Many students find the experience of attending university lectures to be a confusing and 【C1】______ experience. The lecturer speaks for one or two hours, perhaps illustrating the talk with slides, writing up important information on the blackboard, 【C2】______ reading material and giving out 【C3】______ . The new student sees the other students continuously writing on notebooks and wonders what to 【C4】______ . Very often the student leaves the lecture with notes 【C5】______ do not catch the main 【C6】______ and which become hard even for the 【C7】______ themselves to understand.
Most 【C8】______ provide courses which assist new students to develop the skills they need to be 【C9】______ listeners and note-takers. 【C10】______ these are unavailable, there are many useful study-skills guides which enable learners to 【C11】______ these skills 【C12】______ . In all cases it is important to 【C13】______ the problem 【C14】______ actually starting your studies.
It is important to acknowledge that most students have difficulty 【C15】______ the language skills 【C16】______ in college study. One way of overcoming these difficulties is to 【C17】______ the language and study-skills classes which most institutions provide throughout the 【C18】______ year. Another basic 【C19】______ is to find a study partner 【C20】______ it is possible to identify difficulties, exchange ideas and provide support.
【C1】

A. exciting
B. frustrating
C. precise
D. meaningful