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10、 Have You Started Working on Your Biology Paper
你開始寫生物論文了嗎

M: Hi, Sue. Where have you been?
W: Oh. Hi, Dan. I was just at the library. I have to hand in my biology paper tomorrow.
M: Tomorrow? Oh, no, I thought it wasn’t due till Monday.
W: Oh. Don’t worry. It is due Monday. But I’m going away for the weekend and won’t be back till Monday night.
M: Oh, where are you going?
W: California. We’re having a family reunion. It’s my grandmother’s ninetieth birthday. So all the cousins and aunts and uncles are going. She planned the whole thing herself.
M: Wow. That’s great. How many people will be there?
W: Around sixty. My family is big and spread out but we’re pretty close.
So have you started working on your biology paper?
M: Yeah. I’m doing it on bees and how they’re able to recognize whether another bee is related to them.
W: How can they tell?
M: They use their sense of smell. The sweat bees guard their nests this way. If another bee approaches the nest, the guard determines if the new bee is familiar. If it is, it’s allowed to enter.
W: Interesting. Can other insects do this?
M: Well, the paper wasps can. Each wasp nest has a special combination of plant fibers and so the wasps that live there have a unique smell. Those two are the only kinds I’ve read about so far.
W: Well, you’ve still got time. It sounds like that the bees are picky about who comes to their family reunion.

---------2000年1月托福聽力試題

【托福特色詞匯】
paper 論文；報紙 [這是paper一詞在托福中最常見的兩種詞義。]

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M：嗨，蘇，你去哪了？
W：哦，嗨，丹。我剛從圖書館回來。我明天得交生物論文。
M：明天？哦，不，我還以為是星期一才交呢！
W：哦，別擔心。是星期一交。但我這個周末要出去，星期一晚上之前趕不回來。
M：是這樣。你要去哪？
W：加利福尼亞。我們有一個家庭聚會，是我祖母的90歲生日。我所有的表兄妹、叔叔、阿姨都去。我祖母親自策劃的這次聚會。
M：哇，太棒了。有多少人要去？
W：大約60人。我們的家族很大，分散在四面八方，但是關系很密切。你開始寫生物論文了嗎？
M：是的。我寫的內容是關于蜜蜂如何識別與它相關的同類的。
W：怎么識別呢？
M：用他們的感覺器官。汗蜂以此來保衛(wèi)巢穴。如果有另外一只蜜蜂靠近蜂巢，汗蜂先判斷是不是它熟悉的，如果是，就讓它進去。
W：真有趣。其他的昆蟲有沒有這樣的？
M：紙黃蜂也是。每一個黃蜂巢都有一種植物纖維的特殊的化合物，住在里面的黃蜂身上就帶有一種特殊的氣味。到目前為止我所知道的就這兩種動物是這樣。
W：你還有時間了解更多。這聽上去好像蜜蜂對去參加家庭聚會的成員要一一識別才讓進去。