英語聽力教程(第2冊)Unit6聽力原文

1、Unit 6聽力原文Part IB1. Tell me about yourself.2. What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?3. We have a lot of applicants for this job, why should we appoint you?4. What has been your most valuable experience?5. How would you describe your personality?6. When did you last lose your temper? De

2、scribe what happened.7. Which is more important to you: status or money?8.How long do you think you?d stay with us if you were appointed?9.Why do you want to leave your present job?10. What makes you think you?d enjoy working for us?11. Are you an ambitious person?12. What would you like to be doing

3、 ten years from now?13. What are you most proud of having done in your present job?14. What was the worst problem you have had in your present job and how did you solve it?15.What is the best idea you ?ve had in the past month?16.What is your worst fault and what is your best quality?17.Don? t you t

4、hink you ?re a little young for this job?18. What are your long-range goals?19. Describe your present job what do you find rewarding about it?20. Now, what do you do in your spare time?21.What excites you about the job you?re doing now?22.What worries you about the job you?re doing now?23. Describe

5、your ideal boss.24. How would you rate your present boss?1. A person who likes to give or share things with others.2. Someone who always tells the truth.3. A person who is quick at learning new things.4. Someone who is always on time.5. A person who can? t keep a secret.6. Someone who does not think

6、 about other people?s feeling.7. A person who speaks in a very direct and honest way.8. Someone who is educated or has good manners.9. A person who comes up with new and original ideas.10. Someone who has a strong desire to succeed.Part IITwo girls talking on the phoneClara:Thatnumberhas beenengaged

7、 forages. Nobodycan be that popular.number ?s been changed. I think I?ll try again (Dialling)I wonderifherSue: 3346791Clara:Is that you sue?Sue: Who ?s callingClara:This is Clara, Clara Fulkson. Don?t you remember me?Sue: Clara! Of course I remember you. How are you? I haven?t heard from you for at

8、least 2 years.What are you doing?Clara:Nothing very exciting. That?s one reason I ?m ringing. I need some advice.Sue: Advice? Hm.That?s a good one. I? ve just been sacked (Pips)Clara:There? s (a) pips. Hang on Sue. (Insert a coin) What do you mean you?ve just been sacked?Sue, you are the most succes

9、sful woman I know.Sue: That?s probably why I ?ve been sacked. But let ?s talk about you. You said you needed some advice.Clara:I certainly do. I want to ask you about interviews. Have you had (a) lots of them?Clara:So could you tell me the sort of questions you are usually asked?Sue:Let me think. Th

10、e first ten questions are almost always the same. I call them the why ?s, how?s and where? s.(pips again)Clara: Not again, Don ?t go away, Sue, I ?ve got one more coin. (Insert one more coin) Are you there Sue?Sue: Yes, I?m still here?Clara:Sorry, I didn?t understand what you were telling me. Could

11、you repeat it?Sue: It ?s very boring. But here you are. I?m always asked: why I want to leave my present job;why I ?m interested in the new job; how I intend to get to work; how long I intend to stay atthe job; Where I live; where I went to school; how much I, m paid in my present job; howmuch I exp

12、ect to be paid in the new job. Oh, yes. I?m always asked if I?m married.(pips again)Clara:That is it, Sue. No more coins. I?ll write to you soon. And many thanks.1. What are the manes of the two speakers?2. Where might the caller make the phone call?3. How many coins did the caller insert?4. How lon

13、g haven?t the two girls seen each other for?5. How many why?s, how? s and where? s can you remember? Place a tick by all the questions youcan remember.Part IIIA good interviewA.Interviewer:Good morning, Miss .Miss Jones:Miss Jones.Interviewer:Miss Jones, yes, right. Now, you?d like to join our team,

14、 I gather.Miss Jones:Yes, I would.Interviewer:That ?s very good. I?d like to know a little bit about you. Perhaps you could tell me alittle bit about your education.Miss Jones:Oh yes. I left school at 18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons. They?re anengineeringfirm.Andafterthat,I dida one

