现代大学英语听力2Unit-6

1、Unit 6 WorkUnit 6 WorkObjectives:vSort out information in various ways.vDraw inferences.vSummarize the main ideas.vGet familiar with the expressions concerning work and understand the relevant situations.Can you describe these pictures?If you will face this situation everyday after work, what do you

2、 feel?Task 11. Listen to the recording for the first time and recall what Laura did in chronological order.2. Listen to the recording again and finish Exercise B. It will tests your understanding of Lauras life in general with the brief description provided here. Task 1A. dbaec B. a【原文】【原文】v Laura u

3、sually 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 not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube.v

4、 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 platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward.v Laura was

5、 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 thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. Th

6、e lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.secret agent spyTask 2Did you watch Mission Impossible IV? Whats Tom Cruises job in this movie?New words:uninviting: not pleasant or attractive. adj. 讨厌的，无吸引力的；无魅力的讨厌的，无吸引力的；无魅力的glamorous: full of or characterized by glamour or

7、 charming. adj. 迷迷人的，富有魅力的人的，富有魅力的fountain pen: 自来水笔，自来水笔， 钢笔钢笔geranium: 天竺葵天竺葵Task 21. Listen to the tape for the first time and try to finish Exercise A. You need to note the details in this part.2. Listen to the recording again and finish Exercise B. Drawing inferences is needed to do Questions 1

8、 and 2 in this part.3. Listen to the recording for the third time and fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.Task 2A. 1) a 2) b 3) d 4) c B. 1) T 2)T 3) F C. wondered, television plays, exciting, every cigarette lighter, tape recorder, held in a certain way, the touch of a gold ring again

9、st the hand of, How wrong they were 【原文】【原文】vX 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 geraniumsdrenm, the park gates and the cold, uninviting stat

10、ue 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 knew it was because people had se

11、en 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 touch of a gold ring against th

12、e 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 the window to look out. He prayed

13、 it would be the last.v 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 direction. The other woman looked u

14、p towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her. ftgrf vt. 为为拍照；使深深印入拍照；使深深印入v Discussion: What do you want to do when you leave college?Task 3A. 1) Hurry Sailor 2) Nora Farmer (if she were a man) 3) Robert Civil engineer 4) Peter Racing driver or explorer B. 1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d vHar

15、ry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college? Harry hri哈里，哈利哈里，哈利(男子名男子名)Henry, Harold 的昵称的昵称vNora: Oh Harry. Surely hes a bit young to decide on his career. He hasnt even got to college yet. Nora n:r诺拉，娜拉(女子名) Honoria 的异体vHarry: Not at all, Nora. Its w

16、isest 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 office. Yes, its silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.v Nora: Now if I were a man Id be a farmer. To see the crops g

17、rowing-thats my idea of a good life.v Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.vRobert: Well, thats not the way I look at it, Dad. Its the job I care about, not the money.v Harry: Maybe not; but youll learn to care about the money too, when youve got a family to keep.v Nor

18、a: And of course Peter well, hes keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer.vRobert: Oh, Peters not old enough to make up his mind about such things.v Harry: You havent answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do?v Nora: Are you sure you dont want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a ma

19、rket gardener?vRobert: No, Im sorry Mum, but I dont want to at all. Id rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges.v Harry: Not ships? Isnt it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?vRobert: Look here, is it my career were planning, or yours?v Harry: All right, all right, theres no n

20、eed to lose your temper. But youd better win that scholarship first. market gardener商品菜园经营者,菜农Useful vocabularies:receptionist 接待员接待员 key puncher 电脑操作员电脑操作员 stenographer 速记员速记员 programmer 电脑程序员电脑程序员system analyst 系统分析员系统分析员 shorthand typist 速记打字员速记打字员national public servant 国家公务员国家公务员 journalist 记者记

21、者 interpreter 通译者通译者 talent 星探星探 photographer 摄影师摄影师 linguist 语言学家语言学家 chemist 化学家化学家 economist 经济学家经济学家 philosopher 哲学家哲学家 physicist 物理学家物理学家anthropologist 人类学家人类学家 archaeologist 考古学家考古学家geologist 地质学家地质学家 expert on folklore 民俗学家民俗学家 biologist 生物学家生物学家 zoologist 动物学家动物学家 Task 3statistician 统计学家统计学家

22、 physiologist 生理学家生理学家 composer 作曲家作曲家 sculptor 雕刻家雕刻家 fashion coordinator 时装调配师时装调配师 beautician 美容师美容师detective 刑警刑警 mailman 邮差邮差 newspaper boy 报童报童 bootblack 擦鞋童擦鞋童 copywriter 撰稿人撰稿人 newscaster 新闻评论人新闻评论人 florist 卖花人卖花人 baker 面包师面包师 greengrocer 菜贩菜贩 fish-monger 鱼贩鱼贩 butcher 肉贩肉贩 station agent 站长站长

23、 porter 行李夫行李夫 car mechanic 汽车修理师汽车修理师 architect 建筑师建筑师druggist, chemist, pharmacist 药剂师药剂师 oil supplier 加油工加油工 (public) dentist 牙科医生牙科医生 Task 3Task 4foreign correspondent: 驻外记者驻外记者columnist: A writer of a column in a publication, such as a newspaper.（报刊的）专栏作家（报刊的）专栏作家Task 4vQuestion: How do you get

24、 a newspaper job? I. correspondent, columnist A. may not need either B. to go to places where 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 withTask 4【原文】【原文】v Here are some

25、of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:v He should not 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

26、police stations and write a true story of what is happening there. Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.v A young person should not tell the 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 ta

27、ke a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.v A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is

28、very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.Task 5vQuestion: If you want to be promoted in a company, what should you do

29、?A. 1) acd 2) abcB. 1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothesTask 6average v. 平均为，平均达平均为，平均达file v. 提交（申请等）提交（申请等）claim n. 申请，要求申请，要求to get laid off 被解雇被解雇vacuum cleaner 吸尘器吸尘器Task 6Answer:A. Former Jobs When Laid-off Why Laid-off1st man Car salesman Recently Low sales, due to the increase of interest rates2nd man Worker at a vacuum cleaner plant 10 months ago Plant moved to Singapore where workers are paid much lessvThe feeling about t