from her. Chris: She‘s tough! You have to work hard in her class, or you‘ll probably fail. Nora: No pain, no gain. Chris: Nonsense, You could have learned even more with Mr. Sharp. But not many students opt for his class. Nora: What‘s wrong with him? Chris: Often, the highest grade he gives on a term paper is C+, and he usually fails half of the students. Nora: No wonder he‘s got the nickname Mr. Shark. Well, how about PE? What are you doing this semester? Chris: That‘s the worst part. In PE, we‘re learning t‘a(chǎn)i chi. I‘m bored to death. Nora: Haha! Not to rub salt into the wound, but our class is playing your favorite sport: basketball. Chris: Oh…that figures! This is going to be a terrible semester. Nora: This is going to be a great semester!Now Your Turn SAMPLE DIALOGA: The history class is really boring. How am I going to stay awake? B: I like the history teacher. She‘s knowledgeable. She told us a lot of interesting historical events in class. A: Bur I find her boring! She could put the entire basketball team to sleep—during the championship game! Which class do you find dull? B: I hate the economics course. The teacher always talks above my head. So I‘ve lost interest in the course. A: Bur economic is my favorite. The professor is smart. Most students really learn a lot from him. B: But he‘s tough! He expects a lot. You have to work hard in his class, or you‘ll probably fail. A: No pain, no gain. B: Actually not many students opt for his class. A: What‘s wrong with him? B: Often the highest grade he gives on a term paper is B. Last seme4stwe he failed more than a third of the students and I was one of them. A: Oh, that‘s too bad.B: Well, how do you find your English teacher? I don‘t think much of her, either. A: I find her kind, always willing to answer my questions。ve got to get that balance right. It39。 experience is right. So it means that maybe last year we would allow a few more people to have an offer. This year is going to be tougher. Hostess: Do you lay some of the blame for the situation at the door of the government? Interviewee: If you look to France,Sarkozy is actually increasing the budget for higher education. Obama in the . has done the same thing. So we are just slightly puzzled as to why the government seems to be cutting back on higher education rather than pumping more money into what we think is a service that is absolutely vital for the economy.VI.Further Listening and SpeakingTask1: Problems with our educational system ScriptHi, everybody. My topic today is ―Problems with Our Educational System‖. There are a lot of things in our educational system that I don‘t agree with. It seems that educators just want to give standardized tests, which focus only on academic performance but neglect students‘ abilities and interests in other areas. I think there‘re a lot of people who are very intelligent, but haven‘t had the opportunities they could‘ve had, had they been educated in a broaderminded educational systems. I feel that a lot of courses that students are focused to take in high school are too academic, and, as a result, many kids lost their interest in learning. Educators have failed to recognize various kinds of intelligence. They often exert a lot of pressure on students to be as wellrounded as possible. I think being wellrounded isn‘t really possible. And as a consequence some students who are believed to be intelligent can‘t get into good colleges if they, for example, haven‘t scored well on the math section, even if they ate brilliant writers. Another thing that disturbs me is that the socalled ―weak students‖ are separated from the rest of the school. Some kids are kept in a separate class id their grades are lower then others. And they‘ve very aware of their social position, you know. I think it causes them to act in a way that is not really positive. They‘re just acting in a way that they are expected to act. Often their grades go from bad to worse. And that‘s pretty sad to me. I think that many of the kids in those classed are intelligent, but never actually realize their potential because of the way they are treated very early on in their education. Problems Results Educators just want to give standardized Kids lose interest in learnin