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[00:00.00]试音时间及提示
[02:40.14]Section A
[03:32.78]Q11.
[03:36.17]M: Today is a bad day for me.I fell off a step and twisted my ankle.
[03:42.62]W: Don't worry,usually ankle injuries heal quickly if you stop regular activities for a while.
[03:50.64]Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
[04:11.25]Q12.
[04:13.33]W: May I see you ticket, please? I think you're sitting in my seat.
[04:18.36]M: Oh,you're right. My seat is in the balcony.I'm terribly sorry.
[04:24.50]Q: Where does conversation most probably take place?
[04:46.78]Q13.
[04:48.65]W: Do you hear Mr. Smith die in his sleep last night?
[04:53.15]M: Yes, it's very sad. Please let everybody know that whoever wants to may attend the funeral.
[05:01.49]Q: What are the speakers talking about?
[05:21.49]Q14.
[05:23.32]M: Have you taken Professor Yang's exam before? I'm kind of nervous.
[05:29.49]W: Yes. Just concentrate on the important ideas she's talked about in the class and ignore the details.
[05:37.96]Q: How does the women suggest the man prepare for Professor Yang's exam？
[06:01.09]Q15.
[06:03.21]W: I'm so sorry sir, and you'll let me pay to have your jacket cleaned, won't you?
[06:09.10]M: That's all right.It could happen to anyone.And I'm sure that coffee doesn't leave lasting marks on clothing.
[06:17.28]Q: What can we infer from the conversation?
[06:38.28]Q16.
[06:40.40]W: Have you seen the movie The Departed? The plot was so complicated that I really got lost.
[06:47.72]M: Yeah, I felt the same, but after I saw it a second time,I could put all the pieces together.
[06:54.81]Q: How did the two speakers find the movie?
[07:15.78]Q17.
[07:17.44]M: I'm really surprised you got an A on the test;you didn't seem to have done a lot of reading.
[07:24.41]W: Now you know why I never missed the lecture.
[07:27.76]Q: What contributes to the woman's high score?
[07:49.07]Q18.
[07:50.42]W: Have you heard about the new digital television system?It lets people get about 500 channels.
[07:58.76]M: Yeah. But I doubt they'll have anything different from what we watch now.
[08:03.16]Q: What does the man mean?
[08:27.07]Conversation One:
[08:29.12]W: Gosh! Have you seen this, Richard?
[08:32.49]M: See what?
[08:33.73]W: In the paper. It says, there is a man going around pretending he's from the electricity board.
[08:41.36]He's been calling at people's homes, saying he is coming to check that all their appliances are safe.
[08:49.37]Then he gets around them to make him a cup of tea,and while they are out of the room he steals their money,
[08:56.84]handbag whatever and makes off with it.
[09:00.74]M: But you know,Jane,it's partly their own fault;you should never let anyone like that in unless you're expecting them.
[09:08.45]W: It's all very well to say that.
[09:11.04]But someone comes to the door,and says electricity or gas and you automatically think they are OK,
[09:18.07]especially if they flash a card to you
[09:21.02]M: Does this man have an ID then?
[09:23.62]W: Yes, that's just it.
[09:25.34]It seems he used to work for the electricity board at one time according to the paper
[09:31.71]the police are warning people especially pensioners not to admit anyone unless they have an appointment.
[09:40.10]It's a bit sad. One old lady told them she'd just been to the post-office to draw her pension when he called.
[09:48.45]She said he must have followed her home. He stole the whole lot.
[09:53.15]M: But what does he look like? Surely they must have a description.
[09:57.57]W: Oh,yes they have.Let's see,in his thirties,tall,bushy dark hair,slight northern accent,sounds a bit like you actually.
[10:10.19]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[10:18.60]Q19. What does the woman want the man to read in the newspaper?
[10:42.93]Q20. How did the man mention in the newspaper try to win further trust from the victims?
[11:07.78]Q21. What is the warning from the police?
[11:29.02]Q22. What does the woman speaker tell us about the old lady?
[11:51.81]Conversation Two:
[11:54.73]M: Miss Jones, could you tell me more about your first job with hotel marketing concept?
[12:02.54]W: Yes, certainly. I was a marketing consultant responsible for marketing 10 UK hotels.
[12:11.10]They were all luxury hotels in a leisure sector all of a very high standard.
[12:18.13]M: Which markets were you responsible for?
[12:21.38]W: For Europe and Japan.
[12:23.17]M: I see from your resume that you speak Japanese. Have you ever been to Japan?
[12:29.74]W: Yes, I have, I spent months in Japan 2006.
[12:34.84]I met all the key people in the tourist industry, the big tour operators and the tourist organizations.
[12:41.63]As I speak Japanese I had a very big advantage.
[12:45.62]M: Yes, of course. Have you had any contact with Japan in your present job?
[12:51.55]W: Yes, I've had a lot. Cruises have become very popular with the Japanese both for holidays and for business conferences.
[13:01.73]In fact, the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently.
[13:09.01]M: Really, I'm interested to hear more about that, but first tell me have you ever traveled on the luxury train,
[13:16.57]the Orient Express, for example?
[13:19.88]W: No, I haven't. But I've traveled on the Glacial Express through Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago.
[13:30.15]I love train travel. That's why I'm very interested in this job.
[13:37.12]Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[13:45.98]Q23. What did the woman do in her first job?
[14:06.32]Q24. What give the woman an advantage during her business trip in Japan?
[14:30.07]Q25. Why is the woman applying for the new job?
[14:51.73]Section B
[15:30.31]Passage 1
[15:32.44]Time. I think a lot about time and not just because it's the name of the news organization I work for.
[15:43.12]Like most working people, I find time, or the lack of it, and never-ending frustration and an unwinnable battle.
