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1、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 le

2、sson, which made some of the skaters laugh.Unit 6Task 1【答案】A.dbaecB.a【原文】Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 oclock, 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 couldnt get on a bus. There were too many people and

3、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 didnt 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 platf

4、orm 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 throw

5、n 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.Task 2【答案】A. 1) a 2) b 3) d 4) cB. 1) T 2) T 3) FC. wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain w

6、ay; 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 gate

7、s 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 kn

8、ew 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

9、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 th

10、e 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 direc

11、tion. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.Task 3【答案】A. NamesIdeal CareersHarrySailorNoraFarmer(if she were a man)RobertCivil engineerPeterRacing driver or explorerB. 1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d【原文】Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what yo

12、u want to do when you leave college?Nora: Oh Harry. Surely hes a bit young to decide on his career. He hasnt even got to college yet.Harry: Not at all, Nora. Its 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 of

13、fice. Yes, its silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon. Nora: Now if I were a man Id be a farmer. To see the crops growing-thats my idea of a good life. Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, thats not the way I

14、 look at it, Dad. Its the job I care about, not the money. Harry: Maybe not; but youll learn to care about the money too, when youve got a family to keep. Nora: And of course Peter well, hes keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer.Robert: Oh, Peters not old enough to make up his mind about s

15、uch things. Harry: You havent answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do? Nora: Are you sure you dont want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?Robert: No, Im sorry Mum, but I dont want to at all. Id rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges. Harry: Not s

16、hips? Isnt it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?Robert: Look here, is it my career were planning, or yours? Harry: All fight, all right, theres no need to lose your temper. But youd better win that scholarship first.Task 4【答案】I. correspondents; columnistA. may not need eitherB. to go to places wh

17、ere events take place and write stories about themII. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other peopleIII. 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 no

18、t 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

19、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

20、 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

21、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) abeB. 1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes【原文】SYLVIA: Weve got a new manager in our department.LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didnt

22、you?SYLVIA: Yes, I did.LARRY: Im sorry. Thats too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. Hes been with the company only two years. Ive 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?S

23、YLVIA: Because Im the wrong sex, of course !LARRY: You mean you didnt get the job because youre a woman?SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isnt 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 me

24、an you think I didnt get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweater?LARRY: Its possible, isnt 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: Im not saying you should. Im

25、 saying you should think about it. Thats all!SYLVIA: Why should I do that? Im good at my job! Thats the only important thing!LARRY: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isnt. Not inthis company.Task 6【答案】A.Former JobsWhen Laid-offWhy Laid-off1st manCar salesmanRecentlyLow sales

26、, due to the increase of interest rates2nd manWorker at a vacuum cleaner plant10 months agoPlant moved to Singapore where workers are paid much lessB.1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae)C. 1) F 2) F【原文】Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?Bob: Yeah. Its the same line for everything. You just stand

27、 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. Im a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just arent selling cars. Its the interest rates. Two years ago, I

28、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 days work. But the m

29、achinery 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 theyre paying the workers in Singa

30、pore? $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 n

31、ever heard from them again. Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe youll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. Ill see you here next week. Al: I hope not. I hope Ill have something by then.Task 7【答案】A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) FB.1) According to the fi

32、rst 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

33、 are.【原文】Interviewer: Do you prefer what youre 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 youre teaching in England and most of the students know quite a lot of English before they arrive

34、. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom, in pubs or coffee shops or other places, with the families theyre living with. Its 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 wh

35、ite, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of ones 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 didnt have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just h

36、ad 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

37、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 journali

38、st 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, Ill see if theyll have me. Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?Second Man: Well, partly beca

39、use 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 oclock 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 i

40、t had to be finished it had to go into the newspapers next week. Interviewer: So there was a lot mom 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

41、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 Id better get out, whereas the English language teachers I saw, who were older people I thought, well, they seemed quite nice. And I wouldnt mind being like tha

42、t myself.Task 8【答案】The interview with Michale:Does he work?No.Why or why not?The work he used to do was not what interested him and what he likes to do cannot earn him enough money to support himself.What are the advantages of not having to work?1) You do not have to get up it you dont feel like it.

