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1、Some people in college are organizing charity events this term. Weve decided to get involved.Raising money for charity? Right. In China, people raise money for charity but studentsdont usually do that.Students often do that here. Anyway, were thinking of doing sponsored punting. Janet ：Sponsored pun

2、ting! Whats that?Kate ：Sponsoring is when people pay you to do something like run a long distance. So peoplewould be sponsoring students to punt.What a great idea! Id love to join you!Thats why were telling you about it. So thats decided then. Lets make a list of thingswe need to do.Ill do that. One

3、 of the first things we should do is choose the charity.Yes. And choose a day for the event. And we need to design the sponsorship form. Ive gotone here.That looks fine, but we must change the wording. Who wants to do that?Ill do that. What have we got so far?Choose a charity. Also a day for the eve

4、nt. Change the wording on the sponsorship form Um We have to decide where the punt will start from.Cherwell Boathouse, no question! Its a very beautiful route from here, apparently. Kate ：Im with you on that.Me too Conversation2Im not used to boats Woah!Whoops!Watch out! You nearly hit me with that

5、thing!Sorry! I didnt mean to. OK, were off!Maybe I should do the punting.Its fine. Ive got the hang of it now give me a chance.Well, Id like to have a go.Supposing I do the first hour. Then you can take over for a while, if you want to. Kate ：Yes, great.Youre really good at it, Mark! This is fantast

6、ic! Its exactly how I imagined lifehere! Look over there isnt it lovely!Yes, it is.Kate, everythings organized, isnt it, for collecting the sponsorship money?Yes, Ive arranged for people to get the money to me by next Friday if they havent paidonline. Ill count it all up.Good. Wed better have a meet

7、ing soon after that, dont you think? How much have weraised?About 600.Janet：Fantastic! Im so enjoying this!Hey guys, Ive got a suggestion how about moving over to the bank and we can have ourpicnic! Hey, look, theres Louise and Sophie!Whoo Girls： Mark!Are you all right?Er Of course Im all right. Kat

8、e, I think its your turn to punt!Outside viewV/O （画外音）Harvard University in Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world. We spoke to Alex Jude, the universitys Head of Communications. He explained that Harvard looks for the best and most talented students from around the world.AlexHarvard

9、 actually seeks students from around the world, the best students that we can find, to study chemistry, or study literature, or study government, or business. Our business school is particularly well-known around the world, as is the medical school and law school, so, um, and, and the Kennedy School

10、 of government, for the John F. Kennedy School of Government, so, er, we do seek very, very talented students and we have open doors for them.We asked five students at Harvard to tell us what kind of social life they have.AshleyUm, well relaxing is a little hard to do around here, but basically, I m

11、ean, I still, I, I live nearby anyway, so I see a lot of my friends, and Um, theres a good social life here if you look for it. I go to the gym, run. So thats what I do.AdamIt is whatever you want it to be. Its good. If you wanna go out party, do anything you can. If you wanna sit in your room and s

12、tudy all night like my friend over here, you can also do that. BrianSocially, like you said, its, its a lot of what you make it. Um, we dont have fraternities here, and so, you know, thats, its obviously not as social. Theres not as many parties as there would be on another campus. Um, but on a Frid

13、ay or Saturday night, there, there, there will be a party. Usually we end up studying until about 10 oclock. And then we, and then well go out and have fun maybe, or just watch a movie with friends, or, you know, whatever is going on for the night. JodieNot everyone would agree with me, obviously, b

14、ut its, I think its a fun place to be.Interviewer: Have you made a lot of friends?Jodie : Oh, definitely.Interview. ：Mm.Jodie: Many. What, what do you do with your friends? Um, well, I like to go to concerts. Im in three music groups, so I have lots of rehearsalsduring the week for that. Um, just do

15、, you know, some fun things, on the weekend.We asked the Harvard students if they use the Internet.Ashley: Um, I, I use it a fairly good amount. Um, our library system is online, so I use that a lot.And a lot of my classes, you know, have to do research papers. You can find a lot of information on t

