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1、书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。祝愿天下莘莘学子：学业有成，金榜题名！语言类考试复习资料大全中级分类模拟题Jobs and careers中级分类模拟题Jobs and careersWho should we short-list?问题:1. Before you listen to the recording, look at this advertisement and decide what kind of person the advertiser is looking for. Highlight the important points in the ad. Assistant

2、Marketing Manager We are a well-known international manufacturer, based in the UK, and we are expanding our export marketing activities in our European headquarters in London. We are looking for a lively and intelligent person to join our team as soon as possible. The work will involve working in ou

3、r London office, telephoning and corresponding with our overseas clients and agents, and some travel, mainly to European countries. Applicants should be fluent in at least one foreign language. Experience in marketing would be an asset but not essential. The successful applicant will be paid top Lon

4、don rates and provided with generous removal expenses. Youll hear three telephone messages. Each of the speakers has held interviews with applicants for the job. 1 Listen and take notes. Youll need to pause the recording frequently. 2 Compare your notes with the notes in the Answer Key. 3 Decide whi

5、ch of the job applicants sounds most promising: Which of them will you put on the short list for a second interview in London? Which of the three candidates do you rate most highly, judging from what youve heard about them? If possible, compare your views with another student who has done this exerc

6、ise. REPORT FROM : Best candidate: _ Age:_ Education :_ Languages :_ Work experience:_ Personality:_ Availability :_ Suitability:_ Address :_ Phone :_ (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 答案:Suggested answers REPORT FROM: GUS MORRISON IN GLASGOW Best candidate: Duncan McCabe Age: 21 Education: Graduate of Edinburgh

7、 University (MA in modern languages) Languages: Speaks fluent French and quite good German Work experience: Publicity department of Glasgow City Council (about a year) Personality: Very pleasant, a bit shy when you first talk to him, but when you get to know him he has a lovely sense of humour Avail

8、ability: Not available until September 1st Suitability: Very bright and eager and hed fit in well with your people down in London Address: 145 Pentland Gardens, Glasgow, G5 8TG Phone: 041 667 8092 REPORT FROM: LAURA STEELE IN SHEFFIELD Best candidate: Mrs Sylvia Sabbatini Age: 25 Education: Paper qu

9、alifications not all that good: left school at 16 to do secretarial course Languages: Speaks Italian fluently (father Italian, mother English) Work experience: Johnson Brothers in Marketing since leaving school Personality: Lovely personality - very cheerful and bright Availability: Husband has just

10、 got a job in London, so able to start work in London right away Suitability: Very intelligent young woman - she impressed me very much Address: 78 Pennine Avenue, Huddersfield, L534 7QT Phone: 0484 078432 REPORT FROM: TERRY WILLIAMS IN CARDIFF Best candidate: Miss Emma Harris Age: 20 Education: Had

11、 right exam results to get into university, but decided to go into industry Languages: Speaks Spanish and French (not exactly fluent, but so confident this doesnt matter) Work experience: Working in marketing for small light engineering firm, had become Export Marketing Manager. Firm taken over and

12、she was made redundant - they decided to (:lose her department Personality: Full of confidence, makes friends easily Availability: No ties here, could start work next week if you wanted Suitability: Has really good potential - would work well in a team Address: 214 Gower Road, Swansea, SA2 4PJ Phone

13、: 0792 98762解析 Transcript Gus Morrison: Good afternoon. This is Gus Morrison calling from Glasgow. Now, most of the people Ive talked to today have been pretty hopeless. One of them was obviously lying when he filled in the application form. Do you know, he claimed to speak German, but when I starte

14、d talking to him in German, he couldnt understand! Well, now, the best of the bunch was er.where is it.er Duncan McCabe (thats D-U-N-C-A-N M-c-C-A-B-E). Hes quite young, hes only 21 and hes a graduate of Edinburgh.Edinburgh University. Hes got an MA and its in modern languages. Now, hes been working

15、 for the publicity department of Glasgow City Council for about a year. He speaks fluent French and his German is quite good too. Hes a very pleasant lad, he seems a bit shy when you first talk to him, but when you get to know him hes got a lovely sense of humour, and I think hes very bright, hes ve

16、ry eager and I think hed fit in well with your people down in London. Now unfortunately hes not available until September 1st. But if you want to contact him, his address is 145 Pentland (Ill spell that, thats P-E-N-T-L-A-N-D) Pentland Gardens, Glasgow, and the postcode is G5 8TG, and his phone numb

17、er is 041 667 8092. Laura Steele: Hello, this is Laura Steele, Im calling from Sheffield. Ive spent this morning interviewing four candidates and the best one is a Mrs Sylvia Sabbatini (thats S-Y-L-V-1-A S-A-B-B-A-T-I-N-I). Now, shes 25, shes married and has been working for Johnson Brothers, in Mar

