TPO 10
10-1
谈谈一次你超越自己完成了一件你本以为自己不能成功的事情的经历。你完成了什么事情？为什么你当初认为自己可能无法完成呢？
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I once took the Graduate Record Examination one week before the test date. Originally I had planned on taking a job, but due to special circumstances I had to reconsider graduate school. I did not think I could do it since I was not a good test taker and I only had one week to prepare for a test that most people spent months studying for. I memorized over 3,000 words in the week and prepared as much as I could for the test. Surprisingly, I scored in the 99% percentile on the exam, 710 verbal, 750 math, and it became my most proud achievement.
10-2
你是否同意以下观点？用详细的事实和例子进行阐述。
所有的孩子们都应该在学校学习一门外语。
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Strict requirements of what a child should learn in school should always receive cautious analysis. Although the world is globalized and many languages are used, it is too premature to declare that every single child must learn a second language in school. Each person lives in a different environment and has different needs for schooling depending on his or her situation. If he or she needs to learn more languages, the education system should have classes in place to fulfill such needs. However, one should not force children to learn a second language.
10-3
阅读材料：学生艺术作品展
大学最近考虑在校园内选择一个适合展览学生绘画和其他艺术作品的位置。我认为学生中心入口处的大厅是非常合适的。因为每天都有很多学生进出学生中心，在其大厅展览艺术作品会被很多人看到。并且，整个学生中心大楼的前部是由玻璃窗组成的，因此这个大厅的自然采光效果很好。这对于展出那些需要充足的光线来保证最佳观赏效果的艺术作品来说是非常理想的。
诚恳地，
Paul Sands
题目：简要总结这封学生信件中的提议，而后叙述这个女生的观点并解释她所给出的原因。
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A student is thinking about using the student center lobby for displaying artwork and paintings. It has a lot of windows, and that is a quality which the school likes. It’s good to have a lot of natural light for the arts. Furthermore, many students pass by the center lobby and the paintings would be viewed by many people. However, the female art student Mary disagrees for two reasons. First, the natural light is actually not ideal since too much sunshine can be too bright and clouds can make it too dark for the artwork. Hence, a consistent light-bulb source would be better. Second, she thinks the lobby is way too crowded for anyone to stand and appreciate artwork.
10-4
阅读材料：娱乐业商品化
在娱乐业广泛使用的一种有效的销售手段是娱乐业商品化。它是市场营销的一种形式，使得某一产品的品牌或图像在另一商品的销售中同样得到应用。娱乐业商品化在儿童流行电视节目中的应用，体现在与节目中角色外观一致的玩具流入市场。有时也会出现相反的情况，即儿童电视节目中的角色会根据现实生活中已流行的玩具来进行设计与构思。
题目：运用课堂上陈述的例子来解释娱乐业商品化的概念。
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The concept of entertainment merchandising focuses on the idea of marketing pairing. The success and popularity of one product can effectively link to another product based upon the same platform and image. This idea is used widely in television and movies. For example, the popular Action Hero television program had a strong influence on the kids’ choice of toys later on. Since they liked the show, they jumped for the Action Hero action figures at the toy store. Vice versa, the popularity of the Rosa dolls led to the creation of a television show based on the toy character. The kids were very excited about this show since they linked their favorite toy to this upcoming show.
10-5
简要总结这个女生遇到的问题，并陈述你更倾向于哪种解决方案及其原因。
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The female student has an important history paper to finish, but her computer’s battery is running low. To make it worse, the local electricity is off due to a storm. She is weighing her options at the moment. She can either go to a nearby city’s library or ask for an extension from her professor. I would recommend her to drive to the nearby library instead of risking an extra day extension because there is a possibility that the professor would not accept her request. She mentioned that the professor told the class that he would not grant an extension when he assigned the paper. The 20-minute drive is much safer and the woman should not risk asking for the extension.
10-6
运用课堂上给出的观点来解释为什么研究人员认为婴儿具备共感这种感情。
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The researcher conducted an experiment to test empathy of babies. Previously, we thought that babies only had emotions of anger and happiness because they could only react to things that happened to them directly. Empathy is more complex, since it is related to others’ feelings. To test empathy of babies, the researchers experimented with the sound of crying. When babies heard other babies crying in the same room, they always cried along and researchers believed that they cried only because of the distressing noise. However, when babies heard their own crying in a recording, they did not cry. This shows that babies do not cry simply because of the noise, but as an attempt to relate to the other babies in the room. This is considered to be a form of empathy.