TPO 20听力题目
Conversation 1
1. Why does the man go to talk to the woman?
A. To find out if he can get extended borrowing privileges
B. To find out if he needs to immediately return a book he borrowed
C. To find out why he has to pay a library fine
D. To find out why his borrowing privileges have been suspended
2. What will the man probably do today? (2 answers)
A. Get photocopies of a book chapter
B. Find out who requested his book
C. Borrow additional books.
D. Renew the book Modern Social Problems.
3. What is the woman trying to explain when she mentions students who have lost their borrowing privileges?
A. Why the man should not photocopy part of the book
B. The reasons for one of the library’s policies
C. What will happen if the man does not return the book
D. The reason the man has to fill out a form
4. How does the man probably feel at the end of the conversation?
A. Annoyed that he has to pay a fine on the book
B. Upt that he is losing his library privileges
C. Glad that he can keep the book for two more weeks
D. Less worried about having to return the book
5. Why does the woman say this:
A. To make sure she understands what the man’s problem is
B. To encourage the man to return the book to the library soon
C. To check whether the man has already returned the book
D. To e if the man is familiar with the library’s policy
Lecture 2
6. What is the main topic of the lecture?
A. The reasons people are not always truthful in conversations
B. The need for greater regulation of language ud in advertising
C. The need for maximum precision and detail in everyday conversation
D. The role of certain rules in determining what a speaker means
7. According to the professor, what helps speakers keep conversations from proceeding too slowly?
A. The ability to make inferences according to the Gricean maxims
B. The ability to effectively distinguish truth from falhood
C. The willingness to ignore the Gricean maxims on occasion
8. For each of the following, indicate whether or not it reflects one of the Gricean maxims that the professor
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9. Why does the professor describe a letter of recommendation?
A. To point out differences between written statements and spoken statements
B. To illustrate how people may be deceived in a business environment
C. To show how violating a maxim may contribute to a statement’s meaning
D. To provide that lying is sometimes considered acceptable
10. What does the professor imply about advertirs?
A. They are less likely than politicians to violate a Gricean maxim
B. They realize that consumers know whether an advertiment violates a maxim.
C. They often make u of the Gricean maxims to express humor.
D. They realize that consumers make fal inferences from advertiments.
11. What type of maxim does the professor illustrate with this example:
A. Manner
B. Quality
C. Quantity
D. Relevance
Lecture 3
12. What is the lecture mainly about?
A. The effect of ice ages on the development of agriculture
B. A theory about a change in Earth’s climate cycle
C. Strategies to prevent Earth from entering another ice age
D. Some effects of industrialization on Earth’s atmosphere
13. What does the professor imply about Earth’s climate over the last veral million years? (2 answers)
A. Ice ages have alternated with warmer periods.
B. Recent ice ages have not been as cold as earlier ice ages.防火安全教案
C. Interglacial periods have become cooler and cooler over time.
D. Previous interglacial periods were shorter than the current interglacial period.
14. According to the professor, what factor is extending the duration of the current interglacial period？
A. A shift in the locations of wetlands and forests
B. The relatively mild temperatures of the most recent ice ages
C. The incread absorption of certain atmospheric gas by farm crops
D. An increa in the quantity of certain gas in Earth’s atmosphere
15. According to the professor, what activities associated with the beginnings of agriculture may have slowed or prevented the ont of a predicted ice age？（2 answers）
A. The clearing of trees
B. The burning of fossil fuels
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C. The domestication of certain animals
D. The cultivation of certain grains
16. What is the professor’s attitude toward industrialization?
A. He thinks that its effect on Earth’s climate will decrea over time
B. He is worried that it may speed the arrival of the next ice age
C. He thinks that it may reduce the effect of agriculture on Earth’s climate.
D. He is unsure about its long-term effects on Earth’s climate.
17. What does the professor imply when he says this:
A. Theorists sometimes make careless predictions
B. Theorists were unaware of some of the effects of human activities.
C. Technology of the 1970s was not sophisticated enough to detect the earliest stages of an ice age.
D. Scientists in the1970s overestimated the speed at which ice ages progress.
Conversation 4
1. Why does the professor want to talk to the student?
A. To discuss her application to graduate school.
B. To discuss a possible internship at the school’s library
C. To encourage her to increa the scope of her rearch project
D. To suggest some changes to improve her rearch project.
2. According to the professor, what information should be included in the student’s application?
A. The amount of money she will need for her rearch
B. The amount of time she will need t complete her project
C. A summary of rearch already conducted on the topic
D. Reasons why she cho that particular topic
3. Why does the professor mention a university in Boston?
A. He ud to be a professor at that university.
B. He thinks the student my find uful material there.几经
C. He has plans to visit the university soon.
D. He thinks the student should attend a conference there.
南开大学排名4. What does the professor say he will do for the student?
