例題：

A) The apartment is better furnished.

B) She prefers to live in a quiet place.

C) It's less expensive to live in an apartment.

D) She finds her roommates difficult to get along with.

M: I hear you are moving to an apartment. Can you tell me why?

W: Actually, I didn't want to move. It would be more expensive to live outside the college. But I just can't bear the noise made by the people living next door.

Q: Why does the woman want to move?

住房場景：

1、房難找

2、房租太貴

3、房太吵

注：1. 口語中現在進行時表將要

2. must 表猜測

have got to do 表應該，必須

例題：

A) He didn't buy anything.

B) He got some medicine for his foot.

C) He was sick and couldn't go shopping.

D) He bought everything except the football.

W: Did you go shopping this afternoon?

M: Yes, but all I got was a sore foot.

Q: What does the man mean?

注：sore foot 腳疼

sore throat 嗓子疼

例題：

A) She didn't know her daughter could sing so well.

B) She sings better than her daughter.

C) She doesn't like her daughter.

D) She herself doesn't have a good voice.

M: I heard your daughter sing at the school concert last night. She has a lovely voice, I must say.

W: Thank you, but I don't know where she gets it.

Q: What does the woman probably mean?

例題：

A) He finds history books difficult to understand.

B) He has to read a lot of history books.

C) He doesn't like the history course.

D) He has lost his history book.

W: Why are you so tired and upset?

M: I’ve been taking the history course this term. But the trouble is that I’ll never get through the reading list.

Q: Why is the man worried?

作業：

1. paper 論文;newspaper 報紙;文件;紙

research 查詢資料(library)

2. presentation 口頭報告 = report, speech, address

著裝正式;心里感受nervous

interview 面試(也需正式著裝)

3. reading assignment 閱讀作業

reading list 讀書清單

對作業的評價一定是抱怨

寫論文的步驟：

1、選題

2、查資料

3、打印

充滿遺憾：

談論交通--堵車;談論車--壞掉;談論買票--賣光;談論接人--晚點;談論野餐--下雨

寫論文的困難：

1、題目難選

2、資料難查

3、打字困難(機房總被占)

typewriter(break down 壞了;ribbon 色帶), printer, laser printer, laptop.