【Native Speaker每日综合训练—40系列】【40-17】文史哲

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Part I: Speaker

Marrying Young

Irene:  Damon and his  girlfriend just got  engaged.  They’re  planning on getting  married this summer.
Ken:  They’re too young!   Marrying young  poses all kinds of  problems.
Irene:  Such as?
Ken:  Such as the two of  them lacking  maturity.  They may  think it’s fun to play  house right now, but  they’re not prepared to face  the realities and  responsibilities of  matrimony.
Irene:  I think you’re  selling them short.   They’ve been dating for two  years and  there’s no ideal age  for marriage.   
Ken:  Yes, but we all know  that marrying young will  doom them to a life of  regrets.
Irene:  That’s a bit  harsh, don’t you  think?  A lot of people who  marry young have  successful marriages.  I like  the idea of growing  old with your spouse.   You can  reach many of life’s  milestones together.
Ken:  Like reaching the  legal drinking age?
Irene:  Don’t be  facetious.  Getting  married will give them  stability and  someone to lean on.  I think  they’ll be great as a married  couple.
Ken:  Well, I hope they  beat the odds...or at  least learn a lot for their  second  marriages.
         
Source: ESLpod
http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=15541111

[Rephrase 1, 17:40]

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6月1日打卡
Philosophers and psychologists have been researched self-control for long time. For instance, Pluto claimed that the human experience is a constant struggle between desire and rationality and that self-control is needed to achieve our ideal form.

Scientists find several advantages concerning the high self-control. For example, people with good self-control are more likely to eat healthier, are more likely to perform better at school and less likely to engage in substance abuse. In workplace, leaders with high levels of self-control display more effective leader styles-they are more likely to inspire and intellectually challenge their subordinates.

Scientists are also curious about what will happen if workers have low self-control in the workplace. Therefore, they conducted a comprehensive research which had many volunteers. They find there are usually three main reason why people occasionally lose self-control. First, the self-control is a finite thing which will be exhausted. Second, different kinds of activities will tap one self-control pool. Third, continued exertion of self-control will negatively affect the future self-control if it was not replenished.

Experts also find many disadvantages when people has low self-control. First, low self-control will increase their unethical behaviors. For example, nurses will be more likely to be rude to patients. Second, prosocial behavior will decrease when people have low self-control. In this context, employees are less likely to share their knowledge with their colleagues and are unwilling to help the subordinates. Third, low levels of self-control will reduce job performance. In the meantime, employees in general perform worse than they usually do. Finally, low self-control will lead to the negative leadership style, which means leader may become less charismatic.
Can we improve our self-control? The answer is “Yes”. Scientists have come up with several ways to help workers improve their self-control. First, sleep is very important for people to restore their self-control when they use out of it. Studies show that people who sleep well can perform better than people who don’t. Surprisingly, “service-with a smile” might not always pay. When people are forced to smile to the customers, their self-control will decrease. Therefore, the employers should encourage their employees to express their opinion genuinely. Third, creating the right environment can also play an important role in maintaining the self-control. The company can display the code of the conduct on the wall.

All in all, the key to keep self-control is to allow people to rest and restore their self-control.

Sandyxu0229

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

butterfly_memo

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

gege1111

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

丝袜奶茶

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).  

louisa33

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’]

sherry8730

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.

leo688

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

Pumpkin-GMAT

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