15、-yearfull-timePA course and wentbacktoGibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for two years and then moved on tomy present company. That?s Europa Marketing. And I?ve been with them for three years now,first working with the Marketing Director and now I?m with the Sales Director.Inte

16、rviewer:That ?s all very interesting, Miss Jones. I?d like to know what was the course that youenjoyed most at school?Miss Jones:Foreign languages. We did French and German.Interviewer:And are you quite fluent in those languages now or .?Miss Jones:Yes, a bit rusty now, but obviously the more travel

17、 I can do the more I can use mylanguages and I? d like to learn another language. I?d like to add Italian as well.Interviewer:Italian?Miss Jones:Yes.Interviewer:Very good, that might be very useful. Now tell me a little bit about the work you?redoing at present.MissJones:WellEuropaMarketingis a mark

18、etingand publicrelations companyandthey doconsultancyworkforcompaniesoperating intheUKandEuropeanmarkets.Ourclientscome from all over the world. I assist the sales director by arranging these visits, setting upmeetings and presentations and I deal with her correspondence. I?ve not been able to go wi

19、thher on any of her trips abroad, but I?ve been to the firms in this country, several times on myown to make these arrangements.Interviewer:It sounds as if you ?re very happy there, Miss Jones. I?m curious why you ?d like toleave them and join our company.MissJones:WellI know Anglo-Europeanhas a ver

20、ygoodreputation. AndI feelthatIwouldhave more scopeand opportunityin yourcompanyandthat thework willbemorechallenging for me. I might be able to travel and use my languages because at the momentmost of my work is rather routine secretarial-type work and I like the idea of more challengesin my life r

21、eally .B.Interviewer:Good morning, Miss .Miss Jones:Miss Jones. Good morning.Interviewer:Miss Jones, yes, right. Hi. Um . now, youMiss Jones:Yes, I would.?d like to join our team, I gather.Interviewer:That?s . that? s very good. Er . I?d like to know a little bit about you. Perhaps youcouldtellme .p

22、erhapswecouldstart .ifyou couldtellme a littlebitaboutyoureducation.Miss Jones:Oh yes, right. Well, I left school at 18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons,you might know them, they?re an engineering firm.(An, yes, right.) Um . and after that, Iwanted to do a course, so I d . I did a one-y

23、ear full-time PA course and went back to Gibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for another two years and . and thenI moved on to my present company. Um . that?s Europa Marketing . um . Mr. Adair, themarketingdirector,offeredme a jobbecause Gibsonshad .had workedquitea lotwithEurop

24、a Marketing. (Oh, yes, Europe?s got big business.) And I?ve been with them for threeyears now .um .firstwiththe MarketingDirectorand .and nowI?m withthe SalesDirector.Interviewer:That ?s all very interesting, Miss Jones. Um . I . I?d like to know, what did youenjoy most at school? What was the cours

25、e that you enjoyed most?MissJones:Ah. foreignlanguagesI likedbest. (Foreignlanguages.)We didFrenchandGerman. Yes.Interviewer:Mhm. And are you quite fluent in those now or . ?Miss Jones:Yes, a bit rusty now, but . um . obviously the more travel I can do the more I canuse my languages and I?d like to

26、learn another language. I?d like to add Italian as well.Interviewer:Italian?Miss Jones:Yes.Interviewer:Very good, very good, that . that might be very useful. Now . er . tell me a littlebit about . er . the work you?re doing at present.Miss Jones:Um . well . er . Europa Marketing is a marketing and

27、public . public relationscompany and they do . they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets. Er . our clients come from all over the world . um . we deal with some of them by . by post, but most of them come to our offices and at least once during a project. I assi

28、st the sales director by arranging these visits, setting up meetings and presentations andI . I deal with her correspondence. I?ve not been able to go with her on any . on any of hertrips abroad, but I . I?ve been to firms in this country, several times on my own . um . tomake these arrangements.Int

