托福听力TPO14听力文本(Conversation+Lecture)

　　TPO 14 Conversation 2

　　Narrator:  Listen to a conversation between a student and his faculty adviser

　　Advisor:  Hi ，Steven I schedule this appointment, cause it has been a while since we touch this.

　　Student:  I know I have been really busy--- a friend of my works on a school a paper. He asks me if I would like to try to reporting so I did and I really love it.

　　Advisor:  Hey…that's sounds great!

　　Student:  Yeah… the first article I wrote it was profile of the chemistry professor---the one whose name teacher the year. My article ran on the front page. When I saw my name, I mean my byline in print, I was hooked. Now I know this is what I want to do--- be a reporter.

　　Advisor:  Isn't it great to discover something that you really enjoy? And I read that the article too? It was very good.

　　Student:  To be honest, the articles got a lot of editing. In fact I barely recognized a couple of paragraphs. But the editor explained why the changes were made. I learned a lot and my second article didn't meet nearly many changes.

　　Advisor:  Sound like you got a real neck for this.

　　Student:  Yeah… anyway, I am glad you schedule this meeting because I want to change my major to journalism now.

　　Advisor:  Um，the university doesn't offer major in journalism.

　　Student:  Oh no…

　　Advisor:  But….

　　Student:  I… I mean… should I transfer to another school, or major in English?

　　Advisor:  Er… wait a minute. Let me explain why the major isn't offered. Editors at the  newspaper… editors… um… I mean when you apply for a reporting job, editors look at the two things--- they want to see clips, you know, some of your published articles, though also want to try out, though give you an assignment like… covering a price of conferences some other event, then see if you can craft the story about it, accurately, on dead line.

　　Student:  So they don't even to look at my major?

　　Advisor:  It is not that they don't look at it… it is… well, having a degree in something other than journalism should actually work to your advantage.

　　Student:  How?

　　Advisor:  Most journalism specialized these days. They only write about science or business or technology for example. Is there a type of reporting you think you may like to specialize then?

　　Student:  Well… I think it can be really cool to cover the Supreme Court. I mean… their decision affects so many people.

　　Advisor:  That is really a goal worth striving for. So, why not continue major in political science? And as elective, you could take some Pre-Law classes like Constitution Law, and as for you work on the student newspaper paper, maybe they let you cover some local court cases--- once that the student and professor here would want to read about.

　　Student:  Do you know of any？

　　Advisor:  I do. Actually, there is case involving this computer software program that one of our professors wrote. The district courts decide in if the university entitle to any of our professors' profits?

　　Student:  Wah…. I will definitely follow upon that!