文化背景知识与英语听力教学

探讨了文化背景知识与英语听力教学的关系，论述了在外语听力教学中，适时加入文化背景知识的学习，对提高听力教学水平的重要性．     

CET听力测试题的应试技巧

对历年ＣＥＴ中听力部分的题型及考试范围作了分析，指出考试中应注意的问题及应试技巧．     

英语四级考试中阅读题失分原因初探

大学英语四级考试中阅读理解题是考试的核心部分．本文探讨了考生答题失分的原因，同时对已公开的试题中的关键词句作了详尽的分析．     

针对英语听力材料的体裁谈听力技巧

对如何提高英语听力水平作了较为系统的分析研究．提出要学习实践，要在听力材料上寻找规律，运用适当的技能进行有计划有步骤地反复练习的学习方法．作者列举出了一些常见的听力体裁如对话、新闻报道、特写和社论等加以说明，并分别列举了实例层层分析，指出不同的体裁有其不同的组织结构及其串通文章的不同思路和线柔，应沿着一定的思路听不同体裁的文章．     

面对顾客比价 自我心态调整

顾客刚刚进店，初步表达出购买意愿和基本需求之后．接下来就得要营业人员针对性的详细介绍产品了．那么，在详细介绍产品前．有些营业人员往往会把顾客当成新人．是外行．严重缺乏产品知识．对品牌历史也不甚了解的新人，于是．迫不及待的给顾客普及产品知识．介绍品牌背景．     

学生英语听力理解中的干扰因素与教学对策

针对多数公外英语学生听力理解能力偏低之现状,分析了学生听力理解中存 在的主要干扰因素,并提出了相应的解决办法．     

大学英语听力预测中的微技能运用

非英语专业大学生在听力理解中需掌握的一项重要微技能即为预测。预测是运用语言知识及头脑中原有知识来理解信息的一个基本策略。如果该微技能被有效用于听力活动的三个阶段(听前、听中、听后),它将有助于学生改进听力状况,培养良好的预测习惯,增强他们对听力能力的信心。     

短平快

近日．由戴尔夫特科技大学与PhiIips合作生产的“听得见的眼镜”问世。这款眼镜有4个微型麦克风分布在两侧的镜臂上,用以接收从前方来的声响．同时滤掉背景噪音。这项发明为听力低下同时又配戴老花眼镜的人带来了福音。     

新CET改革对大学英语教学反拨作用的研究

大学英语四、六级考试是一项大规模的外语测试,在中国已有25年的历史。作为一项拥有最多大学生参加的重大测试,它时常成为人们关注的焦点。近期大学英语四、六级考试改革消息发布,便引起了全社会和教育界的广泛关注。反拨作用通常指测试对教学和学习所产生的影响,正面反拨作用促进教学,负面反拨效应则阻碍教学。对比两次CET的重大改革(2005,2013),分析新CET改革后对大学英语教学目的、教学内容、教学手段的反拨作用。     

网络流量分析多机负载均衡系统设计

本文在调查了负载均衡集群系统相关背景知识和关键技术后，确定了网络流量分析中的多机负载均衡系统的功能需求，设计了网络流量分析多机负载均衡系统。     

论大学英语四级考试的性质（英文）

CET band IV has become a very important large-scale language testin China since its start in1 987.It has not only promoted English teaching in institutions of higher learning greatly,but alsobeen welcomed by people outside the campus.According to statistics,from1 997on,the number ofstudents taking this test has reached 2 .3 million annually[1] .But,as to the nature of the test,therehas been vague explanation.The designing committee of CET band IV has classified it as anachievement test.Th…     

《新标准大学英语视听说教程》作为教材在普通本科院校非英语专业低年级学生中的适用性评估

为了评估《新标准大学英语视听说教程》作为教材在普通本科院校的适用性,笔者采用对照法,综合《大学英语课程教学要求》中对听力的要求,以及研究者们提出的评估大学英语教材的标准,形成一个新的评估清单,将教程与该清单一一作了比较。结果表明:《教程》编写质量很高,语料真实、题材丰富、极具时代感,体裁多样、内容有趣、编排有序、利于自学。但生词比率太大、语速较快、文本过长,对于普通本科院校非英语专业大一、大二的学生来讲难度过高。建议可将其用于四级后学生或英语基础非常好的学生群或重点院校。     

元认知策略与大学英语听力

非英语专业大学生对听力一直深感头痛,他们对有效提高听力能力亦颇感棘手。适当运用元认知策略可提高他们的元认知水平,加快听力进步的幅度。元认知策略可分为三类：计划策略、监控策略和评估策略;它们对听力中的三个阶段（听前、听中、和听后）帮助颇大。对上述策略及相应阶段的适当关注,将有助于学生提高听力能力及自学能力。     

产出导向法下造纸专业英语听说一体化教学与课程设置研究

从造纸企业的调查中发现,当前造纸专业毕业生的英语听说能力较差,不能熟练的进行口语交流。为了有效改善这个问题,基于产出导向法通过造纸专业英语词汇训练、阅读训练、听说训练对造纸专业英语听说一体化课堂教学活动进行设计,并调整课程设置,期望通过教学改革进一步突出造纸专业英语的实用性,通过专业知识与行业实践相结合的形式进一步提高学生的职业综合素养。     

