[考场] [原创]3/17加拿大JJ

3/17日10：30的考试，我9：40就到了，老师说可以提早考的，本来还挺犹豫的，因为看到论坛上朋友们说晚点进考场的好处是可能听到口语题目。后来事实证明越早进考场越好，这样你不会受别人影响，我考听力时离我不远处有人开始考口试，由于带着耳机很难听清他在讲什么，反而觉得他在那嗡嗡嗡的很影响我听听力，很容易让我分神，所以奉劝大家千万不要为了听个口试题目而影响到听力，不值得的。

下面是我记得的题目：

阅读
很惭愧，阅读是我的弱项，我没一篇是看全了整篇文章，我都是先看题，再看相应的段落做的。所以阅读记得很不全
1. 讲化石的保存
2. 有关北美的，我反正是没看懂在讲什么
3. 好像是影响England landscape，比如canal，train等
4. 研究恐龙的Diet，方法有研究牙齿，胃里的残留物等
5. 不记得了（我考听力时就试图回忆这篇，可惜失败了）

听力
1. 图书馆，学生问管理员说自己借了书，并申请续借，为什么还要他来图书馆还书，管理员说因为已经有人预订了，所以他必须先归还，2个星期后再续借。但学生说这本书对他很重要，但他只需要其中的几个章节，管理员建议他copy这些章节。其中管理员举了个例子说有写学生没按时还书，所以privilege被cancel了。最后的结果是学生填表优先续借，并归还了所有的书。

2. linguistic lecture: 介绍了一个G...(名字记不清了)的理论，说人类沟通的几个要素：(1) tell the truth (2) be relevant (3)有时候讲的话不必要讲的太明确，可以让听者infer你的意思 (4)有时候需要讲detailed information，例如别人问你去哪了，你就回答去某个地方玩，但其实问的人想要知道更多的信息。还说有时候人们是on purpose的运用infer,例如boss is required to write a recommendation letter to a staff, on the letter the boss only wrote" He is neatly dressed"之类的话，言下之意就是除了这个我给不出其他对他有利的comments了。另举了个例子说广告经常给人错误信息，例如打折时写up to 20%，但事实上很少有东西打到20%

3. 和气候有关，讲了ice age的轮回（也就是说经过一定时间后气候会越来越冷最终回到ice age，然后再慢慢变热，如此反复），但现在由于human activity,ice age没有再此出现。

4. Professor 告诉一个student由于她最近的一个report写得很成功，建议她申请undergraduate research fund，以便她进行进一步的research，并建议她去Bosten的university，里面有很多相关的但没公开的information，还答应帮她写recommendation letter。

5. Norwegian的folkstory，讲了3种类型，这篇记不太清了。

6. snowshoe hare，讲它们如何适应在雪中生存，一是皮毛变色，2是feet使它们在雪地里行走不会陷下去。

口语
1. 说说作为team member一个重要的quality

2. do you prefer watching news or reading news?

3. 学校通告说为了reduce heating cost，打算在weekend and weekday after 5 pm调低class的temperature
女学生反对，理由：这些class是也是她晚自习的场所，男学生建议去library，但女生说library教室太少，不convenient，女生说学校可以换掉old windows, isolate the building better（这里听的不很清楚）。问题是说说女生的opinion

4. 看了介绍franchise store的文章，lecture上professor举了个例子说明什么是franchise store，问题是用professor的例子来介绍franchise
例子是开一个pizza店，决定franchise一个叫pizza town的店，因为很有名，不用担心没顾客，虽然要付right of use，但pizza town会教你怎么做好吃的pizza，怎么打广告，甚至是装修，所以开franchise的店好，因为你知道你做的pizza是卖得掉的。

5. 女学生碰到的问题是她的导师(Professor Green)要去France了，但她的project还没完成，2种解决方法：导师帮她推荐另一个Professor Baker，男生说这个老师很有名的，但女生说她门研究的对象不同，Baker研究fish，她研究mice；另一种是女生要求Pr. Green long distance指导她，但缺点是Green只能看Email给她建议，却不能指导她做experiment。问题是女生遇到的问题和解决方法以及你prefer哪种。

6. Psychology，人们遇到不开心的事情会要protect自己。举例：one woman lost her pet dog。一种解决方法叫fantasy，也就是imagination。这个woman可以invent a story，那只狗被好心人收养，生活的很开心。虽然是构想的故事，但能让这个woman感觉好受很多。另一个叫Subxxxmention(名字实在记不起来了，因为那个单词我压根不认识)，这种方式不是protect自己，而是一个turn the sad mode to do something useful，比如woman可以参加一个pet training班，帮助其他人防止他们的宠物丢失。问题是用woman的例子说明这两种方法

作文
1. "let it burn"的policy，也就是起火了不去扑灭。
reading中说这个policy不好，因为1988年Yellowstone park着了火几乎把这个公园变废墟，理由是：(1)vegetation被破坏，(2)animal被烧死，食物链破坏了，剩下的动物难生存，(3)no tourist，影响local business
lecture：professor说这个policy is fundamental good。(1)由于大火，改变了environment，有新的植被出现，很多small plant，(2)由于很多small plant，rabbit & hare增多，因此他们的predator也多了， (3)大火不是年年都有的，只是一个偶然事件，大火过来游客们又回来了
让你比较lecture和reading

2. Do you agree or disagree the following statement?
Successful people take new things and take risks rather than the thing that they've done well.

