【正文】 Task 2: How to select elective courses?ScriptConsider these tips on elective courses and you39。ve heard he is really good. Harrison: He39。 he takes attendance in that.Q: What is the woman telling the man?3. ScriptW: Wow, Steven! In the library! What brings you here?M: I’m enjoying the view. All the girls in fashion design are here are preparing for an exam on Monday.Q: Why is the man in the library?4. ScriptW: How’s your group doing with this statistics presentation? Mine’s terrible.M: Yeah, mine too. David and Mike are OK, but Steven doesn’t pull his weight and Suzie’s never around. I don’t see how we can pass unless Steven and Suzie realize that this is their last chance.Q: What is the true of Steven and Suzie?5. ScriptW: You took an MBA at Harvard Business School, didn’t you? What’s it like? M: It’s expensive, about . $ 40,000 a year, plus the costs of food and housing. But the teaching is first class. The professors have a lot of practical experience. They use the case system of teaching。 Harrison: No. Usually no one does much on the first day because it39。s lecture?Jenny: I think about half of what he said went over my head.Harrison: Don39。s been a surge in the number of over 25s applying, and we take many people who are over (3)25. But we39。s important to remind viewers that we will spend well over 12 billion pounds on higher education this year and to also say that there will be more students at university next year than ever before in our history. But what is important is that when they get to university, is that they have good facilities, good buildings, that they have good contact with their lecturers and, for students from poorer backgrounds that they receive a grant. And you know 40 percent of students who are going to university are in receipt of some grants. So we have to plan. . .Host: But there39。re feeling. So I think this is reasonable to ask universities if we are to ensure that we can continue to send more young people to university and we remain mitted to that.Host: And briefly, what about these twoyear degrees? This is a reduction in standards, isn39。ve sent to universities over the last few days.Host: OK. David Lammy, thank you so much for joining us.Interviewee: Thank you. Key (1) increasing (2) 12 (3) more (4) facilities (5) lecturers (6) poorer (7) grant (8) one (9)budget (10) less (11) young (12) classic (13) parttime (14) growing 8。s important in this country that we remember that students aren39。s the bottom line, isn39。s going to be terribly (4)difficult for us next year.Hostess: Given the cuts that the (5)government announced a couple of weeks ago, and the numbers that we know in terms of applications, where are you going to draw that line? Are you going to have to look at cutting intake in order to maintain the (6)quality of the courses?Intewiewee: We39。t have class until Wednesday. Here you go.Jenny: Thanks. I just want to make sure I39。s that? Harrison: Changing from class to class to find out which is best. Jenny: Have you had this teacher before? I39。VLS B3 Unit 1II. Basic Listening Practice1. ScriptW: Have you chosen your elective for next semester yet? Are you taking French writing again?M: Yes I am, but it’s pulsory for us next semester. So I think I’m gong to do marketing as an elective instead.Q: Which class will the man choose as his elective?2. ScriptM: Did you go to that businesses lecture on Friday? I missed it and need to copy your notes. W: I’d say you could borrow my notes, but Sarah’s got them. Be careful not to miss Professor Brown’s seminar。s still adddrop.Jenny: What39。t worry. A lot of what he said is explained in the reading.Jenny: Hey, would you mind if I borrowed your notes tonight to look them over?Harrison: No problem. We don39。ve got to get that balance right. It39。s going to be less money next year. That39。t it?Interviewee: Well, we, we, we. . . It39