南京航空航天大学帅哥-方程题
Unit 6
Work
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. 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.
Key
A
1.
d
—
b---a---e---c
B
1.
a
Task 2
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.
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?
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 right, all right, there's no
need to lose your temper But you'd better win that
scholarship
first.
Key
A
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 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.
Key
1.
correspondents; columnist; may not need either; to go to places where events take place and
write stories about them
2.
first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other people
3.
working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with
Task 5
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?
Sylvia: 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 ?
Sylvia: Do you really think I should
wear different clothes?
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.
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.
Key
Former
Jobs
When Laid-off
Why Laid-off
1st man
Car salesman
Recently
Low sales, due to the increase of interest rates
2nd
man
Worker
at
a
vacuum
10
months
ago
Plant
moved
to
Singapore
where
cleaner
plant
worker are paid much less
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 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
in
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. In
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, dear.] 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 more
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 at
them and saying, “A
m I
going
to
be
like
that?”
And
I
thought
if
I
am
I'd
better
get
out,
whereas
the
English
language
teachers
I
saw,
who
were
older
people
I
thought,
well,
they
seemed
quite
nice.
And
I
wouldn't
mind being
like that myself.
Key
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.
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.