TPO 75 listening

TPO 75 listening

C1

1. Why does the woman wish to speak to the student?

a. To notify him about an award that he will be receiving

b. To offer assistance with a program he runs

c. To ask him to start a literacy prograr at the university

d. To learn more about his accomplishments as a volunteer

2. How does the student feel about the possibility of being mentioned in the city newspaper?

a. He is proud that he would be able to promote his university to the public at large.

b. He is excited that his literacy program would receive some publicity.

c. He is confused because he does not think readers of the city newspaper would be interested

in his award.

d. He is uncomfortable because he is one of several volunteers who deserve public

3. How did the award committee become aware of the student?

a. The student submitted a description of his literacy program to the committee.

b. The director of the community center recommended him for an award.

c. The committee received a news release describing the literacy program.

d. The student asked a committee member to volunteer for the literacy program

4. What can be inferred about the student? Click on 3 answers.

a. THe works full time at the community center.

b. He enjoys helping other people.

c. He is easily discouraged.

d. He is persuasive.

e. He is resourceful

5. Why does the woman say this:

a. To apologize for not telling him the purpose of their meeting in advance

b. To apologize for underestimating the extent of his volunteer work

c. To ask him to clarify the meaning of his last statement

d. To indicate that she disagrees with his last statement

L1

1. What does the professor mainly discuss? Click on 2 answers.

a. A powerful and unusual ruler of Egypt

b. Military actions during the New Kingdom period in Egypt

c. How Hatshepsut's statue differs from those of other pharaohs

d. What the features of a pharaoh's statue represent

2. What does the professor imply about the "material culture" of ancient societies?

a. lt is considered more reliable than other types of evidence

b. lt is the only source of information about certain societies.

c. Most of it was created by unskilled workers.

d. lts artistic value is greater than its historical value

3. What important distinction does the professor make between Hatshepsut and

previousqueens of Egypt?

a. She was the first queen to reign with the king

b. She was the first queen to rule as regent-protector for a young heir

c. She was the first queen to declare herself pharaoh.

d. She was the first queen whose image appeared on public statues

4. What does the professor imply about the image of Hatshepsut wearing the nemes?

a. She wore the nemes to indicate her devotion to a particular deity.

b. She wore the nemes as a symbol of her royal power.

c. She wore the nemes to indicate that she was female

d. She wore the nemes in public only rarely.

5. According to the professor, what does Hatshepsut's hand gesture in the statue represent?

a. Hatshepsut's military strength

b. Hatshepsut's absolute political authority

c. Hatshepsut's spiritual role

d. Hatshepsut's tolerance of different religions

6. Why does the professor say this

a. To apologize for a mistake she just made

b. To briefly clarify a statement she made at the beginning of the class

c. To ask if the students have questions about the assigned reading

d. To introduce a topic that is not related to the assigned reading.

L2

1. What is the main purpose of the lecture?

a. To determine the age of the planet Earth

b. To debate opposing theories of how life originated

c. To consider ways to determine when life on Earth began

d. To explain the process that formed the fossils found in ancient rocks

2. What is the professor's attitude toward the claim that life first appeared on Earth around 3.5

billion years ago?

a. She is confident that the available evidence proves the claim conclusively

b. She believes it is likely that living organisms existed long before that time.

c. She is concerned that the search for early fossils has not been thorough enough

d. She doubts that fossilized rocks can always be dated accurately.

3. What condition must exist in order to use ocean tides to generate electricity?

a. There must be a great difference between high tide and low tide.

b. The current must be strong,even at low tide.

c. The height of high tides must be relatively consistent.

d. The power generators must be at least five kilometers from shore

4. Why does the professor mention the violent processes that Earth underwent during its

earlyhistory?

a. To explain how Earth acquired its current geological features

b. To provide an alternative explanation of how life on Earth first began

c. To show why it took so long for Earth to acquire a stable atmosphere

d. To explain why it is unlikely that the earliest fossil specimens have survived

5. Why does the professor think paleontologists should study the Moon?

a. Its condition is similar to that of Earth 3.5 billion years ago

b. lt may contain Earth's most ancient surviving rocks.

c. lt is not affected by meteoric activity in the solar system.

d. lt may provide clues to determine the age of fossils found in Antarctica

6. According to the professor, if it is proven that life appeared soon after Earth was formed,

what further conclusion might this fact support?

a. The universe is likely to contain many other Earth-like planets.

b. Living organisms are capable of surviving extreme conditions.

c. Life probably exists in other parts of the universe.

d. Oceans may have covered Earth earlier than is commonly believed

C2

1. What does the student try to explain to her adviser?

a. Why her experiment produced unexpected results

b. Why she did not finish her experiment on time

c. What properties of the RP73 protein she discovered

d. Why she needs to have her grade changed

2. Why does the student want to study the RP73 protein?

a. Because it has an unusually rapid rate of disintegration

b. Because it was only recently discovered

c. Because it may have medical applications

d. Because it may play a role in causing certain illnesses

3. According to the student, under what circumstance might her experiment have been saved?

a. lf the lab incubator had been working properly

b. lf the experiment had not stayed in the freezer for so long

c. If she had better understood the time needed for incubation

d. If someone had been in the laboratory when she telephoned

4. From the student's comments, what can be inferred about the molecular biology professor?

a. The professor is disappointed that the student's experiment failed.

b. The professor is used to students' having to repeat experiments

c. The professor would be willing to help the student redo the experiment.

d. The professor is likely to write a note to the adviser about what happened.

5. Why does the adviser say this:

a. He expects the student to receive an excellent grade in the class

b. He is asking the student to work faster.

c. He realizes that the student's experiment has now been completed.

d. He feels assured that the student will fulfill her course requirements

L3

1. What is the purpose of the lecture?

a. To help the students prepare for an examination

b. To introduce students to the class they are taking

c. To prepare the students for a play they are going to see

d. To introduce students to a play they will be performing

2. What is the connection between Stanislavski and method acting?

a. He adapted method acting for the classroom.

b. He was an early critic of method acting

c. He was the first person to teach method acting in the United States

d. He established the basic principles of method acting

3. Why does the professor mention an actor shaking his fist and stomping his feet?

a. To give an example of an outdated acting technique

b. To give an example of an acting exercise from the Stanislavski System

c. To illustrate that great actors always establish a strong emotional bond with their audience

d. To illustrate that gestures can help actors feel real emotions on stage

4. According to the professor, what is the fundamental principle underlying all varieties

ofmethod acting?

a. Actors must develop their own system of gestures to use on stage

b. Actors must draw upon personal experience when playing a character.

c. Actors perform best when they do not consciously analyze the character they are playing

d. Actors perform best when playing a character whose life experiences are similar to

theirown.

5. What does the professor imply when he says this:

a. The student needs to think about what the writer intended.

b. The student needs to understand the character's circumstances

c. The student may be able to express a greater range of emotion than she realizes

d. The student needs to speak with greater power when playing a brave character.

6. What does the professor mean when he says this:

a. Students should read a play before seeing it performed

b. Students should memorize their lines before coming to class

c. Actors should understand the meaning of their lines before memorizing them.

d. Actors should go beyond the literal meaning of the script.