Conversation One

　　W: Can I help you?

　　M: Yes, I’m looking for a book on the presidential election system in the United States.

　　W: Well, all of our textbooks are arranged by subject and course number in the back of the store. Is this a required text for one of the University’s political science courses?

　　M: No, it isn’t. I’ve already looked through all the political science books in the back, but the ones I saw only had a few pages, at most, on the topic.

　　W: How about the paperback section? There may be something there.

　　M: Okay.

　　W: Or better yet, you should try looking in Books in Print.

　　M: I’ve never heard of that. What is it?

　　W: It’s an index that lists all of the books currently available from publishers. If you have a specific book in mind, you can look under the author’s last name.

　　M: But I don’t.

　　W: Then look directly under your subject, presidential elections.

　　M: What happens if I find a book I want?

　　W: Well, if it’s not in stock, we can order it for you.

　　Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　19. What is the man looking for?

　　【解析】選[B]。男士說“I’m looking for a book on the presidential election system...”，后來說到“I’ve already looked through all the political science books”，由此可以推斷，a book on the presidential election system屬于the political science books。因此，他要尋找的是[B] A political science book。

　　20. Where does the woman first direct the man to?

　　【解析】選[C]。當男士說需要一本關于總統選舉體制的書時，女士以為他說的是textbook，于是馬上說“all of our textbooks are ...in the back of the store”。因此，選項[C]符合題干要求。

　　21. What kinds of books are listed in Books in Print?

　　【解析】選[C]。女士說“you should try looking in Books in Print”，在男士不知道什么是Books in Print的情況下，女士解釋說，Books in Print是“an index that lists all of the books currently available from publishers”，選項[C]符合題干要求。注意，in print是指“(books)currently available from publishers，正在出售的”;out of print是它的反義詞組，表示“已售完”，也很常用。