Study Center Module – Listening and Note-taking
Lecture 1 Quiz – Biology
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from MIT OpenCourseWare
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then answer the questions below, and check your answers.
1) Especially in the last ____ years, the field of biology has changed greatly and become a science.
a) 50
b) 100
c) 200
2) What will students do in the first half of the semester?
a) apply laws to problems like cancer and viruses b) contrast laws of biology with other fields
c) study laws of biological life
3) What will students study in the second half of the semester?
a) apply laws to problems like cancer and viruses b) contrast laws of biology with other fields
c) study laws of biological life
4) The structure of __________ was discovered by Watson and Crick.
a) cell nuclei
b) DNA
c) evolution
5) ________ is now dead.
a) Watson
b) Crick
6) Traditional biology (especially as taught in high school) has been
a) descriptive and required memorization
b) focused on logic and rules and principles of life
7) According to the professor, the age of the earth is ________.
a) 150,000 years
c) 4½ to 5 billion years
b) 2 or 3 billion years
d) 13-15 billion years
8) The “solutions” of life on this planet were solved ________.
a) 150,000 years
c) 4½ to 5 billion years
b) 2 to 3 billion years
d) 13-15 billion years
9) Of the two major cell forms on the planet, we think _______ cells evolved first.
a) prokaryotic
b) eukaryotic
10) According the professor, the age of the human species is ________.
a) 150,000 years
c) 4½ to 5 billion years
b) 2 to 3 billion years ago
d) 13-15 billion years
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Lecture 2 – Crystallography from MIT OpenCourseWare
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then answer the questions below, and check your answers.
1. The professor’s room number is __________________.
a) 180
b) 134037
c) 36889
2. The class meets ________________.
a) in two-hour “chunks” twice a week
b) one hour, 4 times a week
c) one 4-hour class
3. There __________ a break during class.
a) will be
b) will not be
4. There are ___________ quizzes in this class.
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four
5. Why doesn’t the professor give a final exam?
a) It makes a problem during Christmas vacation.
material is difficult to cover in a single test.
6. Students have _________ hours for the quizzes.
a) one
b) two
c) three
b) Students don’t prepare well enough.
d) four
7. The last quiz is scheduled 2.9/3 through the term because _______________.
a) no tests should be given the week before final exams
b) each quiz covers 2 weeks of class study
c) there is a time conflict with Christmas break
8. The problem sets are ____________.
a) optional
c) difficult
d) graded
9. The professor ______________ give solution sets to the class.
a) will
b) will not
c) will sometimes
10. According to the professor, what can be a minor influence to the student’s grades?
a) if they did the problem sets
b) if they asked the professor for extra help
c) if they came to class every day
c) The
Study Center Module – Listening and Note-taking
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Lecture 3 – Confucianism from iTunes Revealingworld Podcast
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture and take notes.
A. Confucius: List these events in the order they occurred (what happened first, second, etc.)
Order
Events
1.
A) he traveled around China to find a post as an advisor
2.
B) he retired from public life for 3 years
3.
C) he got married
4.
D) his father died
5.
E) he worked as tax collector for the Duke of Lu
6.
F) his mother died
B. Confucianism: Using your notes, answer the following questions about Confucianism.
7. Confucius rarely spoke about
A) morality
B) virtue
.
C) relationships
D) God
8. One reason to view Confucianism as a religion is ___________________.
A) it eventually included ritual and meditation
B) it focuses on the importance of relationships
C) it established a clear hierarchy in society
9. Age, rank, knowledge, and wealth help to establish the hierarchy among ______________.
A) husband and wife
C) rulers and subjects
B) brothers
D) friends
10. ____________ creates a harmonious family, society, and world.
A) performance of duty
C) a strong hierarchy
B) hard work
D) observance of religious rites and rituals
Study Center Module – Listening and Note-taking
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Lecture 4 – Psychology - The Brain from MIT OpenCourseWare
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then answer the questions below, and check your answers.
