Question 2 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

Conversation One

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M: You are a professor of physics at the University of Oxford. You’re a senior adviser at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. You also seem to tour the globe tirelessly giving talks. And, in addition, you have your own weekly TV show on science. Where do you get the energy?

W: (1) [Oh, well, I just love what I do. I’m extremely fortunate to have this life, doing what I love doing.]

M: Professor, what exactly is your goal? Why do you do all of this?

W: Well, as you said, (2) [I do have different things going on, but these, I think, can be divided into two groups: the education of science and the further understanding of science.]

M: Don’t these two things get in the way of each other? What I mean is, doesn’t giving lectures take time away from the lab?

W: Not really, no. I love teaching, and I don’t mind spending more time doing that now than in the past. (3) [Also, what I will say is that teaching a subject helps me comprehend it better myself.] I find that it furthers my own knowledge when I have to explain something clearly, when I have to aid others in understanding it, and when I have to answer questions about it. Teaching at a high level can be very stimulating for anyone, no matter how much expertise they may already have in the field they are instructing.

M: Are there any scientific breakthroughs that you see on the near horizon? A significant discovery or invention we can expect soon?

W: The world is always conducting science and there are constantly new things being discovered. (4) [In fact, right now we have too much data sitting in computers.] For example, we have thousands of photos of planet Mars taken by telescopes that nobody has ever seen. (4) [We have them, yet nobody has had time to look at them with their own eyes, let alone analyze them.]

2. What has the woman been engaged in?

解析：D。题目中问到女士一直以来的工作，女士在录音中回答，自己的工作可以分为两类：科学教育（education of science）和对科学的深入理解（further understanding of science）。随后，男士就该话题进一步提问，相当于复述了这两类工作，即教学工作（giving lectures）和科研实验（the lab）。D项与此内容对应，故为正确答案。

错项排除：A项利用录音原词nuclear和Europe进行干扰，但录音开头说的是，女士是欧洲核能研究中心的高级顾问，这只是她工作的一部分，故排除。B项将录音中出现过的tour the globe和weekly TV show on science进行细节拼凑，但录音中说的是女士到世界各地做演讲，而非参加电视节目，故排除。C项将原文中的two groups（两类工作）曲解成了“两个小组”，故排除。