Unit 6 Task 1
【答案】 A.
[d]—[b]—[a]—[e]—[c] B. a
【原文】
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. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward.
Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.
Task 2
【答案】 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 【原文】
X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent? He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting. They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open a locked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the hand of an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the 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.
Task 3
【答案】 A. Names Harry Nora Robert Peter Ideal Careers Sailor Farmer(if she were a man) Civil engineer Racing driver or explorer B.
1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d 【原文】
Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave
college?
Nora: Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his career. He hasn't even got to college yet. Harry: Not at all, Nora. It's wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example. I really
wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, it's silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.
Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing--that's my idea of a good
life.
Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.
Robert: Well, that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job I care about, not the money.
Harry: Maybe not; but you'll learn to care about the money too, when you've got a family to
keep.
Nora: And of course Peter — well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer. Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to make up his mind about such things.
Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do? Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?
Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum, but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil engineer. I want to build
roads and bridges.
Harry: Not ships? Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineer? Robert: Look here, is it my career we're planning, or yours?
Harry: All fight, all right, there's no need to lose your temper. But you'd better win that
scholarship first.
Task 4
【答案】
I. correspondents; columnist A. may not need either
B. to go to places where events take place and write stories about them II. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other people III. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with 【原文】
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 tile 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 work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.
Task 5
【答案】 A.
1) acd 2) abe B.
1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes 【原文】
SYLVIA: We've got a new manager in our department. LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didn't you? SYLVIA: Yes, I did.
LARRY: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?
SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company only two years. I've been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!
LARRY: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to you? SYLVIA: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course !
LARRY: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a woman? SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair. LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear? SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why? LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.
SYLVIA: You mean you think I didn't get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweater?
LARRY: It's possible, isn't it?
SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes? LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it. SYLVTA: 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 inthis company.
Task 6
【答案】 A. 1st man Former Jobs Car salesman When Laid-off Recently Why Laid-off Low sales, due to the increase of interest rates Plant moved to Singapore where workers are paid much less 2nd man Worker at a vacuum 10 months ago cleaner plant B.
1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae) C.
1) F 2) F 【原文】
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. It's the
interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how many cars I sold last month? One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest rates are up again. The boss let three of us go. How about you?
Bob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good day's work.
But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, the whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where? In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much they're paying the workers in Singapore? $2.50 an hour! Anyway, all fifty of us got laid off.
Al: How long ago was that?
Bob: They closed down ten months ago. Al: Any luck finding another job?
Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something.
They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again. Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.
Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here next week.
Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.
Task 7
【答案】 A.
1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) F B.
1) According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the results of his efforts.
2) 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. 【原文】
Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teaching?
John Smith: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was that it was rather, very intangible than um, 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 um, again there are lots of areas that are gray 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 1 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 very hard to earn enough money to live on.
Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacher?
Second Man: Well, and so I thought. Well, I must do something which produces an income that I
can be sure of. While I was working as a journalist I had done an article for a magazine about the English language teaching world and m fact I had come to the school where I now teach as a journalist and interviewed a lot of the people. And I thought it seemed a very nice place and I thought that the classes I visited had a very, very nice feeling about them, and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have me.
Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?
Second Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours. It I advertising you just had
to stay at the office until the work was finished [I see.] and it could be three o'clock in the morning. [Oh, dean] Also you were very often made to work at weekends. Often some job would come up that was very important and they said it had to be finished — it had to go into the newspapers next week.
Interviewer: So there was a lot mom pressure.
Second Man: There was a lot more pressure in advertising. Also, the people I worked with when I
was first in advertising were young hopeful people like myself. By the end I was working with a lot of old people who quite honestly were awful. And I kept looking