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March 31 3月最后一天 又中了时间歹毒的魔法,2009,竟然过了四分之一了。
今天把开题报告整完了,终于有了一个比较完整的实验方案,探索性的实验,有挑战。
晚上去听了和君招生的宣讲会,感觉还可以,的确我们的目光太狭隘,思维太单一了,所以很多时候会头脑简单,如果有这样的机会,那自然是好事情。
接下来的时间,就要进入课题实验阶段了,希望一切顺利,能够较好的符合预期。考完toefl后就赶着课题的事,英语没有跟上,好不容易追回了一点时间,这块需要继续加强,毕竟还报了六级,虽然考过两次,第二次还是裸考的,虽说都过了,两次的成绩也都差不多,不上不下的,但两次的考试形式天差地别,完全没有可比性,这次是改革前的最后一次具有可比性的考试了,中国的考试真讨厌,三年一改,一点都不科学,建议废除四六级与招聘挂勾制,因为你想,前两年改革前和改革后的考试完全是两码事,你说是改革前的500分强还是改革后的460强,这个根本没有可比性,但不管怎么说,企业是只认分数的,所以这次考试的目标管它什么形式,就是为了要往高了考,呵呵,所以需要好好的准备,toefl都不怕,还怕六级不成,呵呵,低调低调。
很多事情需要准备呀,但这一年给的时间貌似就这么多了,没有几个四分之一的,加油! March 23 completed & a new start 令人梦迴情牵的IBT考试终于告一段落了,作一个小结吧。
这次考试在北京市教育考试中心考的,地理位置很不错,离学校很近,而且那个地方的考试环境相当的好,一个人一个位子全部隔开,几乎不会受到别人的影响(这个问题在别的考场貌似很普遍),工作人员的态度也不错,还有免费的咖啡巧克力和水,呵呵,感觉还是不错的。
接着说说考试的过程。总的感觉是不好但应该也不坏,再有就是自认为强的没有并不那么强,自认为弱项也没有想象的那么恐惧。但是这个考试的确是个挺折磨人的过程,连着4个小时的高强度的测试,让人几乎喘不过气来,考完还没什么感觉,但后来的半天脑袋一直都处于半昏状态而且那种紧张的感觉一直持续了很久,哈哈,当然有点夸张,但总体感觉就更喝高度白酒一样,后劲十足。第一次考试,紧张是肯定的,而且第一次面对着机器考试(哦,算上考驾照算第二次了),面对机器最可怕的就是不能犯丝毫的低级错误,机器是不会留情面的,该掐则掐该断则断,都是程序设定好的,所以心里的压力自然大很多。
下面具体说说各项的一些心得体会。
先是阅读,3篇文章,每篇20分钟,第一篇需在20分钟内完成,另两篇需在40分钟内完成。第一篇的20分钟果然像大家说的那样,比较困难,这个有点难解释,虽说时间都一样,但是实际上还真的不一样。我想主要原因是刚开始考试,还没有完全进入状态,而且比较背的是,第一篇文章是我不太擅长的史政类文章,考前做过一篇OG上关于美国前期政党制度的文章,那叫一个惨,哈哈。这回居然考的是关于日本不知道哪个时期(那个词不认识)的改革,对于日本历史本来就不屑于了解,再加上不擅长这方面题材,再加上做着做着发现时间不够了,顿时方寸大乱,后面的好几题几乎都是猜的,唉,听天由命了。后两篇相对就要好的多,做完了还有时间多。虽然事先已经预知到了上面的情况,而且也作了相应的心理准备,但是还是遇到这样的问题,可能是准备还是不够充分吧。
然后是听力,原本认为自己最强的一块,section1的确是手到擒来,很轻松的完成了,可能是有点轻敌,scetion2部分有点注意力不是那么集中。我觉得IBT考试最要命的地方就在于要求你的注意力必须要一直保持高度集中,而且是长时间的高度集中,听力就是这个理念的最好体现。6篇长达5分钟以上的文章,2篇对话,4篇学术文章,我没有研究过外国人的语速,好像中国人的播音标准语速是180字/分钟左右,平时说话在250字/分钟左右,外国人应该在400词/以上,也就是6篇长度相当2500词的文章中寻找信息,不像4、6级,题目是事先给定可以看见的,还没听文章就大概有数文章讲什么,而且4、6级中的废话很少,而IBT里,你想想这么长的文章出5-6题那几乎都是在讲废话,这种考查方式是最折磨人的,N多的信息N快的语速,不间断的笔记不间断的记忆,呕吐的心都有了,比起OG上给出的那个模拟要难。加试碰到的是听力,最变态的也是加试,加试中最后一篇lecture茫茫的长,几乎有将近8-10分钟,听得人快要崩溃了,那个进度条几乎都不走,当时的感觉只有两个字,痛苦。呵呵,也不知道加试到底重不重要,反正就这么滴了。
考完前两科,后两科的压力相对要小一点,毕竟大部分的时间都是在前两科。休息的时候,冲过去啃了两口面包喝了两口咖啡,老师一直催着注意时间,没敢多待,又冲了进去。
第三科是口语,传说中中国学生的滑铁卢,这时心里反而比较平静了,可能是觉得也就破罐子破摔了,比较庆幸的是,的确可以听到第一题的题目,呵呵,算是一些小lucky吧。口语感觉还是可以的,也许是对自己的要求本来就比较低,发挥到这个样子已经比较满意了。不过我觉得IBT中最经典的就是这个口语部分了,真的比较科学,虽然不怎么人性化,但的确考验人的水平和能力。
最后是作文了,Integrated writing的确很简单,很感谢洁给的那个模板,几乎是万能的,呵呵,我觉得这个题就相当于中国考试中的那种送分题,写完还有5分钟时间多,检查了一遍,呵呵,老美也有SB的时候。Independent writing遇到的话题也不算太难,环保和经济发展,这个在之前的准备中也有一些相关的例子,所以感觉也还行吧,写完也差不多还有3-4分钟,粗略看了一下。比较奇怪的一点是,考试中的那个计时钟貌似走的比较慢,考试时那个键盘的确不是很习惯,一来它放的位置太低,后来我索性把它拿到桌子上来了,二来可能是自己还不是特别习惯大键盘,所以打字不是很顺手,所以我特怕时间不够,考试前一晚上还做噩梦梦见作文写不完呢,相反,写完了时间竟然还有多,呃,只能想是时间走的比较慢了,呵呵。
