大学生创业计划书1500-课外阅读指导课
I had two months until my new job began. It
was like waiting an entire summer for school to
start.
I
spent those two
months talking
to
figure
skating
coaches and
judges. I
read boring
rule
books. I
drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and
made notes about our conversations. I
even took a lesson, which made some of
the skaters laugh.
Unit
【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.
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Task
1
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
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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
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.
Ideal
Careers
Sailor
Farmer(if she
were a man)
Civil engineer
Racing driver or explorer
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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?
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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.
Former
Jobs
1st man
Car salesman
When Laid-off
Recently
Why Laid-off
Low
sales, due
to
the
increase
of
interest
rates
2
man
nd
Worker
at
a
vacuum
10 months ago
cleaner plant
Plant
workers
moved
are
to
paid
Singapore
much less
where
B.
1
speaker(bcd)
2
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?
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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.
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