各位同学们,为了督促帮助大家持续提升英语能力,培君老师们特意给大家准备了雅思每日一包。每天覆盖听说读写内容,坚持完成两周以上,就能见到自己的英语能力不断上涨哟。
1.听写包答案:
Dave, I'm worried about our case study.
I've done a bit of reading, but I'm not sure what's involved in actually writing a case study
I missed the lecture where Dr Baker talked us through it.
OK, well it's quite straightforward.
We've got our focus - that's tourism at the Horton Castle site.
And you said you'd done some reading about it.
Yes. I found some articles and made notes of the main points.
Did you remember to keep a record of where you got the information from?
Sure. I know what a pain it is when you forget that.
OK, so we can compare what we've read.
Then we have to decide on a particular problem or need at our site.
And then think about who we're going to interview to get more information.
OK. So who'd that be? The people who work there?
And presumably some of the tourists too?
Yes, both those groups. So we'll have to go to the site to do that, I suppose.
But we might also do some of our interviewing away from the site
we could even contact some people here in the city, like administrators involved in overseeing tourism.
OK.So we'll need to think about our interview questions and fix times and places for the meetings.
It's all going to take a lot of time.
Mmm. And if we can, we should ask our interviewees if they can bring along some numerical data
that we can add to support our findings.
And photographs? I think we have plenty of those already.
But Dr Baker also said we have to establish with our interviewees whether we can identify them in our case study,
or whether they want to be anonymous.
Oh, I wouldn't have thought of that.
OK, once we've got all this information, I suppose we have to analyse it.
Yes, put it all together and choose what's relevant to the problem we're focusing on,
and analyse that carefully to find out if we can identify any trends or regularities there.
That's the main thing at this stage, rather than concentrating on details or lots of facts.
OK.And then once we've analysed that. what next?
Well, then we need to think about what we do with the data we've selected to make it as clear as possible to our readers.
Things like graphs, or tables, or charts... Right.
Then the case study itself is mostly quite standard; we begin by presenting the problem,
and giving some background, then go through the main sections,
but the thing that surprised me is that in a normal report
we'd end with some suggestions to deal with the problem or need we identified,
but in a case study we end up with a question or a series of questions to our readers, and they decide what ought to be done.
Oh, I hadn't realised that.
Dave,我有点担心我们的案例研究。
我读了一点东西,但是我不确定写一个案例研究要做哪些事情,
我错过了Baker博士给我们讲这个的讲座。
嗯,其实是十分简单的。
我们已经有了主题,即Horton城堡的旅游业。
你说你已经读了一些东西。
是的,我找到了一些文章,并且记下了要点。
你记得要记下是从哪儿得到那些信息的吧?
当然,我知道要是忘了做这事儿会多痛苦。
好的,那我们就能比较一下我们读过的东西了。
然后我们得定下来我们选的景点的一个具体问题或是需要。
紧接着就是考虑为得到更多信息要采访哪些人?
嗯,那采访哪些人呢?在那工作的人?
或者再采访一些游客?
是的,两者都要采访。我觉得我们得去景点做采访。
不过我们也许也可以在景点之外做一些采访,
我们甚至可以联系一些城里的人,比如那些监管旅游业的管理者。
嗯,我们要想一想采访的问题,还得定下采访的时间地点。
这将会花很多时间。
嗯,如果可以的话,我们应该问问受访者是否能提供一些数据,
我们可以将其加入到我们的案例研究中以支持我们的发现。
还要拍照片?我想我们已经有了很多照片了。
Baker博士还说过我们得跟受访者确认能否在案例研究中指出他们,
又或者他们想匿名出现。
哦,我还没想到这一点。
一旦收集到了这些信息,我想我们就得对它进行分析。
是的,把所有信息汇总,然后选出跟我们聚焦的问题相关的
进行仔细分析,以了解我们是否能在其中发现任何趋势或规律。
这就是目前这个阶段的主要任务,而不是关注细节或是很多的零碎事实。
好的,那分析完了下一步做什么呢?
嗯,然后我们就得思考要怎样处理选择出来的数据才能让我们的读者尽可能地了解清楚。
比如说以图片或是表格的形式。对。
然后案例研究的写作就相当标准化了,我们以陈述问题开始,
给出一些背景,然后开始主体部分。
但令我惊讶的是在一份正式报告中,
我们会以一些解决问题或我们指出的需要的建议结尾,
但在案例研究中,我们是以向读者提出的一个或一系列的问题结尾,由读者决定该做什么。
哦,我还没有意识到这一点。
2.阅读包答案:
比如,宗教团体是为了得到神灵的庇佑、趋避邪恶才产生的;家庭则是为了满足欲望并维系家庭长久;系统的劳作大多是因为被他人奴役等等。
3.写作包答案:
The last decade has witnessed an intriguing phenomenon that people are paying more and more attention to traditional Chinese culture. Their bookshelves are packed with books interpreting ancient Chinese wisdom, depicting its brilliant history and fascinating historic figures. What’s more, suggestions that Chinese classics be made a compulsory course have been made. Two factors may account for people’s up-surging interest. To begin with, tremendous curiosity is aroused by those pending history mysteries of hundreds or even thousands of years. Furthermore, people come to realise that ancient Chinese culture serves as a gold mine from which inexhaustible lessons can be learned and put into practice to solve the current problems.
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