一直想给POPO找个伴，这样上班的时候他不会那么寂寞。养狗是一种责任，一旦决定要养了，就要努力照顾关心它，给它最好的生活。跟POPO相处这两年多，学会了付出，而他带回给我们的快乐也是难以衡量的。比熊是一种很优秀的狗狗，时而粘人时而独立，聪明又有点小奸诈，不乱叫也不掉毛，很讨人开心。但唯一的麻烦就白毛太容易脏，所有家里的新成员就选择了一样活泼可爱的泰迪熊妹妹，取名翠花儿（后来想了想，为了应节，改名桂花儿）。桂花儿两个月了，圆圆的屁股，跑起来一颠一颠的。回家就跟在哥哥身后跑来跑去，小腿腿还不是太有力，几次跌倒在地上滚来滚去。玩累了，躺在沙发上大摇大摆地睡着了。

 

让大家看看桂花儿有多小。POPO看我抱起她，马上不开心地走来走去，用眼白瞄我。乖儿子别吃醋拉，妈妈永远最爱的是你。

 

在放送上个礼拜的机经之前，通知快要考托福的同学们一个消息：从这个国庆开始，国外部将每个月开一个托福冲刺班，由高高和我主讲。内容包括近期机经分析和考前冲刺练习，一共8次课，每个部分上两次。平时经常有人留言问我快要考试了该怎么办，但每个人情况不同，我也没法三言两语说清楚，也许在这个班上大家能找到答案。目前具体时间还没定下来，有兴趣可以打电话去前台问问。

 

15/09/2007

 

1. Describe one of the difficulties in which you received help from your family, friends or classmates and please give specific details to describe how their suggestion helped you.

 

2. Do you agree or disagree: The most important influences that young adults have are from their families.

 

3. A university’s plan about arrange the dorm according to same interests, hobbies of people.

 

The woman disagree with the university’s plan.

Reasons she gives:

1.) People don’t need same habits to make friends. 她举了自己作为例子，she and her roommate, they have different interests and they are taking different classes but they are very good friends still.

 

2.) There are several reasons for students to change dorm. It’s not always because they can’t get along with their roommates due to different interests. Some people just want to change location.

What is the woman’s opinion about the university’s plan? Use examples to ….

 

4.     Approach-avoidance conflict

 

The professor cites one of his female friends as an example. She always wanted to be a teacher. And before university she was so interested and had so much enthusiasm in that. But later when she got into the work after graduation, she found out that she had to spend a lot time at home grading papers which was not what she expected before. And she had to give up weekends sometimes for her work too. All these happened because she only saw the interests but not the pressure. She really enjoyed being in the class with the students but she also started to worry that she might not have enough energy to handle all the works and pressure.

 

Use examples in the lecture to describe what the professor say about Approach-avoidance conflict

 

 

5． A man is facing a conflict. His professor recommended a topic for his art history paper. But the only material, a book in the library was lent to another student. He was talking with a female friend about it. His friend gave him too solutions.

 

1.) You can just buy the book. But the man says: it costs money and he will not need it anymore after the paper. So it may not be worthy to buy it.

 

2.) You can just go and talk to the other student. And maybe you can work the paper together and share the same book. The man says: I have already went to the student and that student won’t finish the book till next (maybe) Tuesday. And by then, I won’t have enough time for my paper which will seriously affect the quality of my paper.

 

Describe the problem and the solution the man has. And present your own suggestion to the man.

 

6. Process of creating sculpture. 

The professor mentioned two basic processes of creating sculpture. (professor的原话)。

 

1.) subtractive process

This process starts with solid materials and then you cut piece by piece on the materials until some shape is formed. This process has a problem which is that it doesn’t allow people to make mistakes. For example, you sculpture a face and you make a nose, eyes, but then if you don’t like the nose, you have to get rid of the whole piece.

 

2.) Additive process

This process is just like its name additive. People add things on to the sculpture. This process allows mistakes. The main material people use for this process is clay. If you made a nose and you don’t like it, you can just 英文不记得了，用中文大概意思是

   你就可以把这个你不喜欢的鼻子弄掉，然后换上新的。

 

Use the information in the lecture to describe the two processes and compare them with details.