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Previous generations spent time playing board games or card games with family and friends. Nowadays, many young people prefer to play games on their computers and phones. Which do you think is better and why? Use details and examples in your response.

学生提议用校友捐赠的钱修复钟楼的表。理由1: 修复钟表保护tradition ；理由2: 可以让学生知道时间 保证time punctuality。听力里不同意。1）反驳R1，不是钟是学校象征 是那个楼。学校文化衫上印的都是tower2) 太贵 没必要 学生可以用手机看时间 而且应该把钱花在更好的地方 比如买桌椅。

TASK3说的短期记忆  short term memory；阅读中有两种，一个是 decay 一个是interference。

Short-term memory is a temporary storehouse for information. For most people, the capacity of short-term memory is limited to just a few pieces of information at a time.Psychologists believe that there are two ways that information stored in short-term memory is lost: decay and interference. Decay happens when a memory that is not being used simply fades away. Interference happens when a new piece of information pushes another item out of the memory.

例子是你跟同学出去，你要打电话但不知道phone number ，同学给了你一个电话number，当时记得，但是 2 个小时之后就忘记了。第二个例子说的是教授是个 big  reader,有一次他列了一个书单，但是他落在了车上没有取，但是他很自信自己知道买哪些书。结果在路上遇到了一个朋友，聊了一些自己看的好书这个信息的干扰了他，之后就忘记要买什么书了，脑子里只记得朋友跟他说的了。

TASK4是说农业方面的，说的农民选择什么培育对植物更好。个是wheat plant ，等wheat plant 熟了 有些seeds还在stem上面 然后他们就用这个培育下一代产生就能更多wheat ；第二个是bean plant，一开始很小，但是他们会选择大的好的豌豆培育，后来豌豆就都大了。

如何避免一种叫snakehead的鱼的扩散

阅读中提了三个方法:

1. 制定法律限制黑鱼的扩散

2. 告诉渔民们黑鱼的利益：可食用可赚钱，从而让渔民们捕捞

3. 科学家研发一种毒素去消灭它

听力反对阅读的说法：

1. 法律不能阻止黑鱼的扩散，因为他们可以自己穿越河流通过泥土来去不同的地方

2. 渔民们在知道黑鱼所带来的利益后，会把它引到其他河流和地方，不让黑鱼的数量减少

3. 毒素也会伤害到其他微生物，例如昆虫和两栖类。由于他们是许多其他生物的主要食物，他们的数量减少会扰乱生态系统的秩序

Doctor

公司是否应该采取冒险的策略？

学生A 

I think this strategy can easily backfire on a businessperson. I've seen companies conduct endless cycles of product enhancements in an effort to capture some other market share. But in reality, they just damage their own brand by sacrificing too much of the original content that made the product in the first place.

学生B

I disagree. Most profitable businesses have used the strategy, or they would never made it to the top. lf you want to grow a business aggressively, some mistakes along the way are inevitable. Too much caution or too much emphasis on avoiding mistakes can really prevent growth.