16、here, so. So how often do you use it, a week, a day? Um, I use it probably on more of a weekly basis. Maybe three or four times a week.Brian: Oh yes, definitely. We live through the Internet actually. Well, I do a lot of researchthrough the Internet, follow my stocks on the Internet. Um, well, even

17、though is not officially Internet, we, thats how we communicate a lot at college, so, through the .John: Um, I use the internet mostly for, er, Id say, sort of leisure purposes. I mean, I play, um, I use it for a lot of, I dont, we dont have TV in my room, so I use it, uh, uh, go to the CNN website,

18、 keep up on current events, things like that. Uh, I also, uh, you know, theres some little games to play over the Internet. Um, just um, I go to espn. to see whats happening, follow the Boston Red Sox, things like that. Um, I think a lot of courses use it to post things, but I, I dont usually use it

19、 that much for research, or things. I tend to use the libraries for such things, so.Listening inPassage 1Voice-overHi, Im Nick Carter, and this is SUR, your university radio station. This morning we went around campus to ask freshers now half-way through their first year the question, How are you fi

20、nding uni? Here are some of the answers we got.Speaker 1Its cool. Its everything I hoped it would be. Im very ambitious, I want to be a journalist and I want to get to the top of the profession. Ive started writing for the university newspaper so Ive got my foot on the ladder already.Speaker 2Im wor

21、king hard and the teaching is as good as I expected. And Ive made some good friends. But Im very homesick. Im Nigerian and my familys so far away. I went home at Christmas for a month that really helped, but man, I miss my family so much.Speaker 3“How am I finding uni? Its great. Its not perfect, no

22、thing is, but, like, Ive got a brilliant social life, just brilliant, and Ive made lots of friends. For the first few months I just didnt do, really enough work. But I I talked about it with my parents and Im working harder now and getting good grades.Speaker 4Actually, Ive been quite lonely to be h

23、onest. Im a bit shy everyone else seemed to find it so easy to make friends straight away. But things have been better recently yeah, they have. Ive joined a couple of clubs and like, it really helps to get to know people when you have shared interests. So, yeah Im feeling a lot happier now.Speaker

24、5Unis great, I love it. My only problem and its quite a big problem is money. My parents are both unemployed so, you know, they cant help me financially. My grant just isnt its just not enough for me to live on, so Ive taken a part-time job as a waitress a lot of people I know, like a lot, have had

25、to do the same. I dont want to have huge debts at the end.Speaker 6I love my subject, History, and Im, Im getting fantastic teaching here. I want to be a university lecturer and that means I have to get a first. I have a good social life but work definitely comes first for me.Passage 2Oxford and Cam

26、bridge two universities so similar that they are often spoken of together as “Oxbridge. Theyre both in the UK, fairly near London, and both regularly come top in any ranking of the worlds best universities.The two universities began within a century of each other. Oxford University, now 900 years ol

27、d, was founded towards the end of the 11th century. In 1209 there was a dispute between the university and the townspeople of Oxford. As a result, some of the Oxford teachers left and founded a university in the town of Cambridge, some 84 miles away. Ever since then, the two institutions have been v

28、ery competitive.Unlike most modern universities, both Oxford and Cambridge consist of a large number of colleges. Oxford has 39 and Cambridge 31. Many of these colleges have old and very beautiful architecture, and large numbers of tourists visit them.In all UK universities, you need good grades in

29、the national exams taken at 18. But to get into Oxford and Cambridge, its not enough to get A grades in your exams. You also have to go for a long interview. In these interviews, students need to show that they are creative and capable of original thinking.Through the centuries, both universities ha

30、ve made huge contributions to British cultural life. They have produced great writers, world leaders and politicians. Cambridge, in particular, has produced scientists whose discoveries and inventions have changed our lives.Among the great university institutions is the worlds most famous debating society, the Oxford Union, where undergraduates get a chance to practise speaking in public. Cambridges comedy clubFootligh