火箭军工程大学研究生-雨的诗词
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
“
Am 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.