主旨题属于托福听力常考题型之一，这次环球教育宁波学校聂菁老师就来以TPO30C1L1为例,为大家解析下它的真面目~

　　一、长什么样？

　　Conversation：C1Q1 Why does the student go to speak with the woman?

　　Lecture：L1Q1 What's the lecture mainly about？

　　二、所占比重

　　每篇conversation中有1道，lecture中有1道，占所有题目的16.7%

　　三、考点

　　考察篇章主要内容

　　四、难点

　　几乎没难点，基本属于所谓的送分题

　　五、解题思路

　　conversation：学生来的目的通常都是谈话主旨

　　lecture：绝大多数都在文章开头

　　六、解题方法

　　1.conversation：答案通常在conversation开头以及以下信号后面：

　　How can I help you？

　　I'm having a hard time in doing sth

　　I have a problem that…

　　I can't …

　　2.Lecture：答案通常在lecture开头以下信号后面：

　　Today， we will discuss…

　　From now on， let's talk about…，

　　如果不再开头，需要从lecture框架得出

　　七、例子：

　　1.C1Q1 Why does the student go to speak with the woman?

　　A.To get permission to organize a club event.

　　B.To arrange for a work space for his club.

　　C.To inquire about a photography class.

　　D.To reserve a room for photography exhibit.

　　原文回顾：Listen to a conversation between a student and an employee at the student activity center.

　　This is the administrative office, right?

　　Uh-huh. How can I help you?

　　Well, I am stopping by to reserve a place for my school club that meet and work, pretty much on a regular basis. Ideally, our preference would be to have our own office.

　　所以答案是arrange for a work space for his club

　　2.L1Q1 what is the lecture mainly about？

　　A.the difference between cognition and metacognition

　　B.a study showing that dolphins have less cognitive capacity than monkeys

　　C.the effectiveness of using food as a reward in experiments with monkeys

　　D.research that investigates whether animals are aware of feeling uncertainty

　　原文回顾：listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class. We've been talking about animal cognition-the study of animal intelligence.

　　Now, much of the research in this area is motivated by search for animal analogues, or parallels to human cognitive processes.

　　And one of the processes we've been investing is metacognition.

　　What is metacognition? Well, it's being aware of what one knows or feels, uh, um…have an awarenesss of one's state of mind.

　　But recently one group of researchers found a way to solve this problem…well, to know that they are uncertain.

　　So how could these researchers figure out if an animal feels uncertainty.

　　所以答案在框架所在的地方（问答）So how could these researchers figure out if an animal feels uncertainty.