There are two main forms of teaching in Notinghain University: serninar (研讨会)and leelure. They are very different from the sort of teaching most often used in schools and colleges.
In seminars you will be taught will discussion focusing on a lexl or lopic sel in sdrance in a Friendly and inforrrad alrnosphere. The purpoce is to provide an opportunity to try out new idesas and to think through diffieulties with fellow. Learners. Students develop friendsips through groups, as well as learning more about other people’s ideas. You can also know your tutors as an individual rather than a face at the end of the room.
Lectures are the most formal. There may be over a hundred in the audieace and the lecture will last about fifty minutes. The value of the lecture is that it ean present to a large number of people infornution which is not readily avsilshle in books, that it can give you an opportunily to hear a specialist develop a coherent(有条理的)argument, and that it ean show visual matcrial to a wide audience.
You typicrd week’s a work will feel strange after school or college since there are fewer timelzhled teaching hours. Each week in the first year you may attend about six lectures and four to six seminars or tutorials(辅导). For the rest of the time you are working on your own, doing the nccessary reading in preparation for tutorials or writing seminar papers. When writing an eassay or carrying out project work, you can often discuse with your about the ritle and topic.
1. The purpose of the passage is_______.
A.to intreduce two main forms of resching
B.to persuade you to try out new ideas
C.to stress the importance of discussion
D.to make you believe that seminar is more helpful
2.One of the values of the leeture is______.
A.to make friends through groups
B.to learn more about other people’s idens
C.to offer a chatiee to discuss with a specialist
D.to present to students inforntation not found in books
3.Your typical week’s work in the university will feel strange beeause______.
A.you may have no project work after class
B.you may give leetures and seminars
C.you may have fewer timetabled teaching hours
D.you may write seminar papers with fellow-learners
4.We can learn from the passage that__________.
A.scminar is better than lceutre
B.lecture is better than seminar
C.seminar is more formal than lecture
D.lecture is more formal than settirar