单选题 Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
M: Jessica, what do you want to be when you grow up?
W: Well, um, I wanna be a physician"s assistant.
M: What is a physician"s assistant?
W: Well, normally when you go into the doctor"s office, you would get your doctor and all they do is check... give you check-ups or you know maybe take out stitches or something, not surgery. You just go in and do the little things. So the doctor does not have to do them.
M: Oh. So that is what you want to do?
W: Yeah. And make lots of money.
M: You wanna make lots of money?
W: Nothing wrong with that.
M: How do you become a physician"s assistant? I can"t even say it.
W: It"s a lot of schooling. You have like four or six years of college and you obviously take the, like nursing and other kinds of classes like that and then you do like urn, two or four years at like a hospital as a...
M: Like an assistant, or...
W: Like, like you"re actually doing the work.
M: Oh, an intern.
W: An intern, yeah! An internship for two or four years at a hospital.
M: Then that"s it? You finish?
W: And then you hopefully go on and maybe have your own little doctor"s place and open that up or something.
M: Well, best wishes on becoming a physician"s assistant. I"m sure you"ll make a good one.
W: Thank you.

What is the responsibility of a physician"s assistant?

[解析] 本对话三道题选项中的arrange the appointment,help the doctor,schooling and internship和physician"s assistant表明,对话可能与医院的工作有关。
选项内容均与医院相关表明,本题可能考查某人的工作内容。
细节理解题。对话开头处女士提到她想做一名医生助理,男士随后问女士医生助理的工作内容是什么。女士回答说就是帮助医生做许多小事情,这样医生就不必自己去做了,C是对原文的同义转述,故为答案。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
What can we learn about being a physician"s assistant?

[解析] 结合对话主题及选项中的requires schooling and internship,only takes females,takes pains和interesting可知,本题可能考查某项医院工作的要求或性质。
细节理解题。对话中男士问女士如何才能成为医生助理。女士说需要大量的学校教育,四到六年的大学学习,参加护理或其他类似课程,而且还要在医院等类似机构做两到四年的实习生,故答案为A。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
What is the ultimate goal of the woman?

[解析] 选项均以“to+动词原形”开头,结合其中的become a doctor,run a private practice和be a physician"s assistant可知,本题可能考查某人的职业打算,可能与医生助理的工作有关。
综合推断题。对话最后男士问女士还有无其他打算,女士说她希望能够做医生,有自己的小天地,并且能够开业什么的。由此可知,女士是打算自己开一家私人诊所,故答案为B。