Research on Doctors剑桥雅思8-听力原文翻译及答案解析

一、Research on Doctors听力原文：

I’ve been doing some research into what people in Britain think of doctors,the ones who work in general practice-the first call for medical care-and comparing this with the situation in a couple of other countries.

I want to talk about the rationale behind what I decided to do.

Now I had to set up my programme of research in three different countries so I approached postgraduates in my field in overseas departments,contacting them by email,to organise things for me at their end.

I thought I would have trouble recruiting help but in fact everyone was very willing and sometimes their tutors got involved too.

I had to give my helpers clear instructions about what kind of sample population I wanted them to use.

I decided that people under 18 should be excluded because most of them are students or looking for their first job,and also I decided at this stage just to focus on men who were in employment,and set up something for people who didn't have jobs and for employed women later on as a separate investigation.

I specifically wanted to do a questionnaire,and interviews with a focus group.

With the questionnaire,rather than limiting it to one specific point,I wanted to include as much variety as possible.

I know questionnaires are a very controlled way to do things but I thought I could do taped interviews later on to counteract the effects of this.

And the focus group may also prove useful in future,by targeting subjects I can easily return to,as the participants tend to be more involved.

So I'm just collating the results now.

At the moment it looks as if,in the UK,despite the fact that newspapers continually report that people are unhappy with medical care,in fact it is mainly the third level of care,which takes place in hospitals,that they are worried about.

Government reforms have been proposed at all levels and although their success is not guaranteed,long-term hospital care is in fact probably less of an issue than the media would have us believe.

However,I've still got quite a bit of data to look at.

Certainly I will need to do more far-reaching research than I had anticipated in order to establish if people want extra medical staff invested in the community,or if they want care to revert to fewer,but larger,key medical units.

The solution may well be something that can be easily implemented by those responsible in local government,with central government support of course.

This first stage has proved very valuable though.

I was surprised by how willing most of the subjects were to get involved in the project-1 had expected some unwillingness to answer questions honestly.

But I was taken aback and rather concerned that something I thought I'd set up very well didn’t necessarily seem that way to everyone in my own department.

I thought you might also be interested in some of the problems I encountered in collecting my data.

There were odd cases that threw me-one of the subjects who I had approached while he was out shopping in town,decided to pull out when it came to the second round.

It was a shame as it was someone who I would like to have interviewed more closely.

And one of the first-year students I interviewed wanted reassurance that no names would be traceable from the answers.

I was so surprised,because they think nothing of telling you about themselves and their opinions in seminar groups!

Then,one of the people that I work with got a bit funny.

The questions were quite personal and one minute he said he'd do it,then the next day he wouldn't,and in the end he did do it.

It's hard not to get angry in that situation but I tried to keep focused on the overall picture in order to stay calm.

The most bizarre case was a telephone interview I did with a teacher at a university in France.

He answered all my questions in great detail-but then when I asked how much access he had to dangerous substances he wouldn't tell me exactly what his work involved.

It’s a real eye-opener…

二、Research on Doctors听力中文翻译：

我一直在研究英国人对医生的看法，这些医生是全科医生——第一个需要医疗护理的人——并将其与其他几个国家的情况进行比较。

我想谈谈我决定做什么的理由。

现在，我不得不在三个不同的国家设立我的研究项目，所以我接触了我所在领域的海外院系的研究生，通过电子邮件联系他们，在他们那里为我组织事情。

我原以为我在招聘帮手方面会遇到困难，但事实上每个人都非常愿意，有时他们的导师也会参与进来。

我必须给我的助手们明确的指示，告诉他们我希望他们使用什么样的样本群体。

我决定，18岁以下的人应该被排除在外，因为他们大多数是学生或正在寻找第一份工作。我还决定在现阶段只关注那些有工作的男性，并为那些没有工作的人和就业女性建立一个单独的调查。

