ListenThisWayBook2Unit7文本及答案

1、TapescriptListen This Way (Book 2)Unit 7 Choice Versus ChancePart I Getting ReadyA. Words & phrasesB. Complete the flow diagramA . Go to universityB. Leave schoolC. Become a teacherD. Go into the armyE. Look for a new jobF. Work as a clerk in a small officeG. Finish the university courseKey:at 18Bfr

2、om 18 to 20 Eat 20DAt 25AAt 29Gafter graduation CNowETapescript：Man： I suppose my careers a bit unusual because I went to university when I was twenty-five a lot later than most people go. When I left school, I went straight out to work: I worked as a clerk in a small office. My father criticized me

3、, I remember, for not going on studying while I had the chance, but I wanted to earn myself some money. Anyway, that job didnt last long because I had to go into the army when I was twenty. I stayed in for five years. I dont know what good my university course did because Im unemployed now. Oh, I kn

4、ow I got a job when I finished my university course I was twenty-nine then but it didnt last long. Well, I never really thought I would enjoy teaching very much. So, as I say, Im unemployed now and looking for something else.Part II Summer jobsA. Answer the questions:B. Write in the missing words.Ta

5、pescript:Interviewer: And Christine, what about you? What have you been doing thissummer?Christine: Working, mostly.Interviewer: You mean youve been studying?Christine: Oh no, Ive been doing a job to earn money.Interviewer: And have you made your fortune yet?Christine: Hardly! But I havent done too

6、badly. Ive been getting about 70 a week,plus my meals and my accommodation, so Ive earned over 500 and Ive managed to save most of it.Interviewer: That sounds pretty good. What kind of work have you been doingexactly?Christine: Ive been working in a hotel.Interviewer: what, as a waitress?Christine:

7、No. Ive been helping in the kitchen most of the time washing and peeling vegetables, preparing breakfast trays, washing up that sort of thing.Interviewer: And have you been enjoying it? Or has it been rather boring?Christine: No, it hasnt been too bad. Ive found it quite interesting here, in fact. N

8、ot so much the work itself, but the people Ive got to know and the friends Ive made, and Ive managed to do lots of things in my spare time too. Its a seaside town, so theres been quite a lot going on in the evenings you know, dancing, bowling, cinemas, and so on and on my afternoons off Ive been doi

9、ng quite a bit of sunbathing and swimming.Interviewer: Yes, I can see youve got quite brown. Youve obviously been having some reasonable weather here. Now what about Kevin here? Kevin, youve managed to get a fantastic suntan. How have you been spending your time here? Have you been doing a holiday j

10、ob?Kevin: Yes, Ive been working down on the beach. I like an outdoor job. Ive been mostly hiring out deck chairs you know, going round collecting the money, but Ive also beens elling papers.Interviewer: And have you earned a lot of money?Kevin: Not a lot. I came here for a cheap holiday more than an

11、ything else. My brothers the one whos been making money this summer.Interviewer: Has he been working here in Brighton too?Kevin:No, hes in Italy working as a courier for a travel firm. Hes been taking Americans round Italy on coach tours and having a fantastic time. And one of them has invited him t

12、o go and work in America next summer.Interviewer: Lucky him!Part III Jobs: my idea of hell, my idea of heavenA. Tick the places that they consider as hell.Key (to the choices):Places that offer job vacancies an abattoir an AIDS clinica factory a nuclear power plant a casinoa universitya chicken batt

13、ery B. Write down their ideal jobs.Ideal jobsFirst speaker: television reporter, archaeologist, anthropologistSecond speaker:t hird baseman for New York MetsThird speaker: photographerC. Complete the chart.Key:Reasons given for jobs undesirableReasons given for jobs desirable1st speaker It would be

14、repetitive. It would drive me mad. I m paid a lot omf oney. I can travel and see different countries.2nd speaker It would be so boring. It would be too much responsibility for me. The New York Mets is the best baseball team in the world.rd3 speaker I could be incapable of I can have an opportunitydo

15、ing it. It would be like a form of torture.to work with people. I can be independent and work on my own.Tapescript:My Idea of Hell:1st speaker: I think my idea of hell would be, to be, to have a job where I had to do the same thing over and over again like somebody working in afa ctory just picking

16、up one thing from one place and putting it into another and this just going on and on, day in and day out, if it was that kind of job I would just go mad.2nd speaker: Well, I think the thing I would least like to do given an option of anything in the world would be to be the guy who sits in an uclea

17、r power station watching for it to start melting down, you know, the guys who sit there in front of those, thats just you know its a revolting thing anyway but can you imagine the boredom and the responsibility at the same time, it would just be completely terrible, Id hate that.3rd speaker: I think

18、, I think the job I . I dont actually think I would be capable of doing it is to be work as the killing person in an abattoir. (I dont actually think I would be capable of doing it: to work as the killing person in an abattoir.) I think that would be my, my, er, its self-explanatory why I couldnt do

19、 it. I th.I cant imagine how people actually do it. I met somebody once who erm was one of the people that went into erm er a chicken battery and theyd spend all night they were only working night shift and just kill chickens and and I just couldnt comprehend how they managed to do that and how they

20、 stayed sane. That would be the worst thing. I think itd be torture in more ways than one.My Idea of Heaven:1st speaker: On the other hand it would be wonderful to have a job where you are paid a lot of money and you could travel to different countries someone like a television reporter or an archae

21、ologist or an anthropologist. I mean those are the exciting kinds of jobs Id like to have . I cant pinpoint one but it has to be a job where I can travel and see different countries and have time to actually stay in those countries and learn a little about those countries and visit exciting places.2

22、nd speaker: What would I like to do? Well I guess probably the best job in the world would be to play for the New York Mets. You cant beat that. you just cant beat that. third baseman for the New York Mets. The Mets? Oh theyre a baseball team. best baseball team in the world.3rd speaker: To choose a

23、nother sort of job that I would really like. I would very much like to be a photographer, erm because it would give me an opportunity to work with people but at the same time be independent still and thats the thing that I always need. I need to be independent, be able to work on my own and be among

24、st other people, very much like you, I think, that I have to have other contact but like to get on with wha. with my own thing.Part IV More about the topic: Occupational OutlookSupply the missing words.Part V Memory test: Wholl Get the Job?A. Answer the following questions.B. Answer the following qu

25、estions.C. Answer the following questions.Tapescript:(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?J

26、ane: 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 extremely careful and paying attention to details, then yes, I suppose Im conscientious.Mr. Toms: But he said too that you

27、 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 Secret

28、ary that were offering.Jane: Yes, thats 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 Im not. Some of the others in the office there

29、were so slow!Mr. Toms: Yes, yes. I like a person who wants to get on with the job.Mrs. Grey: Mr. James, what Id like to know is Mr. Toms: Excuse me, Mrs. Grey, but I wanted to ask Mr. James about his sport.Youre a keen footballer, I understand.Michael: Oh, yes. I play regularly twice a week. And I organize