18、keting since leaving school. She has a lovely personality - very cheerful and bright. She speaks Italian fluently (her father is Italian, her mother is English). Her qualifications on paper are not all that good, she left school at 16 to do a secretarial course, but shes a very intelligent young wom

19、an - she impressed me very much. Shes been married for two years, no children, and her husband has just got a job in London, so shed be able to start work in London more or less right away. Her address is 78 Pennine Avenue, Pennine (P-E-N-N-I-N- E) Avenue, Huddersfield (thats H-U-D-D-E-R-S-F-I-E-L-D

20、), and the postcode is LS34 7QT. Her telephone number is 0484 078432. Terry Williams: Hello, this is Terry Williams calling from Cardiff. Ive just finished a very frustrating day interviewing people for you. There were really only two applicants that you should have invited for interview and I disco

21、vered after half an hour that one of them isnt available: hed already accepted another job but decided to come to the interview anyway! So the only person I have to tell you about is Miss Emma Harris (thats E-M-M-A H-A-R-R-I-S). Shes only 20 but she has really good potential. She had all the right e

22、xam results to get into university when she left school, but decided to go into industry. She speaks Spanish and French, though shes not exactly fluent in either, but shes so confident I dont think that matters. Shes been working in marketing for a small light engineering firm and she had just becom

23、e their Export Marketing Manager when the firm was taken over and she was made redundant because they decided to close her department. She is full of confidence, makes friends easily and she would work well in a team. She has no ties here, and she could start next week if you wanted. I think shed be

24、 a real find and you should get in touch with her right away. Her address is 214 Gower Road (thats G-O-W-E-R), Swansea (S-W-A-N-S-E-A), SA2 4PJ. Her phone number is 0792 98762. All right. Ah, cheerio then. Abstract nounsUse a dictionary to look up any unfamiliar words in these exercises.问题:1. What a

25、re the noun forms of these verbs? Only write down the ones which are unfamiliar or which youre unsure of. acknowledge achieve agree announce arrange develop endorse judge measure repay adapt alter apply authorize cancel centralize confirm consult declare determine devalue imagine modify recommend sp

26、ecialize appreciate arbitrate calculate collaborate co-operate eliminate fluctuate integrate locate speculate attract collect contribute correct deduct delete interrupt pollute predict protect reduce 答案: acknowledgement achievement agreement announcement arrangement development endorsement judgement

27、 measurement repayment adaptation alteration application authorization cancellation centralization confirmation consultation declaration determination devaluation imagination modification recommendation specialization appreciation arbitration calculation collaboration co-operation elimination fluctu

28、ation integration location speculation attraction collection contribution correction deduction deletion interruption pollution prediction protection reduction 问题:1. What are the noun forms of these adjectives? Only write down the ones which are unfamiliar or which youre unsure of. calm careless chea

29、p friendly helpful late loud serious confident intelligent patient different capable flexible formal possible probable popular real reliable scarce sincere 答案: calmness carelessness cheapness friendliness helpfulness lateness loudness seriousness confidence intelligence patience difference capabilit

30、y flexibility formality possibility probability popularity reality reliability scarcity sincerity Have a nice day Read this article and then fill each gap below with one word. Have a nice day Hotel, shop and restaurant chains, which employ thousands of people in low-paid, dead-end jobs, are discover

31、ing that high labour turnover rates resulting from the indiscriminate hiring of cheap workers can be extremely costly. Cole National, a Cleveland-based firm which owns Child World, Things Remembered and other speciality shops, declared a war for people in an effort to recruit and keep better staff.

32、Employees were asked: What do you enjoy about working here? In the past year, have you thought about leaving? If so, why? How can we improve our company and create an even better place to work? Employees replied they wanted better training, better communications with their supervisors and, above all

33、, wanted their bosses to make me feel like I make a difference. Labour turnover declined by more than half; for full time sales assistants, it declined by about a third. Marriott Corporation, a hotels and restaurants group, has also decided to spend more money on retaining employees in the hope of s

34、pending less on finding and training new ones. In one year, it had to hire no fewer than 27,000 workers to fill 8,800 hourly- paid job slots. To slow its labour turnover, Marriott had to get a simple message accepted throughout its operating divisions: loyal, well motivated employees make customers

35、happy and that, in turn, creates fatter profits and happier shareholders, hnpruved training of middle managers helped. So did a change in bonus arrange- ments. At the same time, Marriott became more fussy about the people it recruited. It screened out job appli- cants motivated mainly by money: appl

36、icants which the company pejoratively described as pay first people. Such people form a surprisingly small, though apparently disruptive, part of the service-industry workforce. Marriott found in its employee-attitude surveys that only about 20% of its workers at Roy Rogers restaurants and about 30%

37、 of its workers at Marriott hotels regarded pay as their primary reason for working there. Many middle managers in service industries are more comfortable coping with demands for more money than with demands for increased recognition and better communica- tions. They will have to change their ways.