1. The “Intro to Psychology” class is different than other MIT classes because _______
a) it focuses on a large variety of topics
c) the topics are more interesting for people
b) students already know about the topics
2. “Folk psychology” is ___________
a) psychology that you study in the academy
b) psychology in graduate school courses
b) psychology of common people and the street
3. The professor said that “Mark loves Lara” to ___________.
a) observe that they are sitting close together
c) begin an example about folk pscyhology
b) find out if it is true or not
d) compare love and feelings
4. Which feeling is less simple , according to the professor?
a) happiness
b) love
c) sadness
5. According to the professor, the feeling of love can be __________.
a) happy or sad
c) felt for the whole universe
b) experienced when waking up
6. Why did the students laugh when the professor talked about the students’ names?
a) he misspelled Lara’s name
b) he joked about a reason for their relationship
c) he didn’t pronounce Lara name correctly
7. It can be more useful to talk about love as a(n) ___________ rather than a(n) ___________.
a) motivation …. emotion
b) emotion … motivation
8. Which is not an example of a motivation?
a) thirst
b) happiness
c) love
d) hunger
9. The basic reason that people love, according to evolutionary ideas, is ___________.
a) to reproduce genes c) to be happy
b) to have sex
d) to be motivated
10. The professor talks about spiders to show that _________________.
a) we can’t understand animals’ minds
c) people and animals have similar behaviors
b) love isn’t necessary
d) even animals have love
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Lecture 5 – Religion from iTunes Revealingworld Podcast
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then fill in the blanks in the notes below, and check your answers.
Where we find people, we find religion.
2 ideas some people have about why religion is universal:
(1)
(2)
English word religion from Latin “religio” = feeling of worship or being in presence of divine
- we tend to associate religion with (3)
- but scholars try to define religion without identifying God
because some religions (for example: (4)
don’t have a God
other def. of religion: smthng that has ultimate importance
- def. has a problem if you consider things like golf and tennis
def. of polythetic religion = no single trait all religions share, but several elements
ex: symbol, myth, rites, ritual, scripture, doctrine
Jouaqin Wah: 3 Categories for these elements
(5)
focus on phil, ethics, expl. of universe
may be in books, scriptures, myths & stories, doctrines
(6)
– focus on acts: ex- worship, prayer, chants
RITUAL: any act performed repetitively and precisely
(7)
- groups that practice religion
may be family, community, have specialists
(8)
– goes from seen to unseen worlds
(9)
– officiates, transmits beliefs
(10)
– removes self from ordinary life
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Lecture 6 – Physics
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from MIT OpenCourseWare
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then answer the questions below, and check your answers.
1. The professor’s lesson plan for the day is ________.
a) to lecture first and then discuss the course details
b) to only discuss the course details
c) to discuss the course details first and then work in the lab
2. Aristotle thought that matter __________.
a) could always be divided into smaller pieces (continuum theory)
b) was directly related to energy (energetic force theory)
c) was composed of specific particles (atomos theory)
3. _______ was about 100 years older than _____________.
a) Aristotle … Democritus
b) Democritus … Aristotle
4. Democritus thought that that matter ____________.
a) could always be divided into smaller pieces (continuum theory)
b) was directly related to energy (energetic force theory)
c) was composed of specific particles (atomos theory)
5. Aristotle’s theory lasted through the ________ century.
a) 14th
b) 15th
c) 16th
d) 17th
6. Boyle’s occupation was __________.
a) theologian
b) mathematician
c) professor
d chemist
7. _______ advanced the idea of “elements” that form “molecules”.
a) Aristotle
b) Boyle
c) Priestly
d) Lavoisier
8. Priestly’s “deflagisticated air” is basically __________.
a) oxygen
b) nitrogen
c) hydrogen
d) helium
9. Lavoisier died due to ___________
a) having his head cut off
c) an exploding experiment
10. Overall, this lecture describes
a) details about the modern theory of matter
b) the history of the ideas about matter
c) the mechanics of the atom
b) dangerous chemicals
d) heart failure
Study Center Module – Listening and Note-taking
Lecture 7 – Genetics
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from MIT OpenCourseWare
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then answer the questions below, and check your answers.