A. Help her determine details for a rearch budget.
B. Assist her with her graduate school inquiry
C. Talk to her about ways of expanding her project.
D. Write a letter of recommendation for her.
5. Why does the woman say this:
A. He thinks the fund is rather limited.
B. He agrees that the fund’s name is rather long.
C. He thinks the student needs help with her project.meinu騒图片
D. He is surprid that the student is not familiar with the fund.
Lecture 5
6. What is the lecture mainly about?
A. The role played by folktales in contemporary Norwegian society.
B. A description of the major types of Norwegian folktales.
C. A comparison of Norwegian folktales and Norwegian folk legends.
D. An illustration of the differences between oral literature and written literature.
7. What does the professor find appealing about folk legends?
A. They are very imaginative.
B. They are somewhat realistic.
C. They stress what is important in a culture.
D. They show similarities between otherwi diver societies.
8. How is the story of the bear and the fox characteristic of Norwegian animal stories?
A. It explains the origin of a physical characteristic of an animal.
B. It us animal behavior to explain human characteristics.
C. It shows how animals were domesticated by people.
D. It contains episodes of animals changing into people.
9. Why does the professor mention a folktale called “East of the Sun and West of the Moon”? (2 answers)
A. To point out conventions found in most folktales.
B. To point out differences between animals stories and comical stories.
C. To give an example of a transformation story.
D. To give an example of a story published in the first collection of Norwegian folktales.
10. What does the professor say about the characters in Norwegian folktales?
A. They usually behave in playful and amusing ways.
B. They usually behave the way that real Norwegian people behave.
C. Most are giants, trolls, or dragons.
D. Most are bad on actual historical figures.
11. What does the professor imply happened as a result of the Romantic movement’s spreading to Norway?
A. Children’s literature became less popular.
B. Attempts were made to modernize the plots of traditional folktales.
C. Folktales began to be regarded as an important aspect of Norwegian culture.
D. Folktales in Norway became more similar to folktales from other parts of Europe.
Lecture 6
12. What is the lecture mainly about?
股票的种类A. Typical features of the snowshoe hare that do not result from adaption.
B. Various strategies ud by snowshoe hares to find food during the winter.
C. Characteristics that snowshoe hares have developed in respon to their environment.
D. Interactions between snowshoe hares and human populations in the state of Maine.
13. According to the professor, what caus the snowshoe hare’s fur to begin turning white?
A. A decrea in the hours that the Sun is up each day.
B. A sudden drop in temperature.
C. The increasing amount of snow on the ground.
D. The changing nature of the food supply.
14. Why might an early snowfall be a particular dangerous time for the snowshoe hare?
A. Its feet would not yet have grown to remble snowshoes.
B. Its babies would not yet be able to keep themlves warms.
C. Its chances of being en by a predator are much higher.岑参简介
D. It might not be able to locate whether it stored its food supply.
15. The professor implies that the snowshoe hare has an advantage over other animals becau of its unusual feet. What is that advantage?
A. It can reach food in higher locations better than its competitors.
B. It can stay warm in cold weather longer than its competitors.
C. It can outrun its predators in deep snow.
D. It can dig under the snow to hid from its predators.
16. The professor explains that the snowshoe hare’s supply is available year-round. What does the availability of the food allow the snow shoe hare to do?
A. Store body fat for the cold months.
B. Remain lightweight through the winter.
C. Give birth during the winter.
D. Grow fur quickly during the first year after birth.
17. Why does the student say this:
A. He wants to support the professor’s point with an example.
B. He is grateful the professor has answered his question.
C. The professor’s explanation contradicts his own experience.
D. The professor may not believe he is telling the truth.
答案：1.B 2.AC 3.C 4.D 5.A 6.D.7.A. 8.BAABA 9.C10.D 11.D 12.B 13.AD 14.D 15.AD 16.D 17.B
18.C 19.A 20.B 21.D 22.B 23.B 24.B.25.A 26.AC 27.B 28.C 29.C 30.A 31.C 32.C 33.B 34.C
