英语听力教程(第2册)Unit-6-听力原文

英语听力教程(第2册)Unit-6-听力原文

Unit 6 听力原文

Part I B

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. What do you think are your strengths and

weaknesses?

3. We have a lot of applicants for this job, why

should we appoint you?

4. What has been your most valuable

experience?

5. How would you describe your personality? 6. When did you last lose your temper? Describe

what happened.

7. Which is more important to you: status or

money?

8. How long do you think you’d stay with us if

you were appointed?

9. Why do you want to leave your present job? 10. What makes you think you’d enjoy working

for us?

11. Are you an ambitious person?

12. What would you like to be doing ten years

from now?

13. What are you most proud of having done in

your present job?

14. What was the worst problem you have had

in your present job and how did you solve it?

15. What is the best idea you’ve had in the past

month?

16. What is your worst fault and what is your

best quality?

17. Don’t you think you’re a little young for this

job?

18. What are your long-range goals?

19. Describe your present job — what do you

find rewarding about it?

20. Now, what do you do in your spare time? 21. What excites you about the job you’re doing

now?

22. What worries you about the job you’re doing

now?

23. Describe your ideal boss.

24. How would you rate your present boss?

C

1. A person who likes to give or share things with others.

2. Someone who always tells the truth.

3. A person who is quick at learning new things. 4. Someone who is always on time. 5. A person who can’t keep a secret.

6. Someone who does not think about other people’s feeling.

7. A person who speaks in a very direct and honest way.

8. Someone who is educated or has good manners.

9. A person who comes up with new and original ideas.

10. Someone who has a strong desire to succeed. Part II Two girls talking on the phone Clara: That number has been engaged for ages.

Nobody can be that popular. I wonder if her number’s been changed. I think I’ll try again (Dialling) Sue: 3346791

Clara: Is that you sue? Sue: Who’s calling

Clara: This is Clara, Clara Fulkson. Don’t you remember me?

Sue: Clara! Of course I remember you. How are

you? I haven’t heard from you for at least 2 years. What are you doing?

Clara: Nothing very exciting. That’s one reason I’m ringing. I need some advice.

Sue: Advice? Hm...That’s a good one. I’ve just been sacked (Pips)

Clara: There’s (a) pips. Hang on Sue. (Insert a

coin) What do you mean you’ve just been sacked? Sue, you are the most successful woman I know.

Sue: That’s probably why I’ve been sacked. But

let’s talk about you. You said you needed some advice.

Clara: I certainly do. I want to ask you about interviews. Have you had (a) lots of them? Sue: Yes, I have. Too many

Clara: So could you tell me the sort of questions

you are usually asked?

Sue: Let me think. The first ten questions are

almost always the same. I call them the why’s, how’s and where’s. (pips again)

Clara: Not again, Don’t go away, Sue, I’ve got one more coin. (Insert one more coin) Are you there Sue?

Sue: Yes, I’m still here?

Clara: Sorry, I didn’t understand what you were telling me. Could you repeat it?

Sue: It’s very boring. But here you are. I’m

always asked: why I want to leave my present job; why I’m interested in the new job; how I intend to get to work; how long I intend to stay at the job; Where I live; where I went to school; how much I ‘m paid in my present job; how much I expect to be paid in the new job. Oh, yes. I’m always asked if I’m married. (pips again)

Clara: That is it, Sue. No more coins. I’ll write

to you soon. And many thanks. Questions:

1. What are the manes of the two speakers? 2. Where might the caller make the phone call? 3. How many coins did the caller insert? 4. How long haven’t the two girls seen each other for?

5. How many why’s, how’s and where’s can you remember? Place a tick by all the questions you can remember.

Part III A good interview A.

Interviewer: Good morning, Miss ... Miss Jones: Miss Jones.

Interviewer: Miss Jones, yes, right. Now, you’d like to join our team, I gather. Miss Jones: Yes, I would.

Interviewer: That’s very good. I’d like to know a

little bit about you. Perhaps you could tell me a little bit about your education. Miss Jones: Oh yes. I left school at 18 and for

the first two years I went to Gibsons.

They’re an engineering firm. And after that, I did a one-year full-time PA course and went back to Gibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for two years and then moved on to my present company. That’s Europa Marketing. And I’ve been with them for three years now, first working with the Marketing Director and now I’m with the Sales Director. Interviewer: That’s all very interesting, Miss

Jones. I’d like to know what was the course that you enjoyed most at school?

