奶油小生艾瑞克

Score band 6.0

Listening: 23/40

section 1234: [1]/[6]/[4]/[6]

技術性失分(字尾s、拼音等原本應該可以拿分): 4題

• Aviary
• familiarize myself with the format of each exam
• damage water holes that are sacred sites for Aboriginals
• They can be captured, domesticated and used in tourism for transport

Review

(1) 不要一聽到類似的答案就衝動寫下去

Woman: It’s very good really. The youth rate is $15 an hour…Oh, I didn’t ask — how old are you?

Man: 22.

Woman: Well, that’s an even better rate — over 18 we pay $18.50 an hour — and that includes a meal if you work a five-hour shift.

(2) 判斷地圖時不要分心，一分神就會整題失分

…this is where all the zoo babies are born — to the Education block.

…you’ll see a lake on your right and the polar bears on your left. As you know, they like colder temperatures and the waters of the Blue Lake are kept chilly, just for them…

(3) 一次聽到許多選項要仔細聽最後一句，通常都是最後一個選項被排除

The goats and sheep are always popular and the rabbits used to be too, but they were found to have some kind of disease and had to be taken away.

(4) 有時候線索會分開在兩段句子上出現，小心陷阱

…the breeding and nursery facility is off-limits to the public — for very good reasons — but we all want to see the zoo babies, don’t we?…

(5) 題目選項會出現陷阱，要注意跟題目之間有沒有關係

…You still need to write down explanations and examples and add your own notes to the slides…

It’s important to keep up-to-date with your summaries — not just of the lecture notes but chapters of any books you’ve read or articles in journals…

…there’s just so much information on the Internet…and it’s probably not worth the effort to summarise what you read there…

(6) 題目說明如果填空有說不超過2或3個字，別只聽重點字，前後也要聽

…before the end of lectures because lecturers often hold a couple of revision seminars before the end of the course.

(7) 注意單複數，留意題目裡面的上下文，會有提示

…all those formats require different strategies, and you need to be aware of the format that your examiners prefer…

題目：familiarize myself with the _________ of each exam

前面有一個定冠詞，後面又說each exam，所以是單數

(8) 如果聽不清楚，平常要留意常見名詞是否可數

…They were used to carry equipment for the construction of railways…

equipment是不可數名詞

(9) 題目裡面講什麼字就用什麼字，填入通用的字也會是錯的

…as a novelty form of transport for their customers.

不可以寫transportation

Vocabulary

1. kitchen hand: 廚房助手
2. a fair bit of: 一點點
3. shifts: 輪班職工；班；輪班
4. bequeathed: 把…遺贈給
5. a stretch of: （土地或水域的）一片，一段
6. amphibians: 兩棲動物
7. tame: （尤指動物）溫順的，馴化的、平淡的，乏味的
8. aviary: 大鳥籠；鳥舍
9. savannah: （尤指非洲等熱帶國家的）稀樹草原
10. retrace: 沿原路返回；回憶；追溯
11. miniature: 微型的；小型的；微小的
12. cuddle: 抱；（互相）擁抱，摟抱
13. peck: 啄、輕而快的吻，匆匆一吻
14. off-limits (adj.): 禁止入內的
15. leaflets: 傳單，活頁；（單頁）廣告
16. go to pieces at sth…: （在精神方面）崩潰，垮掉；十分激動，極度緊張
17. strain: 壓力；拉力，張力；作用力
18. be sitting the exam
19. heaps of: （淩亂的）一堆
20. handout: （尤指發給學生或聽報告的人的）講義，印刷品、施捨物；救濟款
21. discern: 看出；辨別出；明白 (recognize)
22. lead-up
23. domestic: 本國的，國內的、家庭的
24. chore: 日常瑣事；雜務；乏味的例行工作
25. the outback: 內地（指澳大利亞遠離城鎮的地區，尤指中部的沙漠地區）
26. woolly: 羊毛製的；仿羊毛的、（想法等）不清楚的，模糊的，混亂的
27. freight(n.)(v.): 貨物；貨運/運送
28. dromedary: 單峰駝
29. introduced animal: 外來種動物
30. do damage to
31. roam : 閒逛（於）；漫步（於）；漫遊（於）
32. scarce: 難得的，稀有的，罕見的 (rare, few)
33. sacred: （尤指因與神有關而）神聖的，值得崇敬的 (holy, blessed, divine, hallowed)
34. trample: 踩，踐踏
35. collision: （車輛的）碰撞，相撞
36. ruminant: （尤指牛、羊和鹿等動物）反芻，倒嚼
37. methane
38. vicious: 邪惡的；惡毒的；兇暴的、嚴重的；劇烈的，惡毒的