中级听力面向有一定英语基础的学习者。本期的听力训练会带来选课到课的情景话题，请结合mp3以及下方的原文和翻译，开始今天的中级听力练习吧！

听力原文及翻译

B: My parents told me that I can't afford to goof around. They want me to be in the top of my class like graduation.

B：我父母告诉我，我不能混日子。他们希望我毕业时能成为班里最优秀的学生。

A: Wow, that's a lot of pressure. But can't you skip studying just this once?

A：哇，压力好大。但你就不能放下学习玩一次吗？

B: No, I can't. I Learned my lesson at the beginning of the semester, I put off studying and I bombed my tests. My parents were so mad.

B：不行。学期开始时我就吸取了教训，我推迟学习，考试不及格。我父母非常生气。

A: I hate pop quizzes. Their purpose is to catch us off guard, to see if we've been studying. If I don't know a test is coming, I get a low grade on it.

A：我讨厌突击测验。它们的目的是让我们措手不及，看看我们是否一直在学习。如果我不知道考试就要到了，我就会得到一个低分。

B: I feel the same way about them! They're enough to keep me on edge every day at school, that's why I prefer scheduled quizzes. Anyway I had to drop out of one of my classes so that I could pull my grade back up.

B：我也这样觉得！它们足以让我每天在学校都紧张不安，所以我更喜欢有计划的测验。无论如何，我不得不退出其中一门课，这样我才能把成绩拉回来。

A: Really? What class did you drop?

A：真的吗？你退了什么课？

B: History, it's much better to drop it than failing it or getting a C or D in it. But I'm going to retake it next semester, I'll study more during the Christmas break to catch up.

B：历史，退掉它比不及格或得到C或D要好得多。但我下学期会重考，我会为了赶上进度在圣诞假期多学习。

A: Well you've become quite a bookworm, you should get an A for effort.

A：天啊，你真的成了一个书呆子，你的努力也该得到一个A了。

B: I hope my teachers agree.

B：希望我的老师们也这么认为。

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