1. What food do you suggest university cafeteria should add to attract more people?
2. Do you like to buy new books or used books?
3. 阅读:学校准备 start a new mentoring program,是让大四的人带大一的人(let fourth grade students to mentor first year students。)。有兩个好
处,
(1) 大四的人知道的比较多;
(2) 还有就是大一新生可以有更多social。
听力:同意这个plan,因为那人說他大一的什么都不知道,比如說schedule change 还有,building location,所以有个人能告诉他这些information
的话会很有帮助;另一个理由是,他大一的时候认識的人都是大一的或者住在一起的很局限,能认識更多不同年级的人的话会更好。
4. 阅读:一个心理现象,outcome dependency:如果說一个人觉得另一个人有用的话,或者說对那个人的成功有帮助的话,会有比较好的印象
(people will have a better impression on someone who helps them to achieve their goal. If people know that a person is part of your team, then people
favor this person.)
听力:教授举了一个例子說卖office equipment 的公司,sales groups。他们的奖金bonus 跟 sales 有很大的关係。Two groups were showed the
same video 关于一个 sales person 的 work experience, 第一组人就直接看了,看完以后实验的人问他们什么感想?他们什么感想也没有,对
那个人没印象。第二组的人看完以后比较focus on personality 并且 describe the character as a likable person,都觉得这个人很qualified, will
be an excellent sales person。
5. 女生要完成 paper—do the assignment for business class:採访一个magazine 的创始人。为了学习关于how to start up business, but the
businessman called to cancel the interview because he has to attend a last-minute conference and will not be able to be back(out of town 了) until
next week.
解决方法:
(1) 下个星期採访,但那个女生就less time to write paper。
(2) 採访别的人 interview another person from the list given by the professor,但是area 会不一样,女生对那个magazine 很感兴趣。
6. Two advantages of crop rotation. One is to restore the nutrients in soil. Wheat uses up nitrogen, but planting bean will restore nitrogen. The other is to decrease insects. Some insects eat wheat, so planting beans reduces this kind of insects.