考完了，松了一口气，不管结果怎么样，我都满足，至少自己努力了，奋斗了。
在此鼓励一下所有备考的T友们，加油啊，也祝那些考完了等成绩的朋友们好运。

恭喜MM，终于奥过去了。我下周呢！

你的阅读里哪两篇是加试啊？你遇到JJ了吗？

swingshu看你写的我就能猜出你考得很棒

kelseybai我们共同迎战下周的考试，考完我们马上就写机精，

也要多贡献一些。

my daughter tell me this: hope it is useful

The Snowshoe
        Hare, or Lepus Americanus is a ubiquitous wildlife
symbol of the northern United States and Canada. This animal has the
unique ability to change its look from a thin, brown summer coat to a
thick white fur coat for cold winter months. In the summer, the Snowshoe
        
Hare's reddish brown coat enables it to blend perfectly into the cover
of the wilderness floor. In the winter, the thick white coat provides
protection from the snowy elements as well as camoflauge from a variety
of predators including bobcat, cougar, eagles, coyotes and the Great
Horned Owl. The ""changing of the coat", which occurs via natural hair
        
shedding and replacement, takes about 8-10 weeks to complete and happens
in the Spring and Fall.

The Snowshoe
        Hare is a solitary animal who basically hides in the brush
during the day and begin actively feeding in the evening. Being a strict
vegetarian, its diet includes various tree bark, grasses, twigs, clover,
dandelions, strawberry, blackberry, fireweed and branch buds. As anyone
who has experienced a bite from one will tell you, the Snowshoe
        Hare is
equipped with extremely strong teeth. The teeth act as a tool to gnaw
off bark from Aspens, Willow and Birch trees. Often times the hare will
use its huge hind feet to "stand up" and reach higher tree branches for
feeding.

The hare prefers areas of boreal protection including the coniferous
forest and dense scrub brush of the Northern Rockies and Canada. Unlike
the rabbit, the hare will rarely burrow. It does, however, utilize the
abandoned burrows of other animals, allowing them to do the heavy
lifting! Rabbits do burrow and use their burrows to hide from predators.
The hare, on the other hand, evades danger by running and has developed
gigantic hind feet used to propel itself from predators. Well groomed
mini trails or "runways" are frequently used by Snowshoe Hares as
highways to navigate the forest floor. These trails are also used by
skunks, porcupines and other small mammals.

Snowshow Hares are generally between 3-4 pounds and can measure from 1-2
feet long including their short tail. If you are ever unsure if the
animal is a snowshoe
        hare or a rabbit, just look at the feet. If they
are unmistakably large, you're looking at a snowshoe
        hare. The feet are
also the first part of the hare's body to change color so it is not
uncommon to see a brown snowshoe
        hare with big white feet. The Snowshoe
        
Hare also has very distinguishable large ears used to detect predators,
as well as dissipate heat and regulate body temperature in the summer.

Depending on geographic location, Snowshoe Hares can have 3-4 litters a
year producing 2-5 babies per litter. The gestation period for these
hares is about 35 days long. Unlike rabbits who are born hairless and
blind, the Snowshoe
        Hare babies are born with full fur coats, are able
to see right away and can hop about within minutes of birth.

In short, the Snowshoe
        Hare plays a critical role in the balance of the
boreal ecosystem. It acts as key prey for larger mammals and adds a
wonderful element of biological diversity to its home range.

Fact: The Snowshoe
        Hare gets its name from its hind prints which resemble
and act like snowshoes. They are padded with fur and keep the hare from
sinking into deep snow...just like snowhoes do for humans!

哎~我也是这周六考~有点害怕

是不是国内没有17号这场考试啊？

看了LZ的JJ好像还挺难的。

最后的大文章我是这么写：

首先给successful people下了定义（当然注明是我的definition）：那些对自己经过努力所取得的成绩感到满意和高兴的人，我都认为是成功的，比如说rich people, movie star or even an ordinary person who just found a new and well-paid job.

其次反问：为什么有人愿意try new things and take risks？

一是为了钱，用rich people举例，谁都想变得更为富有。那些有钱人非常愿意尝试新事物，因为他们有资本（钱）去冒险，并且可能一个非常risky investment可以给他们带来巨大的收益。

二是为了挑战自我，用movie star举例，一个事业达到顶峰的女演员如果还在movie圈里奋斗已经没有更高的award给她了，所以她选择挑战自我，向唱歌方面发展，对她来说即使唱歌失败了也不影响她在影迷中的地位，更何况她可以成为两栖明星。

随后看那个ordinary person的情况，如果他try new things，他有可能会失去这份工作，这是他所负担不起的，因为他的收入要养活一家人，所以他宁可安心工作等待升迁机会也不愿去冒险找更好的工作。

总结，不是所以successful people都try new things and take risks。

我的结尾写的很短，感觉是草草收场，因为我要留出时间检查全文，也就没时间修改结尾了。