[15:52.86]My every day is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win.
[15:59.26]This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the families and work institutes, national study of the changing workforce,
[16:10.45]55 percent of employees say they don't have enough time for themselves,
[16:16.35]63 percent don't have enough time for their spouses or partners, and 67 percent don't have enough time for their children.
[16:27.39]It's also not a new complaint.
[16:31.04]I bet our ancestors returned home from hunting wild animals and gathering nuts
[16:37.58]and complained about how little time they had to paint battle scenes on their cave walls.
[16:43.62]The difference is that the boss of animal hunting and the head of nut gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you.
[16:54.89]Today's workers are still demanding control over their time.
[16:59.83]The difference is today's bosses are listening.
[17:04.49]I've been reading a report issued today called "when work works" produced jointly by three organizations.
[17:14.66]They set up to find and warn the employers who employ the most creative and most effective ways to give their workers flexibility.
[17:25.97]I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss should read it for ideas.
[17:33.85]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[17:42.20]Q26. What is the speaker complaining about?
[18:04.49]Q27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors?
[18:26.61]Q28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses read the report by the three organizations?
[18:52.03]Passage 2
[18:53.89]Loving a child is a circular business.
[18:58.01]The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give, *** said.
[19:05.03]What she said proves to be true of my blended family. I was born in 1931.
[19:13.13]As the youngest of six children, I learned to share my parents' love.
[19:18.82]Raising six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parents' relationship
[19:26.65]and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old.
[19:31.03]Daddy never had very close relationships with his children and drifted even farther away from us after the divorce.
[19:39.78]Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his life and they were married.
[19:46.73]She had two sons, one of them still at home.
[19:51.14]Under her influence, we became a blended family and a good relationship developed between the two families.
[19:59.83]She always treated us as if we were her own children.
[20:04.33]It was because of our other mother, Daddy's second wife, that he became closer to his own children.
[20:12.28]They shared over 25 years together before our father passed away.
[20:18.04]At the time of his death, the question came up of my mother, Daddy's first wife, attending his funeral.
[20:26.07]I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my step mother.
[20:31.28]When I asked her if she would object to mother attending Daddy's funeral,
[20:36.23]without giving it a second thought, she immediately replied."Of course not, honey. She is the mother of my children."
[20:46.51]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[20:53.95]Q29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parents' divorce?
[21:18.83]Q30. What brought the father closer to his own children?
[21:41.88]Q31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk?
[22:04.88]Passage 3
[22:07.75]In February last year, my wife lost her job.
[22:12.56]Just as suddenly, the owner of the Green House where I worked as manager died of a heart attack.
[22:20.16]His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it.
[22:27.16]Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want ads each day.
[22:34.58]Then one morning,as I was hanging a "going out of business" sign at the green house,the door opened and in walked a customer.
[22:45.35]She was an office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of the town.
[22:52.92]She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas in offices.
[22:58.83]"I don't know anything about plants", she said, "I am sure in a few weeks, they'll all be dead."
[23:06.61]While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing.
[23:13.03]Perhaps as many as a dozen firms that recently opened offices in the new office park
[23:19.66]and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way.
[23:25.53]That afternoon, I drove up to the office park.
[23:30.68]By 6 o'clock that evening,I had signed contacts with 7 companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them.
[23:42.25]Within a week, I had worked down to an agreement to lease the Green House from the owner's family.
[23:50.15]Business is now increasing rapidly. And one day we hope to be the proud owners of the Green House.
[24:00.21]Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[24:07.28]Q32. What do we learn about the green house?
[24:28.22]Q33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning?
[24:50.60]Q34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager?
[25:12.77]Q35. When was the speaker's hope for the future?
[25:33.98]Section C
[26:31.16]We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology.
[26:38.38]Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth.
[26:47.09]Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge.
[26:52.99]Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge.
[26:58.87]And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles.
[27:05.55]Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn.
[27:11.62]Knowledge workers engage in mind work.
[27:16.13]They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you?
[27:26.61]As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information.
[27:36.72]Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work.
[27:44.40]And that number will increase sharply in the future.
[27:49.09]Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development,
[27:56.59]quality control, and customer satisfaction.
[28:01.43]In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that
[28:09.57]will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures.
[28:14.93]You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career.
[28:21.04]Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with.
[28:32.66]Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path and don't wait for someone to empower you.
[28:43.58]You have to empower yourself.
[28:51.76]Read again
[28:53.83]We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology.
[29:01.46]Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth.
[29:08.71]Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge.
[29:14.94]Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge.
[29:20.43]And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles.
[29:27.17]Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn.
[29:32.97]Knowledge workers engage in mind work.
[29:36.95]They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you?
[29:45.20]As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information.
[29:53.89]Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work.
[30:00.05]And that number will increase sharply in the future.
[30:03.90]Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development,
[30:11.33]quality control, and customer satisfaction.
[31:28.70]In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that
[31:36.13]will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures.
[32:41.71]You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career.
[32:46.31]Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with.
[32:57.42]Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path
[33:58.65]and don't wait for someone to empower you.
[34:02.04]You have to empower yourself.
[34:07.88]Read third time
[34:10.90]We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology.
[34:18.02]Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth.
[34:27.11]Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge.
[34:33.34]Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge.
[34:39.39]And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles.
[34:45.73]Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn.
[34:52.30]Knowledge workers engage in mind work.
[34:57.10]They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you?
[35:06.93]As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information.
[35:16.89]Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work.
[35:24.57]And that number will increase sharply in the future.
[35:28.64]Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development,
[35:36.97]quality control, and customer satisfaction.
[35:41.31]In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that
[35:49.79]will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures.
[35:54.43]You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career.
[36:00.63]Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with.
[36:12.35]Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path and don't wait for someone to empower you.
[36:23.31]You have to empower yourself.