Question 4 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.]

4. How does the woman say new scientific breakthroughs can be made possible?

解析：B。四个选项均为By doing的形式，推测问题可能会问到做某事的方式或手段。男士在录音结尾对新的科学突破进行提问。女士回答，不断会有新的发现，而目前我们已经存储了太多数据，却没人有时间去看一看。女士的言外之意是，人们没有利用好现有的科学数据，也就是说，如果能充分利用现有数据，可能会有更多的科学突破问世。B项中提到了making full use of（充分利用）和the existing data（现有数据），与录音中女士暗示的含义相符，故为正确答案。

错项排除：A项中的“研究方法”未在录音中提及，故A项排除。录音中虽然提到了discovery和computer，但说的是“有新发现”和“电脑中存有数据”，并不等同于C项中的“之前的（发现）”以及D项中的“性能更强的（计算机）”，C项和D项利用细节进行干扰，故均可排除。