2013屆高考英語聽力特訓2文本：23

1、學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Lesson 23Interviewer Hello. My name's Hudson . Dick Hudson.Applicant: I ' m Pamela Gable.Interviewer Well, take a seat , please . Miss Gable-it is Miss , isn ' t?it Thought so. Well, let me just check that I've got these particulars right. Your surname is Gable, spelt G-

2、A B LE, and yourfirst names are Pamela Ann . . Fine. You live at 147 Collington Road, Croydon . your telephonenumber is 246 8008. . you were born on July 8th, 1965, and. that ' s about it. OK? Fine .Let ' s see) . what are you working with at the moment?Applicant I'm the personal assista

3、nt to the manager of a modelling agency.Interviewer: Oh , really ? And what does that involve?do you ?Applicant A bit of everything , really . I have to keep the accounts, write a few letters, answer the telephone , look after bookings and engagements and that sort of thing.Interviewer: You work wit

4、h people a lot學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Applicant: Oh yes. I have to look after all the models who work for us, you know , keep them happy,lend an understanding ear to their heartaches, you know.Interviewer: Have you ever done anything to do with hotels or conferences hotel management , forinstance?Applicant: No

5、 , not really. I did work for a short time as a courier for a tour operator, taking foreigners on guided tours of London. Perhaps that's the sort of thing you mean?Interviewer Yes , I think it is. Do you speak any languages?Applicant: Yes, I do. I speak French and Italianyou see, I spent several

6、 years abroad when I wasyounger.Interviewer Oh , did you ? That ' s very interesting. And what about any exams you've taken?Applicant: Well , I left school at 16. You know, there didn't seem to be any point in staying onsomehow; I was sure I could learn much more by getting a job and a b

7、it of experience and independence. Well, I don't suppose it matters.學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Interviewer So you have no formal qualifications at all? I seebut that's not very muchApplicant: Um . . I was wondering if perhaps you could tell me a bit more about the job? You know it said in the ad that you

8、wanted a go ahead girl with car and imagination to go on.Interviewer No, it isn . 'Well , we run conferences, and your job as conference coordinator wouldbe, well, much the same as the one you have now, I suppose. Meeting people , transporting themfrom one place to another , making sure they'

9、;re comfortable, a bit of telephoning , and so on .Applicant: It sounds like just the sort of thing I want to do.Interviewer There is the question of salary , of course .Applicant Well , my present salary is 8,000 pounds, so I couldn ' t accept any less than that.Especially if I have to use my c

10、ar., plus of course a generous allowance for the學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Interviewer: Ah! We have something like 7,500 in mindcar. But look, if I were you, I'd take some time to think about this. Perhaps you'd care to have aquick look round the office here, see if you like the look of the people who wor

11、k here.Applicant: What do you think I should do then . ?Ann: When did you discover that you had this talent for hypnosis, Dr. Parker ?Dr. Parker : When I was a final year medical student, actually . I'd been reading a lot about it anddecided to try it myself on a few friends, you know-using cert

12、ain welltried techniques .Ann: And you were successful .Dr. Parker : Well, yes. I was amazed at how quickly I was able to do it.Ann: Could you tell me more about these techniques?Dr. Parker Certainly . My method has changed very little since I started. To begin with , I get thesubject to lie comfort

13、ably on a sofa, which helps to relax the body. You see, in order to reach a person ' s mind, you have to make him forget his body as much as possible. Then I tell him to學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精concentrate on my voice . Some experts claim that the sound of the voice is one of the most powerful tools in hypn

14、osis .Ann : Do you have an assistant with you?Dr. Parker: Yes , but only as a secretary . He always sits well in the background, taking notes and looking after the recording equipment. Then I tell the subject not to think about what I just to accept it .Ann: Don ' t you use a swinging watch or f

15、lashing lights?Dr. Parker : No. At first I used to rely on the ticking of a clocksome say that boring, repetitivesounds help but now I simply get my patient to stare at some object in the room. At this point Isuggest that he's feeling sleepy and that his body' s becoming so relaxed that he c

16、an hardly feel it.Ann : Be careful , Dr. Parker ,I ' m beginning to feel very drowsy myself.Dr . Parker: Dont worry. I wont make you do anything silly, I pr omise.學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Ann : What you ' re saying, then , is that you want to control your patient, ' aschthat to dothis you have first

17、 to take care of the body.Dr. Parker: Yes. You see, the aim of the session is to make the patient remember in great detail an experience which has caused him a lot of pain and suffering, and by doing that to help him to face his problems.Ann : I ' ve heard a person's memory is far more power

18、ful under hypnosis.Dr. Parker : Indeed it is . Some of the things that patients are able to remember are just incredible.Ann: Would you mind giving me an example?Dr. Parker : Not at all. During a session, it's standard procedure to take a patient back in time slowly, pausing at certain times in

19、his life and asking a few questions.Ann: To , sort of , set the scene before you go deeper. Is that what you mean?Dr. Parker: That's it exactly . Well, once , I took a thirty-fiveyear-old lady back to the age ofI later checkedeight in fact, I told her it was her eighth birthday and I asked her w

20、hat day it was學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精a calendar for that year and she was right-it was a Tuesday. She even told me who was at her party their names, what they were wearing and about the presents she received. I mean, can youremember even your last birthday?Ann: I couldn't even tell you what day my birthda

