TPO2听力题目(Conversation+Lecture)

　　Conversation 2

　　1.What are the students mainly discussing?

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　　Their courses for next semester

　　Their plans for the weekend

　　A poetry club

　　A class assignment

　　2.What does the man plan to do at the end of the month

　　Register for classes

　　Finish writing his master's thesis

　　Leave his job at the coffee shop

　　Take a short vacation

　　3.Why does the man talk to the woman about the "Poetry Kitchen"?

　　To find out how often the club meets

　　To inform her that the date of the next meeting has changed

　　To complain that not enough people are reading their poems

　　To encourage her to attend

　　4.What is the woman's attitude toward participating in the poetry club?

　　She is looking forward to hearing her professor's poetry

　　She is interested in attending but she has no time

　　She thinks the poetry that is read there is not very good

　　She used to participate but did not enjoy it

　　5.What will the students do in the summer

　　They will both take courses

　　They will both have full-time jobs

　　They will travel to England together

　　They will teach a class together

　　Lecture 3

　　6.What is the main purpose of the lecture?

　　To illustrate the importance of extrinsic values

　　To explain Aristotle's views about the importance of teaching

　　To explain why people change what they value

　　To discuss Aristotle's views about human happiness

　　7.The professor gives examples of things that have value for her. Indicate for each example what type of value it has for her.

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　　8.Why is happiness central to Aristotle's theory?

　　Because it is so difficult for people to attain

　　Because it is valued for its own sake by all people

　　Because it is a means to a productive life

　　Because most people agree about what happiness is

　　9.According to the professor, why does Aristotle think that fame cannot provide true happiness?

　　Fame cannot be obtained without help from other people

　　Fame cannot be obtained by all people

　　Fame does not last forever

　　People cannot share their fame with other people

　　10.What does the professor mean when she says this()

　　Teaching is not a highly valued profession in society

　　She may change professions in order to earn more money

　　The reason she is a teacher has little to do with her salary

　　More people would become teachers if the salary were higher

　　11.What is Bode's law?

　　A law of gravitation

　　An estimate of the distance between Mars and Jupiter

　　A prediction of how many asteroids there are

　　A pattern in the spacing of the planets

　　Lecture 4

　　12.Why does the professor explain Bode's Law to the class?

　　To describe the size of the asteroids

　　To explain who the asteroids belt was discovered

　　To explain how gravitational forces influence the planets

　　To describe the impact of telescopes on astronomy

　　13.How does the professor introduce Bode's Law?

　　By demonstrating how it is derived mathematically

　　By describing the discovery of Uranus

　　By drawing attention to the inaccuracy of a certain pattern

　　By telling the names of several of the asteroids

　　14.According to the professor, what two factors contributed to the discovery of the asteroid Ceres?

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　　Improved telescopes

　　Advances in mathematics

　　The discovery of a new star

　　The position of Uranus in a pattern

　　15.What does the professor imply about the asteroid belt?

　　It is farther from the Sun than Uranus

　　Bode believed it was made up of small stars

　　It is located where people expected to find a planet

　　Ceres is the only one of the asteroids that can be seen without a telescope

　　16.Why does the professor say this

　　To introduce an alternative application of Bode's Law

　　To give an example of what Bode's law cannot explain

　　To describe the limitations of gravitational theory

　　To contrast Bode's Law with a real scientific law