ROSA: Oh, there you are, good. Sorry I'm a bit late - there was a long queue. So, have you worked out how to deal with this assignment then? MICK: Not yet, we've only been here a couple of minutes ourselves. ROSA: Can you just remind me what the task is exactly? PETE: Well, there are two, no, three, parts to it: first, we've got to write an essay about ways of collecting data. Then ... ROSA: What's the title of the essay exactly? MICK: I've got it here: ‘Assess the two main methods of collecting data【Q21】 in social science research’. ROSA: And how much do we need to write? MICK: Fifteen hundred【Q22】 words. That's for the essay. Then, for the second part of the assignment, we have to choose one method of data collection, and 'carry out a small-scale study, making appropriate use of the method chosen to gather data from at least five【Q23】 subjects'. ROSA: And then we have to write a report on the study? PETE: That's right, of three to four thousand【Q24】 words. ROSA: Did you get as far as discussing which form of data collection we should go for - questionnaire or interview , isn't it? MICK: Yeah. I think we should use a questionnaire. It'll be so much less time-consuming than organising interviews,I reckon. Once we've agreed on the wording of it, we only have to send it out and wait for the responses. ROSA: Yes. I think it probably would be quicker. But what did that article he gave us last week say about the quality of data from questionnaires? MICK: I'm pretty sure it recommended questionnaires as a source of ‘highly reliable data’. As long as you design the questionnaire properly in the first place, the data will be fine. ROSA: No. I'm sure it talked about drawbacks as well, didn't it? Something about the response rate 【Q25】and the problems you get if it's too low. MICK: Yeah but we only need data from five subjects anyway. ROSA: I suppose so. Another drawback I remember it mentioned was that questionnaire data tends not to reveal anything unexpected,【Q26】 because it is limited to the questions fixed in advance by the researcher. MICK: Come on, ROSA. This is only a practice. It's not meant to be real research, is it? ROSA: Well. I'm not sure about that.
ROSA: Maybe I'd belter go through the article again, just to be sure. Can you remember what it was called? MICK: 'Sample Surveys in Social Science Research", I think. By Mehta.【Q27】 ROSA: M-E-H-T-A? MICK: Yeah. And he also recommended a more recent book, called 'Survey Research',【Q28】 by Bell, I think. It's in that series published by London University.【Q29】 PETE: And if we tried to use interviews instead. I saw a book in the departmental library that'll be helpful: it's called 'Interviews That Work', by Wilson, published in Oxford in nineteen eighty-eight.【Q30】 ROSA: Right. I've got a tutorial now. Can we meet up again later this week? What about Friday morning? PETE: Suits me. Eleven o'clock? ROSA: Fine. MICK: Before Friday, I think we should all look through the reading list.
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Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
观察已知信息，得知对话内容是关于某项作业的详细信息。已知图表表明，作业分为三个部分：小论文、 小规模调查以及调查报告。需填信息也很明确：小论文的题目及要求字数、小规模调查的数据收集范围，以及调查报告的字数。所以考生在听题时，实际上对对话的内容已经大致了解，带着问题去听题相对来说就容易多了。此题很简单，所听即所选。需要注意的是，不能直接写成“collect data”，因为在介词“of”后面，所以要用动名词“collecting”。
当听到原文中出现问句“And how much do we need to write?”时，应该意识到答案即将出现。接着听到“fifteen hundred words”，所以答案为 1,500。
这道题的定位词为“gather data”，当在原文中出现后随之听到“at least five subjects”，答案为 5。
通过预测，判断空格处填数字，重点听数字。原文中说“And then we have to write a report on the study? That’s right, of three to four thousand words.”通过常识推理，这句话应是“three thousand to four thousand”的省略，一篇论文的字数要求不可能是 3-4,000 字，而只可能是 3,000-4,000。
