Conversation Two
对话二

M: You're going to wear out the computer's keyboard.
男：电脑键盘要被你弄坏啦。
W: Oh. Hi.
女：哦，你好！
M: Do you have any idea what time it is?
男：你知道现在几点了吗？
W: About 10:00 or 10:30?
女：大概10点，或10点半吧。
M: It's nearly midnight.
男：已经快到深夜了。
W: Really? I didn't know it was so late.
女：真的吗？我没注意到已经这么晚了。
M: Don't you have an early class to teach tomorrow morning?
男：你明天早上不是还有一节课要上吗？
W: Yes, at 7:00. My commuter class—the students who go to work right after their lesson.
女：是的，7点有一节课。这节课是要给每天上下班的人上的，学生上完课就要去工作。
M: Then you ought to go to bed. What are you writing anyway?
男：那你该睡觉了。好吧，你现在在写什么呢？
W: An article I hope I can sell.
女：一篇文章，我希望这篇文章会有销路。
M: Oh, another of your newspaper pieces. What's this one about?
男：哦，又是你的新闻报道吧？这篇文章写什么的？
W: Do you remember that trip I took last month?
女：你还记得我上个月的旅行么？
M: The one up to the Amazon?
男：去亚马逊的那次？
W: Well, that's what I'm writing about.
女：嗯，我就在写这次旅行。
The new highway and the changes it's making in the Amazon valley.
新建的公路，还有亚马逊流域发生的变化。
M: It should be interesting.
男：那肯定很有趣。
W: It is. I guess that's why I forgot all about the time.
女：的确。我想肯定就是这样我才忘了时间。
M: How many articles have you sold now?
男：你现在已经卖出多少篇文章了？
W: About a dozen so far.
女：到现在为止，大概有十二篇吧。
M: What kind of newspapers buy them?
男：什么样的报纸会刊登这些文章呢？
W: The papers that carry a lot of foreign news.
女：刊登国外新闻的报纸。
They usually appear in the big Sunday editions where they need a lot of background stories to help fill up the space between the ads.
这些文章通常出现在星期天版，报纸需要很多背景故事来填满广告之间的地方。
M: Is there any future in it?
男：你的文章会在上面发表吗？
W: I hope so. There's a chance I may sell this article to a news service.
女：但愿能吧！我有可能有机会把这篇文章发到通讯社去。
M: Then your story would be published in several papers, wouldn't it?
男：那你的故事就会发表在好几份杂志上，对吗？
W: That's the idea. And it might even be able to do other stories on a regular basis.
女：就是这样。还有可能定期发表其他文章呢。
M: That would be great.
男：给32个赞！

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
根据你刚才听到的对话，回答12至15题。
Question 12.What is the woman's occupation?
问题12.这位女士的职业是什么？
Question 13.What is the woman writing about?
问题13.这位女士所写文章是关于什么内容的？
Question 14.Where did the woman's articles usually appear?
问题14.这位女士的文章经常出现在什么地方？
Question 15.What does the woman expect?
问题15.这位女士有什么期望？