What is inside the pancreas, according to the speaker?
Based on her speech, what is the responsibility of beta cells and insulin?
What is scary about eating cake, ice cream, even highly-refined carbohydrate foods, like yogurt and granola, cereal, bread, pasta, alcohol- even in moderation?
What was she diagnosed with when she was just seven years old?
According to her speech, how many companies own the entire world’s food brands?
If we keep consuming sugar and keep doing this over a lifetime, what kind of diseases can we possibly acquire as stated by the speaker?
What did the speaker recommend her patient Pam to eat for breakfast before running all those expensive tests?
According to the World Health Organization, how many people today have type 2 diabetes as claimed by the speaker?
When working with her patients, what does she teach them?
Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):
1.Are you afraid of diabetes?
2. Do you know someone suffering from diabetes?
3. What is your opinion to the lifestyle of people who are obese?
4. Do you think you can take eating only protein for breakfast?
5. Do you think it is really wrong to eat “sugar” as a treat?
In the past decade, bugs have become a familiar sight on dinner tables. One reason for this is they are a great source of protein. Another reason is that people are concerned about the environment. Traditional livestock farming is detrimental to the environment as it is generally unsustainable. Raising insects is much more environmentally friendly. One kilogram of insect protein needs about 10 per cent of the feed, water and land used to produce the same amount of beef. Experts say farming insects is better for the environment than raising livestock. A final reason we may have to eat insects is because of the rise in the world’s population. By 2050 this is expected to be 9.8 billion, up from the current 7.7 billion.
What is the challenge mentioned by the speaker on the impact of China’s rise?
In the speaker’s pop quiz, he mentioned that China set out its march to market at 1978. What percentage of China’s population were struggling to survive on less than two dollars a day?
According to the speaker, 40 years later, how much is the percentage of the citizens on the extreme poverty level?
What is the challenge, according to the speaker, will shape our world?
Who is Thucydides?
What is Thucydides’s Trap, and its relevance to USA-China rivalry today, according to the speaker?
What did the former Czech president say upon reacting to the China’s flipping of poverty pyramid, based on the speaker’s speech?
How long did it take China to renovate the Sanyuan Bridge in 2015?
What did the speaker say Chinese President Xi Jinping’s goal was when he became the president six years ago?
What are the good news and bad news mentioned by the speaker about the Thucydidean dynamic?
Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):
1. How is the country China perceived by the different media in your country?
2. What aspects of Chinese culture are found in your country?
3. What do you know about China’s politics?
4. Do you agree that China should get more involved in giving solution to the global problems?
5. What can other countries learn from China?
6. How do you personally feel about China?
7. Do you purchase products with the “Made in China” label?
8. In your opinion, do expect that China will become the strongest nation in the world?
9. What do you most appreciate about China?
10. What do you see to be China’s biggest dilemma?
STEP 1 | Reading | Read the following passage about a campus situation.
University Tutoring System
The new university tutoring system begins on August 22. Students will no longer have face-to-face tutoring sessions. Instead, an online tutoring system will be implemented. The computer-based r tutoring system will allow students to receive tutoring help twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, instead of only during regular school hours, Students will benefit from expanded access to tutors. Also, the computer-based system will relieve students of stress from the crowded tutoring centers. Students will no longer need to be present on campus for tutoring. They will be able to access the computer-based system from any computer with an Internet connection.
STEP 2 | Comprehending 読解力テスト | Answer the following questions to make sure you understand the reading
1 What is the notice about?
2 What is the first reason for the new tutoring system?
3 According to the notice, how will it benefit the students?
4 What is another reason for the new tutoring system?
5 According to the notice, how will it benefit the students?
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Comprehending 解答例
1 . The notice is about how the university will change from
face -to-face tutoring to a computer-based tutoring
system.
2. One reason for the changes is that only offering
tutoring services during regular school hours is not
enough for the students.
3. Students will have access to tutoring twenty-four
hours a day, seven days a week.
4. Another advantage for the change in the tutoring
system is that it will eliminate crowded, stressful
tutoring centers.
5. Students will be able to access the tutoring network
from any computer with the Internet connection.
▮ Listen
STEP 3 | Listening & Note Taking | Listen to a conversation on the same topic, and take notes.
スクリプト
M: This new tutoring system will be great.
W: I’m not so sure about that.
M: Really? What do you mean?
W: First of all, a lot of students don’t even know how to
type very fast. Some cannot even type at all. This will
make the tutoring sessions really slow.
M: Right. Ty ping skills will be really important.
W: Sure they will. When students are tutored face to
face, they don’t have to worry about typing though.
They can just focus all of their energy on what they’r
learning. I think that’s more efficient.
M: You may be right.
W: There’s something else, too. Students must have
a good computer at home in order to access the
computer-based system. Many students will have to
upgrade their current computer or even buy a new
one. I know a lot of students who don’t even have a
computer at home. It will be very expensive for a lot
of students to get access to tutoring now_
M: That’s a good point.
W: I think it might be better to stick with the old system.
Q The woman expresses her opinion of the new computer-based tutoring system. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
STEP 4 | Organizing 解答の組み立て | Ask yourself the following questions and organize your ideas.
1 What is the woman’s opinion of the new tutoring system?
2 What does the woman say about students’ typing skills?
3 Why is this important to the new tutoring system?
4 What does the woman say about computers?
5 Why does she think it will be difficult for some students to buy new computer?
STEP 6 | Compare 比較 | Listen to a sample response, and compare it with yours.
Sample Response 模範解答
The notice describes a new university tutoring system.The woman is against the university’s decision to replace face-to-face tutoring with a computer-based tutoring system. First, she believes that students will require excellent typing skills in order to take advantage of the new tutoring system. However, she states that many students lack the ability to type well enough, so the new tutoring system will be much slower than the face-to-face system. To her, the inability to type well will hinder the learning process for some students. Second of all, she believes many students will have to upgrade their computers or even buy new ones. According to the woman, this will be very expensive for many students. She believes the former face-to-face method of tutoring is better for students than the new computer-based tutoring system.
