Toefl Integrated Speaking

1. The university is planning to spend a huge amount of money on building a new sports complex because they want to draw the attention from more high-level students. And also, they are really hoping to strenthen the tie between the university and the local community. But the woman thinks it's a terrible idea. She thinks that spending money in such places as the library and cafetiria, which top students obviously care more about, is a much better choice compared with wasting it on building sports complex. Besides, it's not going to help strengthen the relationship because people didn't come to games because they hated to watch the teams losing, not because there weren't enough seats.
2. The university plans to stop the shuttle service because it has come to people's attention that only few students ride them and they cost a lot. The man doesn't like the plan. He thinks that the reason students aren't riding the shuttles is that they only fo through those expensive neighborhoods where students don't like anymore. Also, he believes that building more parkng space is a bad idea as it will increase noise and traddic on campus. That's not a good outcome.

1. The professor is talking about a phychological concept called perceptual constancy, which refers to the phenomenon that even as conditions change and wee see objects differently, we still recognize that they remain the same. And he gives us two exampless to illustrate this concept. In the first case, if you hold a kitchen plate right in front of your face, it's a perfect circle. But if you tilt it into a horizontal position, it becomes an oval. So we can see that the shape of the plate changes, but because of the concept of constancy, we don't think we have two plates, do we? In the second example, if you sit in a front row in the classroom, the professor looks bigger, but if you sit in a back row, he will look much smaller. Although the professor seems to have different sizes in the two situations, again,