21、y fell on this year.Dr. Parker : Precisely . And when I asked her to write down her address at that time, thehandwriting was in a very immature style. I later compared it to a sample from some old schoolexercise books her mother had kept and it was identical.Ann: Dr . Parker , that ' s an amazin

22、g story .Dr. Parker I ' ve taken patients back to their first year and a few even further than that. . but that'sanother story, unless you've got plenty of time.These days it's hard enough to find a suitable job, let alone get as far as an interview. Dozens ofpeople every day scour t

23、he Situations Vacant columns of the press, send off their curriculum vitaeisor application form, and wait hopefully to be summoned for an interview. Now this, apparently ,where a lot of people fall down, because of their inadequacy at completing their application forms, according to Judith Davidson

24、, author of Getting a Job, a book which has recently come on the market . This book, as the title suggests, is crammed full of useful tips on how to set about finding yourself work in these difficult times. Our reporter , Christopher Shields , decided to look into thisapparent inability of the Briti

25、sh to sell themselves, and he spoke to Judith Davidson about it.學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Judith : Very often a job application or a curriculum vitae will contain basic grammatical or carelessspelling mistakes, even from university graduates. Then those that do get as far as an interviewbecome inarticulate or cl

26、umsy when they try to talk about themselves. It doesn ' t matter how highlyqualified or brilliant you may be, if you come across as tongue-tied and gauche, your chances ofgetting a job are pretty small .Christopher Judith Davidson lectures at a management training college for young men and women

27、, most of whom have just graduated from university and gone there to take a crash course in management techniques . One of the hardest things is , not passing the course examinations successfully, but actually finding employment afterwards, so Judith now concentrates on helpingtrainees to set about

28、doing just this.Judith: Some letters are dirty and untidily written, with finger marks all over them and ink blots or even coffee stains. Others arrive on lined or flowered or sometimes scented paper-none of which is likely to make a good impression on the average businesslike boss .Christopher: Thi

29、s apparent inability of many people to make that initial impact with an employer bysending him an application which will stand out from the rest and persuade him you' re the right onefor the job prompted an enterprising young man, called Mark Ashworth, a recruitment consultanthimself , to start

30、writing job applications for other people for a fee, as a sideline. He told me he gotthe idea in America where it's already big business, and in the last few months alone he's written over250 c . v.s. He feels that 80 per cent of job applications received by personnel managers are inadequate

31、 in some way.學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Mark: Many people simply can't cope with grammar and spelling and don't know what to put in, orleave out . Sometimes people condense their work experience so much that a future employerdoesn't know enough about them. Then, on the other hand, some people go too f

32、ar the other way.To give you an example , one c.v. I once received in my recruiting role was getting on for thirty pages long.Christopher: Mark has an initial interview with all his clients in which he tries to make them thinkabout their motivation and why they've done certain things in the past

33、. He can often exploit these experiences in the c.v. he writes for them, and show that they have been valuable preparation forthe job now sought. He also believes that well- prepared job history and a good letter of applicationare absolutely essential.Mark: Among the most important aspects of applic

34、ations are spelling, correct grammar, content andlayout. A new boss will probably also be impressed with a good reference or a letter of commendationwritten by a former employer . The type of c.v. I aim to produce depends largely on the kind ofjob being applied for . They don ' t always have to

35、be slick or highly sophisticated , but in certain cases this does help .Christopher Judith Davidson thought very much along the same lines as Mark. In her opinion, one of the most important aspects of job applications was that they should be easy to read .學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精Judith : . . . Many applicants

36、send in letters and forms which are virtually unreadable. The essenceof handwritten application is that they should be neat, legible and the spelling should be accurate.I stress handwritten because most employers want a sample of their future employee's writing.Many believe this gives some indic

37、ation of the character of the person who wrote it. Some peopleforget vital things like put ting their own address or the date. Others fail to do what' s required(by a job advertisement.Christopher Judith believes that job seekers should always send an accompanying letter along with their applica

38、tion form stating clearly why their qualifications make them suitable for the vacancyJudith : Personal details have no place in letters of application. I well remember hearing about onesuch letter which stated , quite bluntly, I need more money to pay for my flat. No boss would be impressed by such

39、directness.Christopher: She added that the art of applying for jobs successfully was having to be learnt by more and more people these days, with the current unemployment situation. With as many as two or three hundred people applying for one vacancy, a boss would want to see only a small fraction o

40、f thatnumber in person for an interview , so your application had to really outshine all the others to get you on the short list .1。 (Literature)We may note in passing that, although Dr Johnson's friend and biographer, Boswell, was a Scotsman,Johnson despised, or pretended to despise, Scotsmen i

41、n general . He once said that the best thinga Scotsman ever saw was the high road to England.In his famous dictionaryJohnson defined oats學必求其心得,業(yè)必貴于專精as ' a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people'. Hedid not condemn all Scotsmen, however. Onc

42、e he commented on a distinguished nobleman who hadbeen born in Scotland but educated in England, saying that much could be made of a Scotsmanifhe was caught young .2。 (Geography: American Indians )The first important point to note about the American Indians is that, in spite of their name , theyare

43、in no way related to the peoples of India. This confusion arose , as you probably know , becauseof a mistake on the part of Christopher Columbus. When he landed in America he thought that hehad in fact discovered India. This mistake has been perpetrated, that is kept alive , ever since bythe name he gave them . If they are related