TPO25听力问题（托福真题）

Conversation1

1. What is the conversation mainly about?

A. The student?s eligibility to graduate next semester B. The student?s difficulties in registering for classes C. A difficult class the student must take next semester D. Possible elective choices in thestudent?s degree program 2. According to the woman, why was the program?s curriculum changed?

A. To attract more international students to the program B. To reflect the growing importance of international business

C. To take advantage of the expertise of new facultymembers D. To give students a stronger background in management 3. What does the woman imply about the new departmental requirements?

A. They will not affect the student?s plans for graduation B. They will not be officially approved by the department until next year

C. They will be limited to students specializing in the international business

D. They will be similar to recent changes made in other departments at the university

4. Why does the woman mention writing a letter?

A. To point out the best way for the student to contact the dean?s office

B. To confirm that a personal letter is a graduation requirement

C. To indicate that she is willing to provide the student with

further assistance

D. To emphasize that the student will need special permission to graduate

5. Why does the woman saythis 重听题

A. To suggest that the student has not fulfilled all of his requirements

B. To indicate one of the new graduation requirements C. To find out the student?s opinion about a particular class D. To be sure that the student has taken a required class Lecture 1

6. What is the main purpose of the lecture?

A. To explain the government?s role in the regulating assisted migration

B. To discuss ways in which plants and animals adapt to climate change

C. To discuss a controversial approach to conserving plant and animal species

D. To describe a recently discovered consequence of global warming

7. According to the professor, what problem is assisted migration intended to overcome?

A. To diminishing amount of undeveloped land that species can migrate through

B. The relative lack of nutrients available in cooler latitudes and higher elevations

C. The increase in alternations between cool and warm periods

D. Competition from other species in certain native habitats 8. What point does the professor make when she discusses the cane toad?

A. Translocated species sometimes die out from lack of food B. Translocated species may spread too quickly in their new environment

C. Several techniques are available to achieve assisted migration

D. Animal species are often easier to translocate than plant species are

9. What does the professor imply when she mentions translocating networking of species?

A. There are aspects of interdependency that are unknown B. Some species evolve in ways that help them survive in new habitats

C. It is difficult to know how far to move a network of species from its native habitat

D. Many assisted-migration plans should involve the translocation of just one species

10. What does the professor imply about the government?s role in regulating assisted migration in the United States?A. The government should continue to encourage assisted migration

B. The government has created policies that have proved unhelpful

C. The government should follow the example set by other countries

D. The government needs to increase its involvement in the issue

11. What is the professor?s attitude toward the effort to save the Florida torreya?

A. She is glad that some conservationists are willing to take a chance on assisted migration

B. She is concerned because it may have unintended

consequences

C. She is surprised because other species are more endangered than Florida torreya is

D. She expects the effort will have to be repeated several times before it succeeds

Lecture-2

12. What is the lecture mainly about?

A. The influence of the Romantic style of music on eastern European composers

B. The relationship between nationalism and popular music in the early 1900s

C. The popularity of folk music in Austria-Hungary during the early 1900s

D. The influence of folk music on the compositions of one Hungarian composer

13. What does the professor imply about romantic music in Austria-Hungary in the early 1900s?

A. It was not as popular there as it was in other European countries

B. It motivated Bart?k to listen to other typesof music C. It was listened to in the countryside more than it was in the cities

D. Its popularity was due to the workof Bart?k and other ethnomusicologists

14. Why does the professor mention local celebrations in the countryside?

A. To show how folk music influenced composers throughout Eastern Europe

B. To give an example of when performances of Bart?k music took place

C. To give an example of occsaions when Bart?k had an opportunity to hear folk music

D. To talk about why romantic music was popular in the countryside

15. What was Bart?k original goal when he started to travel through eastern Europe?

A. To promote his ballet, the wooden prince B. To document the local popular music

C. To discover which musical elements were popular in all countries

D. To find unusual musical elements he could use in his own compositions

16. According to the professor, why was Bart?k music popular in Austria- Hungary?

A. Bart?k music was considered more sophisticated than other concer-thall music

B. Bart?k compositions incorporated music from the local culture

C. People were familiar with the Romantic elements Bart?k included in his music

D. Bart?k took advantage of the popularity of ballet there and wrote many new ballets

17. What does the pro fessor mea n whe n he says this重听题

A. He wants to change the topic of discussion

B. He wants to acknowledge that the students may not be familiar with Bart?k?s music

C. He believes the students should already be familiar with the term ,glissando?

D. He will use an example of glissando to help define the

term

Conversation-2

18. Why does the man go to see the professor?

A. To find out how to distinguish between different types of whale songs

B. To request permission to change the topic of his paper C. To discuss the difference between using the internet and using books to find sources

D. To get help locating some information for his paper 19. What is the topic of the man?s paper? A. How whales hold their breath B. Whale migration patterns C. Characteristic of whale habitats

D. The differences between the circulatory system of whales and that of other mammals

20. What is the professor?s attitude toward the man?s question about how whales hold their breath?

A. She thinks he does not need to spend a lot of time looking for the answer

B. She is surprised because she has already addressed this question in class

C. She dismissed it as unimportant

D. She is pleased that has a plan to obtain the answer himself 21. Why does the professor mention the limited time students have to complete their papers?

A. To suggest that looking at research on the internet is a good way to save time

B. To point out that the library has reduced the amount of time it is open each day

C. To indicate her expectations for the amount of research to

be done for the paper

D. To emphasizethe important of starting to write the paper a couple of weeks before it is due

22. According to the professor, how does a whale conserve oxygen while underwater? Click on 2 answersA. Its heart rate decreases

B. Its lung capacity temporarily increases C. It slows the pace of its swimming D. Blood flow to certain organs is decreased Lecture-3

23. What is the lecture mainly about? A. The history of language in ancient Egypt

B. The process that was used to create hieroglyphic writing C. The competition between two scholars to solve an archaeological puzzle

D. The circumstances that led to the solution of an archaeological puzzle

24. What was demotic script used for in ancient Egypt? A. Decorations on temples and monuments B. Administrative documents C. Illustration for stories D. Representations of objects

25. Why was ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing difficult for scholars to interpret?

A. The language that it was based on was no longer used B. The same words were often represented by several different symbols

C. It consisted of a mixture of three different languages D. Only fragments of it were found

26. What is the professor?s opinion about ThomasYoung?s

word with hieroglyphs?

A. She feels that Young has not received the credit he deserves

B. She is amazed that Young?s conclusion about hieroglyphs was correct

C. She is surprised that Youngdid not recognize his own accomplishments