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1、TPO 30Section1Conversation1NarratorListen to a conversation between a student and an employee at the student activity center. StudentThis is the administrative office, right?EmployeeUh-huh. How can I help you?StudentWell, I am stopping by to reserve a place for my school club that meet and work, pre
2、tty much on a regular basis. Ideally, our preference would be to have our own office.EmployeeHmmwell, we are out of private offices. But we do have some semi-private options still available. StudentWhat do you mean?EmployeeWell, its a setup where youll have a larger workspace shared by two other clu
3、bs. In other words, each club would have its own work area within that one room. StudentOh. Are there any divider, walls or anything?EmployeeOh, yes. There will be a couple of dividers, so theres some privacy. StudentUm. Well work with that then. I wouldnt want to be without an office. EmployeeOK. H
4、ere are the two forms you have to fill out. Why dont you do it now while I set that up through out computer system.StudentOK.请预览后下载！EmployeeSo whats your clubs name? And the last name of the club president.StudentOh, its the photography club. And its Williams. Thats me. John Williams. EmployeeHmmtha
5、ts not pulling up anything on my screen. Umlet me try something else. Uh, how about your faculty advisors name? StudentSarah Baker. She is in the Arts Department. EmployeeHmmNo. Strange. You know your club is just not showing up in my online records. Is this an established club?StudentNo. Actually i
6、ts a brand-new one. EmployeeHmmhave you completed the registration process?StudentYeah, last week. That was my very first step. EmployeeRight. Well, for my purposes, a club definitely has to be registered before I can proceed further. At the moment, however, it appears that theres no record of your
7、clubs registration. StudentReally? I thought everything was finalized last week. EmployeeWell, it is surprising. Usually theres a 24-hour turnaround in our computer database. So then do you have the registration approval letter from the review committee? That would give me the verification I need. S
8、tudentYeah. I do. I mean, well, I dont have it with me. But I I, uh, can get it from my dorm room, bring it back with me and submit it with those forms you need from me. EmployeeGreat! Thatll work. And just so you are aware, therere lots of benefits to being registered. Student请预览后下载！Oh, yeah. I thi
9、nk the university will give us permission to set up a website, right? I want to get students sharing their ideas on the website, you know, establish a photography blog.EmployeeYes. Youll be able to do that. Andumactually theres more. Youll be allowed the use of audiovisual equipment at no cost. Youl
10、l receive a club mailbox and a club email address. Youll be allowed to post your flyers and posters around the campus for publicity. And you could be eligible for funding for club events. StudentWell, we are definitely interested in hiring a professional speaker at one of our campus events at some p
11、oint in the semester. And speakers almost always charge a fee. So Ill definitely follow up on that.请预览后下载！Lecture1NarratorListen to part of a lecture in a psychology class.ProfessorWeve been talking about animal cognitionthe study of animal intelligence. Now, much of the research in this area is mot
12、ivated by the search for animal analogues, or parallels to human cognitive processes. And one of the processes weve been investigating is metacognition. What is metacognition? Well, its being aware of what one knows or feels, uh, um having an awareness of ones state of mind. And making decisions abo
13、ut behavior based on what one knows. Researchers have long been interested in whether animals possess this capability, butbut couldnt test it because animals arent able to report their feelings. But recently one group of researchers found a way to solve this problem. They did studies withwith monkey
14、s and dolphins that provide evidence that these animals have the ability to feel uncertainty, to feel unsure about something andandwell, to know that they are uncertain. So how could these researchers figure out if an animal feels uncertainty. Well, it began with a study one of them did on a dolphin
15、, who had been trained to recognize a particular high-pitched tone. The dolphin was taught to press one of two paddles depending on whether it heard the high tone or one that was lower. Food was a reward for a correct response. But if the wrong paddle was pressed, the dolphin had to wait several seconds before it could try again. The task varied in difficulty according to the pitch of the second tone. The closer it came in pitch to the first one, the hard it became for the dolphin to correctly identify it as low. And the researcher no
