Listening audioscript

29. WHAT IS THE LECTURE MAINLY ABOUT? 
30. WHAT IS STATED IN THE LECTURE ABOUT OMMATIDIA? 
31. WHAT CAN BE INFERRED FROM THE LECTURE ABOUT BUTTERFLY 
MIGRATION? 
32. ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE ABOUT THE COMPOUND EYE? FOR EACH 
ANSWER, CLICK IN THE YES OR NO COLUMN. 
33. ACCORDING TO THE LECTURE, HOW DOES THE ABILITY TO SEE 
POLARIZED LIGHT HELP BUTTERFLIES FIND A MATE? 
34. LISTEN AGAIN TO PART OF THE LECTURE. THEN ANSWER THE QUESTION. 
 (Professor) 
Butterflies are very nearsighted, so their eyesight isn’t very clear, yet 
they’re remarkably able to detect movement. Have any of you tried to 
catch a butterfly in flight? Or possibly some of you have been frustrated 
while trying to swat a fly? 
WHY DOES THE PROFESSOR SAY THIS?
 (Professor) 
Or possibly some of you have been frustrated while trying to swat a fly? 
SPEAKING 
 
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Question 3
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(Man)
Hey, Lisa you’re a business major, right? Did you read this 
announcement?
(Woman)
Yeah and I don’t think the business department really thought it through.
I don’t think that it will help students at all. 
(Man)
Really, 
why 
not? 
(Woman)
Well, I don’t really think that a lot of students can really afford to work for 
free for a whole semester. We have a lot of expenses to take care of like 
books, tuition, and rent. 
(Man)
Yeah and those things aren’t getting any cheaper. 
(Woman)
Exactly. Students need regular jobs where they get a weekly paycheck. 
And what if you already have a job that you really enjoy; with this new 
policy you’re gonna have to quit your regular job so you can work without 
pay at these internship positions. There are going to be some really 
upset students 
(Man)
Yeah, a lot of my friends already have jobs. But what about the other 
point they make? 
(Woman)
About this helping us after we graduate? I don’t agree. 
(Man)
How 
come? 
(Woman)
Well, they talked about leadership and organizational skills, but are you 
really going to be doing the kind of work that’ll teach you those kinds of 
skills? Think about it, in those kinds of internships you are just there to do 
menial tasks, you know, just basic stuff like typing or filing documents.
(Man)
Oh, so you wouldn’t really learn anything new. 
(Woman)
Nothing very meaningful. You’re going to gain a lot more experience from 
working a regular job than from these internships that they’re going to 
make us do. I think it’s much better for our future careers to work at a 
regular job than wasting our time in these internships doing tasks that we 
already know how to do. 
(Man)
Hmm . . . I see what you mean.
Now answer the following question. You have 30 seconds to prepare an answer 
and 60 seconds to give your spoken response.