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[img]2018m9s/ct_etoefz_etoeflistz_201808_0019[/img] [br] Why does the student go
[img]2018m9s/ct_etoefz_etoeflistz_201808_0019[/img] [br] Why does the student go
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2025-02-05
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问题
[br] Why does the student go to see the professor?
Listen to a conversation between a student (S) and an American history professor (P).
S: Professor Farrington, may I ask a question about something you said in class yesterday?
P: Sure.
S: You mentioned that... about how Park City in Utah went from a boomtown in the 1800s to a ghost town and then became prosperous again. I was, well... that’s an interesting cycle, and..., well, perhaps it might be suitable topic for my research paper?
P: Sure, that might make a good topic since similar things happened at other mining towns.
S: So, comparing them might be interesting?
P: Yeah, absolutely!
S: So, what triggered the economic downturn in Park City?
P: Well, in 1870 there were fewer than 200 people living in the Park City area. After silver was discovered there the population grew very quickly. I think it reached around 10,000 by 1900, but soon after that the silver that was close to the surface had all been mined, so they had to dig deeper and deeper, which reduced the profit margin not just because it’s time consuming, but going deeper led to problems with flooding. It’s time consuming and expensive to pump water out of mines. So, that was one major factor. I mean there were other factors that contributed too like the recession and a stock market
panic in 1907. If you do write about this, you have to get into that.
S: Ok, and it was what... tourism that brought it back again?
P: Basically, yes. The ski industry kind of started about the same time in the 1920s. At first it was only a few folks hiking up to the top of the mountain and then skiing down. As the sport became popular, so did the mountains around Park City. By the 1960s, it was a major ski resort with thousands of skiers.
S: And the same with the other abandoned mining towns?
P: Well, some, but some became tourist attractions not because of skiing, but because people were interested in the history. Actually, one old mining town in the middle of the California desert... Bodie, that’s now a state park. It’s popular because the buildings have been preserved as they were in the 1940s.
S: Wow! So, maybe I could choose a couple of towns that went through that whole cycle and talk about them in some depth as a way of illustrating the general boom and bust phenomenon... maybe find some first-hand accounts?
P: Well, for this, sure, it’d be better to go into some depth about specific towns rather than talking about a lot of them in broad terms. Definitely give it a shot. But you probably won’t be able to find many diaries or personal accounts. Not many people who lived in mining towns could read or write, Oh, and also remember the impact of national events.
S: Ok, that’s understandable, the local and the national. Thanks!
选项
A、To ask the professor to recommend sources of information for a research paper
B、To get advice about a possible topic for a research paper
C、To find out why the mining industry in the western United States declined in the 1800s
D、To find out how to improve the first draft of a paper she is writing
答案
B
解析
目的主旨题。线索词为学生所说:...perhaps it might be suitable topic for my research paper?在本篇对话中,学生特来询问教授上节课所讲内容是否可作为研究论文的主题,并就论文所涉内容寻求意见。A选项属原文未提及。学生未请求教授推荐论文所需资料来源(比如书籍、期刊和网站等)。原文的确有提及some first-hand accounts,但这不属于教授推荐,教授只表明可能无法找到该资料。C选项有两处错误。一是混淆范围,题干和原文对应处的范围不一致。原文中只涉及Park City地区采矿业衰退的原因,而题干将其范围扩大至美国西部。二是“采矿业衰退原因”只是学生所寻求建议的一部分内容。D选项与原文时间不符。文中学生尚未开始写论文,而D选项描述的内容是发生在论文完成之后的修改阶段。
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