英语听力教程(第2册)Unit 6 听力原文

1、Unit 6 听力原文Part I B1. 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?

2、Describe what happened.7. Which is more important to you: status or money?8. How long do you think youd stay with us if you were appointed?9. Why do you want to leave your present job?10. What makes you think youd enjoy working for us?11. Are you an ambitious person?12. What would you like to be doi

3、ng 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 youve had in the past month?16. What is your worst fault and what is your best quality?17. Dont you

4、think youre 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 youre doing now?22. What worries you about the job youre doing now?23. Describe y

5、our ideal boss.24. How would you rate your present boss? C1. 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 cant keep a secret.6. Someone who does not think

6、about other peoples 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 eng

7、aged for ages. Nobody can be that popular. I wonder if her numbers been changed. I think Ill try again (Dialling)Sue: 3346791Clara: Is that you sue?Sue: Whos callingClara: This is Clara, Clara Fulkson. Dont you remember me?Sue: Clara! Of course I remember you. How are you? I havent heard from you fo

8、r at least 2 years. What are you doing?Clara: Nothing very exciting. Thats one reason Im ringing. I need some advice.Sue: Advice? Hm.Thats a good one. Ive just been sacked (Pips)Clara: Theres (a) pips. Hang on Sue. (Insert a coin) What do you mean youve just been sacked? Sue, you are the most succes

9、sful woman I know.Sue: Thats probably why Ive been sacked. But lets 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 manyClara: So could you tell me the sort of questions you are usually ask

10、ed?Sue: Let me think. The first ten questions are almost always the same. I call them the whys, hows and wheres. (pips again)Clara: Not again, Dont go away, Sue, Ive got one more coin. (Insert one more coin) Are you there Sue?Sue: Yes, Im still here?Clara: Sorry, I didnt understand what you were tel

11、ling me. Could you repeat it?Sue: Its very boring. But here you are. Im always asked: why I want to leave my present job; why Im 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; ho

12、w much I expect to be paid in the new job. Oh, yes. Im always asked if Im married.(pips again)Clara: That is it, Sue. No more coins. Ill 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 call

13、er insert?4. How long havent the two girls seen each other for?5. How many whys, hows and wheres can you remember? Place a tick by all the questions you can remember.Part III A good interviewA.Interviewer: Good morning, Miss .Miss Jones: Miss Jones.Interviewer: Miss Jones, yes, right. Now, youd like

14、 to join our team, I gather.Miss Jones: Yes, I would.Interviewer: Thats very good. Id 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. Theyre an engineering firm. An

15、d 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. Thats Europa Marketing. And Ive been with them for three years now, first working with the Marketing Director and now Im

16、 with the Sales Director.Interviewer: Thats all very interesting, Miss Jones. Id 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

17、, but obviously the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and Id like to learn another language. Id 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 youre doing at present.Miss J

18、ones: 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 de

19、al with her correspondence. Ive not been able to go with her on any of her trips abroad, but Ive been to the firms in this country, several times on my own to make these arrangements.Interviewer: It sounds as if youre very happy there, Miss Jones. Im curious why youd like to leave them and join our

20、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

21、 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, youd like to join our team, I gather.Miss Jones: Yes, I would.Interviewer: Thats . thats very g

22、ood. Er . Id 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, theyre an engineering

23、 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 . thats Europa Marketing . um . Mr.

24、Adair, the marketing director, offered me a job because Gibsons had . had worked quite a lot with Europa Marketing. (Oh, yes, Europes got big business.) And Ive been with them for three years now . um . first with the Marketing Director and . and now Im with the Sales Director.Interviewer: Thats all

25、 very interesting, Miss Jones. Um . I . Id 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

26、 Jones: Yes, a bit rusty now, but . um . obviously the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and Id like to learn another language. Id 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

27、me a little bit about . er . the work youre 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

28、 . 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. Ive not been able to go with her on any . on a

29、ny of her trips abroad, but I . Ive been to firms in this country, several times on my own . um . to make these arrangements.Interviewer: It sounds as if youre very happy there, Miss Jones. Im curious why youd like to leave them and join our company.Miss Jones: Well . um . I know the reputation of A

30、nglo-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

31、-type work and I like the idea of more . um . challenges in my life really .Part AAt 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

32、 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 no

33、rmal job?Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they make eye contact? Because if they wont look at you in a job which depends on making a good impression, then probably in the job they wont do very well in terms of making contact and having good relations with other colleagues. Th

34、e 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 doesnt mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able to reflect on whatever

35、experience theyve 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. Its interesting to hear why peop

36、le want to change jobs.B. But as important as qualifications are, and you wont get to an interview or at least people wont 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

37、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

38、 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 cont

39、inues throughout the whole interview then of course you have to ask yourself if theyre 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 wont look at you in a job where in

40、, in a situation where a job depends on, on them making a good impression, then probably in the job they wont 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 s

41、omeone who was, open, outgoing, enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what they hoped to do. That doesnt mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able to reflect on whatever experience theyve had.The other kinds of, of um things

42、 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 its interesting to hear why people want to change job

43、s, why they want to go to a new country.Part V Wholl 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

44、 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 Im conscientious. Mr. Toms: But he

45、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. Im afraid I became unhappy because I wanted something more challenging. Mrs. Grey: I assume you wanted something like the job of Senior Secretary that were offering. Jane: Yes, thats