现代大学英语听力2Unit 6

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Task 1
Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube. In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator.
pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirty and faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out. He prayed it would be the last.
As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.
Key
A
1.????? a?
2. b?
3. d?
4. c
B
1.????? T?
2. T?
3. F
C
wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were!
Task 3
Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?
Harry---Sailor???????????? Nora---Farmer(if she were a man)
Robert---Civil engineer????? Peter---Racing driver or explorer
B
1.????? a?
2. b?
3. c? . b? 5. d
Task 4
Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:
He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a foreign correspondent or a columnist. Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who
will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true story of what is happening there Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.
A young person should not tell the editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.
A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and
Larry: Well...perhaps you should think about it.
Sylvia: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?
Larry: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all! Sylvia: Why should I do that? I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing! Larry: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isn't, not in this company.
Key
A
1.????? acd?
2. abe
B
1.????? she is the wrong sex?
2. she wears the wrong clothes
Task 6
Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?
Bob: Yeah. It's the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.
Al: Oh. Is there always such a long line?
Bob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time here?
Al: Yes.
Bob: What happened? Your plant closed down?
Al: No. I'm a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just aren't selling cars.
B
1st speaker---bcd? 2nd speaker---ae
C
1.????? F?
2. F
Task 7
Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teaching?
First Man: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was rather difficult, especially if you're teaching in England and most of the students know quite a lot of English before they arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom,
in pubs or coffee shops or other places, with the families they're living with. It's very difficult to pin down how much they learn from your actual lesson, whereas in marketing, again there are lots of areas that are grey rather than black or white, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of one's efforts.
Interviewer: What did you do after you quit your job in advertising?
Second Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just had to contribute things as they came along and I wrote for magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the VOA. Well, this was in a way the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a lot but I found it
1.????? According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the results of his efforts.
According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guarantees a stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.
Task 8
Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work?
Michael: Not regularly, no. I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do
wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a private income from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others don't.
Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five? Michael: Ah... there're two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to get up, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time.
Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged position?
call in England "white-collar" jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working with his hands or with his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who are using artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly it's becoming a phenomenon that people who do "white-collar" jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are office clerks, bank employees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless don't involve much physical effort, that they tend to come home and do "do-it-yourself " activities at home. They make cupboards, paint their houses,
repair their cars, which somehow provide the sort of physical job satisfaction that they're denied in their working day.
Key
The interview with Michale:
1.????? No.
2.????? The work he used to do was not what interested him and what he likes to do cannot earn him enough money to support himself.
3.????? You do not have to get up it you don’t feel like it. You can spend your time on the things you want to do.
4.????? He believes he does things which are enjoyable for him and useful to people
39—those who liked their jobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accounted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part.
The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the whitecollar employees, those choosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively.
It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported that they liked their jobs.
Next, Parade asked, "If there were one thing you could change about your job, what would it be?" It was expected that many would wish to make their jobs less boring, but very few gave this reply. No major changes were reported. Some wished for "less paperwork"; many would shorten their working hours, but others would like more hours in order to earn more money. No serious complaints were made.
Most people have to work in order to live. But what would happen if someone had enough money to stop working? Parade asked, "If you inherited a million dollars,
Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.
Officer: And you'd like some advice about choosing a career?
Mother: Yes, she would. Wouldn't you, Catherine?
Cathy: Yes, please.
Officer: Well, just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How old are you, Catherine?
Mother: She's nineteen. Well, she's almost nineteen. She'll be nineteen next month. Officer: And what qualifications have you got?
Mother: Well, qualifications from school of course. Very good results she got. And she's got certificates for ballet and for playing the piano.
Officer: Is that what you're interested in, Catherine, dancing and music?
Cathy: Well...
Mother: Ever since she was a little girl she's been very keen on the music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job, aren't you, Catherine?
Cathy: Well, if it's a good idea.
Mother: There you are, you see. She's a good girl really. A bit lazy and disorganized sometimes, but she's very bright. I'm sure the Careers Officer will have lots of jobs for
Cathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests—things that would help me to get a job?
Officer: No. I'm more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do you?
Cathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting new people.
Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teaching?
Cathy: No, no, I don't really. I was never very interested in schoolwork, and I'd like to do something different. Anyway, there's a teacher training college very near us. It would be like just going to school again.
Officer: So you don't want to go on training?
Cathy: Oh, I wouldn't mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about being a hairdresser—you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly—but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.
Officer: What about nursing?
Cathy: Nursing? In a hospital? Oh, I couldn't do that. I'm not good enough. Officer: Yes, you are. You've got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is
away form home.
Task 11
I began my career during college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto radio station. The station’s program manager was also a professor who taught one of my classes. I convinced him that she needed a youth reporter because that year was International Youth Year. After graduation, I took a job as a television news reporter and later, news anchor. But sports reporting was something different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating was my first assignment.
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I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judged.
I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.。