我特别想做一份问卷调查，并采访一个焦点小组。

对于调查问卷，我不想将其局限于一个特定的点，而是希望尽可能多地包含多样性。

我知道问卷调查是一种非常可控的方式，但我想我可以稍后做录音采访来抵消这种影响。

而焦点小组在未来也可能证明是有用的，因为参与者往往会更多地参与进来，所以我可以很容易地回到主题中。

所以我现在正在整理结果。

目前看来，在英国，尽管报纸不断报道人们对医疗不满意，但实际上他们担心的主要是发生在医院的第三级护理。

各级政府都提出了改革建议，虽然不能保证改革的成功，但长期医院护理实际上可能不像媒体让我们相信的那样是一个问题。

然而，我还有很多数据要看。

当然，我需要做比我预期的更深远的研究，以确定人们是否希望在社区投入更多的医务人员，或者他们是否希望恢复到较少但较大的关键医疗单位。

当然，在中央政府的支持下，地方政府负责人很可能很容易实施解决方案。

但事实证明，第一阶段非常有价值。

令我惊讶的是，大多数受试者都很愿意参与到这个项目中来——我原以为他们不愿意诚实地回答问题。

但我感到惊讶，并相当担心的是，我认为自己做得很好的事情，在我所在部门的每个人看来，未必都是这样。

我想您可能也对我在收集数据时遇到的一些问题感兴趣。

有一些奇怪的案例让我感到困惑——我接触过的其中一个受试者在镇上购物时，决定在第二轮退出。

这是一个遗憾，因为这是一个我想采访得更近的人。

我采访的一名一年级学生希望得到保证，从答案中找不到任何名字。

我很惊讶，因为他们根本不想告诉你关于他们自己和他们在研讨会小组中的观点！

然后，我的一个同事变得有点滑稽。

这些问题都是针对个人的，前一分钟他说他会做，第二天他就不做了，最后他做了。

在那种情况下，很难不生气，但我努力保持全神贯注，以保持冷静。

最奇怪的案例是我在法国一所大学与一位老师进行的电话采访。

他非常详细地回答了我所有的问题，但当我问他有多少接触危险物质的机会时，他并没有告诉我他的工作到底涉及到什么。

这真的让人大开眼界…

三、Research on Doctors听力问题：

Question 31-36

Choose the correct letter,A,B or C.

31.In order to set up her research programme,Shona got

A.advice from personal friends in other countries.

B.help from students in other countries.

C.information from her tutor's contacts in other countries.

32.What types of people were included in the research?

A.young people in their first job

B.men who were working

C.women who were unemployed

33.Shona says that in her questionnaire her aim was

A.to get a wide range of data.

B.to limit people's responses.

C.to guide people through interviews.

34.What do Shona's initial results show about medical services in Britain?

A.Current concerns are misrepresented by the press.

B.Financial issues are critical to the government

C.Reforms within hospitals have been unsuccessful.

35.Shona needs to do further research in order to

A.present the government with her findings.

B.decide the level of extra funding needed.

C.identify the preferences of the public.

36.Shona has learnt from the research project that

A.it is important to plan projects carefully.

B.people do not like answering questions.

C.colleagues do not always agree.

Question 37-40

ChooseFOUR answers from the box and write the correct letter,A-F,next to questions 37-40.

Which statement applies to each of the following people who were interviewed by Shona?

37 a person interviewed in the street 37

38 an undergraduate at the university 38

39 a colleague in her department 39

40 a tutor in a foreign university 40

A.gave false data

B.decided to stop participating

C.refused to tell Shona about their job

D.kept changing their mind about participating

E.became very angry with Shona

F.was worried about confidentiality

四、Research on Doctors听力答案：

31.B

32.B

33.A

34.A

35.C

36.C

37.B

38.F

39.D

40.C

五、Research on Doctors听力答案解析

31.B原文...I approached postgraduates in my field in overseas departments...的意思是我联系了和我从事相同领域工作的海外机构的研究生们。根据这句话，可以判断出答案是B help from students in other countries（海外学生的帮助）。

32.B原文...I decided at this stage just to focus on men who were in employment...的意思是我决定在这个阶段仅仅专注于研究有工作的男性。

33.A原文...I wanted to include as much variety as possible.的意思是我想尽可能包含更多的种类。因而，和A to get a wide range of data（得到范围很广的数据）表达同样的意思。

34.A此题的答案出现在强烈转折词in fact之后。在雅思听力考试中，凡是actually，as a matter of fact，in fact之类的转折词之后往往包含答案。

35.C这道题相对较难，考查的是考生对听力原文的理解还有推断。原文...in order to establish if people want extra medical staff invested in the community,or if they want care to revert to fewer,but larger,key medical units.的意思是为了能够了解人们是否想要额外的社区医护人员，或者居民是否想要少而精的主要的医疗机构。根据这句话推断可以发现，答案是C identify the preferences of the public（发现人们对公共设施的喜好）。

36.C原文...I was taken aback and rather concerned that something I thought I’d set up very well didn’t necessarily seem that way to everyone in my own department.意思是我遇到了一些麻烦并且发现我原以为设计很好的计划对我同事来讲并不是那么回事。

37.B原文提到...decided to pull out when it came to the second round.，其中pull out指的是退出。

38.F原文...no name would be traceable from the answers.的意思是不能通过答案追溯到名字。

39.D此题根据原文做笔记只需要简单地记下do-wouldn’t-do即可。

40.C原文...he wouldn’t tell me exactly what his work involved.的意思是他不肯告诉我他的工作是关于什么的。