1) The problem with talking about Mendel is ______________________.
a. students have wrong information about Mendel
c. students don’t understand great science
b. understanding Mendel’s time is difficult
d. students have already learned about Mendel
2) Factors that influence Mendel’s time don’t include _______________
a. historical and economic forces
c. being able to reach larger markets
b. the introduction of new plants and animals
d. intellectual curiosity
3) Improved breeding was important to the Austro-Hungarian empire because ________________.
a. the Spanish reached larger markets
c. the Spanish produced better sheep
b. the Spanish produced more crops
d. the Spanish produced better apples
4) A society to understand and improve inheritance and breeding was created in Bruneau by _________.
a. 1800
c. 1840
b. 1820
d. 1860
5) C. S. Napp, president of the Brunea society, attracted bright young people to ___________.
a. the society
c. the monastery
b. Bruneau
d. Spain
Write the letter of the items in the order that they occurred.
Order
Event
6.
first:
A) took years to set up an experimental system
7.
second:
B) ready to set up a controlled cross
8.
third:
C) went to market to get a variety of peas
9.
fourth:
D) attracted to monastery to work on inheritance
10.
fifth:
E) found 2 traits, round and wrinkled, that bred true
Study Center Module – Listening and Note-taking
Lecture 8 – Astronautics
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from MIT OpenCourseWare
Directions. Listen 2 times to the lecture. Then fill in the blanks in the notes below, and check your answers.
TOPIC: what happened leading up to the (1)
- involves interests, personalities of people
(2)
was NASA admin. 1961-1968
- interacted w/ administration, had ties w/ pres. Johnson
- didn’t want to make future plans, others were thinking about future
-thought Apollo program was going to continue until 1973
(3)
was new NASA leader
- advance planner for G.E.
- aggressive, liked future plans
NASA doing a lot of future planning
- programs growing, NASA successful at that time
- work since 1964 on lifting, configs. to travel to space & return
- (4) _________________ landings very expensive, wanted to do land landing
By (5) _________, Nixon appointed vice president Agnew to review NASA
-Agnew gather various people (Seamons, Payne, Dubridge, others)
they did 6-month study supported by NASA
- NASA’s dreams:
Space transp. system w/ moon and Mars:
- 2 12-man space stations around (6) ______________
- 1 12-man station around the (7) ______________
- lunar base, nuclear stage
- 2-stage recoverable shuttle (100-150 flights/yr), 2nd skylab
- continue production of Saturn rockets
- space tug to move from lower to higher orbit, nuclear stage
- Mars program by (8) ______________
this all presented to study group
the study group set up 3 programs:
1 – (9)
___
2 – (10)
NASA: to go to Mars, first need space station
- medical info about people in space
- fuel transfer operation
the group recommended space shuttle and Mars program
Payne: need space station for this
Study Center Module – Listening and Note-taking
Answer Key
LECTURE 1 - Biology
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. A
LECTURE 5 - Religion
1. God really exists
2. People have a need to experience life as sacred
3. God or supernatural beings
4. Buddhism
5. Theoretical
6. Practical
7. Sociological
8. Shaman
9. Priest
10. Monk/Nun
LECTURE 2 - Crystallography
LECTURE 6 - Physics
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. A
1. A
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. D
6. B
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. A
6. A
7. B
8. A
9. A
10. B
LECTURE 3 - Confucianism
LECTURE 7 - Genetics
1. D
2. C
3. F
4. B
5. E
1. D
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. A
9. D
10. A
6. D
7. C
8. A
9. E
10. B
LECTURE 4 - Psychology
LECTURE 8 - Astronautics
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
1. shuttle
2. Jim Webb
3. Tom Payne
4. water
5. 1965
6. earth
7. moon
8. 1983
9. massive program
10. space shuttle & Mars
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. A