第一篇(9mins+35mins) Subject: LONELINESS: negative impact, cause analysis, and how COVID-19 hasexacerbated it Sub-points: P1-2. COVID-19 has exacerbated the loneliness problem. P3. Negative impacts of loneliness: diseases, extremist politics,hostility P4-6. modern employment mechanism is responsible for loneliness P7-9. Nowadays loneliness is a prevalent problem in big cities P10-11. Ms. Hertz: two recent developments about loneliness: social medialeads to cyber-bullying; “neoliberalism” P12-13. Summary: the pandemic has changed people’s interpersonalactivities. Technology is a two-fold weapon (convenience/loneliness) Collections: Society will be grappling with this trade-off for decades to come. And people glued to their smartphones spend less time interactingsocially. 【glue to这个词还蛮形象生动的】 “Loneliness is acrowded room”. Vocabulary: point the finger at 指控 culprit 犯人 retreat n/v.后退,放弃,撤离 relish the chance 享受机会 grappling: grapple是扭打的意思,这里应该是说“与这种取舍作斗争” companionship 陪伴 chatter 唠叨 exacerbate 加重,恶化
第二篇(4m9s+18mins) Subject: Latino literature and its painstaking development – evidence ofWilliam Carols Sub-points: P1. Intro of Latino literature - beginning in 1960s; - C,PR, CA对这种文学有深远影响; - 早期发展并不顺利 (painstakingly) P2. Examples of the development of Latino literature - LVM: 内容好但不被认可,该坎坷也说明了female Mexican Americans的困境 - WC: 被排除在Latino literature之外,因为缺少appreciation of PR&A roots。但最近学者认为正式这种缺乏使得WC值得被重视,WC的作品比American更American P3. JM’s ground-breaking study—understandings of WC - WC的作品受他父母(mixed ancestry)、bilingual的成长环境极其深刻 - WC的作品不应当只是狭义的America,而应当是广义的hemispheric America Vocabulary: sensibility 情感,敏感性;ambivalence 情感矛盾 可能的出题点: l 关于The Rebelby Leonor Villegas de Magnon, 哪项说法是正确的? 第二段中间 It stands as another challenge to thestereotypical misconceptions regarding Mexican Americans, particularly women l Julio Marzan's study可以infer出什么? 第三段中间 William Carlos的作品【由于小时候成长在一个很分裂矛盾的移民身份里】所以很mix 视角也很广(not narrowly the US, but hemispheric America) l According to the passage, what canwe know about William Carlos?
他的作品受到了【成长环境、父母亲家庭背景】的深刻影响
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