Advanced Listening Lesson 01

A: "Hi. My name is Mark."

B: "Mark? I'm Bill. Glad to meet you."

A: "Yeah. So where are you from?"

B: "I'm from Houston Texas."

A: "Oh... I'm from Southern California."

B: "So, what year are you?"

A: "I'm a freshman¹."

B: "This is my first year too."

A: "So what made you decide to come to California for school? I hear Austin is a good school."

B: "It's aright, but I think Berkeley is better."

A: "So is this where you wanted to come?"

B: "To tell you the truth, I wanted to go to Stanford. I made it on the waiting list, but ninety nine percent of the people accepted to Stanford go there. Like, who wouldn't right?"

A: "Very true. But this is still a good school."

B: "I'm not complaining. I just know that I wanted to come to California. Texas is cool and all, but I wanted to experience different things."

A: "That's good. Do you know what you plan on majoring in?"

B: "I was thinking about political science, but now I'm leaning towards English literature. How about you?"

A: "I plan on majoring in double E."

B: "Do you know where the Smith building is? I have to pick up the syllabus² for my psychology³ class. I missed the first day."

A: "That's a great start. It's over there by the library."

B: "It was nice meeting you."

A: "Yeah. We should hang out later."

B: "Cool. I'll see you tomorrow in class then."

A: "Aright. Later."

1 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。

2 syllabus   

n.教学大纲，课程大纲

参考例句：

• Have you got next year's syllabus?你拿到明年的教学大纲了吗？
• We must try to diversify the syllabus to attract more students.我们应该使教学大纲内容多样化，可以多吸引学生。

3 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。