萧邦 春天里的饕餮盛宴 高端珠宝钟表作品入展2011巴塞尔世界

还是那个展位,还是那个展区,一切都没有变,唯一变化的是萧邦不断提升的产品和一个极具活力的创作团队。作为一个亲临巴塞尔钟表珠宝展现场的记者,当我走在2011年巴塞尔世界中,深刻感受到萧邦品牌对珠宝与钟表的双重把握,以及她所演绎的极致。我一次又一次的被萧邦的灵感所触动,在倾听了萧邦工作人员对萧邦2011最新作品的介绍后,更是为这一世界品牌的工艺所折服。去年是萧邦150年诞辰的日子,为了纪念这个重要日子,萧帮团队重磅出击,推出了数款精品系列,动物系列可以说是一个成功代表,无数个可爱的动物形象,已经在潜移默化中,成为了萧邦的形象代表,那些惟妙惟肖的动物,可爱、灵动、逼真,让人目瞪口呆,在去年推出后就收到不错的反响。2011年,萧邦继续以动物系列作为其珠宝的主打,继续创造着动物王国的绝妙作品。     

A bittersweet symphony: Systematically modulating the taste of food by changing the sonic properties of the soundtrack playing in the background

We report an experiment designed to investigate the consequences of manipulating the pitch of the background auditory stimulation on the taste of food. The participants in the present study evaluated four pieces of cinder toffee while listening to two auditory soundtracks, presented in a random order. One soundtrack was designed to be more crossmodally (or “synaesthetically”) congruent with a bitter-tasting food whereas the other soundtrack was designed to be more congruent with a sweet-tasting food instead. The participants rated each sample using three computer based line scales: One scale was anchored with the words bitter and sweet. The second scale required participants to localize the taste/flavour percept elicited by the food (at the front vs. back of their mouth). The third scale involved participants giving a hedonic evaluation of the foodstuff. As expected, the cinder toffee samples tasted while listening to the presumptively ‘bitter’ soundtrack were rated as tasting significantly more bitter than when exactly the same foodstuff was evaluated while listening to the ‘sweet’ soundtrack instead. These results provide the first convincing empirical demonstration that the crossmodal congruency of a background soundtrack can be used to modify the taste (and presumably also flavour) of a foodstuff.     

Bimolecular fluorescence complementation analysis system for in vivo detection of protein-protein interaction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay has been widely accepted for studying in vivo detection of protein-protein interactions in several organisms. To facilitate the application of the BiFC assay to yeast research, we have created a series of plasmids that allow single-step, PCR-based C- or N-terminal tagging of yeast proteins with yellow fluorescent protein fragments for BiFC assay. By examination of several interacting proteins (Sis1-Sis1, Net1-Sir2, Cet1-Cet1 and Pho2-Pho4), we demonstrate that the BiFC assay can be used to reliably analyse the occurrence and subcellular localization of protein-protein interactions in living yeast cells. The sequences for the described plasmids were submitted to the GenBank under Accession Nos: EF210802, pFA6a-VN-His3MX6; EF210803, pFA6a-VC-His3MX6; EF210804, pFA6a-VN-TRP1; EF210807, pFA6a-VC-TRP1; EF210808, pFA6a-VN-kanMX6; EF210809, pFA6a-VC-kanMX6; EF210810, pFA6a-His3MX6-P(GAL1)-VN; EF210805, pFA6a-His3MX6-P(GAL1)-VC; EF210806, pFA6a-TRP1-P(GAL1)-VN; EF210811, pFA6a-TRP1-P(GAL1)-VC; EF210812, pFA6a-kanMX6-P(GAL1)-VN; EF210813, pFA6a-kanMX6-P(GAL1)-VC; EF521883, pFA6a-His3MX6-P(CET1)-VN; EF521884, pFA6a-His3MX6-P(CET1)-VC; EF521885, pFA6a-TRP1-P(CET1)-VN; EF521886, pFA6a-TRP1-P(CET1)-VC; EF521887, pFA6a-kanMX6-P(CET1)-VN; EF521888, pFA6a-kanMX6-P(CET1)-VC. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effect of background noise on food perception

We investigated the effects of auditory background noise on the perception of gustatory food properties (sugar level, salt level), food crunchiness and food liking. Participants blindly consumed different foods whilst passively listening to either no sound, or quiet or loud background white noise. The foods were then rated in terms of sweetness, saltiness and liking (Experiment 1) or in terms of overall flavour, crunchiness and liking (Experiment 2). Reported sweetness and saltiness was significantly lower in the loud compared to the quiet sound conditions (Experiment 1), but crunchiness was reported to be more intense (Experiment 2). This suggests that food properties unrelated to sound (sweetness, saltiness) and those conveyed via auditory channels (crunchiness) are differentially affected by background noise. A relationship between ratings of the liking of background noise and ratings of the liking of the food was also found (Experiment 2). We conclude that background sound unrelated to food diminishes gustatory food properties (saltiness, sweetness) which is suggestive of a cross-modal contrasting or attentional effect, whilst enhancing food crunchiness.     

A team-based approach to qualitative inquiry: the collaborative retreat

A team of researchers undertook a collaborative qualitative study to explore beginning dietitians' life experiences and the meaning ascribed to those experiences in the context of dietetic practice. Data were collected using Seidman's three-step in-depth phenomenological interviewing method with 12 beginning dietitians who were graduates of the three participating dietetic programs. We outline the collaborative research process and highlight a writing and data analysis technique described as the collaborative retreat, a face-to-face, two-day gathering that facilitated the researchers' collective decision-making and organization, discussion, and analysis of this complex qualitative data set. Use of a listening guide aided researchers' understanding and interpretation of participant voices. Researchers concluded that the overall collaborative qualitative research process was positive and self-fulfilling, and that it resulted in multiple benefits for them individually and the research project collectively. Researchers were able to work through methodological and theoretical issues as these arose, with the assistance of technology, writing, listening, and dialogue. Relationship building and relationship maintenance emerged as factors critical to the success of the research process. Collaborative research teams that are committed to listening, writing, and dialogue will find that the collaborative retreat can be a productive site of knowledge generation and mentorship.