『新东方在线托福听力』为托福考生准备了ETS托福TPO/Official 74 Con2听力练习：3. What was the student's essay for Professor Walker mainly about?原文题目答案解析，TPO/Official 74 Con2听力原文范文音频翻译。

托福TPO/Official 74 Con2听力原文3. What was the student's essay for Professor Walker mainly about?【新东方在线】

旁白：听一段学生和教授之间的对话。

Narrator：Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.

学生：您好，史蒂文森教授，您有空吗？

Student：Hello. Professor Stevenson, do you have a minute?

学生：是关于征文比赛的事，就是英语系举办的那个。

Student：It's about the essay contest. The one in the English Department.

我的作品差不多准备好了，但我想确认一下，您是接收作品的负责人吗？

Mine is almost ready, but I just want to check, you're the right person to give it to?

教授：是的，但我们得先确认你的论文符合要求。你当然是本校学生吧？而且是在读状态？

Professor：Yes, but let's just make sure your essay  meets the guidelines. You're a student of course, right? And currently enrolled?

教授：好的。这次的征文必须原本是作为课堂作业完成的，而且你需要有一份来自你教授的相关证明。你有这份证明吗？

Professor：Okay. Now this essay had to have originally been done as a class assignment, and you need a statement to that effect from your professor. Do you have that?

学生：嗯，其实我对这篇论文进行了大量修改，但它最初确实是为沃克教授的课写的作业。

Student：Well, I've actually rewritten this quite a bit, but originally it did start off as a paper for Professor Walker.

教授：好的。我们收到过不少来自她班上学生的作品。你的论文是关于什么的？

Professor：Yes. We've had quite a few from her classes. What's the essay about?

教授：别担心，我和评审工作没关系，我只是把论文转交给评审组而已。

Professor：Don't worry. I don't have anything to do with the judging. I just push the papers in their direction.

只是因为我和沃克教授是同事，

It's just that Professor Walker and I are colleagues.

我们教同一门课的不同班级，所以我总是很想知道她学生的情况。

We teach different sections of the same classes, so I'm always interested in what her students are doing.

学生：哦，是这样啊。我的论文是关于勃朗特三姐妹——艾米莉、安妮和夏洛蒂，以及她们之间是如何相互影响的。我一直很喜欢19世纪的英国小说，尤其是她们写的。

Student：Oh. Well, it's about the three Bronte sisters, Emily, Anne and Charlotte, and how they influenced each other. I've always loved 19th century English novels, especially theirs.

总之，这篇论文探讨了她们作品之间的相似之处，还引用了一些相似的段落来说明很难区分她们的风格，感觉她们就像是在互相帮助着写书一样。

Anyway, the essay, it was about similarities between their books, with some parallel passages to show how it's hard to distinguish them. It's almost like they helped each other write the books.

学生：但为了这次比赛，我加入了一些我自己家庭的内容。

Student：But then for the contest, I added some stuff from my own family.

我和我妹妹关系很好，所以我把我们高中时写的日记进行了对比。

My sister and I have a close relationship, so I compared the journals we wrote when we were in high school.

所以现在这篇论文更像是一篇回忆录，但当然也保留了之前的那些内容。

So now it's more like a memoir, but with the other stuff too, of course.

教授：我明白了。不过，规则规定论文必须是为某门特定课程而写的。对于修改这部分，我不太清楚该怎么处理。

Professor：I see. Well, it's part of the rules that it was written for a specific class. I don't know about the revisions.

不过总会有解决办法的，我们会想办法的。但无论如何，我们确实需要那位教授出具的证明。

There'll be a way around it, we'll figure something out. But at any rate, we do require documentation from the professor.

教授：对了，既然你对英国小说感兴趣，我下学期要开一门课。

Professor：By the way, since you're interested in the English novel, I'm teaching a class next semester.

对了，既然你对英国小说感兴趣，我下学期要开一门课。虽然不是同一时期的，比勃朗特姐妹时期稍晚一些，讲的是托马斯·哈代、康拉德的作品，不过都是很重要且有趣的作品。你可以考虑选这门课。

It's not exactly the same time period, it's a little later. Thomas Hardy, Conrad, but important work and interesting. You should consider taking it.

学生：嗯，其实我是新闻专业的学生。之前选那门课是为了满足人文学科的学分要求。

Student：Well, I'm actually a journalism student. I was doing a humanities requirement with that other course.

我确实很喜欢那门课，也觉得自己写的论文还不错，但下学期我可能会集中精力上新闻专业的课程。

I did enjoy it and I think I wrote a good paper, but I'll probably concentrate on journalism courses next semester.

教授：好吧，记着这事，说不定你会改变主意呢。

Professor：Well, keep it in mind just in case.

好的，谢谢。我稍后会把论文送过来，还会附上沃克教授的证明。

Student：Okay. Thanks. I'll bring that paper by later, with a note from Professor Walker. 

教授：好的。今天下午大部分时间你都能找到我。

Professor：Fine. You can catch me pretty much any time this afternoon.

The student hesitates when the professor asks about her essay. What does the professor infer from this?

3. What was the student's essay for Professor Walker mainly about?

why does the student mention that she is studying journalism?

What does the professor imply when he says this:

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