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Listening Passages:
1. Psychology – Traditional psychology (two psychologists) focused on more the negative sides of human beings behavior, and they analyzed the failures of human beings…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
http://web.utk.edu/~gwynne/maslow.HTM
2. Symbol of American Nation----Bald Eagle
Bald eagle stands for authority, and is native to America…The following links may give you some background information, but it is not exactly the same as what was in the listening.
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020107.html
3. Chemical pesticides use in protecting crops from pests. There are short comings…1) the pesticide kills the pest’s predators too, and 2) eventually pests can survive from the pesticide, thus then there is no predators to kill them….. The integration of biological methods are better than that uses chemical pesticide, for example, but this method may take time to become effective, where farmers may feel reluctant to apply………..it gave one example ….the introduction of one bee (?)…can not recall fully.
Reading :
a. The three steps of make pottery (red and black) in ancient Greece. Backgound information is as follows. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm
b. How print arts are made and what make Prints Arts valuable a) no of total issues 2) reputation of artists 3) quality of the print.
c. Irrigation developed before urbanization in Eygpt and another area …it gave the comparison why Egypt needed less efforts in bring Nile water for irrigation, and why the other area needed it badly ( some area didn’t have enough rain….)
d. The automobile industry’s impact on economy, Henry Ford (mass assembly line and reduction of workers’ working hours to minimize costs) , another company under Dr. Sloan’s help, changed car models yearly to meet different needs, and established the first credit organization for issuing car loans. Finally it summarized the impact on the other industry, and on booming of suburb housing.
Essay
Children live in a big city better than in a countyside?
Good luck.
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发表于 2005-8-2 04:05:00
