Conversation Two
对话二

W: Hi, Bill, how is it going?
女：嗨，比尔，你最近怎么样？
M: Oh, hi, Jan. I'm OK. How about you?
男：哦，还，简B22vm=Ln81Ly9c5MUC。我很好dCDisExxmnBUds6u%]。你呢？
W: You can probably tell just by looking at me. I've been really busy. Hey, what are you reading?
女：你看看我的样子就应该知道了u&gNfXP^]gKJa1。我最近非常忙_8GkThva-UIbQ。你在读什么？
M: A pretty interesting article. My biology professor assigned it, and I thought I just look it over. But I got really involved in it. It's about endangered species.
男：一篇很有趣的文章@t[4ncgmmBC3ii7。我的生物学教授给我们安排的任务，刚开始我只想浏览一遍W0V0tKvn2HmyS]@I1。但是后来我被它吸引了z7u]d|-hDHX@1%Nj1d。是关于濒危物种的文章-tub[M*_Xy2t~pZ。
W: That sounds pretty interesting. I'm getting frustrated with the two research papers I'm struggling with.
女：听上去很有意思A!QY6Skxsj39Mr+。我对我那两篇令人头疼的研究论文都泄气了&rF(7vVpZvQ。
M: Oh?
男：哦？
W: And can you believe they are both due on the same day?
女：你知道吗，它们两个竟然要在同一天上交Hla&@i1[Tj#Q7Jj&PP^。
M: That's tough.
男：这么惨&|4BMKEKdyzU。
W: I'll get through it. So what's this you are reading?
女：我会挺过去的y511M4Vl@NAdSOIoi9。你读的文章是说什么的？
M: Well, it's basically about the choices conservationists faced with. You know, on these days when funding is so hard to come by.
男：主要是关于环保人士面临的选择D!LqvAH2ceUfU。你也知道，这年头资金很难到位bBd],WKt*D#cN。
W: Wait a minute. Is the focus on biology or economics?
女：等一下0)!Iuj.7;~]。它到底是讲生物的还是讲经济的？
M: Both. Conservationists don't have enough funding to save every endangered species in the world, so they have to decide based on what would be lost if a species became extinct.
男：两方面都有|g2*9=@hv4tK)uE0l。环保人士没有足够的资金来拯救全世界所有的濒危物种，所以他们不得不根据某个物种灭绝所带来的损失来做出决定-X0XP]bVCzvOBg^。
W: Can you give me an example of what you mean?
女：你能把你刚才说的给我举个例子吗？
M: Take for instance, two animals, the spotted owl and the tailed toad. The article says the toad is unique. It has no relatives. But there are a lot of varieties of owls.
男：拿两种动物，斑点猫头鹰和长尾蟾蜍举例mqmNe,%&.7,Spp%hME(r。文章中说长尾蟾蜍是很独特的物种，没有亲缘物种，但是猫头鹰的种类有很多(BzBmgK*+6&N。
W: So, if that toad became extinct, we'd lose an important link in the chain of evolution, right?
女：所以，如果这种蟾蜍绝种的话，对于进化研究就少了一个重要的线索，是这样吗？
M: Exactly. But that isn't so for the owl. So for conservationists, it might be clear choice of which animal to save.
男：没错48m0O.|ihB^X~G。但是猫头鹰的情况不同*zT;O.NUTGJF#17z0!K。所以，对于环保人士来说，应该救哪种动物答案已经很明确了Q2bR0CwsSBTurD0-2Fp。
W: I see. I am glad I don't have to make that kind of decision. Aren't you?
女：我知道了&,+OC,[DFsNv。我很庆幸我不需要做这种决定k%W5aJ.8l&_Q。你觉得呢？

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
问题5-8是基于刚才你所听到的这段对话的y6IWFj9Zyfi。
Question 5.Why is the woman so busy?
问题5 女士为什么这么忙？
Question 6.What problems do conservationists have?
问题6 环保人士遇到了什么问题？
Question 7.What can be inferred about the tailed toad?
问题7 关于长尾蟾蜍我们可以推测出什么？
Question 8. What can we learn from the conversation?
问题8 我们从对话中可以了解什么？

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