文档介绍：TPO 17 Listening Script
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目录
Conversation ....................................................................................................... 1
Lecture-Art History(Prehistoric Art Dating) .............................................................. 4
Lecture-Environmental Science(Milankovitch Hypothesis) ......................................... 7
Conversation ....................................................................................................... 9
Lecture-History(Ancient Egyptian Calendar) .......................................................... 12
Lecture-Biology(Octopus).................................................................................... 15

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

Professor
OK, let’s see. Right, Modern Stagings of a Shakespearian Classic. Well, like I told you
last week, I think that’s a great topic for you paper. So the title would be something
like ... uh ...

Student
I am not really sure, probably something like 20th century stagings of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.

Professor
Yes, I like that. Straightforward and to the point. So how is the research going?

Student
Well, that’s what I came to talk to you about. I was wondering if you happen to have
a copy of the Peter Brook production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in your video
collection. I’ve been looking for it everywhere and I am having a really hard time
tracking it down.
Professor
That’s because it doesn’t exist.

Student
You mean in your collection ? Or at all?

Professor
I mean at all. That particular production was never filmed or recorded.

Student
Oh no. I had no idea. From what I read, that production, like, it influenced every
other production of the play that came after it. So I just assumed it had been filmed
or videotaped.

Professor
Oh, It definitely was a landmark production. And it