托�？谡ZTASK3話題范例：Activity

Reading Part:

Split Graduation
Traditionally, the university holds one ceremony for all graduating students, during which students are awarded their diplomas. Beginning this year, however, the university will hold two graduation ceremonies. Under the new arrangement, half the graduating students will participate in the first ceremony, and the other half will participate in a second ceremony to be held the following day. Administrators cite two reasons for the change. First, the number of students has increased in recent years, and since diplomas are awarded individually, the single ceremony has become uncomfortably long. Also, the hall where the ceremony is held is too small to accommodate the growing audience of friends and family members.

Listening Part：

Now listen to two students discussing the article.
(woman) You know, I wish they wouldn't do this.
(man) Why?
(woman) Well, I think it’s unnecessary, I mean, as far as the first reason goes. Yeah, sure, it takes a long time to have everyone receive their diploma individually, especially now that there are more students, but there’s an easy way to make it shorter.
(man) What’s that?
(woman) Reduce the number of speeches. I mean, a lot of people give speeches, students, professors, administrators, the president of the university. Do we really need that many speeches?
(man) Probably not, and a lot of the speeches are pretty boring anyway, so, yeah, we probably could cut out a few.
(woman) Yeah, and I don’t think their second reason’s very good either, about the space.
(man) How’s that?
(woman) The problem isn’t the size of the hall. It’s that they allow students to invite too many people to come and watch. All they need to do is reduce the number of guests each graduating student gets to invite.
(man) Yeah, I guess that could solve the problem.
(woman) Yeah, I mean, right now each graduating student can invite up to ten people. That’s too many. At most schools, students only get to invite like four or five people. It we just said, “OK, you can only invite six people.” That’ll still be more than most other schools and the ceremony could stay the way it is.
Question:
The woman expresses her opinion about the university’s plan. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.

Tips:

本題涉及到國外大學的畢業(yè)典禮，這里給大家簡單補充一下畢業(yè)典禮的背景知識。 一般學校畢業(yè)典禮分為兩個，本科(undergraduate students)一個，研究生(graduate students)一個。畢業(yè)典禮上大家都穿學士服/碩士服/博士服，開場先是校長及名人的speech，頂尖大學一般會邀請非常有名的人來演講，比如2005年Steve Jobs在Stanford給學生做畢業(yè)典禮演講。開始頒發(fā)學位的時候，每個學生的名字都會被提到。當名字被念到的時候?qū)W生走上臺，與校長握手，同時臺下的親友團歡呼鼓掌。
本題提到由于本科生人數(shù)越來越多，一個畢業(yè)典禮顯得過長，因此要分成兩部分舉行。

Sample Answer:

The university is going to split the graduation ceremony, which means students will be divided into two parts to participate in it. However, the woman disagrees with this plan, and she has two reasons for that. Firstly, even though students are granted individually, which takes a lot of time, they would have a shorter ceremony simply by university reducing the number of speeches made by professors, administrators, president and so on. Secondly, she denies the excuse of size of the hall. She thinks that the core issue why the ceremony is crowded lies on the number of people, because right now university allows students to invite up to ten guests, which is far more than the other universities. Students will no longer suffer if they can only invite at most six family members or friends.

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