雅思IELTS 9分听力13

13. Section 2. You will hear a university admission’s officer talking to a group of first year students at orientation. Before you listen you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15. Now as you listen answer questions 11 to 15.
Hello, everyone. I hope that you have enjoyed the orientation program so far, and are getting all the information that you need to begin your first semester. I know that you’ve been bombarded with information this morning. And you are probably feeling a bit overloaded. But please bear with me just a little longer while I will give you some information about seminars we have organized especially for first year students. All of the staffs here understand that the transition from high school to university or from the work force to higher education can be quite a challenge, particularly from an academic point of view. studying successfully at a tertiary level requires certain skills. And the university lectures have higher expectations of your work. Without strong study skills it will be difficult to meet the demands your courses and your lectures. Therefore the university has organized a series of seminars on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. So you can prepare before the semester begins. Each seminar will be held at a different time on all 3 days, so you have a chance to attend all of them. There will be other study skills seminars held throughout the semester. But this week we are focusing on the 3 areas that first year students seemed to need the most help with. The first session to be led by Rebecca Louis is about speed reading. This is a great skill to have, especially at university, because with a full time course load you will be doing a lot of reading. If you are able to speed read you will save a lot of time on the weekly reading you need to do with each of your subjects. Most students who attend this seminar increase their reading speed by 300 words per minute in one day. Pretty amazing. If you attend the follow up seminars hold throughout the semester who knows what your final speed will be. This seminar was going to be held in deep log, but was changed to cape log. The second seminar being held this week is on research skills, and will be taught by Norman Bateman. Regardless of which course you are studying, you will have to write reports or essays. And to do that well, you need to be able to find useful and appropriate information about different topics. Norman will take you through all the methods of collecting information step by step, and will get you to do some guided practice relevant to your major. That course will be held in the place where you will be doing a lot of research and spending a lot of your time, the library. The final seminar being held this week is actually related to research. But focus is more on your computer skills. The seminar is called using data bases. Data bases will be a big part of your research at university. And as most of you would not have to use them in high school, I strongly recommend that you attend this class. The teacher is Sumi Venugopalan. That might be a bit difficult to remember. So if you want to write it down that’s Sumi, S-U-M-I, Venugopalan, V-E-N-U-G-O-P-A-L-A-N. This seminar will be held in laboratory A, B or C, depending on the date. Don’t worry if you can’t remember all of that information. There are notices up on the notice boards in all the buildings, including the library.
Before you listen to the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20. Now as you listen answer questions 16 to 20.
So I guess your next question is where are the buildings I just mentioned. Well, if we walk outside of the main hall we can see the international student education center in front of us. Just behind that and slightly to the left is cape log. Now if we go back through the main hall and out the other side you will see the library almost directly opposite. W blog is that building to the left. And between W blog and student services is laboratory A. From laboratory A we just have to take a short walk between the main hall and the international student education center to get to laboratory C. To the right of the sports club and opposite laboratory C is laboratory B. If you can’t remember all of that, don’t worry. I have some campus maps for you. And if you still get lost just ask someone where you are. The staff are always happy to help out and used to directing new students around campus. So if there aren’t any questions I will let you go and enjoy the student union barbecue.