[考场] 2.2北美纽约机经(英语较多版)

Writing I:
   

The reading lists 3 benefits of the lie detector.

1) lie detector eliminates cheating. Some bodily reactions may be not accurate, but brain-scanning is precise.
2) Lie-detecting results could be used in court as evidence.
3) The technology of lie detector develops the related technology, which could be used in diplomacy or business negociations   occasions to test insincerity.

Listening Part completely refutes the reading passage. The speaker thinks it is a terrible idea to use lie detector.

1) There are possibilities that liars may manage to control their brain activities just as they control their bodily reactions like sweating by learning how the lie detector works. As a result the lie-detecting result may not be acurrate..

2) The testees may be mistakenly judged to be lying simply because they are uncertain in response to the lie detector. Thus the lie detector is not worth being trusted in court.

3) On some ocassions of diplomacy or business negociation, people may pretend to be polite. (I am not sure of this argument.)

Writing II 

State your opinions: Do you think people can learn more from watching TV than reading books?

Speaking:

1. What kind of movies do you enjoy most? Use examples and details to explain why.

2. Do you agree or disagree students should wear uniforms in school.

3. In reading passage, the definition of short-term memory is given. Then, the passage explains 2 reasons of losing this temporay memory: one is decay, the other one is interference, which is to push the old one out of memory(rough idea, forgot its exact discription).

The speaker uses 2 examples to illustrate the above two reasons respectively. The first one is to demonstrate the reason of decay. A man who forgot a phone number of his friend and his roomate gave him that number, but 2 hours later when he tries to call his friend again, he couldn't remember it any more. Memory can stay as long as you dail the phone. The second example is the speaker's personal experience. In a bookstore, he made a list of books he wanted to read. But later he ran into a friend of his and the friend recommend him another book list. Finally, he couldn't remember his own book list. Instead, What he could remember is his friend's book list. The reason is his friend's recommended books took the place of his own list he previously made. That is newer memory pushed out the less newer memory.

Listening:

1. A conversation between a student and his professor.  Because of printer problems, the student was late for meeting with his professor discussing about how to make outlines of his paper. 对话中用了个比喻，好像把road-mapping比喻making outlines of a paper，考题问教授对学生的这个比喻有什么想法。The professor prefer a paper which is presented in an unsual way, but she insisted that the student shoud be step by step. The student says it may worth of the risk.

2. (Not quite sure about some detail, just a rough idea for your reference) children's important ability of joint connection in communication with his/her care giver. Baby will look the same thing which the care giver is watching. Two examples. First, baby looking at the walking cat. Second, the speaker's niece looks at a toy he wants and point at it to the care giver.

3. About the mass media advertisement. There are two ways of persuading their customers to buy their products. Which way is better depends on what kind of product they are selling. The first way is the indirect route of persuasion. The speaker takes a car which could use gasoline as well as electricity as an example. The car has special features and better than any other similar cars, so it is better to use direct route. That is to use concrete facts to attract customers. The second way is indirect route. The speaker uses a common car as an example. It is preferable to use indirect route in this case. 提到 smile and  drive the car to the beach, That is to create mental connection between cars and happiness.

4. Talks about the how the organic substance originates from the earth. Mentioned Miller's experiment: he used 4 gases which are inorganic and were supposed to be the primitive substance on earth. In this experiment the electricity is a necessity to create organic compounds. (question: what's the weakness of this experiment? What is the significance of this experiment? )

5. About algae(海藻) problem in the water body due to overnutritions.  Algae bloom blocks the sunlight from going to the deep water, which cause death of some plants(grasses) in the deeper water. Algae decomposing process consumes a large amount of O2 wich is vital for aquatic livings. Causing factors of prosperous growth of algae: fertilizers brought with the rain water, water waste from factories and people's everyday life, etc. solutions- a difficult problem to be resolved because it involves too many resources,but to increase the pubic's awareness are most important.

Reading:（three sections for me, I messed up with the first one which is really tough I think. I forgot what it is about。）The following order in based on what I can remember instead of the actual order in the test）

1）讲生物的specie-xxx(不会拼) isolation,就是由于环境，栖息地habitat，impassable barrier等等的因素，怎么造成genetic flow,产生新的物种，怎么样又不会产生新的物种。总之，看得头昏眼花，这可能是第二篇或者第一篇，大家找找背景知识看看。

2）White dwarf,N打头的星， black hole, 大量谈及它们的形成，质量和引力，最后带到black hole 的发现是由于检测到从被吞噬的星体中发出的Xray。有一题问题是这三个家伙的共同点是什么，还有一个为什么很容易观测到white dwarf（我选因为它们很亮）， 还有为什么N打头星不容易观测到（我选它们太小）

vocabulary question appeared:
1. formidable (选项confusing,有一个选项是excessive，我选了另一个，没把握，这一题忘了属于哪篇的了)
2. engulfed (I chose swallowed)
3. annihilated (I chose destroyed) Every object even light near the black hole are xx and annihilated.

3）谈及为什么中国的中央集权是必须的。原因有几。其一，地理因素，谈到长城，还有匈奴的进攻。（有考题考到长城的弱点是什么）其二, 谈到 monsoon(季风) from the direction of Pillippines ,如果该季风遇到某个方向的风，而后降温才会造成降雨， 否则就是干旱。中国有两个地方常年不是遭受水灾就是干旱。这些灾害需要各个地方一起出力整治，所以unification是必须的。（有考题关于季风满足什么条件才会造成降雨）

4) how to use the energy of the sea。第一段，谈到空气中的温差造成了air circulation, 产生了current which is partially responsible for the waves in the ocean.接着又说由于月亮的引力和earth rotation造成每天的潮起潮落。下面几段，谈到由于海里不同深度的水温不同，海里蕴藏大量的能量可以被人类使用。但是这个理论已经100年了，实际应用还很少，甚至试验也很少，提到日本。因为这些能量很难被利用，原因有三。第一，很难在海里收不同深度收集有温差的currents。第二，什么什么必须建在离land很近的地方。第三，需要很大面积的plant来循环不同温度的current. 好像有考harness这个词汇，原文中指利用（能源）。最后还说到tides是比较好利用的。

好吧，以上仅供参考，还有的想起来再补吧。最后总结一下，这次考得很不理想，尤其是第一和第二篇阅读，我考得时候别人已经开始考了，一点干扰都没有，可是我这土人一到考试就紧张，花了两篇的时间才进入状态，我想这和我平时的做题习惯有关，总是要求每一题100％正确，一定要在文中找到evidence,所以很耗时间，平时在家里做题没有严格限制时间。听力也做的不好，都怪我动了歪脑筋，由于我被安排最后一个入场（比第一位入场的要晚半小时），我想有机会偷听第一题的口语，不知我这笨人干这亏心事心慌的很，没听到不说反而造成听力的时候分心了。对了，我发现好几个单词都在玉梅词汇里出现过，这里感谢charmant小豆包的非牛人词汇，还有超级山衔版主的无数经典之帖。希望即将考试的同胞们考到理想的成绩，还是要相信一分耕耘一分收获的。

谢谢楼主这么详细的JJ，

相信MM一定好成绩哦

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