Passage 1

Voice-over: Hi, I'm Nick Carter, and this is SUR, your university radio station. This morning we went around campus to ask freshers (大学新；sophomore 大二学生: junior大三学生:senior大四学生;)– now half-way through their first year – the question, “How are you finding uni(=university)?” Here are some of the answers we got.

Speaker 1: It's cool. It's everything I hoped it would be. I'm very ambitious(有抱负的，有雄心壮志的), I want to be a journalist and I want to get to the top of the profession（职业）. I've started writing for the university newspaper so I've got my foot on the ladder (a series of levels someone moves up and down within an organization, profession or society.梯子，层级；)already.

Speaker 2: I'm working hard and the teaching is as good as I expected. And I've made some good friends. But I'm very homesick. I'm Nigerian and my family's so far away. I went home at Christmas for a month – that really helped, but man, I miss my family so much.

Speaker 3: “How am I finding uni?” It's great. It's not perfect, nothing is, but, like, I've got a brilliant social life, just brilliant, and I've made lots of friends. For the first few months I just didn't do, really enough work. But I – I talked about it with my parents and I'm working harder now and getting good grades.

Speaker 4: Actually, I've been quite lonely to be honest(frankly speaking). I'm a bit shy … Everyone else seemed to find it so easy to make friends straight away. But things have been better recently – yeah, they have. I've joined a couple of ( a few) clubs and like, it really helps to get to know people when you have shared interests (共同的兴趣爱好). So, yeah – I'm feeling a lot happier now.

Speaker 5: Uni's great, I love it. My only problem – and it's quite a big problem – is money. My parents are both unemployed（out of job） so, you know, they can't help me financially. My grant just isn't – it's just not enough for me to live on (靠……谋生), so I've taken a part-time job as a waitress – a lot of people I know, like a lot, have had to do the same. I don't want to have huge debts at the end.

Speaker 6: I love my subject, History, and I'm, I'm getting fantastic teaching here. I want to be a university lecturer(大学讲师) and that means I have to get a first. I have a good social life but work definitely comes first for me.

Answers: 

9.
1. b; 2. d; 3. d; 4. b ; 5, a