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Section A
Long
Conversations
(长对话)
Conversation One
M: So how
long have you been a Market Research Consultant?
W: Well, I started straight after
finishing university.
M: Did you study
market research?
W: Yeah, and it really
helped
me to
get into the
industry, but
I have to
say
that it's
more
important
to
get
experience
in
different
types
of
market
research
to
find
out
exactly what you're
interested in.
M: So what are you
interested in?
W: Well, at the moment,
I specialize in quantitative advertising research,
which means
that
I
do
two
types
of
projects.
Trackers,
which
are
ongoing
projects
that
look
at
trends
or
customer
satisfaction
over
a
long
period
of
time.
The
only
problem
with
trackers is that it takes up a lot of
your time. But you do build up a good relationship
with the client. I also do a couple of
ad-hoc jobs which are much shorter projects.
M: What exactly do you mean by ad-hoc
jobs?
W:
It's basically when
companies need quick
answers to
their questions
about
their
consumers' habits.
They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out
for example, so
the time you spend on
an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.
M: Which do you prefer, trackers or ad-
hoc?
W: I like doing both and in fact I
need to do both at the same time to keep me from
going crazy. I need the variety.
M: Can you just explain what process
you go through with a new client?
W:
Well, together we decide on the methodology and
the objectives of the research. I
then
design a questionnaire. Once the interviewers have
been briefed, I send the client
a
schedule
and
then
they
get
back
to
me
with
deadlines.
Once
the
final
charts
and
tables are ready, I have
to check them and organize a presentation.
M: Hmm, one last question, what do you
like and dislike about your job?
W: As
I said, variety is important and as for what I
don't like, it has to be the checking
of charts and tables.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
Q1:
What position does the woman hold in the company?
Q2: What does the woman specialize in
at the moment?
Q3: What does the woman
say about trackers?
Q4: What does the
woman dislike about her job?
Conversation Two
W: Hello,
I'm here with Frederick. Now Fred, you went to
university in Canada?
M: Yeah, that's
right.
W:
OK,
and
you
have
very
strong
views
about
universities
in
Canada.
Could
you
please explain?
M:
Well,
we
don't
have
private
universities
in
Canada.
They’re
all
public.
All
the
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universities
are
owned
by
the
government,
so
there
is
the
Ministry
of
Education
in
charge of creating the curriculum for
the universities and so there is not much room
for flexibility. Since it's a
government operated institution, things don't move
very fast.
If you want something to be
done, then their staff do not have so much
incentive to
help you because he's a
worker for the government. So I don't think it's
very efficient.
However, there
are
certain
advantages
of public
universities, such as
the
fees being
free. You don't
have to pay for your education. But the system
isn't efficient, and it
does not work
that well.
W:
Yeah,
I
can
see
your
point,
but
in
the
United
States
we
have
many
private
universities, and I think they are
large bureaucracies also. Maybe people don't act
that
much differently, because it’s the
same thing working f
or a private
university. They
get paid for their
job. I don’t know if they're that much more
motivated to help people.
Also, we have
a problem in the United States that usually only
wealthy kids go to the
best schools and
it's kind of a problem actually.
M: I
agree with you. I think it's a problem because
you're not giving equal access to
education to everybody. It’s not easy,
but having only public universities also might
not be the best solution. Perhaps we
can learn from Japan where they have a system of
private and public universities. Now,
in Japan, public universities are considered to be
the best.
W: Right. It's the
exact opposite in the United States.
M:
So, as you see, it's very hard to say which one is
better.
W: Right, a good point.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
Q5:
What does the woman want Frederick to talk about?
Q6: What does the man say about the
curriculum in Canadian universities?
Q7: On what point do the speakers
agree?
Q8: What point does the man make
at the end of the conversation?
Section
B
Passages
Passage
One
Passage 1
A recent International
Labour Organization report says the deterioration
of real wages
around
the
world
calls
into
question
the
true
extent
of
an
economic
recovery,
especially if government rescue
packages are phased out too early.
The
report
warns
the
picture
on
wages
is
likely
to
get
worse
this
year,
despite
indications
of
an
economic
rebound.
Patrick
Belser,
an
International
Labour
Organization
specialist,
says
declining
wage
rates
are
linked
to
the
levels
of
unemployment.
“The
quite
dramatic
unemployment
figures,
which
we
now
see
in
some
of
the
countries, strongly suggest that there
will be greater pressure on wages in the future as
more
people
will
be
unemployed,
more
people
will
be
looking
for
jobs
and
the
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pressure on employers to raise wages to
attract
workers will decline. So, we
expect
that the second part of the year
will not be very good in terms of wage
growth.”
The
report
finds
more
than
a
quarter
of
the
countries
experienced
flat
or
falling
monthly
wages
in
real
terms.
They
include,
the
United
States,
Austria,
Costa
Rica,
South Africa and
Germany.
International
Labour Organization economists say
some nations have come up with
polices to lessen the impact of lower
wages during the economic crisis. An example of
these is work sharing with government
subsidies. Under this scheme, the number of
individual working hours is reduced in
an effort to avoid layoffs. For this scheme to
work, the government must provide wage
subsidies to compensate for lost pay due to
the shorter hours.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
Q9. What
is the International Labor Organization report
mainly about?
Q10. According to an
International Labor Organization specialist, how
will employers
feel if there are more
people looking for jobs?
does the
speak mean by
Passage Two
Is
there really a magic memory pill or a herbal
recall remedy? I have been frequently
asked if these memory supplements work.
You know, one of the first things I like to
tell
people
when
they
ask
me
about
the
supplements,
is
that
a
lot
of
them
are
promoted
as
a
cure
for
your
memory.
But
your
memory
doesn’t
need
a
cure.
What
your memory needs is a
good work-out. So rea
lly those
supplements aren’t going to
give you
that perfect memory in the way that they promise.
The other thing is that a
lot of these
supplements aren’t necessarily what they claim to
be, and you really have
to be wary when
you take any of them. The science isn't there
behind most of them.
They're not really
well-regulated unless they adhere to some industry
standard. You
don't really know that
what they say is in there, isn't there. What you
must understand
is that those
supplements, especially in some eastern cultures,
are part of a medical
practice
tradition.
People
don't
just
go
in
a
local
grocery
store
and
buy
these
supplements. In fact, they are
prescribed and they're given at a certain level, a
dosage
that is understood by a
practitioner who's been trained. And that's not
really the way
they're
used
in
this
country.
The
other
thing
people
do
forget
is
that
these
are
medicines, so they do
have an impact. A lot of times people are not
really aware of the
impact they have,
or the fact that taking them in combination with
other medications
might
put
you
at
increased
risk
for
something
that
you
wouldn’t
otherwise
being
countering or be at risk for.
Q12. What question is frequently put to
the speaker?
Q13. What does the speaker
say about most memory supplements?
Q14.
What do we learn about memory supplements in
eastern cultures?
Q15. What does the
speaker say about memory supplements at the end? <
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Lecture 1
The negative
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