【Native Speaker每日综合训练—40系列】【40-17】文史哲

lulalei · 发表于 2014-8-27 11:47:54

[Time 2] [219 words]1’25
Politics is like a soap opera so that you only need focus on topics which you are care about.

[Time 3] [336 words]1’49
You should be well knowledge about how the government functions so that you choose the most suitable person.

[Time 4] [171 words]1’07
People are wondering about how the first language created and why there are so many different languages.

[Time 5] [194 words]1’47
The common ancestor of English, Latin, Greek, Russian, Gaelic, Hindi, and many other languages spoken in Europe and India is known as Proto-Indo-European.

[Time 6] [269 words]1’40

[Time 7] [1139 words]5’44
Pandora has a more balanced gender and race percentage in its work force compared to other high tech companies in Silicon Valley. However, gender and race imbalance is still a big problem due to the culture and stereotype of computer science industry.

taohui2014 · 发表于 2014-8-27 15:24:11

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Pumpkin-GMAT · 发表于 2014-8-28 12:29:03

Speed
Time 2 - 1:14 - 219
Time 3 - 1:42 - 336
become better politically educated
1/choose some topics you care about learn these topics as much as you can
2/learn the structure of the government
3/see what the candidates do about the issues

Time 4 - 0:50 - 171
Time 5 - 1:09 - 194
Time 6 - 1:27 - 269
question: do all the languages derive from one common language
evidence: similarity
challenge: pretty darn flimsy evidence

Obstacle - 7:16 - 1139
the disclosure of gender and race information in silicon valley companies
1/what influence the gender and race property of employees: base , education
2/how to improve such situations : start computer science in elementary schools, company culture

leo688 · 发表于 2014-8-28 13:15:18

Part I: Speaker
marrying young
an engaged couple heading marriage
issues: too young, not mature
selling them short VS regret
share the milestones VS legal drinking age
factious VS stability
second marriages?

[Time 2]
1'25
if want to learn politics, focus on one topic, nonpartisan
never drowned in too many topics

[Time 3]
1'48
then study the structure of your target gov, and understand who/how is responsible for the selected topic
go back to soap opera again, more interesting would be presented

[Time 4]/[Time 5]/[Time 6]
3'59
Do All Languages Derive from a Single Common Ancestor
some words share the same pronunciation in diff languages, ex
ancestry may say the same language at all, ex, English, German, Indi
50 proto-languages
lack of evidence to prove how proto-languages develop separately
one tantalizing evidence, latest new languages developed from fractions linkage

Part III: Obstacle
6'6
the diversity among races and genders in tech companies
in terms of the ratio of female to male, Pandora and eBay head the others such as google, apple, etc
in upstream, the ratio in Uni appears diff
the phenomena put the fixed identity to certain group, ex black girl seldom enter the major of computer science
instead of the skill, the culture makes this difference

sherry8730 · 发表于 2014-8-29 13:19:19

SPEAKER:
Engage: promise to another
Get married: legally be couple.in church or temple.
Pose: to present. Tall about a problem
Maturity: teenager lack don’t have responsibility
Play house: in the way to protect together
Matrimony: state to be marrage
Sell them short: not mature enough to get marriage
Doom: make your future very dark
Regrets: you wish you have enough down. Your situation you feel is very bad
Milestone: impressive events or accomplishment
Legal drinking age: 21 in the United States
Facetious don’t take something seriously
Stability: something don’t change
Beat the odds: to do better you would spect

SPEED:
Time2: 1:44
Main idea: the politics in the opera
Structure:
its eventual effects on what actions the government takes and what policies it enacts.
stick with nonpartisan sources when possible and to learn as much as you can about a problem before looking at anyone's proposed solutions.

Time3: 2:28
The next step is to learn about the structure of government.
Once you've established your views on policy and know who is responsible for them, it's finally time to go back to the soap opera.

Time4: 1:32
Main idea: the ancestor of numerous languages in the world
Structure:
speakers of the same language lose contact with each other in the centuries after migration and gradually drift linguistically in different directions.
looking for similarities that can't be explained by other factors

time5: 1:22
Similarities that are solid evidence of common ancestry may at first not look like similarities at all.
spoken in Europe and India is known as Proto-Indo-European
languages is known as Proto-Germanic.

Time6: 2:08
We can do pretty well going step-by-step with this base-level comparison of languages

OBSTACLE: 8:25
Main idea: the gender problem in the technologic company and the cause of it and solution to deal with
Structure：
Pandora became the latest Silicon Valley company to publicize a breakdown of its employees by gender and race.
tech workers, like software engineers, tend to be disproportionately male, and either white or Asian.
employers suggest that this is because they don’t fit into the “culture” of the companies.
these differences may well be influencing their managers’ sense of whether they are a good “cultural” fit.

louisa33 · 发表于 2014-8-30 01:42:59

Time 2: Politics is noise opera. Choose the topic you like and the topic did not have to be a popular one. [47”] 219

Time 3: After choosing the topic, you should know the structure of the government. When there is an issue, you should know who should really be blamed. Then, you can go back to the politics election and elect the one mostly close your opinion. [1’03”] 336

Time 4: Language became different because the immigration of people to different places. However, there are still some similarity between modern languages. [40”] 171

Time 5: The different languages have the same ancestor even they do not look alike in the first glance. P=f [32”] 194
Time 6: [1’]

丝袜奶茶 · 发表于 2014-9-5 04:23:10

Time 2 01:24

Politics- you need to know the political game
Time3 02:09
Understand the structure, government functions. Who takes the responsibility-local, state, or Federal
Thesis: how to be a good voter?
Time 4 1:07
Language connected each other, words also borrowed among these language.
Time 5 1:06
English, latin, german
The Capital letter foot, fur, and father. Of English, Latin, and German have something in common. They all came from Indio-Europe
Time 6
The language is in the written, not the record. We really don’t know how to pronounce them. The current evidence can’t ensure that we had the same language before.
Speaker
Suggest that we need to be competitive in jobs, instead of “gender” or “ race” fit in the company culture. Example: Wallstreet ( white, male); Silicon Valley engineer ( male or Asian).

gege1111 · 发表于 2018-1-15 10:34:20

想问下大家，经常看到有人说考试鸡精阅读中了3篇或者2篇。应该去哪找这些阅读资料？OG之类的吗？谢谢大家

butterfly_memo · 发表于 2018-1-17 08:21:24

T2 1:11.63
T3 1:38.78
T4 0:51.89
T5 0:40.37
T6 1:50.29

Sandyxu0229 · 发表于 2018-1-17 11:37:36

T2 1.32
the step to be better educated in politics -- choose what is important to you
T3 1.22
learn about the structure of government
T4 1.42
go back to politics
T5 1.49
whether languages have the same ancestor
T6 1.13
similiarties
OB 6.25
P publicizes the rate of female and minority workers while other companies seem to be backward
reasons 1 education 2 company culture

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