英语听力教程(第2册)Unit5听力原文

Unit 5 听力原文Part IBMan: I suppose my career’s a bit unusual because I went to university when I was twenty-five — a lot later than most people go. When I left school, I went straight out to work: I worked as aclerk in a small office. My father criticized me, I remember, for not going on studying whileI had the chance, but I wanted to earn myself some money. Anyway, that job didn’t last longbecause I had to go into the army when I was twenty. I stayed in for five years. I don’t know what good my university course did because I’m unemployed now. Oh, I know I got a job when I finished my university course — I was twenty-nine then — but it didn’t last long.Well, I never really thought I would enjoy teaching very much. So, as I say, I’m unemployed now and looking for something else.CInterviewer: Sergio. Thank you for agreeing to this interview. How old are you?Sergio: Um, I’m fifty-one.Interviewer: and what is your profession?Sergio: I’m an accountant.Interviewer: Are you married?Sergio: Yes, I’m married.Interviewer: Does your wife work?Sergio: Yes, luckily. She’s a teacher.Interviewer: Could you tell me about your last job? Who did you work for?Sergio: Um. I worked for a chemical company near Milan.Interviewer: How long did you work there?Sergio: Um, for fourteen years.Interviewer: How did you lose your job?Sergio: The company was taken over by a Swedish firm and I was made redundant.Interviewer: So, how long have you been unemployed?Sergio: Um, for about 6 months.Interviewer: So, Sergio. It must be difficult being unemployed at your age.Sergio: Of course. Many people don’t want to employ someone over fifty.Interviewer: So how do you spend your days?Sergio: I get the newspaper every day and look at the job advertisements. When I see something interesting I apply.Interviewer: Any luck so far?Sergio: Yes, I was offered something last month, but the job was not very interesting. Interviewer: Do you meet other unemployed people?Sergio:Not really. Um, I prefer to stay at home and work on my PC. I’m also studying psychology.Interviewer: That’s an interesting idea. What else do you do?Sergio: I have lunch with my former colleagues about once a month. They often hear about jobs and so on. They often have useful information.Interviewer: Have you registered with a recruitment agency?Sergio: No, I haven’t. I think they already have too many people on their books.Interviewer: So how much time do you spend looking for a job?Sergio: Oh, about ten, fifteen hours per week. The rest of time I do housework and other things. Interviewer: Are you optimistic?Sergio: Yes. But I really don’t want to leave Milan.Interviewer: I see. Thank you.Part II Summer jobsignorance：无知，愚昧;蒙deterrent：制止的;遏制的occupational：职业的;军事占领的make fortune：致富accommodation：住处;适应;便利;和解boring：无聊的，无趣的;令人厌烦的;单调的，乏味的plus：加bowling：保铃球obviously：明显peel：剥皮;覆盖层脱落，剥落sunbathing：日光浴reasonable：有理的hire out：出租;受雇suntan：晒黑fantastic：奇异的，古怪的;极好的courier：导游;（传递信息或重要文件的）信使;通讯员Interviewer: And Christine, what about you? What have you been doing this summer?Christine: Working, mostly.Interviewer: You mean you’ve been studying?Christine: Oh no, I’ve been doing a job to earn money.Interviewer: And have you made your fortune yet?Christine: Hardly! But I haven’t done too badly. I’ve been getting about ￡70 a week, plus my meals and my accommodation, so I’ve earned over ￡500 and I’ve managed to savemost of it.Interviewer: That sounds pretty good. What kind of work have you been doing exactly? Christine: I’ve been working in a hotel.Interviewer: What, as a waitress?Christine:No. I’ve been helping in the kitchen most of the time —washing and peeling vegetables, preparing breakfast trays, washing up — that sort of thing.Interviewer: And have you been enjoying it? Or has it been rather boring?Christine: No, it hasn’t been too bad. I’ve found it quite interesting here, in fact. Not so much the work itself, but the people I’ve got to know and the friends I’ve made, and I’ve managed to do lots of things in my spare time too. It’s a seaside town, so there’s been quite a lotgoing on in the evenings — you know, dancing, bowling, cinemas, and so on — and onmy afternoons off I’ve been doing quite a bit of sunbathing and swimming.Interviewer:Yes, I can see you’ve got quite brown. You’ve obviously been having some reasonable weather here. Now what about Kevin here? Kevin, you’ve managed to get afantastic suntan. How have you been spending your time here? Have you been doing aholiday job?Kevin: Yes, I’ve been working down on the beach. I like an outdoor job. I’ve been mostly hiring out deck chairs — you