A、Presentations. B、Examinations. C、Projects. D、Group work. C本题考查细节。由句(3)可知，帕特里克提到现在的学生比起过去他自己上学的时候会进行更多的项目。选项A，B和D在对话中均没有提到。故C为答

W: Hello, Patrick. What are you busy doing?
M: Nothing serious. What’s wrong, Lily?
W: I just want to talk about something with you.
M: I’m glad to. What is it?
W: So we have homework and tests. What about attendance? Should we require students to attend classes? Sometimes people argue at university level it shouldn’t be compulsory.
M: I think you should attend some classes at least. You’re going to university: you’re paying for your education so you should attend some classes, but it doesn’t mean if you’re not attending a class that you cannot get the information and study by yourself. That’s why I like the Internet so much, because I think people can get so much information from academic institutions via the Internet: they don’t have to attend a physical class.
W: That’s right and on the other hand you might attend physically but you’re not really paying attention.
M: Exactly. You might as well sleep in class sometimes. It doesn’t prove that you’re learning if you’re there. It depends on the person I think.
W: So maybe rather than strictly checking attendance, we should check what the students have learned?
M: Yes, and how do you do that?
W: That’s right. Now we come back to that.
M: Testing? I don’t know.(2)I think there are other ways of finding out if students have learned things. You don’t have to call things tests: you can set students tasks to find out if they can do the required task without calling it a test.
W: That’s right, and then it becomes maybe a bit more practical too.
M: Yeah, I think so.
W: Did you do a lot of projects when you were a student?
M: Not so many, and I think education has quite changed in the last twenty years or so and (3)I think people are doing more projects than they used to do when I was a student for the first time, but I really like projects because 1 think it’s putting your knowledge to work and finding out how you can apply your knowledge to make it practical and usable. I wish I could give my students more projects.
W: Yeah, that’s true. Maybe they’ll be better than tests.
M: I think so too, yeah. It’s a better way to find out if people know things if you give them a project that involves what they’ve studied.
W:(4)And in the real life they won’t be taking tests any more. They need to be able to apply the knowledge, right?
M: Yeah, exactly. Do you use projects a lot in your class?
W: Not as much. As you know, we have quite a strict schedule to follow but I think it’s definitely something to think about.
M: Yeah, right. It’s kind of tricky to give a project in language, like making a language project.
W: Yeah, I guess.
1. What is Patrick’s viewpoint towards attendance?
2. How to check students’ learning performance according to Patrick?
3. What do students do more than they used to do when Patrick was a student?
4. What do students need to do in the real life mentioned by Lily?
5. What is the topic of the conversation?