【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文]
CLARE: Hi, Grant. What sort of competition do you think we should organise?
GRANT: Well, Clare, the Open Day Committee was pretty clear on that—it must be something with youth appeal.
CLARE: That makes sense—after all, most of the visitors will have just left high school.
GRANT: Yeah, so I was thinking—technology.
CLARE: Do you mean something which uses the latest technology—like an iPod?
GRANT: Something like that but a bit more expensive maybe.
CLARE: What about the latest iPhone? I"m saving up for one right now.
GRANT: Let"s make it an iPad —I wish I"d had a tablet computer when I started university.
CLARE: Yeah...that"s a great idea. That should get a lot of our younger visitors interested.
GRANT: Right...let"s go with that then.
CLARE: Fine. We could go into town now and buy it. I saw great deals advertised at the Rick Smith store.
GRANT: Oh, I don"t think we"ll have to worry about that. A university purchase order will probably be arranged through the Resources and Supplies Section .
CLARE: Well, that"s settled then. What about the competition—is it going to be a game of skill or a guessing game or something else?
GRANT: What do you think would work best?
CLARE: Good question. I don"t think it should be anything too hard or anything that will make the visitors look silly—some of them have such fragile egos.
GRANT: True. So...something that anyone can do?—Nothing competitive—no skill or intelligence involved?
CLARE: That"s right. But the main thing is that the contestants have a lot of fun .
GRANT: How do we do that?
CLARE: Well, I was thinking of a popular TV series: science fiction or science fantasy—I don"t actually know the difference.
GRANT: Go on.
CLARE: It"s a series where in every episode the main characters step through a portal into another world or another era .
GRANT: What"s a portal?
CLARE: It"s like a gateway or entrance to something...
GRANT: Okay, I get it—they"ll be stepping into the new world of tertiary learning—so somehow we encourage people to step through this "portal"—then what?
CLARE: They get their photo taken.
GRANT: Is that all?
CLARE: Not exactly—let me think.
GRANT: I can"t see how that"s a competition...unless we pick the best photograph...but there"s not much excitement or involvement in that for the participants!
CLARE: Mmm. Wait. We don"t decide on the winner...I mean no one person does...we get them, the public, to do it.
GRANT: How?
CLARE: Put all the photos on Facebook—and the one with the most votes wins.
GRANT: I agree...good idea. But there"s just one more thing I"m not clear about—how do we get hold of a portal?
CLARE: I was thinking graduates of the Engineering Department could construct it as part of their contribution to Open Day.
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GRANT: How do visitors enter the competition on Open Day?
CLARE: Well, firstly, they have to make their way to the "portal photo booth " on campus.
GRANT: Okay—a bit like a treasure hunt to start with.
CLARE: Yes, and then they get their photo taken stepping through the portal.
GRANT: And they"ll have to write down their details —you know, name, phone number, email...No, hang on... let"s keep it simple—just name and email address should do.
CLARE: Then after, say, the thirtieth of July, people can visit the university Facebook page and vote for their favourite photo.
GRANT: So the photo with the most votes wins.
CLARE: Yes, I think that should generate quite a bit of interest.
GRANT: What about a cut-off date?
CLARE: Of course...maybe, uh...the most popular photo as of 5 pm on the tenth of August will collect the iPad.
GRANT: And the winner will be notified by email.
CLARE: And...the winning photo will be enlarged and published in full colour on the university Facebook page.