know, going round collecting the money, but I’ve also been selling papers.Interviewer: And have you earned a lot of money?Kevin: Not a lot. I came here for a cheap holiday more than anything else. My brother’s the one who’s been making money this summer.Interviewer: Has he been working here in Brighton too?Kevin: No, he’s in Italy working as a courier for a travel firm. He’s been taking Americans round Italy on coach tours and having a fantastic time. And one of them has invited him to go and work in America next summer.Interviewer: Lucky him!Part III Jobs: my idea of hell, my idea of heavenmeasure：测量，测度;措施;程度;尺寸dissatisfied with：不满melt down：熔化abattoir：屠场;（拳击、摔跤、斗牛等的）角斗场day in and day out：天天地，每天地;日复一日be capable of：能够nuclear power station：核电站mad：疯comprehend：理解casino：赌场;俱乐部，娱乐场;小别墅revolting：叛乱的;背叛的;使人厌恶的pinpoint：确定，准确地指出;精准定位AIDS clinic：艾滋病诊所self-explanatory：自明beat：打击sane：心智健全的;神志正常的;明智的;稳健work on one’s own：给自己工作responsibility：责任independent：独立chicken battery：层架式鸡笼amongst：之中night shift：夜班torture：拷问;折磨;痛苦archaeologist：考古学家anthropologist：人类学家third baseman：三垒手photographer：照相师contact：联系My Idea of Hell:1st speaker: I think my idea of hell would be, to be, to have a job where I had to do the same thing over and over again like somebody working in a factory just picking up one thingfrom one place and putting it into another and this just going on and on, day in and day out,if it was that kind of job I would just go mad...2nd speaker: Well, I think the thing I would least like to do given an option of anything in the world would be to be the guy who sits in a nuclear power station watching for it to start melting down, you know, the guys who sit there in front of those, that’s just you know it’s a revolting thing anyway but can you imagine the boredom and the responsibility at the sametime, it would just be completely terrible, I’d hate that.3rd speaker: I think, I think the job I ... I don’t actually think I would be capable of doing it is to be work as the killing person in an abattoir. (I don’t actually think I would be capable of doing it: to work as the killing person in an abattoir.) I think that would be my, my, er, it’s self-explanatory why I couldn’t do it. I th...I can’t imagine how people actually do it. I met somebody once who erm was one of the people that went into erm er a chicken battery and they’d spend all night they were only working night shift and just kill chickens and and Ijust couldn’t comprehend how they managed to do that and how they stayed sane. That would be the worst thing. I think it’d be torture in more ways than one...My Idea of Heaven:1st speaker: On the other hand it would be wonderful to have a job where you are paid a lot of money and you could travel to different countries — someone like a television reporter or an archaeologist or an anthropologist. I mean those are the exciting kinds of jobs I’d like to have ... I can’t pinpoint one but it has to be a job where I can travel and see different countries and have time to actually stay in those countries and learn a little about those countries and visit exciting places.2nd speaker: What would I like to do? Well I guess probably the best job in the world would be to play for the New York Mets. You can’t beat that... you just can’t beat that... third baseman for the New Youk Mets. The Mets? Oh they’re a baseball team... best baseball team in the world.3rd speaker: To choose another sort of job that I would really like. I would very much like to be a photographer, erm because it would give me an opportunity to work with people but at thesame time be independent still and that’s the thing that I always need. I need to be independent, be able to work on my own and be amongst other people, very much like you,I think, that I have to have other contact but like to get on with wha... with my own thing.Part Ⅳ1st speaker:…er …well, we don’t actually open till 9:30… er…I mean I have to be there at 8:45 because there’s lots to do beforehand. Um…I think what I like about it is I like meeting…meeting people, or rather dealing with people, because we’re really stuck behind that glass thing. Um... we used to have microphones and used them to speak to people, but they decided it was too impersonal so they changed it back. Um...you know, I like dealingwith people like I said, it’s surprising, you know how varied the work is really. Well, a lot of it is routine, of course, but there’s still something unexpected every day. You never know who’s going to walk in and come up to your... er ... position. Er... yeah, I do like handlingmoney and I like the responsibility and