BETH: Oh good morning. You must be James. I’m Beth Cartwright – please call be Beth.
JAMES: Thank you.
BETH: Now as this is your first tutorial since you started on the Scandinavian Studies course, I’d like to find out something about you. Why did you decide to take this course?
JAMES: Well, my mother is Danish, and although we always lived in England, she used to talk about her home a lot, and that made me want to visit Denmark. We hardly ever did, though – my mother usually went on her own. But whenever her relations or friends were in England they always came to see us. 【Q21】
BETH: I see. So I assume you already speak Danish, one of the languages you’ll be studying.
JAMES: I can get by when I talk to people, though I’m not terribly accurate.
BETH: Now you probably know that you’ll spend the third year of the course abroad. Have you had any thoughts about that?
JAMES: I’m really looking forward to it. And although Denmark seems the obvious place to go, because of my family connections, I’d love to spend the time in Iceland.
BETH: Oh, I’m sure it can be arranged. Do you have any plans for when you graduate? A lot of students go on to take a master’s degree.
JAMES: I think the four years of the undergraduate course will be enough for me. I’m interested in journalism, and I quite like the idea of moving to Scandinavia and writing for magazines 【Q22】. I’d find that more creative than translating, which I suppose most graduates do.
BETH: OK. Now how are you finding the courses you’re taking this term, James?
JAMES: Well, I’m really enjoying the one on Swedish cinema.
BETH: That’ll continue next term, but the one on Scandinavian literature that’s running at the moment will be replaced by more specialised courses 【Q23】. Oh, and by the way, if you’re interested in watching Danish television programmes – there’s going to be a course on that the term after next.
JAMES: That sounds good.
BETH: Have you started thinking about the literature paper that you have to write in the next few weeks?
JAMES: Yes, my first choice would be to do something on the Icelandic sagas.
BETH: Hmm. The trouble with that is that a lot of people choose that topic, and it can be difficult to get hold of the books you’ll need. Why not leave that for another time?
JAMES: Right.
BETH: You might find modern novels or 19th century playwrights interesting. 【Q24】
JAMES: I’ve read or seen several plays in translation, so that would be a good idea.
BETH: Fine. I’ll put you down for that topic.
JAMES: Right. So what would you advise me to aim at in the paper?
BETH: First I suggest you avoid taking one writer and going into a great deal of detail. That approach certainly has its place, but I think you first need to get an understanding of the literature in the context of the society in which it was produced – who it was written for, how it was published, and so on 【Q25】. I also think that’s more fruitful than placing it within the history of the genre.
JAMES: OK, that sounds reasonable.
JAMES: Could I ask for some advice about writing the paper I’m working on about the Vikings? I have to do that this week, and I’m a bit stuck.
BETH: Of course. Have you decided yet what to write about?
JAMES: No, I haven’t. There’s so much that seems interesting – Viking settlement in other countries, trade, mythology …
BETH: Well, what I suggest is that you read an assignment a student wrote last year 【Q26】, which is kept in the library. It’s short and well focused, and I’m sure you’ll find it helpful. I’ll give you the details in a moment. Textbooks usually cover so many topics, it can be very difficult to choose just one.
JAMES: OK. I’ve got a DVD of the film about the Vikings that came out earlier this year. Should I watch that again?
BETH: If it’s the one I am thinking of, hmm, I’d ignore it – it’s more fantasy than reality. But I’ve got a recording of a documentary that you should watch 【Q27】. It makes some interesting and provocative points, which I think will help you to focus your topic.
JAMES: Right.
BETH: So then should I work out an outline? 【Q28】
JAMES: Yes. Just headings for different sections, at this stage. And then you should start looking for suitable articles and books to draw on, and take notes 【Q29】 which you organise according to those headings.
BETH: I see.
JAMES: Then put short phrases and sentences as bullet points under each heading 【Q30】. Make sure that this skeleton makes sense and flows properly, before writing up the paper in full.
BETH: OK. Thanks, that’s very helpful.
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
听前预测：定位词 Scandinavian Studies；提示词 James、chose、child。
题目解析：我们首先听到老师 Beth 提到了定位词 Scandinavian Studies，然后男生 James 先提到“my mother is Danish”，虽然出现了 B 选项的 Danish，但是很明显和 B 选项意思不同，所以首先排除 B；接下来我们听到“and that made me want to visit Denmark. We hardly ever did, though”，其中 visit Denmark 对应 A 选项中的 taken to Denmark，但是“hardly ever did, though”意为“几乎从没真的去过丹麦”，可排除 A 选项。接下来转折词 but 的出现帮我们确定前面的两个信息为干扰信息，“But whenever her relations or friends were in England they always came to see us”为答案对应信息，其中 her relations or friends 对应 a number of Danish people，came to see us 对应 visited，因此答案为 C。
听前预测：定位词 graduates；提示词 James、would like to。
题目解析：首先老师提到了定位词 graduate，然后提到了 master’s degree（对应 A 选项的 postgraduate course），但是学生回答“I think the four years of the undergraduate course will be enough for me”可排除 A；接下来，学生说到“I’m interested in journalism…writing for magazines”，其中 journalism 和 magazines 都对应的是 B 选项中的 media，因此答案为 B。后面还提到了“I’d find that more creative than translating”，通过比较级可以判断学生更喜欢 media，而不是 translating，因此 可以排除 C。
听前预测：定位词 this term；提示词 course、end。
题目解析： 首先听到了对应 A 选项的信息 Swedish cinema，但是老师说“That’ll continue next term”，也就是说这个学期不会结束，所以排除 A；然后听到 C 选项的“Scandinavian literature…will be replaced by more specialised courses”，其中 replaced by 对应题干 end，因此答案选 C；后面还出现了 B 选项中 Danish television programmes，但是它是 the term after next，因此可以排除 B。
听前预测：定位词 literature paper；提示词 agree、this term。
题目解析：首先听到定位词 literature paper，然后听到 B 选项的 Icelandic sagas，但是老师说“Hmm. The trouble with that…”可排除 B；然后老师提到了 A 和 C 两个选项，学生回答“I’ve read or seen several plays in translation, so that would be a good idea”，其中 plays 对应 A 选项中的 playwrights，that 指代前面老师提到的“19 世纪剧作家”这个 topic，因此答案为 A。
听前预测：定位词 recommends；提示词 Beth、should be。
题目解析：首先学生提到 advise，对应 recommends，提示我们答案快来了。然后老师说 “First I suggest you avoid taking one writer and going into a great deal of detail”，其中 one writer 对应 B 选项的 a single writer，a great deal of detail 对应 in-depth analysis，然后通过 avoid 一词可以排除 B。接下来同样是转折词 but 之后出答案，“get an understanding of…, and so on”都是在对 C 选项的 a study of the social background to the literature 的同义替换，因此答案为 C。最后还提到了“that’s more fruitful than placing it within the history of the genre”，通过比较级关系可以排除其对应的 A 选项。