洋洋洒洒写了一大堆,谈不上什么经验,只能算是一个解释,不过对我来说的确是一个宝贵的经历,就如笑来老师所说,第一次考试更重要的意义可能在于明白自己的水平,但是我希望会有好的结果。学英语也有10n+的历史了,但是准备这次考试是真正意义上从提高英语水平的角度来准备,以前注意都是为了应付考试,而且也激发了我学习英语的兴趣和动力,还是很值得的。最后要感谢一直以来关心支持我的家人、同学,还有小叶子,虽然自己很忙还要关注我的复习和考试,呵呵,万分感谢。
今天先说这些吧,这下可以有一段时间睡好觉了。学无止境,为了考试好多东西都靠边站了,要加油了! March 15 乱 很久没有写中文了,还是不能相信,打拼音怎么这么省力,打英文怎么就这么难呢……
一到晚上效率奇差无比,看来我适合白天学习啊,晚上就适合睡觉。
昨天晚上睡了难得的一个好觉,好久都没有这种起来的时候不是痛不欲生的感觉了,可能实在是太累了吧,身心俱惫。又冲动了,唉,没有多余的力气,不想向以前一样把问题搞复杂,信息和心意是没有那么容易传达的,如果大家都讲道理,那真的不用警察了,道理是用来讲的,不是用来听的,哈哈,有意思的误差。
今天看到很恐怖的一句话:需要的时候不在,那么以后就再也不在了。呵呵,感觉危机四伏啊,需要不同,不在的方式也不同,什么都不同,像揣着定时炸弹一样。不想这些问题了,脑袋不够用。
越来越觉得,做人跟打牌很象,每个人手里的牌不一样,当然这个是随机的,这就好比大家的天赋秉性不同,有人聪明有人漂亮,同样也有不聪明不漂亮等等,反正这些是没法改变的,但是现实中,老天的安排还算公平,也不会把所有的优点或者缺点集中在一个人身上,如果有那也算个彪悍的人物了,所以客观上讲,大家手里握的牌大致是相当的,就是有好有坏,看就看怎么打。有些人一根筋就看着自己的牌,根本不管别人怎么出,这就好比现实中有些人不在乎别人,就管自己,想怎样就怎样,当然,你牌好你怎么打OK,刚才的前提已经说明了,所以这样打输面很大。打牌绝对是要看别人的牌打的,而且看别人的牌某种程度上来讲更加重要,当然,你不想赢那就什么都不说了;有些人上来就是哗哗大牌一抡,甚是好看,然后省几张烂牌出不去,这就好像那些爱出风头的,不管有没有,先唬一把再说,关键时刻掉链子,或者就像那些爱撑口舌之快,先挣足了便宜再说,殊不知你得了暂时的得意却笑不到最后。厚积薄发是小学的时候老师就教的道理,高手不拘小节,该收则收该放则放,方能赢到最后;再有人握着些好牌,却犹豫再三,该出手时不出手,怕着怕那的,最后输了才感叹,早知道就出,不知一切都晚了。这样的人就不用说了,太常见了……除此之外,生活中形形色色之人,在这牌局之中均能找到出处,不同的地方就是,一副牌局只有一家胜,其余的都只有输的份,而生活中,牌出的好,可以有很多赢家,也就是所谓的双赢、多赢。所以待人也好处事也把,别老是太自私了,把别人都当成敌人似的,拼个命往死里整,全社会都在说和谐,和谐最贵,你好我也好,何乐而不为呢。
哗哗又说了一大堆,呵呵,如果说英语也能这么溜,那该多好呀,不说了,虽说状态不好,也得咬牙坚持呀,努力! March 13 the best way for a beginner is recitingAfter a time of study, I found it for a rookie in learning a language, the best way can lead to a rapid improvement is to recite, for instance, articles ,dialogue,and even movies. However reciting is always tired, boring and painful, sometimes it feels like that it will kill the brain. While there are good reasons to support this idea. On one hand, when we start to learn something, we usually can't judge the truth from false, in other words, we alwasys use it by our own illusion. By reciting the right words, even though we still are not able to use them all, we can make use of a part of them at least, but they are right and standard, what's the most important. On the other hand, reciting is the foundation of another crucial factor-imitation. When we were young baby, we learned the skills mostly by imitation, which can be thought as the base of our lives.
