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<participant interlocutor=1 speaker=3> </discinfo>
<speaker sp1=female sp2=male sp3=female> </speaker>
<interlocutor interlocutor=female> </interlocutor>
<sp1> Cher, my name is ***, my card number is 1463. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Ok! Your name? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Good afternoon, teachers! My name is ***, my number is 1512. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Ok! Would you please? </interlocutor>
<sp3> Hi! Good afternoon! My lame my name is *** and my number is 1527. Thank you! </sp3>
<interlocutor> Now would you please briefly introduce yourselves to each other? Remember you should not mention the name of your university. </interlocutor>
<sp1> Ok! Let's Let me begin. My name is ***. Mm... my major is financial administration [Wtr-tr]. And I'm very glad to be a parter. Thank you!  </sp1>
<sp2> My name is ***. I'm... I'm...  I'm I'm twenty I'm twenty-two. I'm living [W1i-i:] I'm live [Wi-i:] I live [Wi-i:] in Henan. My hometowns Henan province. My hometown is a beautiful town. Mm that's all. Thank you. </sp2>
<sp3> Ok!  Er mm... mm er my name is ***. And my ma[i]jor  major in Chinese ?? and literature. And I'm junior. And er I have a lot of hobbies. Thank you for the time. Let me share with you. Thank you! </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok! Now that we know each other, we can do some group work. First of all, I'd like to ask each of you a question. (Now) Miss ***, do you think it's important to have a college education? </interlocutor>
<sp1>  ... ... mm... Yes. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Why? </interlocutor>
<sp1>  ... mm I think mm college education is important to me. Mm after three after eleven years' study, mm...  we I go to the university mm in the end. And I very I I consider it a precious chance to make me mm more impor to be a more important man. Mm...  and I go on...  go on struggling to get mm to get more successful. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Ok! Now do you think it's possible for every middle school graduate to have a college education? </interlocutor>
<sp2>  ... ... Mm... no, I I don't [Wo-u] think so because someone...  someone didn't [Wi-i:] wor didn't [Wi-i:] don't [Wo-u] study hard. So they can't get the college education. Mm... over. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Ok! Now, is it reasonable for college students to pay for their higher education? </interlocutor>
<sp3> Ok! Yes. I think. Yes, it is mm becau-because no ? development of the er society we are must qualified to so to suitful to their oh development of the society. And in the university, we can er get higher education so we will er develop our character and and ?? and ? ? ? and made us more my did to ?? of those of the world. And also the more we get information and knowledge, the more we can be successful in the future. Yes, thank you! 
<interlocutor> Now, let's move on to something more specific, the topic for our discussion today is enrollment of graduate students. Each of you will be given a chart with information about the enrollment of graduate students in a certain province. I'd like you to talk about the information given in your chart. You'll have a minute to prepare and each of you will have one and a half minutes to give your presentation. Don't worry if I interrupt you when time is up. Now here are your cards. 
<sp3> Ok! </sp3>
<interlocutor> Now, Miss ***, would you please begin? Now, *** and ***, please put your charts aside and listen to what she has to say. </interlocutor>
<sp1> Mm after reading this chart, I feel very pleased [Wd-t] because mm the number mm is is gradually mm increasing. ... Mm...  the number for example: though mm the for example, the two thousand year two thousand though the number of applicance is is larger than number of students enrolled. But from it we can see mm our the students in our the students mm more and more students becoming to relise the importance of education. Mm...  take take Japan for example after World War Two, they are very they are very far behind the modern er countries. But now they had go to the first the first worlds [Ml]. It is education that make Japan become so mo modern. Mm In our country, our leader out leadership mm said have mm have said mm only education can make China [Pa-r]...  mm can can make China ...  more and more modern. And now mm we can see that what he said has put into practice. And [Pd-er]...  </sp1>
<interlocutor> Ok! Ok! Now, Mr. ***, it's your turn. </interlocutor>
<sp2> This mm this chart [Mt] show the increase in the percentage of applicants with four [Wour-u] year or more working ex-...perience. It show it show us [Ms] that the increase is greatly the increase is in is is great... . In nineteen eigh in nineteen eighty, the percentage [S1] is the rate is three is thirty-five percentage, in eighteen eighty-five, the rate is mm thirty thirty-nine percentage [S1]. And and in eighteen eighteen nineteen nineteen-nine and two thousand years [Ws-s] the the rate is forty-one percentage [S1] and [Pd-er] fifty-three percentage [S1]. There're some possible reasons for the increase. First, the universities enroll enroll much more students, so the enrollment of graduate [M2s] students increase greatly. Second [Md], the students realize nece- necessities [We-i] of of getting high high education. So they work stu- they work har they work har hardly they work hard...  and get and get good scores in the examination. So...  so  er the the increase of percentage [S1] of applications mm is great. </sp2>
<interlocutor> Ok! Now, Miss ***, it's your turn. </interlocutor>