Miss Jones: Foreign languages. We did French and German.

Interviewer: And are you quite fluent in those languages now or ...?

Miss Jones: Yes, a bit rusty now, but obviously

the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and I’d like to learn another language. I’d like to add Italian as well. Interviewer: Italian? Miss Jones: Yes.

Interviewer: Very good, that might be very

useful. Now tell me a little bit about the work you’re doing at present.

Miss Jones: Well Europa Marketing is a

marketing and public relations company and they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets. Our clients come from all over the world. I assist the sales director by arranging these visits, setting up meetings and presentations and I deal with her correspondence. I’ve not been able to go with her on any of her trips abroad, but I’ve been to the firms in this country, several times on my own to make these arrangements.

Interviewer: It sounds as if you’re very happy

there, Miss Jones. I’m curious why you’d like to leave them and join our company. Miss Jones: Well I know Anglo-European has a

very good reputation. And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in

your company and that the work will be more challenging for me. I might be able to travel and use my languages because at the moment most of my work is rather routine secretarial-type work and I like the idea of more challenges in my life really ... B.

Interviewer: Good morning, Miss ... Miss Jones: Miss Jones. Good morning. Interviewer: Miss Jones, yes, right. Hi. Um ... now, you’d like to join our team, I gather. Miss Jones: Yes, I would.

Interviewer: That’s ... that’s very good. Er ... I’d

like to know a little bit about you. Perhaps you could tell me ... perhaps we could start ... if you could tell me a little bit about your education.

Miss Jones: Oh yes, right. Well, I left school at

18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons, you might know them, they’re an engineering firm.(An, yes, right.) Um ... and after that, I wanted to do a course, so I d ...

I did a one-year full-time PA course and went back to Gibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for another two years and ... and then I moved on to my present company. Um ... that’s Europa Marketing ... um ... Mr. Adair, the marketing director, offered me a job because Gibsons had ... had worked quite a lot with Europa Marketing. (Oh, yes, Europe’s got big business.) And I’ve been with them for three years now ... um ... first with the Marketing Director and ... and now I’m with the Sales Director.

Interviewer: That’s all very interesting, Miss

Jones. Um ... I ... I’d like to know, what did you enjoy most at school? What was the course that you enjoyed most?

Miss Jones: Ah ... foreign languages I liked best.

(Foreign languages.) We did French and German. Yes.

Interviewer: Mhm. And are you quite fluent in those now or ... ?

Miss Jones: Yes, a bit rusty now, but ... um ...

obviously the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and I’d like to learn another language. I’d like to add Italian as well.

Interviewer: Italian? Miss Jones: Yes.

Interviewer: Very good, very good, that ... that

might be very useful. Now ... er ... tell me a little bit about ... er ... the work you’re doing at present.

Miss Jones: Um ... well ... er ... Europa

Marketing is a marketing and public ... public relations company and they do ... they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets. Er ... our clients come from all over the world ... um ... we deal with some of them by ... by post, but most of them come to our offices and at least once during a project. I assist the sales director by arranging these visits, setting up meetings and presentations

and I ... I deal with her correspondence. I’ve not been able to go with her on any ... on any of her trips abroad, but I ... I’ve been to firms in this country, several times on my own ... um ... to make these arrangements.

Interviewer: It sounds as if you’re very happy

there, Miss Jones. I’m curious why you’d like to leave them and join our company. Miss Jones: Well ... um ... I know the reputation

of Anglo-European and it has a very good reputation. And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in your company and that the work will be more challenging for me. I might be able to possibly travel and use my languages because at the moment most of my work is ... is rather routine secretarial-type work and I like the idea of more ... um ... challenges in my life really ... Part Ⅳ A

At interview the first thing that I notice is how the person settles down, and when they sit down. Do they immediately rush into the room, grab a chair without being invited to sit down? Are they nervous? Do they spend a lot of time fiddling with their hands, brushing their hair back, holding their pen, tapping it on the table? Obviously everyone is nervous at interview and you make allowances for that, but if it continues throughout the whole interview then you have to ask yourself what will they be like in a normal job?

Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they make eye contact? Because if they won’t look at you in a job which depends on making a good impression, then probably in the job they won’t do very well in terms of making contact and having good relations with other colleagues. The sort of person normally we would look for would be someone who was, open, outgoing, enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what

they hoped to do. That doesn’t mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able to reflect on whatever experience they’ve had.

The other kinds of things that we might talk about in an interview of course are what the person expects to get from a new job, and I think that it is important because it shows the expectations that the person has-what they want from their job. It’s interesting to hear why people want to change jobs. B

... But as important as qualifications are, and you won’t get to an interview or at least people won’t get to an interview without the qualifications, the most important thing in fact is the character and how a person presents themselves at interview. I find it very difficult to define exactly the sort of person I am looking for, but when I meet someone I can tell whether they are the sort of person that I would like to appoint or whether they are not.

At interview the first thing that I notice is how the person settles down, when they sit down. Do they immediately rush into the room, grab a chair without being invited to sit down? Are they nervous? Um, do they spend a lot of time fiddling with their hands, brushing their hair back, er holding their pen, tapping it on the table? Obviously everyone is nervous at interview and you make allowances for that, but if it continues throughout the whole interview then of course you have to ask yourself if they’re like this after, say, an hour of interview, what will they be like in a normal job?

Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they make eye contact? Because if they won’t look at you in a job where in, in a situation where a job depends on, on them making a good impression, then probably in the job they won’t do very well in terms of making, er, good, making contact with other colleagues, making, having good relations with other colleagues. The sort of person normally we

would look for would be someone who was, open, outgoing, enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what they hoped to do. That doesn’t mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able to reflect on whatever experience they’ve had.

The other kinds of, of um things that we might talk about in an interview of course are what, er what the person expects to get from a new job in a new country, and that I think is important because it shows the expectations that the person has — what they want from their job. Um it’s interesting to hear why people want to change jobs, why they want to go to a new country.

Part V Who’ll Get the Job?

(Jane Langley is being interviewed by Mrs. Grey, the Personnel Manager, and Mr. Toms. ) Mr. Toms: Yes, I see. Good. Good.

Mrs. Grey: Miss Langley, I see that your last

employer, Mr. Carmichaes, described you

as “conscientious”. Do you think you are? Jane: Well, I certainly try to be. I have a set

routine for the day in the office which means that I know exactly all the jobs that I have to do. And if conscientious means being exrtemely careful and paying attention to detail, then yes, I suppose I’m conscientious.

Mr. Toms: But he said too that you could ‘adapt

quickly to change’. Did you leave because they were making changes, or what? Jane: No, not at all. They made a lot of changes

while I was there. I’m afraid I became unhappy because I wanted something more challenging.

Mrs. Grey: I assume you wanted something like the job of Senior Secretary that we’re offering. Jane: Yes, that’s right.

(Michael James is being interviewed now by the same two people. )

Mrs. Grey: ...and according to your last

employer, Mr. Smith, you ‘tend to be a little

impatient at times’.

Michael: Well, perhaps I am, perhaps I’m not. Some of the others in the office there were so slow!

Mr. Toms: Yes, yes. I like a person who wants to get on with the job.

Mrs. Grey: Mr. James, what I’d like to know is ...

Mr. Toms: Excuse me, Mrs. Grey, but I wanted

to ask Mr. James about his sport. You’re a keen footballer, I understand.

Michael: Oh, yes. I play regularly twice a week. And I organised a team at my old place. Mr. Toms: And golf, too, I gather.

Michael: Yes. Actually, I like golf better than

football really. That’s why I play nearly every morning ...

(Mrs. Grey and Mr. Toms are now discussing Jane and Michael after the interviews.) Mrs. Grey: ... so in my view, when you compare

the two of them — and this has nothing to do with Jane being a woman — I’d give the

job to Jane Langley. She’s obviously a better secretary than he is, she’s a much better typist, she mixes better with people and is clearly far more polite. We don’t even need to discuss Mr. James.

Mr. Toms: Well, we do, because I think he’s

brighter than Miss Langley. I know he doesn’t dress as well or speak as clearly, and he’s not as experienced as she is, but he’s quicker, more alert. And he’s keen on football and golf. I like that. So he gets the job.

Mrs. Grey: No, I’m sorry, Mr. Toms. He doesn’t. Mr. Toms: Yes, he does, Mrs. Grey. He’s the Director’s nephew.