38、Surveys say that when 13,000 employees in retail shops across America were asked to list in order the 18 reasons for working where they did, they ranked good pay third. In first place was appreciation of work done, with respect for me as a person second. 1. Many workers in service industries are _ b

39、adly and their work is_答案: paid unrewarding/dull2. Service firms with large numbers of low-paid workers often have a high staff_答案: turnover3. Cole National conducted a _ among its staff, because they wanted to recruit and _ better workers.答案: survey keep4. Staff replied that they wanted their manag

40、ers to show that they were_答案: appreciated5. Marriott discovered that customers are happier when the staff are _ and _ motivated. They found that most of their workers were_ mainly motivated by pay.答案: loyal well/highly not6. For most US shop workers pay is the _ most important reason for job satisf

41、action.答案: thirdEmployment问题:1. Fill the gaps in these sentences, then add the words to the puzzle below. 答案:On . Fill the gaps in these sentences with a suitable prepositional phrase from the list below. on a large scale on approval on behalf of on business on closer inspection on condition on disp

42、lay on loan on order on paper on the phone on request on schedule on the spot on time on vacation /on holiday 1. They produce this kind of material on _ so they should be able to supply us quickly.答案:a large scale2. You will find our new product _ at our showroom.答案:on display3. We have a sales engi

43、neer _ who can fix the fault this week.答案:on the spot4. We can supply samples and demonstration equipment _答案:on request5. We have had the goods _ for three months, but they havent arrived yet.答案:on order6. We accepted delivery of the goods as undamaged, but _ we find that five ot the components are

44、 unusable.答案:on closer inspection7. I spoke to him _ last week about this.答案:on the phone8. We can have the goods for four weeks _ Then we can return them or pay for them.答案:on approval9. The goods arrived _答案:on time10. He travelled to England _ but managed to do a little sightseeing while he was t

45、here.答案:on business11. Im afraid Ms Smith is _ till the end of the month - can I help you?答案: on vacation/on holiday12. We can offer you the job _ that you start work on the first of next month.答案:on condition13. This candidate doesnt look very good _ but she is very impressive in person.答案: on pape

46、r14. You cant keep this permanently, but you may have it _ till the end of the month.答案: on loan15. She signed the letter _ her boss.答案: on behalf of16. Our relocation plans are proceeding _ and we will be making the move on January 1 next year.答案: on scheduleHigh-flyers Youll hear part of a broadca

47、st about high-flyers - people who will be given special training and experience to make them into the top managers of tomorrow. Answer these multiple-choice questions about the information and opinions given in the recording. According to the Presenter . (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. High-flyer schemes ar

48、e .A.found in all kinds of companies.B.most common in multinational companies.C.common in large companies.答案:C解析 1-12 Transcript Presenter: . . . the first high-flyer schemes were introduced in the 1960s and now many sectors of commerce, industry and the civil service pick out their most promising y

49、ounger managers as high-flyers. You find schemes of this kind mostly in large companies or groups of companies, where the fairly rigid career structure can only be broken by by-passing the normal steps in the promotion ladder. It can take a company many years to develop a top-level manager, if he or

50、 she joins them straight from university. Suc people must obtain wide experience in different parts of the company and this can take up to 20 years. This means that someone who joins the firm from university works for the company in different capacities, and is identified as a high- flyer, can expec

51、t to reach top management at around the age of 40. Rod Scott has been looking at what is called the individual development programme at BR Rod Scott: BP is one of the largest multinational companies in the world. It employs 130,000 people. It has 260 managers involved in its own individual developme

52、nt programme who will compete for 180 senior positions in the group. They dont join the scheme until they are in their late 20s, by which time they will have established themselves in their special field, they will have built up their professional reputation and they will have a record of high perfo

53、rmance. While theyre on the scheme (and this lasts 5 to 10 years) their progress is supervised by a committee of 15 senior managers. One of the main purposes of the scheme is to provide them with experience outside their own field - in finance, working in an overseas division, or experience in infor

54、mation technology. Presenter: But high-flyer schemes have their drawbacks, according to Heather Stewart, a management consultant. Heather Stewart: One weakness is that you may be creating a management team who think and act in the same ways. That means, if your business changes, they may not be able

55、 to meet the challenges. As outsiders tend to be excluded as senior recruits, the company may be cutting itself off from a pool of talent which their competitors can draw on. Another problem is that late-starters are also excluded - not everyone is at their peak in their 20s and such qualities as experience and in-depth knowledge may be undervalued. Another wea