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Conversation One
對話一
W: Hi, Bill, how is it going?
女：嗨，比爾，最近怎么樣啊？
M: Oh, hi, Jane. I'm OK.How about you?
男：哦，嗨，簡。我還好，你呢？
W: You can probably tell just by looking at me.
女：你應該能看出來。
I'm really busy. Hey, what are you reading?
我真的很忙。你在讀什么書？
M: A pretty interesting article.
男：一篇非常有趣的文章。
My biology professor assigned it, and I thought I just looked it over.
我的生物學教授安排的，我原打算就是隨便看一看。
But I got really involved in it.
但是我真的被吸引了。
It's about endangered species.
它主要講得就是瀕危滅絕的物種。
W: That sounds pretty interesting.
女：聽起來確實很有趣。
I'm getting frustrated with the two research papers I'm struggling with.
我已經對我正在準備的兩篇研究論文疲于應付了
And can you believe they are both due on the same day?
你能相信它們會在同一天截止嗎？
M: That's tough.
男：確實有點困難。
W: I'll get through it.
女：我會克服的。
So what's this you are reading?
你讀的這個是什么？
M: Well, it's basically about the choices conservationists are faced with.
男：哦，這主要講的是環保主義者面臨的選擇。
You know, these days when funding is so hard to come by.
你知道的，現在籌措資金是非常困難的。
W: Wait a minute.
女：等一等
Is the focus on biology or economics?
它關注的到底是生物學還是經濟學？
M: Both. Conservationists don't have enough funding to save every endangered species in the world,
男：兩方面都有。環保主義者沒有充足的資金來挽救每一個瀕危物種，
so they have to decide based on what would be lost if a species became extinct.
因此如果一個物種滅絕了，他們不得不作出決定舍棄什么。
W: Can you give me an example of what you mean?
女：你能舉個例子來說明你所說的嗎？
M: Take for instance, two animals, the spotted owl and the tailed toad.
男：比如說，兩種動物，花斑貓頭鷹和長尾蟾蜍。
The article says the toad is unique.
文章中說這種蟾蜍是特有的。
It has no relatives.
他沒有任何支系。
But there are a lot of varieties of owls.
但是有許多種類的貓頭鷹
W: So, if that toad became extinct, we'd lose an important link in the chain of evolution, right?
女：這么說的話，如果蟾蜍滅絕了，我們就會失去進化鏈中重要的一環，是這樣嗎？
M: Exactly. But that isn't so for the owl.
男：沒錯，但是對貓頭鷹來說就不是這樣的。
So for conservationists, it might be a clear choice of which animal to save.
因此對于環保主義者來說，做出挽救哪一物種的抉擇就顯而易見了
W: I see. I am glad I don't have to make that kind of decision, aren't you?
女：我明白了。我很高興我不用做出這種決定，不是嗎？
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
問題9到11是根據上面對話所提出的問題
Question 9.What are the speakers mainly discussing?
問題9 對話中的兩個人主要在談論什么？
Question 10.What problems do conservationists have?
問題10 環保主義者面臨什么樣的問題？
Question 11.What can be inferred about the tailed toad?
問題11 關于長尾蟾蜍我們能獲知什么？
