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Why does the student go to see the professor? [originaltext]Listen to a conversa
Why does the student go to see the professor? [originaltext]Listen to a conversa
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2024-01-02
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问题
Why does the student go to see the professor?
Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor. (P = Professor, S = Student)
P: OK, Karl. How could I help you?
S: It’s about my term paper of the urban planning class. Instead of doing library research, I was thinking of doing a survey of my own and using the data in the report.
P: That’s a nice idea. I think doing this kind of hands-on project is great experience, especially if you decided to go to graduate school.
S: But I have been having a lot of problems designing a survey.
P: Ah, it’s not as easy as it looks, is it?
S: No. Now I am not even sure if I can stick with my plan or switch back to a more traditional paper.
P: Well, you might as will get some experience sooner rather than later What’s the topic again?
S: Nothing really complex. I just wanted to survey local people about the proposal for widening route 62 from a two-lane road to four-lane highway.
P: OK.
S: So how do I go about selecting the people I want to survey? A lot of what I read has stressed having a representative sample. But I’m not sure how to do it.
P: Well, yes. A representative sample is crucial. You want the people you survey to be as close to an accurate reflection of the larger population you’re interested in as possible. Imagine that the town is a cake with raisins in it and imagine that for some reason, most of the raisins end up on one side of the cake. If you cut a piece from the other side, would that be truly representative? Would that be an accurate reflection of the cake?
S: No. You’ll be missing the raisins.
P: Exactly! So for your project, what if you only survey people who live in houses along route 62, you think that would be useful?
S: Well, no. Because everyone there would probably be opposed to the widening.
P: Yes. And that’s why a representative sample is important. You don’t want a sample that’s biased, too strongly one way or the other. So, how do you do that?
S: Well, I could make sure my survey reaches people in all parts of the town.
P: Good. So how can you do that?
S: Well, I would go and make phone calls, just choose numbers at random from the local phone director instead of passing on questionnaires, because people often don’t mail them back. But I don’t see how I could get a representative sample using the phone.
P: Well. Make sure you’re getting a nice balance of numbers. Phone company can tell you what numbers have been assigned to different parts of town. For example, for numbers in my neighborhood, that was a 256 and I live on the edge of town, where I guess you’d find a lot of pro-highway people. So make sure you don’t call mostly 256 numbers.
选项
A、To discuss the results of a survey he has distributed
B、To ask for advice on how to collect data
C、To ask for an explanation of a research project the class studied
D、To ask for more time to complete his research project
答案
B
解析
题目询问学生去见教授的原因。在对话中,学生告诉教授他的学期论文想使用自己收集的数据,但他不知道如何选择想调查的人(how do I go about selecting the people I want to survey),于是教授给他讲了一些方法。因此,B项“就如何收集资料征询意见”正是学生去找教授的原因。A项“讨论他的调查结果”、C项“想让教授解释课上所做的一个研究”和D项“想让教授给他的研究项目更多时间”都没有被提及。
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