托福TPO30听力Section1解析汇总大全

　　TPO30听力Section1

　　Conversation-1

　　Why does the student go to speak with the woman?

　　A. To get permission to organize a club event.

　　B. To arrange for a work space for his club.

　　C. To inquire about a photography class.

　　D. To reserve a room for photography exhibit.

　　答案：B

　　解析：Our preference is to have our own office.对应arrange work space

　　What is the student's attitude toward the room he is offered?

　　A. He thinks that sharing a room is a good way to find out about other clubs.

　　B. He c**iders a semiprivate room to be acceptable.

　　C. He is concerned that there will not be enough storage space in a semiprivate room.

　　D. He is surprised that there are not enough private rooms for all the clubs.

　　答案：B

　　解析：学生在听到 semiprivate的建议之后说 We’ll work with then. 后面又说他更加不想没有办公场所，所以semiprivate也是可以接受的。

　　Why does the woman ask the student for an approval letter?

　　A. All new clubs must submit an approval letter to the student activities center.

　　B. She needs it to request funding for the club on his behalf.

　　C. She needs proof that the new club has a faculty advisor.

　　D. The approval letter can serve as verification of the club's registration.

　　答案：D

　　解析： Assistant: Do you have the registration approval letter from the committee? That would give verification I need.

　　Near the end of the conversation, what does the student indicate he will have to do ?

　　A. Retrieve a letter from his dormitory room

　　B. Reschedule some club events

　　C. Ask a committee to review his registration

　　D. Pay a registration fee to start a new club

答案：A

　　解析：Student: I don’t have it with me but I’ll get it from my dorm room. 说明他要去拿信回来。

　　For what activity does the student c**ider requesting funding?

　　A. Designing a club Web site

　　B. Reserving audio-visual equipment

　　C. Sp**oring a guest speaker

　　D. Setting up a campus e-mail account

　　答案：C

　　解析：Student: Speakers always charge fee. 所以这个学生认为speaker需要funding

　　Lecture-1

　　What is the lecture mainly about ?

　　A. The difference between cognition and metacognition

　　B. A study showing that dolphins have less cognitive capacity than monkeys

　　C. The effectiveness of using food as a reward in experiments with monkeys

　　D. Research that investigates whether animals are aware of feeling uncertainty

　　答案：D

　　解析：教授讲了猴子和海豚也许会有metacognition，也就是 feel uncertainty。通过海豚和猴子的实验证明这个结论，但不是把猴子和海豚拿去对比。

　　Why does the professor mention the inability of animals to report what they are thinking ?

　　A. To emphasize that language learning is an ability unique to humans

　　B. To explain why researchers must be sensitive to nuances in animals' behavior

　　C. To point out a difficulty in testing for metacognition in animals

　　D. To show the need for advancements in the study of animal communication

　　答案：C

　　解析：Researchers have long been interested in whether possess this capability but they couldn’t test it. Because animals are unable to report their feelings.

　　In the dolphin study, how did the researcher make the dolphin's task increasingly difficult ?

　　A. By showing the dolphin two patterns that were similar in density

　　B. By playing two sounds that became progressively closer in pitch

　　C. By producing sounds that were just within the dolphins' range of hearing

　　D. By introducing a third paddle that ended on trial an began a new one

　　答案：B

　　解析：The closer we came in pitch to the first one, the harder will be for the dolphin to correctly identify as it lower. 这些比较说明是通过逐渐改变pitch来实现难度增加的。

　　According to the professor, what objecti** did some researchers raise with regard to the dolphin study?

　　A. The study did not distinguish between learned and higher-level resp**es.

　　B. The dolphin was not rewarded c**istently for pressing the third paddle.

　　C. Only one dolphin was used in the experiment.

　　D. The results could not be replicated in a later study.

答案：A

　　解析：But there was a problem, other researchers protested that the resp**e is simply a learned or conditioned resp**e. 对应A项

　　What can be inferred from the results of the study in which monkeys did not receive immediate feedback?

　　A. The researchers based the study on an incorrect hypothesis.

　　B. Monkeys respond best to negative reinforcement.

　　C. Monkeys become confused when they do not receive rewards.

　　D. Monkeys probably have some degree of metacognitive ability.

　　答案：D

　　解析：So， what does it tell us about animal c**ciousness or animal awareness of themselves and there state of mind? 猴子的反应并不仅仅是 condition resp**e，所以这个实验说明猴子也许可以感觉到不确定性。

　　Why does the professor say this?重听题

　　A. To emphasize the importance of introductory courses

　　B. To find out whether students have taken a psychology course

　　C. To imply that students should be familiar with the concept she mentioned

　　D. To indicate that she is going to review information from a psychology class

　　答案：C

　　解析： You remembered in intro psychology right? 说明教授觉得既然是基础课学过的，大家都应该知道。

　　Lecture-2

　　What does the professor mainly discuss?

　　A. How the parenting behavior of Oviraptors may have differed from that of other dinosaurs

　　B. Evidence that parenting behavior in birds may have originated with dinosaurs

　　C. Physical traits shared by dinosaurs, crocodiles, and birds

　　D. The changing attitudes of the public toward dinosaurs

　　答案：B

　　解析： We will be looking at dinosaurs parenting behavior. 与这个 Topic Sentence相关的只有B项。

　　What is the professor's attitude toward the name "Obiraptor" ? Click on 2 answers.

　　A. It accurately represents the behavior of the dinosaur

　　B. It resulted from an incorrect translation of the original Latin term

　　C. It was based on a misunderstanding of the fossil evidence

　　D. It influenced popular attitudes toward dinosaurs

　　答案：CD

　　解析： He assumed the dinosaur was stealing the eggs...... Leave generally negative influence on such dinosaurs......the oviraptor was probably taking care of the eggs.

　　According to the professor, what behavior is very rare among reptiles?

　　A. Parenting of the young by males

　　B. Laying eggs in a nest

　　C. Returning to the same nest site year after year

　　D. Stealing eggs from the nests of other reptiles

　　答案：A

　　解析：Well, exclusive care by the male parent is much less common, but it dose occur......males contribute to parental care in fewer than 5% ...... It is even less frequent on reptiles. 说明有父亲看护孩子很少见。

　　What does the professor imply about crocodiles ?

　　A. They provide fewer clues about dinosaur nesting behavior than birds do.

　　B. They share many behavioral characteristic with birds like the ostrich and kiwi.

　　C. They have larger clutch volumes than most dinosaurs had.

　　D. The female and the male work together to guard their nest.

　　答案：A

　　解析：教授推测鸟类的行为是源于恐龙，而鳄鱼是只有females看护巢穴，所以鸟类与恐龙相似之处更多。

　　What is the function of the spongy tissue in the bones of a female bird?

　　A. In makes the bird more comfortable while sitting on her eggs for long periods of time.

　　B. In enables female birds to lay more eggs.

　　C. It strengthens the bird's bones just before she lays her eggs.

　　D. It serves as a source of calcium for eggshells.

答案：D

　　解析：This spongy tissues serves as a source of calcium for eggshell formation.

　　What did researchers conclude after analyzing fossilized dinosaur bones found near nests?

　　A. Many dinosaurs died before they became adults.

　　B. Male dinosaurs produced a spongy layer of bone.

　　C. Male dinosaurs probably took care of the eggs.

　　D. Female dinosaurs seldom went far from their nests.

　　答案：C

　　解析：教授说巢边的恐龙骨化石并没有 spongy tissue， 也就是大部分是males。由此推测males可能在take care babies