Though reciting can be a tough experience, however, it is said that no pains no gains, i think that's what we call balance. March 12 feel tiredNowadays, always feel tired, sometimes would get a headache. I find it strange that, in the night, i always have some nightmares which disturb my good sleep. It was a painful experience. However, in the morning, I have to be awake as early as those don't care about others and make big nosie. If i would accidently meet the subject"live alone or together", I think I have good examples to deal with it.
Yesterday, i received a piece of present form little Juliette which made me happpy for a whole day. You konw it feels good to be cared and loved, that would be the best reason for you to pay every minute to persist in, to exert all your strength, to fight for the future! March 08 fine dayWhat a fine shining day.It sweeps away all the cold bad weather.Fine day always lead to a fine mood.It is the National Wemen's Day today, Jie made a phone to me yesterday, such a long time we didn't get in touch with each other,and she said there is no Wemen's Day in the USA.These so-called National festivals never exist in the history in America.It is probably just because we have a tradition to show love to others and think that we live under the same sky and do the same lovely things for sure.However,in deed, the world is complicated.Nevertheless, I hope all the girls or ladies, daughters or mothers and even grandmas would lead a happy life.With my best wishes to my mother,my girl and my female friends.
The day after tomorrow, our senior fellows will have their thesis defence and complete their post graduat students' lives. Next year, we have to face the same destiny and after that we'll become sand struggling in the ocean as everyone else. What and how it is going be, nobody konws.Tomorrow is mysterious, waiting for us to exploit,and it deserve frighting for it. March 07 persistenceWhen i tried to write by computer,i found some problems, first but the most important is that i can't not type fast enough to complete the article in the limited time. There are some reasons, when we type Chinese we can always go through without any trouble,however, why we type in English,it looks like such a big obstacle.After a period of observation i think i get the point, when we use the keybord to type Chinese characters, we don't have to pay extra attention to how the character is spelling, it just come to mind itself, so what we should do is to type the right key.On the contrary, for the reasons that we are no so familar with the words ,the grammar, the expression and so on, we are not able to concentrate on typing.When we are typing, we still have to doubt how the word is spelling or if the sentence has any false.How difficulty it is to use another language to express your ideas.The situation is that you have a lot of things to say but you don't know how to say.
All right , just focus on and exert all the strength to deal with the problem, prectice makes perfect! March 05 pressureSometimes people would be confused by some unkown feelings, however,even they konw these things make no sence, they do exist.
Life is a mixture.You will meet different kinds of people, you will face various of chores,most of all would bother you, annoy you, dispirit you and even defeat you, and sometimes life would show it's mysterious smiles to you and leave a short time of happiness.I am seldom a pessimistic person because i think it is the essential step we have to follow, just like that before we become a man, we should take a lot of roads.Yes,life is like a box of chocolates, you never kown what you are going to get.
In the past, others said if you found so many people were wrong, you should judge your answer again. Maybe the commen sence would mislead us.For instance, I am sure a lot of guys would have the feelings that they are surrounded by fools, but they never tell the truth, or else he would be cheated as a fool.However, in fact, there are certainly idiots everywhere.At least we are all partly idiots.It is funny.Mr Xiaolai said never be serious with how folish others show, or you will reduce to the same level as they behave.Though these idiot would offend you, that is not the reason lead them to idiots.So just take is easy and to be yourself.
It is a hard time to get the goal and stay alone, feel tired and depressive. Actually I understand we were born alone and we should stand on our own feet, but I do feel lonely. March 02 这种感觉 有时候,有这种感觉,从一个门外汉,成为一个初学者,或者说对一个事物有了一定的了解,但是当看到那些这个领域的大牛之后,直接有一种无可逾越的恨不得撞月球的感觉。就比如看Wu总打球,就比如看作文范文,往往初学者的优越感是来路不明的,是悲哀的。很无奈,明知道差距这么大,想捷径一切办法去接近,但是真的不是一天两天的事,大牛们的华丽掩盖了背后多少的不为人知的汗水啊,幸运的是,至少我们能有参照的目标,我们所要做的就是,practise and practise。
有时候觉得,学习真的是一件很奇妙的事,只有通过学习才知道自己是多么的无知,正所谓无知者无畏,因为无知我们从来没有害怕过,从来不觉得有什么能难倒我们过,同样,这种感觉也是来路不明的。至少学习能让我们自知,知道自己的漏洞有多深,自己的欠缺有多大,呵呵,好好加油! |
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