29、erviewer:It sounds as if you?re very happy there, Miss Jones. I?m curious why you?d like toleave them and join our company.MissJones:Well .um .I knowthe reputationof Anglo-Europeanand it has avery goodreputation. And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in your company andthat the wor

30、k will be more challenging for me. I might be able to possibly travel and use mylanguages because at themomentmostof myworkis .is rather routinesecretarial-typework and I like the idea of more . um . challenges in my life really .PartAAt interview the first thing that I notice is how the person sett

31、les down, and when they sitdown. Do they immediately rush into the room, grab a chair without being invited to sit down?Are they nervous? Do they spend a lot of time fiddling with their hands, brushing their hair back,holdingtheir pen, tappingiton thetable? Obviouslyeveryoneis nervous at interviewan

32、dyoumake allowances for that, but if it continues throughout the whole interview then you have to askyourself what will they be like in a normal job?Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they make eye contact? Because ifthey won?t look at you in a job which depends on making a goo

33、d impression, then probably in thejobtheywon?tdo verywellin terms ofmakingcontactandhavinggood relationswith othercolleagues. Thesort of person normallywe wouldlookforwould besomeone whowas, open,outgoing, enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what theyhoped to d

34、o. That doesn? t mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they shouldbe able to reflect on whatever experience they?ve had.Theotherkinds ofthingsthatwe mighttalkaboutinan interviewof course are whattheperson expectsto get fromanewjob,andI thinkthat itisimportantbecause itshowsthe

35、expectations that the person has-what they want from their job. It?s interesting to hear why peoplewant to change jobs.B. But as important as qualifications are, and you won?t get to an interview or at least peoplewon? t get toan interviewwithoutthe qualifications,the mostimportantthing infactisthec

36、haracterandhow a personpresents themselvesat interview. Ifind it very difficulttodefineexactly the sort of person I am looking for, but when I meet someone I can tell whether they arethe sort of person that I would like to appoint or whether they are not.At interview the first thing that I notice is

37、 how the person settles down, when they sit down.Do they immediately rush into the room, grab a chair without being invited to sit down? Are theynervous? Um, do they spend a lot of time fiddling with their hands, brushing their hair back, erholdingtheirpen, tappingit on the table? Obviouslyeveryonei

38、s nervousat interviewandyoumake allowances for that, but if it continues throughout the whole interview then of course youhave to ask yourself if they?re like this after, say, an hour of interview, what will they be like in anormal job?Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they ma

39、ke eye contact? Because ifthey won?t look at you in a job where in, in a situation where a job depends on, on them making agood impression, then probably in the job they won?t do very well in terms of making, er, good,making contact with other colleagues, making, having good relations with other col

40、leagues. Thesort ofperson normallywewould look forwouldbe someone who was, open,outgoing,enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what they hoped to do.That doesn? t mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able toreflect on whatev

41、er experience they?ve had.The other kinds of, of um things that we might talk about in an interview of course are what,er what the person expects to get from a new job in a new country, and that I think is importantbecause it shows the expectations that the person has what they want from their job.

42、Um it?sinteresting to hear why people want to change jobs, why they want to go to a new country.(Jane Langley is being interviewed by Mrs. Grey, the Personnel Manager, and Mr. Toms. )Mr. Toms:Yes, I see. Good. Good.Mrs.Grey:MissLangley,Isee thatyourlastemployer,Mr.Carmichaes,describedyouas“conscient

43、ious ”. Do you think you are?Jane:Well, I certainly try to be. I have a set routine for the day in the office which means that Iknowexactlyall the jobs thatI have to do. Andif conscientiousmeans beingexrtemelycareful and paying attention to detail, then yes, I suppose I?m conscientious.Mr. Toms:But

44、he said too that you could, adapt quickly to change?. Did you leave because theywere making changes, or what?Jane:No, not at all. They made a lot of changes while I was there. I?m afraid I became unhappybecause I wanted something more challenging.Mrs. Grey:I assume you wanted something like the job of Senior Secretary that we?re offering.Jane: Yes, that? s right