If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things,
如果你是一名研究生,那么你会在许多方面需要导师的帮助,
including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.
包括提高成绩、申请助学资金、组建审核委员会以及写推荐信。
If you are a graduate teaching assistant, your adviser also may be your "boss".
而如果你是研究生助教,那么你的导师也就是你的“老板”了。
Academic departments vary in their procedures for assigning academic advisers to graduate students.
各个学术院系为研究生分配导师的机制不同。
In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.
在一些院系,系主任至少要在新生的第一学期担任导师。
Then students select an adviser, based on shared academic interests.
之后,学生根据学术兴趣选择导师。
In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the department's "advising load".
另外一些院系则有某种导师分配体系,这种体系的分配原则以“指导量”为基础。
Later, students may have the opportunity of selecting the adviser that they prefer.
之后,学生可以根据自己的喜好选择导师。
In any case, new graduate students can learn who their advisers or temporary advisers are by visiting or emailing the departmental office and asking for the information.
无论属于以上哪种导师分配情况,新生都可以通过拜访院系办公室或给院系办公室发邮件询问导师或者临时导师的信息。
Graduation requirements specify the number of credits you must earn,
毕业要求中写明了你需要修的学分总数、
the minimum grade point average you must achieve and the distribution of credits you must have from among differing departments or fields of study.
必须取得的平均学分绩点的下限、以及在各院系或学科需修学分的分布情况。
In addition, it is necessary to apply for graduation when you near that time that you will be completing your graduation requirements.
另外,你的各项指标即将达到毕业要求前,你必须向学校申请毕业。
Since graduation requirements vary among divisions of the university, you should consult the Bulletin of Information.
由于大学各科系的毕业要求不同,你需要查阅信息手册。
You should also direct your questions to your departmental office or academic adviser.
你还应该就这些问题向系办公室或学业导师请教。
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
请根据刚刚听到的内容回答19-21题。
Question 19. What does the speaker say about the procedures for assigning academic advisers?
问题19:关于导师分配流程说话人都说了什么内容?
Question 20. How can new graduate students learn who their advisers are?
问题20:研究生可以从哪里获悉其导师是谁?
Question 21. What does the speaker say about graduation requirements?
问题21:关于毕业要求说话人都说了什么?