43、2) You can spend your time on the things you want to do.Why does he feel justified in not working?He believes he does things which are enjoyable for him and useful to people and the community.The interview with Chris:What is the value of work in the current society?Very little value other than suppo

44、rting oneself and ones family.What are the two main aspects of work?1) It is a bread-winning process. 2) The activities in it can be valuable to society.What does he think of the work of a car factory worker?He thinks it harmful to both the environment and the society, for cars add to pollution and

45、consume the scarce resources.What does he think of the work of a doctor?He thinks it a valuable job in any society.What kind of job does he do?He is perhaps a university teacher.What does he think of his work?He regarded his job a “white collar” job, which he does with his mind and receives mental s

46、atisfaction from it.【原文】Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work? Michael: Not regularly, no. I. I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasnt really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do wouldnt earn me much money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a

47、 private income from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others dont. Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five? Michael: Ah. there re two advantages really. One is that if you fee

48、l tired you dont have to get up, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time. Matthew: But surely thats in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do yo

49、u feel justified in having this privileged position? Michael: Yes, because I think I use it well. I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I enjoy doing. Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work is? Chris: Well, I think in our present-day society, for mos

50、t people, work has very little value at all. Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine hours of our working day. We do things which are either totally futile and totally useless or have very little justification whatsoever, and for most of us the only reason for working is that we need to ke

51、ep ourselves alive, to pay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our children. Matthew: But surely people wouldnt know what to do if they didnt have to go to work? Chris: Well, again this raises the sort of two main aspects of work. Should we think of work only as a sort of bread-winning process, an

52、d this is very much the role it has in current society, or should we take a much wider perspective on work and think of all the possible sort of activities that human beings could be doing during the day? I think the sort of distinction currently is between say, someone who works in a car factory an

53、d who produces cars which are just adding to pollution, to over-consumption of vital resources, who is doing something which is very harmful, both to our environment and to, probably society, to contrast his work with someone perhaps like a doctor, who I think in any society could be justified as do

54、ing a very valuable job and one which incidentally is satisfying to the person who is doing it. Matthew: What do you do? Is your job just a breadwinning process or do you get some satisfaction out of doing it? Chris: Well, in the job I do find that most of the satisfaction is a mental one; its comin

55、g to grips with the problems of my subject and with the problems of teaching in the University. Clearly this is the type of satisfaction that most people doing what we call in England white-collar jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working that his hands or with

56、his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who are using artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly its becoming a phenomena that people who do white-collar jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are offi

57、ce clerks, bank employees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless dont involve much physical effort, that they tend to come home and do do-it-yourself activities at home. They make cupboard, paint their houses, repair their cars, which somehow provide the sort of physical j

58、ob satisfaction that theyre denied in their working day.Task 9【答案】A.Interviewees Like their jobs(percent)Dislike their jobs(percent)Like jobs in part(percent)Men9154Women84124Men/Women 18-2470206Men/Women 25-298893Men/Women 30-399280White-collar workers8784Blue-collar workers9153B.1) No major change

59、. For some“less paperwork”Some:less working hoursOthers:earn more money.2) Most adultswould go on working.Esp. young adults (18 to 24)9 out of 10 would go on working【原文】Are most workers today feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs? It is often claimed that they are. Yet a study conducted by

60、Parade magazine more than 20 years ago showed that people at that time felt the opposite. Parade asked questions of a representative sampling of adult Americans from coast to coast. The sampling included different sexes, age groups, and occupations. The interviewees were asked to make a choice from

61、one of the following three to describe their feelings towards their work. A. Like their jobs. B. Dislike their jobs. C. Like their jobs in part, Results showed that 91 percent of the male interviewees and 84 percent of the females chose A, while only 5 percent men and 12 percent women interviewed ch

62、ose B. The rest said that they liked their jobs in part and they comprised a very tow percentage. In all the three age groups from 18 to 24, from 25 to 29 and 30 to 39 those who liked theirjobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accoun

63、ted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part. The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the white-collar employees, those ch

64、oosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively. It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported