Conversion 1
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When you first arrive at your university accommodation and collect a room key.
No, because the person is a college employee (probably in a college office) and you have just arrived.
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Hertford College accommodation form
First name | Family name |
Janet | Li |
Staircase number | 6 |
Room number | 5 |
Keys | Janet Li |
1 Her family name and her first name.
2 The porter gives Janet the keys to her room.
3 Janet calls the porter “sir” at first.
4 The porter asks Janet to call him Stewart.
5 The porter askS Janet to sigh for her keys.
Conversation 2
4 Example answers
Janet is speaking to another student.
They are in the college.
They probably do not know each other.
They are likely to introduce themselves and tell each other where hey are from and what they are studyin.
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Janet | Kate | |
English name | Janet Li | Kate Santos |
Chinese name | Li Hui | -- |
Home town | Anshan | New York |
(1) I’m Janet Li
(2) My Chinese name is
(3) it’s short for
(4) Everyone calls me
Conversation 3
7Example anwsers
1 Are you from Britain? /It sounds as if you are from England,right?
2 what’s your name?/ I guess you are from China,right?
3 what are you studying?/what’s your mother’s tongue?
4 what are you studying?/are you studying English too?
5 and how about you?/what are you studying here?
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1 (b) 2(b) 3(a) 4(b) 5(b) 6(a)
Outside View
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1 A choir is singing on the top of tower at Magdalen College in Oxford.
2 On the first day of May.
3 Students, and the public who may come to listen to the singing.
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The true statements are 2,4 and 6.
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1 four years; modern languages
2 special meal
3 of the town
4 improve its place
5 white shirt
6 should have traditions
7 white; pink; red
8 our history
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1 (c) 2(a) 3(d) 4(a) 5(b)
6(a) 7 (b) 8(b) 9(a) 10(d)
Listening in
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Number of institutions: 8
Sporting impotance: university sports teams compete against each other
Academic importance: near or at the top of the US colleges and University rankings
Social impotance: social elitism, mostly rich, intellectual, white students
Location: the US (north-east)
Origin name: Roman IV (meaning four) or ivy plants growing on the wall
Oldest institution: Harvard, founded in 1636
Largest number of undeigraduates; Cornell, about 13,000
Acceptance rates:7 percent to 20 percent
Famous alumni: George Bush, John F Kennedy and many others
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1 (d) 2(b) 3(c) 4(d) 5(d)
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3-6-4-1-5-2
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1The story begins at Princeton University
2 Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than people.
3 Nash finds relationship difficult at first.
4 When Nash is put in a psychiatric hospital he thinks the Soviets have captured him.