模拟测试卷5-2019-8月新卷 What factor helps the student decide which language he will study?

[00:00.00]Narrator：Listen to a conversation between a student and his academic advisor. [00:07.10]Advisor:Nice to see you, Steve. So how are your classes going this semester?[00:13.80]Steve:Yeah, so far so good. I like all my professors and I’m really interested in the stuff I’m learning so yeah, good.[00:21.90]Advisor:I’m glad to hear that. [00:23.90]Steve:Yeah, but next semester I’m not so sure about.[00:27.50]Advisor:Oh? [00:28.50]Steve:I went back and I was looking through the course descriptions for the four courses I'm signed up for.[00:34.00]Advisor:Yes?[00:35.40]Steve:And I noticed that none of them have a final exam. They all have a final paper.[00:40.80] And then I did the math and figured out I have to hand in more than a hundred pages during the last week of class. I almost fainted.[00:49.30]Advisor:Oh, my! I don’t know how I missed that.[00:52.80]Steve:Well, those courses all sound so interesting and that’s all I was thinking about.[00:58.50]Advisor:Yes, but I should have… Anyway, so right now you’re registered for?[01:04.40]Steve:Introduction to World Poetry. [01:07.30]Advisor:Okay.[01:08.80]Steve:The European Novel.[01:10.20]Advisor:Okay.[01:11.20]Steve:Science in the Ancient World.[01:13.60]Advisor:Okay.[01:14.80]Steve:Oh, the special seminar on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.[01:19.00]Advisor:Okay. [01:20.10]Steve:I need Introduction to Poetry and the European Novel courses for my major and they’re hard to get into to so I think I better keep those.[01:29.80]Advisor:Okay, that makes sense. What about the other two?[01:33.10]Steve:Okay, I hate to do this but I think I’m going to have to drop both of them.[01:37.90]Advisor:Oh.[01:38.50]Steve:Yeah, I’m so nervous about the literature courses. They’re going to be tough, so I should replace the other two.