【我的乱七八糟的TPO听力出题分析】

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TPO4-L3


Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a literature class.

Professor
All right, so ①let me close today’s class with some thoughts to keep in mind while you are doing tonight’s assignment. You will be reading one of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s best-known essays ‘Self-Reliance’ and comparing it with his poems and other works. I think this essay has the potential to be quite meaningful for all of you as young people who probably wonder about things like truth and where your lives are going - all sorts of profound questions.
主旨题，也可以从下面几段听出。

①补充Knowing something about Emerson’s philosophies will help you when you read ‘Self-Reliance’. And basically, one of the main beliefs that he had was about truth. Not that it’s something that we can be taught, Emerson says it’s found within ourselves. So this truth, the idea that it’s in each one of us, is one of the first points that you’ll see Emerson making in this essay. It’s a bit abstract but he’s very into…ah… into each person believing his or her own thought, believing in yourself, the thought or conviction that’s true for you. But actually, he ties that in with a sort of ‘universal truth’ – something that everyone knows but doesn’t realize they know. Most of us aren’t in touch with ourselves in a way, so we just aren’t capable of recognizing profound truth. It takes geniuses, people like, say, Shakespeare, who’re unique because when they have a glimpse at this truth, this universal truth, they pay attention to it and express it and don’t just dismiss it like most people do.


So Emerson is really into each individual believing in and trusting him or herself. You’ll see that he writes about, well, first, conformity. He criticizes that people of his time for abandoning their own minds and their own wills for the sake of conformity and consistency. They try to fit in with the rest of the world even though it’s at odds with their beliefs and their identities. Therefore, it’s best to be a non-conformist – to do your own thing, not worrying about what other people think. That’s an important point. He really drives this argument home throughout the essay.


2 On what bais did Emerson criticize the people of his time?
  A They refused to recognize universal truths.
  B They did not recognize the genius of certain authors.
  C their convictions were not well-defined.
  D They were too interested in conformity. （没有找到任何对应句子表示interested啊。？？）


When you are reading, I want you to think about that and why that kind of thought would be relevant to the readers of his time. Remember this is 1838, ‘Self-Reliance’ was a novel idea at the time and the United State’s citizens were less secure about themselves as individuals and as Americans. The country as a whole was trying to define itself. Emerson wanted to give people something to really think about, help them find their own way and what it meant to be who they were. So that’s something that I think is definitely as relevant today as it was then, probably, um, especially among young adults like yourselves, you know, uh, college being a time to sort of really think about who you are and where you’re going.

Now we already said that Emerson really emphasizes non-conformity, right, as a way to sort of not lose your own self and identity in the world, to have your own truth and not be afraid to listen to it. Well, he takes this a step further. Not conforming also means, uh, not conforming with yourself or your past. What does that mean? ③Well, if you’ve always been a certain way or done a certain thing, but it’s not working for you any more, or you’re not content, Emerson says that it’d be foolish to be consistent even with our own past. ‘Focus on the future,’ he says, “That's what matters more. Inconsistency is good.”

What does XX say about ^^^^^
（这个句子表达的意思也给我启发了，活在当下，不要和以前的自己活的一样）

④He talks about a ship’s voyage and this is one of the most famous bits of the essay - how the best voyage is made up of zigzag lines. Up close, it seems a little all over the place, but from farther away, the true path shows and in the end it justifies all the turns along the way. So, don’t worry if you are not sure where you’re headed or what your long-term goals are. Stay true to yourself and it’ll make sense in the end.
⑤I mean, I can attest to that. Before I was a literature professor, I was an accountant. Before that, I was a newspaper reporter. My life is taking some pretty interesting turns and here I am, very happy with my experiences and where they’ve brought me. If you rely on yourself and trust your own talents, your own interest, don’t worry, your path will make sense in the end.


4What point does the professor make when he mentions a ship's path?
  B most people are not capbable of deciding which path is best for them.(我选的，错了）
  C The path a person takes can only be seen clearly after the destination has been reached.

5 What does the professor imply about himself when he recounts some life experiences he had before becoming a literature professor?
  A he did not consider the consequences of his decisions.（错哪了，我选这个，）
  B he did not plan to become a literature professor.（文章没有提到有plan这个吧？）
  C he has always tried to act consistently.
  D he has trusted im himself and his decisions.