the feeling that the customers trust you because you are dealing with their money and their livelihood. Er... but what I don’t like is the way people can be rude or angry about little things that aren’t my fault. It’s usually because they’ve made a mistake themselves and they aren’t prepared to admit it. I mean it’s up tothem to check if they’ve got enough to cover a cheque if they write it, isn’t it really?2nd speaker: well, every day is different. I mean, some days I spend hours on end meeting with clients, trying to find out exactly what they want or I try to persuade them that our ideas willwork. Now, you see, we’re very rarely given a free hand by clients. A lot of time, well yes, a lot of time is spent on research. You see, we have to do all the viewing and ...and the readership figures. We do our own surveys to find out what a cross-section of people think.Of course it’s not just what they think. I mean, people can say "Yes, that’s great. I...I found it really amusing and so on", but what counts is: Does it sell the goods? Now, if we don’t show a rise in sales then we lose a client, it’s as simple as that. Still, what I enjoy most is really the creative side. Now, ideas, you know, they come to you everywhere at the most unexpected times. In fact, the best idea I ever had came to me when I was in the bath and I just jumped straight out, I got on the phone to the client. You know, I was... usually we... we have what we call brainstorming sessions in the office, so the best ideas are usually the result of teamwork. That’s what makes a good agency-a team of individuals who can work both alone and together. It takes a special sort of person. Now, the biggest drawback of the work is that you stand or fall by results. If your ideas are drying up of if you make an expensive mistake, then you get the sack. There’s always that hanging over you —it’s always worrying.Part VDavid: Hi, you’re listening to Radio Southwest. The best in the Southwest from music along to the minute news. Sue is here. Hello, Sue.Sue: Hello, David.David: And we’ve got a job spot for you today, so if you are unemployed and looking for a new job, this could be a spot for you. So let’s have a look and see what we’ve got today. How about a hairdresser? You must be experienced for this job and the pay will be agreed. So that will depend on experience. The hours are 8:30 to 5 Monday to Friday, and Saturday 8:45 to1 p.m. So that’s hours 8:30 to 5 Monday to Friday, and Saturday 8:45 to 1 p.m. a hairdresser.How about you Sue? What have you got?Sue: Right, David. Well, the first one we’ve got is a cook. That’s in a large busy restaurant. So it’s very useful to have experience in large scale cooking. The age is around 25 or so and pays 2 pounds an hour. So that’s not bad, isn’t it? (Mum) The hours are good, too. That’s Monday to Friday 3 to 6:30.David: Great. Thanks Sue. So that’s a cook. Now how do you fancy working out of doors? How do you fancy being a gardener? There is no age restrictions on this job. So as long as you’re fit and strong, any age and it’ll suit you. If you are keen on gardening, this could be a great job. The pay is 1 pound 70 an hour, and the hours: Tuesday to Saturday 8:30 to 5. Sundayyou have to work once a month. But the bonus is on Monday. The garden centre’s closed.Now the third work you would be doing is a general assistant in a garden centre. Potting,watering, things like that. So if you’ve got green fingers, how about applying for that pay 1 pound 70 an hour? Sue, what else have you got?Sue: Right, David. From outdoors to indoors, we’ve got a short-hand typist job here. That’s in an office. And this job may suit a woman with school-age children. Because the hours are only15 hours a week. The age is twenty to fortyish and the pay depends on the age. It’s a smallfriendly office, but there is experience of course. The accuracy is more important than theexperience. So they go. That’s a nice short-hand typist job in an office.David:Great. Here is a job possibly to somebody who is a school leaver. It says: requires no experience at all but training will be given on the job. And pay is 67 pounds a week. What’s the job? Hm, it’s a shop assistant in a busy supermarket. It’s a full time job, but the big thing is you don’t need any experience. So if you’re just leaving school, and fancy working in the supermarket, try that. You get one day off during a week and you must work one late evening to 9:30 p.m. OK, that’s a shop assistant. Well, if you fancy any of those jobs, give us a ring here on job spot at Radio Southwest and now back to the music.。