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May: I have received the admission letter from Peking University!
Gucci: Congratulations!
May: How about you? Have you got any news from any university?
Gucci: No. I have been waiting for three months, there is just no letter coming.
May: The season of university enrollment hasn’t ended. Maybe you will receive their admission letter soon.
Gucci: I must have done terribly in my College Entrance Exams in English and math. I think they have rejected my application.
May: Come on, don’t loose heart. Ask for the telephone number of the school and give them a call.
Gucci: I have called them. But they said they didn’t have my information about their computer.
May: What does that mean?
Gucci: It means my score is under their requirement and my application was automatically eliminated from the system.
May: I am so sorry, Gucci.
Gucci: Don’t worry about me, May. I am just so proud of you. You’ve got admitted by Peking University!
May: What are you going to do next?
Gucci: I am going to apply for some vocational schools. I like fashion design and I want to study it.
May: Don’t be sad, Gucci, you still the chance to go to a university in the future.
Gucci: Thank you, May, but I am not sad. On the contrary, I am quite happy. Finally, I can study something I really like!
聽(tīng)看學(xué)
阿美: 我已經(jīng)收到北大的錄取通知書(shū)了。
古奇: 恭喜呀!
阿美: 你怎么樣?有大學(xué)來(lái)通知嗎?
古奇: 沒(méi)有，我已經(jīng)等了有三個(gè)月了，沒(méi)有一封信來(lái)。
阿美: 大學(xué)錄取的時(shí)間還沒(méi)有結(jié)束呢。也許很快你就能收到通知。
古奇: 高考時(shí)，我的數(shù)學(xué)和英語(yǔ)沒(méi)有考好。我想他們已經(jīng)拒絕我的申請(qǐng)了。
阿美: 別灰心呀。問(wèn)問(wèn)學(xué)校的電話號(hào)碼，給他們打個(gè)電話。
古奇: 我給他們打過(guò)電話，但是他們說(shuō)電腦里沒(méi)有我的信息。
阿美: 那是什么意思?
古奇: 那就是說(shuō)我的分?jǐn)?shù)沒(méi)有達(dá)到他們的要求，我的志愿表被系統(tǒng)自動(dòng)刪除了。
阿美: 我真為你感到難過(guò)，古奇。
古奇: 別為我擔(dān)心，阿美。我為你自豪。你被北京大學(xué)錄取了。
阿美: 那你接下來(lái)怎么辦?
古奇: 我想申請(qǐng)一些職業(yè)學(xué)校。我喜歡服裝設(shè)計(jì)，我想學(xué)這個(gè)。
阿美: 別傷心，古奇。你將來(lái)還是有機(jī)會(huì)上大學(xué)的。
古奇: 謝謝你，阿美。但是我不傷心，相反，我很高興。我終于可以學(xué)自己喜歡的東西了。
經(jīng)典背誦 Recitation
May：Today I’m very happy, because I received an admission letter from Peking University! That’s the thing I’ve dreamed of for a long time. However, Gucci failed her exams, because she received no letter from the university. To everyone’s surprise, she isn’t sad at all. She is going to a vocational school that she likes.
生詞小結(jié)
enrollment n. 招生
reject vt. 拒絕
eliminate vt. 消除
on the contrary 相反
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關(guān)于課程名詞的詞匯
基礎(chǔ)詞匯
biology 生物
chemistry 化學(xué)
foreign language 外語(yǔ)
history 歷史
mathematics 數(shù)學(xué)
music 音樂(lè)
physics 物理
politics 政治
提高詞匯
algebra 代數(shù)
calculus 微積分
French 法語(yǔ)
geography 地理
geometry 幾何
German 德語(yǔ)
physical education 體育
psychology 心理學(xué)
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兩人一組，一方隨機(jī)大聲讀出上面詞匯的英文和中文，另一方用該詞匯填入下面的句子，大聲朗讀出來(lái)：
I must have done terribly in my college entrance exam in ( ).
[例] 家長(zhǎng)讀 mathematics 數(shù)學(xué)
孩子讀 I must have done terribly in my college entrance exam in mathematics.
高考時(shí)，我的數(shù)學(xué)沒(méi)有考好。
