TPO9听力题目(Conversation+Lecture)

　　Conversation 2

　　Part 1

　　1. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

　　A book that the man is trying to find in the library

　　A book that the man already returned to the library

　　A book that the man is using to write his senior thesis

　　A book that the man lent to his sociology professor

　　2. What does the woman offer to do for the man?

　　Let the man know when a book he needs is returned to the library

　　Photocopy a chapter of a book for him

　　Ask a professor to return a book the man needs

　　Find a copy of a book for him at another library

　　3. What is the woman trying to explain when she mentions students who have lost their borrowing privileges?

　　Why the man should not photocopy part of the book

　　The reasons for one of the library's policies

　　What will happen if the man does not return the book

　　The reason the man has to fill out a form

　　4. How does the man probably feel at the end of the conversation?

　　Annoyed that he has to pay a fine on the book

　　Upset that he will lose his library privileges

　　Glad that he can keep the book for two more weeks

　　Appreciative that the woman is helping him

　　5. Listen again to part of the conversation. Then answer the question.

　　Why does the woman say this: …

　　To make sure she understands what the man's problem is

　　To encourage the man to return the book to the library soon

　　To check whether the man has already returned the book

　　To explain to the man a change in the library's policies

　　Lecture 3

　　6. What is the lecture mainly about?

　　Reasons that geologists study lake fossils in desert regions

　　A comparison of ancient and present-day lakes in desert environments

　　Geological evidence for the formation of ancient sand dunes

　　A hypothesis for how some ancient desert lakes formed

　　7. What is the professor's opinion about the conclusions of the recent study of the limestone formations in the Empty Quarter?

　　They have changed the way geologists study desert environments.

　　They contradict findings about similar desert lakes.

　　They explain the causes of monsoons in the desert.

　　They need to be confirmed by additional studies.

　　8. According to the professor, what feature of the sand dunes made the formation of the lakes possible?

　　The degree of slope of the sides of the dunes

　　The presence of clay and silt particles in the dunes

　　The position of the dunes relative to the wind and rain

　　The narrowness of the valleys between the dunes

　　9. How is it possible to determine in which rainy period a lake was formed?

　　Click on 2 answers.

　　By examining the location of the lake bed

　　By measuring the amount of sand covering the lake bed

　　By examining the color of the limestone formation

　　By identifying the types of fossils found in the limestone

　　10. What does the professor imply about the lack of water buffalo and hippopotamus fossils in the more recent lakes?

　　The level of water in the lakes was not sufficient for these animals.

　　The bottoms of the lakes were too sandy for these animals to stand in.

　　The location of the lakes made them too difficult of these animals to reach.

　　The vegetation near the lakes did not attract these animals.

　　11. What possible explanation does the professor give for the apparent absence of fish in the most ancient lakes?

　　The presence of predators

　　Lack of appropriate food

　　Lack of suitable water

　　Extreme desert temperatures

　　Lecture 4

　　12. What does the professor mainly discuss?

　　The findings of a study on prairie dog communication

　　The way that mammals learn to make warning cries

　　Features that distinguish language from animal communication systems

　　Various types of signal used by animals to communicate with each other

　　13. Why does the student mention a research project she studied in a biology class?

　　To point out similarities in the behavior of rodents and monkeys

　　To explain how she first became interested in animal communication

　　To introduce an instance of an animal species that might have language

　　To show how she applied her knowledge of linguistics in another course

　　14. What is the professor's opinion of a recent study of prairie dogs?

　　She finds the study interesting but is not convinced that prairie dogs can communicate.

　　She thinks that some claims made by the researchers are not supported by their findings.

　　She sees the study as proof that mammals other than humans possess a form of language.

　　She thinks the researchers misinterpreted the high-pitched barks as warning signals.

　　15. What does the professor say about the individual units that make up human languages?

　　They can be combined to create an infinite number of new messages.

　　They are not capable of being reproduced by members of any other species.

　　They function in the same way as the signals all animals use to communicate.

　　They are acquired instinctively without having to be learned.

　　16. The professor uses the sentence, "Move the large coyote fast", in order to illustrate two features of language. What are they?

　　Click on 2 answers.

　　Displacement

　　Learnability

　　Productivity

　　Discreteness

　　17. Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.

　　Why does the professor say this: …

　　To see if anyone knows the answer to the student's question

　　To suggest that the student is using the wrong terminology

　　To express frustration because she has already answered a similar question

　　To determine whether she has been speaking clearly enough