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1、TPO15听力文本 TPO TPO TPO TPO 15151515 Listening Listening Listening Listening Part Part Part Part Conversation Conversation Conversation Conversation 1 1 1 1 Narrator Listen to a conversation between a student and the faculty advisor of the campus newspaper Student Hi I talked to someone on the phone a
2、 couple of weeks ago Anna I think it was Advisor Im Anna the faculty advisor Student Oh great Im Peter Murphy You probably dont r e member me but Advisor No No I remember you Youre interested in working for the paper Student Yeah as a reporter Advisor Thats right Youre taking a journalism class and
3、you ve done some reporting before in high school right Student Wow you have a good memory Advisor Well we haven t had many students applying lately so so anyway you still want to do some reporting for us Student Yeah if you have room for me on the staff Advisor Well we always need more reporters but
4、 you know we dont pay anything right Student Yeah I know but I huh Id like the experience It would look good on my resume Advisor Absolutely Lets see I think I told you that we ask prospective reporters to turn in some outlines for possible articles Student Yeah I sent them in about a week ago but I
5、 havent heard anything back yet so so I thought Id stop by and see but I guess you havent looked at them yet Advisor Oh the news editor He looks at all the submissions Student Oh so he hasnt made any decision about me yet Advisor Well I just got here a few minutes ago havent been in for a couple of
6、days Just give me a second to check my e-mail Uh here is a message from Let s see Well it seems you ve really impressed him He says it would be wonderful if you could join our staff Student Oh great When can I start Advisor WeII you turned in an outline on something to do with the physics department
7、 Student Yeah theyre trying to come up with ways to get more students to take their introductory courses Advisor Right well apparently nobody else is covering that story so he wants you to follow up on it Student OK Uh what the other outline I sent in about the proposed increase in tuition fees Advi
8、sor Oh it looks like weve got that covered Student So I am starting with an article about the physics department I guess Id better get to work Do you have any advice on how I should cover the story Advisor Well will want to talk to you but I am sure he will tell you to find out things like why the p
9、hysics departments worried about enrollment Has the number of students been getting smaller in recent years By how much What kinds of plans are they considering to address this problem Student Right some of those issues are already in what I proposed Advisor And youll want to do some interviews you
10、know what do the professors think of the plans what do the students think you get the idea but Student But wait till I talk to before proceeding Advisor Right hell cover everything you need to know to be a report e r for us Can you come back this afternoon He will be here until 5 oclock Lecture Lect
11、ure Lecture Lecture 1 1 1 1 Narrator Listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class Professor For decades psychologists have been looking at our ability to perform tasks while other things are going on how we are able to keep from being distracted and what the conditions for good concentration ar
12、e As long ago as 1982 researchers came up with something call ed the CFQ - the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire This questionnaire asks people to rate themselves according to how often they get distracted in different situations like h um forgetting to save a computer file because they had something
13、 else on their mind or missing a speed limit sign on the road John John Ive lost my share of computer files but not because I m easily distracted eI just forget to save them Professor And thats part of the problem with the CFQ It doesn t take other factors into account enough like forgetfulness Plus
14、 you really can t say you are getting objective scientific results from a subjective questionnaire where people report on themselves So it s no surprise that someone attempted to design an objective way to measure distraction It s a simple computer game designed by a psychologist named Nilli Lavie I
15、n Lavie s game people watch as the letters N and X appear and disappear in a certain area on the computer screen Every time they see an N they press one key and every time they see an X they press another except other letters also start appearing in the surrounding area of the screen with increasing frequency which creates a distraction and makes the task more difficult Lavie observed that people s reaction time slowed as these distractions increased Student 2 Well that s not too surprising isn t it thProfessor No its not Its the next part of the experiment
