Vol 7 Test 1 Part 3

Part 3
Part 3. You will hear two graduate students called Jen and Bill discussing the write-up of their group project. First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25. What's up Jen? How are you? Oh, hey Bill. Where's everybody else? I don't know.
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You're the first to get here. Well, I hope they don't take too long. I have a class at noon.
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Why don't we at least discuss what we've completed and what's left to do? Sounds like a plan. Have you heard anything from Irene? Yeah, Irene told me the experiment is just about done. She's been practically living in the lab the past week.
Wow, we owe her a favour, don't we? You can say that again. Has Kim been helping her? I thought that lab work was not her style. Well, not so much in the lab, but she has started compiling the data for the analysis.
Kim is terrific. I hate doing stats. I've always been bad at math.
I always thought there wasn't anything to that boys are good at math theory. Yes, and I’m a proof. Anyway, Kim hasn't actually run the stats for the project yet, since she still has to wait for the rest of the experiment data. But she's ready to get started when we get the experiment done.
Seriously, without Irene and Kim, we'd be in trouble. Yeah, you're right about that. So what about Linda? What's she been up to? Who knows? All she ever talks about is her fiancé.
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I haven't seen or heard from her all week. Well, I hope she turns up soon. We'll need everyone if we're going to get this done on time.
Yeah, and she knows that Professor Cooper is a hard grader of projects. I'm worried that Professor Cooper is not going to give us a passing grade. Anyway, we haven't talked about the introduction yet.
Have you finished reading those articles Professor Cooper gave us? Bill, she gave us those two weeks ago. Hey, I've been busy. And I haven't.
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Come on, Bill. Jen, you know we all depend on you for that. You're the only person I know that reads every assignment from beginning to end.
You and Professor Cooper often have private discussions about readings in the middle of class. But hey, I'm not complaining. That's why all the rest of us asked you to be on our team.
Oh, so that's why. So it wasn't because I'm popular, huh? Hey, you're the best. No one's going to argue that.
Hey, I'm thirsty. You want something to drink? No, I'm good. Okay, I'll be right back.
Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30. Now listen and answer questions 26 to 30. They're still not here? Nope.
And I've got a class I got to get to. Well, let's divide up responsibilities, like who's responsible for each section. It only makes sense that Irene writes up all the materials and methods since she spent the most time with that.
Oh, that's easy. Hey, didn't you just say we owe her one? Yeah, yeah, you're right. Irene can do the methodology section.
Do you want to do the results? Not at all. I thought Kim would do that. Just because she is good at stats doesn't mean she'll be good at writing it up.
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And besides, you are the one good at copy editing. Well, all the same, I think it'll be easiest if she does the results section. I'll edit the whole report.
Come on, that's asking a lot of you. Well, what part are you going to do, Jen? Isn't that obvious? Since I'm the one who does all the reading. I'm sure you'll give us the best literature review, Jen.
We're all counting on you for that. I guess that leaves the discussion section and the bibliography. Yeah, can you make suggestions on these? Okay, but seriously, wouldn't it make more sense if you do the list of references? There are enough commas, capital letters, and parentheses to keep you happy in there.
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Yeah, you got a point. It sure does make sense that I do the bibliography. I guess Linda could handle the discussion section, even if she hasn't been around much.
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Yeah, but isn't that like the most important section? Well, what else is she going to do? The whole paper. It'll serve her right. Then we'd all fail.
Okay, but I think we all should start messaging her to make sure she gets busy. The discussion section can be long. What about the abstract? You really don't want me to do the abstract, do you? That's not the point.
I just think that the abstract should be for whoever finishes first. Right. That is the end of Part 3. You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to Part 3.