时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2007年(一)月


英语课
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both.

A T.A. usually works about twenty hours each week. In some cases, the professors they assist have big undergraduate classes with hundreds of students. The professor gives one or two lectures a week, and teaching assistants lead smaller discussions at other times.




They also give tests, grade work, provide laboratory assistance and meet with students who need help. And they have their own educations to think about.

Labor 1 unions have been working to organize teaching assistants who feel overworked and underpaid. Some schools have had strikes.

Another issue is the language barrier. Many states have proposed to require that teaching assistants be able to speak English well enough for students to understand them. Universities have increased their efforts to deal with this problem.

Our example school this week is the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. The Institute of International Education says more foreign students go to USC than any other American university.

The American Language Institute at USC provides training to help international teaching assistants improve their English. The university requires most non-native English speakers to pass a test before they can become a T.A.

Those who went to college in an English-speaking country do not have to take the test. The same is true for those who scored at least twenty-seven on the speaking part of the TOEFL Internet-based test.

The exam at USC is a fifteen-minute spoken test that involves two examiners. Students talk about their education and interest in the school. Then they present some issue or idea from their area of study, and answer questions about it from the examiners.

Those who do not score high enough on the test have to take classes to improve their English. Until their English is better, some departments give them jobs that do not require them to communicate with students.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Listen next week for the next part in our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States.

MP3 files and transcripts 2 of the series are at www.unsv.com. If you have a question or comment, write to special@voanews.com, and be sure to include your name and country. I'm Bob Doughty 3.

1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 transcripts
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
3 doughty
adj.勇猛的,坚强的
  • Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质:脾气倔强,性格刚强。
  • The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。
学英语单词
-escent
abridger
Adrestat
amino acid analysis
applied aspects of ectomycorrhizae
artillery engineering
attristed
balladry
brace wrench
brake horse-power
bravia
Campbell I.
capacity nominal
cellulitis of penis
Ceporacin
chlorosulphonic
cliff swallows
cloud collaboration
cora
corrected retention time
cross pulse
decoder correction
degenerative stabilizer
Dejerine-Lichtheim phenomenon
device cluster size
DIC-FL
digital modulation
ducible
duck ass
E &.ST
eddy field
eisenstaedt
epitome of title
equivalent maximum energy
exemplifier
exor
feminality
FHTG
fibrillary contractions
flotation circuit
follow in somebody's footsteps
Gentiana lacerulata
glow discharge
hai
half-tide basin
hated one
home directory
homozyous seed
hypotrachyna crenata
insulation felt
keeps your head down
Lake Wobegon effect
lap cholies
linguistic code
LL-37
make mouths at
make-up of charge
mapping path-space
methylstyrene rubber
micro relay
mixed seed
Morphidae
ncaas
obedience plants
operator table
oscillating function
oscillator, clock
outturn of stand
petroleum processing of
poly-theistic
quality of steam
quant. suff.
rapid system film
rayleigh quotient
recurrent formula
resisting power
rete arteriosum cutaneum
reunion of bone
Riphean
screen centrifuge
sieve opening
sober
speechful
St George R.
stelleroids
stiff man syndrome
sub nomine
subisopolar
the last sacrifice
thin walled girder
thrust bearing with aligning seat
Tobli
tsuzumi
tunicae muscularis cervicis uteri
unexciting
union wage
universal Alfven-wave instability
us sap
valuation of enterprise
weigela, weigelia
Wharfe, River
what gives