『新东方在线托福听力』为托福考生准备了ETS托福TPO/Official 36 Con 1听力练习：Why does the woman mention her friend?原文题目答案解析，TPO/Official 36 Con 1听力原文范文音频翻译。

托福TPO/Official 36 Con 1听力原文Why does the woman mention her friend?【新东方在线】

旁白：听一段学生和她的学业导师之间的对话。

Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and her academic advisor.

学生：嗨，Jones教授。感谢您能抽出时间见我。

Student: Hi. Professor Jones. Thanks for seeing me.

教授：没事的，Laura。你的暑假怎么样？

Professor: No problem, Laura. How was your summer break?

学生：很好呀！但事实是暑假让我重新考虑了我的学业计划。

Student: It was great! But the fact is it's made me reconsider my academic plans.

教授：噢，真的吗？我希望没有什么太大的变动。

Professor: Oh, really? Nothing too dramatic, I hope.

学生：哦，没有。至少我不希望有大的变动。

教授：所以你具体想怎么办呢？

学生：嗯，我暑假里刚刚在美国当地的保护区工作过，是一个纳瓦霍人的保护区，在亚利桑那州。

Student: Well, I just spent the summer working on a Native American reservation, a Navajo reservation in Arizona.

我对此很着迷，所以我想学习纳瓦霍人的语言，他们的历史，宗教什么的。

And I was fascinated, so now I want to study the Navajo language, uh, their history, religion.

也许会花一个学期在那里，找个实习或者独立研究什么的？

And maybe even spend a semester there, some kind of internship or independent study?

教授：哇！听起来你是很热忱。但是你主修是社会学，我好像需要提醒你你还有个高级项目，你好像是在做关于教育的研究？

Professor: Wow! Sounds like you are really enthusiastic, but you were majoring in sociology, and I seem to recall that for your senior project, you were doing something with education?

学生：对的。我是做了一些关于东北各州的公立学校的调研，比如说他们怎么受到人口变动的影响，嗯，人口迁移的影响，在过去的五十年间。

Student: Right. I have done some research on the public schools in the northeastern states, how they've been affected by changes in population, uh, immigration trends, during the past fifty years.

但是现在我真的想去学习纳瓦霍人的历史。

But now I really want to study the culture of the Navajo people.

Professor: Well, there are a couple of options depending on your priorities.

看看这个，你是怎么过去亚利桑那州的保护区的？

Say, how did you end up on a reservation in Arizona anyway?

学生：是我的一个朋友在那边工作，在一个暑假学校的项目。

Student: Well, a friend of mine took a job there, in a summer school program.

我一开始以为这只是一次大冒险，但最后发现收获多了很多。

I thought it would be just a big adventure, but it turned out to be much more than that.

教授：我明白了。无论如何，我说，你的决定要根据你自己的偏好，看你自己到底想学什么。

Professor: I see. Well, anyway...as I am saying, your options depend on what your priorities are and on exactly what you want to study.

学生：呃，就像我说的……纳瓦霍文化？

Student: Uh, like I said...Navajo culture?

Professor: Well, let's see if we can be more specific.

如果你想去学习纳瓦霍语言，了解更多他们的宗教和历史，那是属于一部分人类学范畴的。

If you want to study the Navajo language, learn about their religion, their history, that's part of cultural anthropology.

学生：不，我现在真的不想改变主修学科。

Student: No. I really don't want to change majors at this point.

我喜欢社会学，我真的想用四年时间在这个专业上顺利毕业。

I love sociology and I really want to graduate in four years.

教授：好吧。现在我明白你的优先权给哪个学科了。

Professor: Okay. Now I see what your priorities are.

所以从社会学的角度，因为你对教育感兴趣，你可以还是以教育为主题，把你的研究课题改成美国本土居民的经历和公立教育，他们会对教育产生的影响。

So from a sociological perspective, since you are interested in education, you can stay with that, change your research topic to the Native American experience with public education, the effect it had.

你可以修读一些关于宗教的社会学的课程，或者是少数民族在社会中的角色的课程，同时可以集中注意力研究纳瓦霍人。

And you could take sociology courses on religion or the role of minorities in society, again, focusing your research on the Navajo.

学生：嗯……我从没有从这个角度想过。

Student: Um...I hadn't thought about that angle.

所有我已经修完的课程还会帮我拿学位吗？

And all the courses I have already taken would still count toward my degree?

记得提醒我仔细规划下你的学业计划，让你能顺利达到拿学位的要求。但是我觉得问题不大。

And remind me to plan carefully to make sure all your degree requirements are met, but I don't see any problems.

学生：太好了！那么我可以选修纳瓦霍人的语言和文化的课程了！

Student: Great! And then I can pick up the language and culture courses as electives.

Why does the woman visit her academic advisor?

What does the woman say about her summer experience?

Why does the professor mention the effect of education on Native American societies?

What does the woman imply when she says this?

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