<sp3> Ok! Thank you. Er we can see some information from such a chart. Er as time goes on, just from just as the table says from nineteen eighty to two thousand years, ? increase and enrollment of graduate students as a female, and we can see there are only ten percent in 1980, but in 2000 years, there are more than apra- halfly of the whole whole enrollment of graduate students. From this table we can see that the fam- the famous have have got greater have greater ... advantages in the in the in the opportunity to the graduate studen to the graduate college. So mm we should say that female in the society has got much super superiority [Mo] [W2i-ir] and [Pd-er] as time goes on, mm maybe, the because of the... mm mm the the... mm... the the the potential of females has been higher and higher. So we can er just female has more chances to go to the graduate students to go to the graduate students. And... </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok! </interlocutor>
<sp3> Ok! Thank you. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Right .Now we all have some idea of the enrollment of graduate students. I'd like you to discuss this topic further and see if you can agree on whether graduate education is essential for a successful career. During the discussion, you may argue with each other or ask each other questions to clarify a point. You will have about four and a half minute s for the discussion. Your performance will be judged according to your contribution to the discussion. Remember during the discussion you should try to come to an agreement on whether graduate education is essential for a successful career. </interlocutor>
<sp3> Ok! Mm from my chart, we can know that female graduate students have go higher. And er and about two? And we can together. Yes? Say together. In my in my in my chart, just prove that the female graduate students have go higher and higher. Yes? </sp3>
<sp2> Yes, mm no. I do[u]n't think so. </sp2>
<sp3> Yeh </sp3>
 <sp2> Because the famous [Pu-r] university, ... mm its its enrollment doesn't in doe doesn't increase great. And and and the common universities en and the enrollment of common universities increase greatly. That's my point. </sp2>
<sp3> Ok! What about you? </sp3>
<sp1>  I think mm it's evident that female [Wa-i] students is is larger. Because in my in in our mm in our senior school oh junior school senior school, female [Wa-i] are are harder study harder than boys. And and...  but to and, what more, to some special [Ml] to some special [Ml] major, such as the foreign language, er the foreign language er...  apartment mm there're... . For example: mm there are thirty there are thirty students, then about about 90 percent is female [Wa-i]. </sp1>
<sp3> Yes. From the pro the chart we can see there are just er one percent more er the female [Wa-i] the female [Wa-i] graduate students more than the ma the male graduate students. Then why again how about why you say you don't agree my my my ?? female has begi take up more more in the graduates students? Oh, you just show [Wsh-s] their experience and then the working experience and the graduate students. Yes, I ? ? ? ? me, can you say that? </sp3>
<sp2> From my char from my chart, mm I think I think in the next year, the ...  percen the percentage [S1] will increase mm will increase. Mm do you agree on me? </sp2>
<sp3> Yes. Yeh then? </sp3>
<sp2> Mm and why? </sp2>
<sp3> Er I have I have said that this your chart show [Wsh-s] show [Wsh-s] us that the more working experience has taking much... er much importance than the graduate students. Yes? </sp3>
<sp2> Yes. </sp2>
<interlocutor> All right, all right. That's the end of the discussion. Now I'd like to ask you just one last question on the topic of enrollment of graduate students. Ok, now, Miss ***, Miss ***, have you ever thought of studying for a doctor's degree in the future? </interlocutor>
<sp1> Doctor degree?! (aha)... ... mm after my four years' college life, I first I want to be a postgraduate. Mm... ... mm to me, it's...  it's my opinion [P2o-e]. But to Doctor degree, I think it's far far than me it's far far away from me, I think. Mm...  but I I have poss-possibility [Wo-e] to...  I choose it. </sp1>
<interlocutor> Ok! Mr. ***, some people leave a well-paid job to get a graduate education, do you think it's worthwhile? </interlocutor>
<sp2> Yes, I think it's vell mm I think mm it's it's great. I admire I admire them because... mm the society needs need need edu- well-educaten well-educated persons. So although [Wal-o] although [Wal-o] although [Wal-o] their although [Wal-o] their jobs is good, mm they didn't they didn't feel satis-satisfied. And they abandon [M1n] their jobs to mm to achieve to achieve the gree the degrees. And after they and after they achieve their degrees, they will ge they will get mm good better better jobs </sp2>
<interlocutor> Ok! Now, Miss ***, Bill Getts didn't even finish university, do you think it's necessary to get a university degree?  </interlocutor>
<sp3> Mm I beg your padon? ? </sp3>
<interlocutor> Bill Getts didn't even finish university, do you think it's necessary to get a university degree? </interlocutor>
<sp3> Mm Yes, maybe different people have different opinion?. In my opinion, I just think, to get a university mm mm is very necessary for er for er for us. ...  Mm... mm  just mm mm because in a university we have a lot of chance and a a lot of opportunity. Although you are er ... mm...  er...  mm just you just have different views on such a education program. Mm because of the development of the society, we should er develop ourselves and just [Pt-er] mm er make us more suitable for the er for for er the develop for the develops society.  Mm mm an then when you study in a university, you can you can see how much you can get that you can that you cannot obtain in an if you if you just doesn't go to the uni uni university. So mm that's my opinion, I think, it's necessary to go to the university and had get a higher education. </sp3>
<interlocutor> Ok! That's the end of the test. /interlocutor>
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