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2006.9.153. Students health center cancellationThe university has decided to cancel the student health center on campus. The reason is that a new hospital has been opened recently in the local community. Because the new hospital is very close to the campus and most students can have convenient access to it, and also because the new hospital comes with a lot of first class medical equipment, which the student health center lacks, the student health center’s existence is not justified any more. Also, the mo ney saved by canceling the student health center will be used to amplify the library storage4. False consensusSocial-psychologists point out that many people, when acting among others, tend to believe that their thought represents the idea of the majority in the population, or at least, they feel at ease because their opinions don’t contradict those of the mainstream. Ironically, revealed by recent studies, this feeling of “consensus” is not true.On the contrary, though many people comfortably assume that their opinion is as common as every others’ will be, their points sometimes can differ greatly or even oppose each other. This attention-grabbing social-psychological discovery is called “false consensus”2006.10.83. Adding evening classesThe school computer lab has planned to add a few evening classes to its opening schedule. Usually, the computer lab only opens from 9am to 5pm on weekdays. Nevertheless, because of rapid increase of student numbers in recent years and the limited seats of the computer lab, it has become progressively difficult to meet each student’s requirements. Therefore, in order to be able to serve the students better, the administrators have decided to add evening classes in the computer lab from 6pm to 9pm, Monday to Friday.4. Nonverbal languagesNonverbal languages refer to human emotional expressions without involving verbal statements. Facial expressions and body movements are the two mostly attributed types of nonverbal languages.It is generally believed that nonverbal languages function as the enhancement of emotional expressions when they consist with verbal languages. However, under the circumstances that nonverbal languages and verbal languages contradict in the contents they express, nonverbal languages are more likely to release peoples’ true emotions2006.10.15A change of the orientationThe university has decided to make a change to the first-year student orientation program. Usually, all first-year students are highly recommended to take the two-day hiking trip orientation as part of the school tradition.However, the school authorities have made the decision of replacing the two-day hiking trip with a new orientation consisting of only one-day hiking or a one-day game. Either of them is available to first-year students, depending on each individual’s choice. By composing this major adjustment, the school is reasoning that freshmen students may be more willing to welcome a short orientation and also the new orientation is easier for students to make their individual choice.4. Diffusion of responsibilityDiffusion of responsibility is a social-psychological phenomenon which tends to occur in groups of people above a certain critical size when responsibility is not explicitly assigned.Normally, people would feel responsible for lending hands to others in emergency. However, sometimes, they may also fail to respond to obvious urgent situations, when their responsibility is not clearly assigned and they have reasons to believe that some other people will certainly help out. This is called diffusion of responsibility.2006.10.213. Close of the art galleryThe university is going to close the art gallery and redecorate it into an office building. This decision is based on the following rationale: firstly, the school has noticed that the art gallery is taken advantage of by art majors for display only occasionally. More often, it remains empty. Secondly, even during the period of exhibition, few students pay a visit to the gallery.4. Self-fulfilling propheciesThe self-fulfilling prophecy is a psychological phenomenon whereby a person believes something to be true, acts on that belief and by his actions causes the belief to become true eventually.Normally, people all live under certain expectations from others. Once an individual accepts the social expectations toward him as true and realistic, he will first take these social beliefs and then formulate them into his own confidence. After that, he starts to respond to his beliefs by taking practical actions. Finally, the social expectations on the individual become true, as a result of his continual efforts.2006.10.223. Building an internet question websiteThe university health center has become overcrowded recently. Actually, Southern University, the university located in another state, faced a similar situation a few years ago. However, what they did was to establish an internet question website, which provided answers to simple health questions from students. Since many simple health problems had been solved successfully through the internet, students visiting the school health center soon found out that they didn’t have to wait in long lines like before. Thus, the fund raised up by out university to build a new health center could instead be used to establish an internet question website.4. Bridge ShiftingBridge shifting is a movie-making technique which helps movie makers to switch between different scenes. Applicators of this skill intentionally skip certain time slots or spatial distances to shorten the overall film length.Despite the omitting of quite a few pictures, the director’s train of thought would still be clear and comprehensible to movie viewers. This is because the scenes left out from the film could be accordingly compensated by the viewers’ daily experiences, if proper guidance is offered.2006.10.283. Apartments off campusThe university has planned to build off-campus apartments in local communities. The decision is based on the following considerations: firstly, apartments off campus help to save limited campus areas and therefore leave more space for student activities. Secondly, students dwelling off campus usually have better chances to increase their daily communication with local communities, which is essential for their social experience and future job hunting.4. Actor observationActor observation is a psychological description of the fact that people tend to give different attributors towards the same conduct, when they themselves play roles in the action and when they do not.Normally, p eople would attribute others’ misbehaviors to inner factors, such as personality defects. Whereas, when the same misdeeds are theirs to blame for, they are more likely to attribute them to external factors, such as environmental pressures out of control.2006.10.29A new art buildingThe university has decided to construct a new art building to help advance the office and teaching facilities of the arts department. This is because the school administrators are reasoning that the current art building was designed half a century ago and it no longer meets today’s requirement. In addition, since the neighboring universities all have developed their new art buildings one or two year ago, the school authorities believe it may also help to attract upcoming arts students as soon as the new construction is accomplished.4. quoting out of contextNormally, advertises attract peoples’ attention by honestly introducing the properties and advantages of their products, such as revealing the high performance or particular functions of a certain machine.However, sometimes advertisers may also desire less honest techniques in drawing peoples’ interest. One of these dishonest promotion skills is called “quoting out of context”, which is to say: quoting only a few words from famous reviewers’ remarks in order to misguide the listeners. Having been cut off from their former contexts, quotations normally distort the original meanings of what the reviewers intended to express.2009.5.31口语：第一题：What's the most important quality of a good neighbor should have? Describe specific reasons to support your idea.第二题：Some people prefer to watch entertainment TV programs while others prefer towatch educational programs, which doyou prefer? Why?第三题：阅读段子：学校准备拆掉旧的auditorium盖一个新的，原因是：1.旧的不好看，dirty 2.新的可以容纳更多学生听力段子：男的不同意学校的做法,原因是：1.旧的nice，as old as the school，是学校的symbol 2.旧礼堂从来没坐满过，就算修了新的也没用他觉得the old one was built since the school was founded and it's part of the school history第四题：阅读段子：讲的是sociel referencing，就是随着孩子的长大，他对外界的认识越来越强烈：听力段子：用了两个例子来证明观点。