【Native Speaker每日综合训练—37系列】【37-10】文史哲

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Speaker
Those two people argue about that should they hire Clark or Paul. Finally they decide to let Monique to make the call.

Time 2  1.02
It is good to provide an extra year for students either by repeating twelfth grade or making a gap year between high school and college.

Time 3  1.12
Kids need more executive-functioning skills.

Time 4  1.36
Grade repetition is inefficiency and wastage of resources for society.

Time 5  1.45
An example of Sam who is the youngest boy said that his is benefitted from the extra time to spend in school.

Time 6  2.15
Meat price situation.

Obstacle 2.5
This article discusses Marine Le Pen's success. It also mentions the victory and mistakes that parties and comedians made.

seraph797979

pennyz 发表于 2014-6-2 09:40
Part II: Speed
Your Kid's Brain Might Benefit From an Extra Year in Middle SchoolRepeati ...

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psychoarya

［speaker］

hire: give job to

blowhard: sb who likes to talk a lot, but arrogant.Boastful

be too full of oneself: think that you are better thanother people around you

to come off as sth: give the impression about who youare.

Overconfident: too much

make a much better rep: representative your rep isusually your sales people

low-key: common, quiet, very relaxed

timid: shy sb who doesn’t seem to have a lot confidence

self-deprecating: critical of yourself often in ahumorous way.

quiet confidence: realize he has such ability but doesnot brag about it (or boast about it)

to try too hard to impress

stand out: other people see especially in a good way.E.g. a stand out student

stand out like a sore thumb: in a bad way

overbearing: too aggressive

exude confidence: to show other people that you areconfident

resort to: I don’t want to resort to violence.

Blow one’s own horn: to brag or to boast

To be at loggerheads: in a disagreement that you thinkyou are not going to solve the problem

Have a good judgment

Make the call: make a difficult decision

Be quick on the uptake: understand sth very quickly

[speed]

1:25

As the American education is becoming more and moretense, a lot of parents decide to give their children a one-year break. In thisgap year, students can both develop athletically and mentally.

1:40

a relaxing gap year may give students enough time todevelop its functioning skills, because functioning skills are very importantto their success. According to a poll, a number of students decide to choose agrade repetition in their middle school.

1:34

some opponents of grade repetition say such decisionwastes taxpayer’s money. From the author’s own experience, the author thinksit’s a good idea to allow students to have a grade repetition.

1:40

Sam benefits a lot from the grade repetition. The authorsays that grade repetition is a precious thing for few American students.

1:52

the reason behind high prices of meat is consumers.Consumers are in good economic situations, therefore they are willing to payfor high-quality meat. However, there are not enough supply. Import is a deadend. So American grow their own meat, and they export the meat to othercountries.

[obstacle]

8:46

Le pen won the election in France and Renzi won theelection in Italy. The French election may be a warning to Renzi. UnlikeGrillo, Renzi grasped the urgency of the problems facing the country. Unlike herfather, Le pen adopted a more gentle way to be a leader. And she emphasizes theeconomic change in France. Grillo failed to fulfill his promises, maybe Le penshould learn from that.

jesoncao

之前写的都没有了好忧伤。。今天那就不贴出来啦。。

醒醒Shine

囧~ 刚做完三篇才看到。这个明天做！

wnj2611339

----Speaker
Hans and Freddie were discussing whether to hire Clark, who is boastful, or Paul, who is modest. Hans preferred Clark, while Freddie liked Paul. In the end, Freddie suggested to ask Monique for opinion.

----Speed

[Time 2]1'41''

The article talks about that the practice of voluntarily delay school transactions may help students to mature athletically, academically, or developmentally. Most sports coaches believed that voluntary repetition of eighth grade offers a real athletic advantage.

[Time 3] 1'30''

An additional year of middle school can help students who are unprepared for the increased academic and organizational pressure prepare for the next level of studies.

The cases of involuntary grade retention has limited relevance to the research of benefits of voluntary repetition.

[Time 4] 1'17''

The cons of voluntary grade repetition.

Sam's example shows that the pros of voluntary grade repetition outweigh its cons.

[Time 5] 0'54''

Continues with Sam's story of how he benefited from the voluntary grade repetition.

In the end, the author pointed out that voluntary grade repetition is only for few people who can afford it.

[Warm up] 0'32''

The dramatically increased meat price is attributable not to drought, but to consumers.

[Time 6] 2'04''

Consumers are more tend to buy good meat, but the fancy cut of meat isn't enough in the market, and the meat production need to take a long time to turn around, also the importing from abroad is not a good idea too. Eventually, grocery stores can hike up prices.

----Obstacles 4'57''

Le Pen won a historic twenty-five per cent of the vote, achieving victory in last weekend’s European Parliamentary elections.

The result in Italy helps explain why the vote in France turned out as it did, and the Democratic Party’s victory in Italy represents a remarkable comeback from its showing in national elections a year ago.

What insurgents and political purists can learn from the Democratic Party’s victory.

Le Pen used her moderate tone to attract many moderate and formerly left-wing voters move toward the National Front.

A prospect on how Marine Le Pen will take action to boost Europe’s economic growth.  

slave918

T2 2:05
Many parents choose to repeat one year for their children in eighth grade.
Reasons:
1.pressure from getting into colleage.
2.children can't prepare for the demands of standardized testing.
T3 2:18
A repeating year can enable children to develop executive-function skills.
T4 2:01
Opponents affirm that repeating one year would waste tax payer's money.
While an example was cited to demonstrate that the advantages of repeating one year outweight the disadvantages.
T5 2:44
An example that demonstrate the advantages of repeating one year outweight the disadvantages.
However, the author still has some concerns, saying that for most students by doing so would lack a year of education.
T6 2：41
the price of beef is rising because the demand for high-quality beef is increasing.
The price would not go down in short term and exporting from other contries not practical.

ZNUFE_2011

速度
Time 2: 1'39''
Time 3: 2'05''
Time 4: 1'50''
Time 5: 1'47''
Time 6: 3'04''

越障
7'53''

yigo

6.2
节日快乐

speaking：
two people are discussing how to be Modest and Boastful

t2-t5  2''35  3''28  2''36 3''33
one year gap between 8th grade and high school or high school between college is prevalant.
a survey shows that many family would consider the repeated one year study
Reason varies, but mainly because parents worry that children are not prepared .

the repeat one year study before going to middel school has many good points: both physical and psychological
A study taken by UNESCO shows taht 15-30% of students at 15 repeat one year

A typical example: Sam. His parents decide to follow the advice

Sam is the youngest boy in the family and also the youngest in the class. Teacher's reflection is not optimistic: Sam is not good at organizational and learning skills. His parents decided to let him study one year again for 8th grade.
Result: When Sam entered high school, he showed his mature skills both academically and socially.
He also believed this was a right decision.

Conclusion: education as whole

t6 5''40
meet price rocketing, but the feed cost goes down, shelf price goes up.
two likely reasons:1 drought in US 2 E Coli recall on beef
What is the real reason?--consumer
The income increase of the people triggered high demand for fancy cut beef, leading to an short supply and over demand in the market

Solution?
1 increase production? not possible
2 import from abroad? no. especailly high cut beef.
US has special raising method for steak.

Obstacle 9''18
European parlimentary election
Lepen won 25% vote
a brife comment on Renzi, Hollande,Sokozy's performance for their parties.
文章略政治 欧洲各国政局好复杂 没看明白···

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