【正确答案】Topic Card A
a. Animal
What do you think of guide dogs?
Guide dogs, one of the most familiar sorts of working dog, provide an invaluable service to humans. Every day, they help their masters get from place to place more safely. They help blind or visually impaired people get around in the world. In most countries, they are allowed to anyplace where the public is allowed, so they can help their handlers be in any place they might want to go to. A guide dog must know how to keep on a direct route, ignoring distractions such as smells, other animals and people. Its important task is to help the handler to his or her destinations safely.
b. Traffic
Do you know how to keep children safe in a driving car?
I think the most important thing to keep children safe in a driving ear is to remind them to wear a seat belt every time they get into a car, even just for a short ride and even if they're in the back seat. Children from birth until age 1 should ride in the back seat in a rear-facing child safety seat. And for the children who outgrow child safety seats should be properly restrained in booster seats until they are at least 8 years. Once they outgrow their booster seats, they can use an adult seat belt in the back seat as long as it fits properly.
c. Economy
What is the most important thing for sellers in electronic commerce?
In electronic commerce, a reputation of honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too, may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines online may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDA's rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.
Questions maybe asked:
1. What do you think of the teaching method of lecture system?
Lecture system is the most popular teaching method in university. Many students like lecture system because it helps to learn quickly. Attending a well-prepared lecture is a most rewarding experience: it can open a new horizon for you and save you much time as well — time you might otherwise spend reading one book after another. However, this method cultivates a bad habit of passive learning.
2. What do you think of the teaching method of discussion system?
The discussion system is more and more popularized in university. It can encourage students to form their own ideas and opinions. To engage in frequent and even heated debate, you have to do a lot of homework before hand, find answers yourselves and thus you develop the analytical skills which benefit both your academic career and your future life. However, it also has its weakness: students do not learn systematically.
Topic Card B
a. Education
What is Confucius Institute?
The Confucius Institute is a nonprofit organization whose aim is to promote the Chinese language learning and culture overseas through Internet or on-campus non-degree courses. The first institute was established in Seoul, ROK in November 2004. Since then branches have been set up in many other countries, including the U. S., Sweden, France and Uzbekistan. The Chinese government plans to set up 100 Confucius Institutes around the world in view of the international demand for Chinese language learning.
b. Hobbies
Do you like reading? Are you a good reader?
Yes, I like reading and I think I am a good reader. I can move at great speed through the text of a novel or similar light reading matter. I'm able to skim a page, picking up a word or two here and there, and gain a general idea of the whole of it before proceeding more slowly. Besides, I will vary my pace, concentrating on the key words and passages, perhaps rereading them several times and passing more quickly over the remainder.
c. Life
Do you have stress?
Yes, I do. I think every one has his own stress from every aspect of life or work. I think people need stress in their life. Some experts say that life without stress would be dull and unexciting. Stress adds flavor, challenge, and opportunity to life. However, too much stress can seriously affect people's physical and mental well-being. A major challenge in today's stress-filled world is to make the stress in people's life work for them instead of against them.
Questions maybe asked:
1. What are the advantages of birth control? Birth control can efficiently control the population. Some experts believe that China's economic development and the living standards will be greatly improved by the policy.
2. What are the disadvantages of birth control?
The policy of birth control is against the human right. It is the private right for people to choose how many children they would like to have. Besides, elders will outnumber the young people someday if we stick to the birth control policy further, which will lead to lack of working force and the coining of "aging society".