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老实说我很排斥这种文艺段子。我空了一天硬是读不下，当阅读读都很痛苦。
发现早上是我做听力的最佳时期。其实文章结构不难，核心句几乎都是在句首，我觉得吧。可是为毛我都做错啊。。。

结构：
讲读SR之前的准备。
作者E的哲学观。
E写的comformity.
教授要求大家在读的时候需要思考的东西。
E真的在强调Non-conformity.
谈及到了E的文章中最著名的某一片段之一。得出结论，教授拿自己例证。

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TPO4-L4

Narrator
Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.

Professor
Hey, Jane, you look like you are in a hurry.

Student
Yeah, things are a little crazy.

Professor
Oh yeah? What’s going on?

Student
Oh, it’s nothing. Well, since it’s your class, I guess it’s OK. It’s, it’s just I am having trouble with my group project.

1（文章听下去就是充分体现是why XX的理由。。）

Professor
Ah, yes, due next week. What’s your group doing again?

Student
It’s about United States Supreme Court Decisions. We are looking at the impact of recent cases on property rights, municipal land use cases, owning disputes.

Professor
Right, OK. And it’s not going well?

Student
Not really. I’m worried about other two people in my group. They are just sitting back, not really doing their fair share of the work and waiting for an A. It’s kind of stressing me out, because we are getting close to the deadline and I feel like I’m doing everything for this project.

②
Professor
Ah, the good old free writer problem.

Student
Free writer?

Professor
Ah, it’s just a term that describes this situation, when people in the group seek to get the benefits of being in a group without contributing to the work.
Anyway, what exactly do you mean when you say they just sit back? I mean, they’ve been following the weekly progress repots with me.

2 What does the professor mention XXX….
（教授说了然后自己回答了，听准回答）

Student
Yes, but I feel like I’m doing 90% of the work. I hate to sound so negative here, but honestly, they are taking credit for things they shouldn’t take credit for.
Like last week in the library, we decided to split up the research into 3 parts and each of us was supposed to find sources in the library for our parts. I went off to the stack and found some really good material for my part, but when I got back to our table, they were just goofing off and talking.
⑤⑴So I went and got materials for their sections as well（帮它们做）.

Professor
Um…you know you shouldn’t do that.

Student
I know, but I didn’t want to risk the project going down the drain.

Professor
③I know Teresa and Kevin. I had both of them on other courses. So, I’m familiar with the work and work habits.(之前一直没有听懂这个对话在说啥，也没听出是人名)

Student
I know, me too. That’s why this has really surprised me.

3 What is the professor’s opinion of XXX…..立场题

Professor
Do you…does your group like your topic?

Student
Well, I think we’d all rather focus on cases that deal with personal liberties, questions about freedom of speech, things like that. But I chose property rights.


Professor
You chose the topic?

Student
Yeah, I thought it would be good for us,④ all of us to try something new.

4 Why did the woman XX…. 真相题

Professor
⑤⑵Um…maybe that’s part of the problem. ③补充Maybe Teresa and Kevin aren’t that excited about the topic? And since you picked it, have you thought…talk to them at all about picking a different topic?

5 双选，指出女生两个错误，认真听细节

Student
But we’ve got all the sources and it’s due next week. We don’t have time to start from scratch从头做起，从零开始.

Professor
OK, I will let you go ‘cause I know you are so busy. But you might consider talking to your group about your topic choice.

Student
I will think about it. Got to run, see you in class.

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女生有问题教授帮解决。= =终于觉得对话内容就这么几种。。。
女生碰到麻烦。
教授用术语描述她的情况。
教授提出疑问。
女生同纳闷。
教授指出女生两个错误，全劝导女生。

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楼主，我认为你说的TPO4-L1里面女图书管理员说的Of course后面的意思应该是这样：她之前提过Happy Strangers的特殊且空前的影响，并且又说了It was definitely different from many plays that we read in high school.故此，Of course, in a small town the assignments are pretty traditional.应该是指毕竟她住的是一个小城市，可能学到的东西不是很广泛，没见过像Happy Strangers这类戏剧。这样解释也与之前说的It was definitely different from many plays that we read in high school.照应。不过这也是我自己的想法，可能不对哈~