2014年10月26，希望对各位考生的备考有所帮助，祝每位烤鸭考试顺利，都能取得好成绩！
2014年10月26日大陆
Task 1: Talk the advantage and disadvantage of the wide use of robots. Explain your answer in details.
Sample
I think robots are important for our future for the following reasons. First, robots have been a major part of human culture for a long time already. We rely heavily on machineries. They produce cars, computers, cloths and all sort of things. Very few of what we need is made by hand nowadays. They do such a great job at these tasks, with better speed and precision than human. Second, as artificial intelligent gets better and better, they will help us to make things running more smoothly. Who knows, maybe the day machines surpass human will come sooner than we imagined.
Task 2: Some people prefer to finish reading a book in one setting, others prefer to read a few pages each time. Which do you prefer? Explain your answer in details.
Sample
I prefer to finish a book in one single setting for the following reasons. First, I’m a fast reader. I can finish a book within a day without any problem. This means I rarely have to buy books. If there’s a book I want to read, I’ll just go to my local library to get it, finish it over the weekend, and return it on Monday. Second, I’ve tried reading a book on a bus on my way to school. I didn’t enjoy it at all. As soon as the story gets my attention, I have to stop reading because I need to get off at my station. Over time, I would lose interest in it and forget about it.
Task 3
Reading: School will eliminate the discount of the tickets to the center.
Reason1: School can raise the profit.
Reason2: It’s reasonable compared with other museums in town.
The woman disagrees.
Reason1: Not a lot of students go to the theater. Even school cancel the discount, it’s impossible to make a lot of profit from it.
Reason2: Art students are required to attend a lot of concerts, and most students cannot afford it.
Task 4
Reading: When animals see predators, they produce a kind of signal which could be understood by other animals.
Lecture: When monkeys see their predators-eagles, they produce a warning signal to tell other monkeys to run away. A type of
birds also understands this signal. They would escape after hearing this signal.
Task 5
Problem: The woman finally got into the basketball team, but she also registered 6 classes at the same time.
Solution1: She can quit the basketball team. But she worked hard for getting into this team.
Solution2: She can drop a few classes.
Task 6
In the lecture, the professor talks about the two ways that flood can benefit the agriculture.
First, it benefits the soil. For example, water brings silt and forms layer, which is good to crops.
Second, Farmers build walls to preserve the water, which benefits those farms that are far away from rivers.
