成都体育大学地址-古老的反义词
I had two months until my new job began. It
was like waiting an entire summer for school to
start.
I
spent
those
two
months
talking
to
figure
skating
coaches
and
judges.
I
read
boring
rule
books. I drove to the rinks
where the skaters trained, and made notes about
our conversations. I
even took a
lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.
Unit
6
Task
1
【答案】
A.
[
d]
—
[b]
—
[a]
—
[e]
—
[c]
B.
a
【原文】
Laura usually
leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5
o'clock, 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 couldn't 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.
In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't 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.
Laura was 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.
The
lights
went
out.
It
was
quarter
past
6
on
a
cold,
wet
December evening.
Task
2
【答案】
A.
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
against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were
【原文】
X 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
geraniums,
the
park
gates
and
the
cold,
uninviting
statue
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
seen
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 the hand
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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 it
would be the last.
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
up
towards him and in that brief moment he
photographed her.
Task
3
【答案】
A.
Names
Harry
Nora
Robert
Peter
Ideal Careers
Sailor
Farmer(if she were a
man)
Civil engineer
Racing
driver or explorer
B.
1) a
2) b
3) c
4) b
5) d
【原文】
Harry:
Well,
Robert,
have
you
made
up
your
mind
yet
what
you
want
to
do
when
you
leave
college?
Nora:
Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his
career. He hasn't even got to college yet.
Harry:
Not
at
all,
Nora.
It's
wisest
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, it's
silly
to train for the wrong job. And
after all, Robert will be going to college soon.
Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing--that's my idea of a good
life.
Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.
Robert: Well,
that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job
I care about, not the money.
Harry:
Maybe
not;
but
you'll
learn
to
care
about
the
money
too,
when
you've
got
a
family
to
keep.
Nora: And of course Peter
—
well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer.
Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to
make up his mind about such things.
Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do?
Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?
Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum,
but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil
engineer. I want to build
roads and
bridges.
Harry: Not ships? Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?
Robert: Look here, is it my career
we're planning, or yours?
Harry:
All
fight,
all
right,
there's
no
need
to
lose
your
temper.
But
you'd
better
win
that
scholarship first.
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Task
4
【答案】
I.
correspondents; columnist
A. may not need either
B. to
go to places where events take place and write
stories about them
II.
first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other people
III.
working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with
【原文】
Here
are
some
of
the
things
a
young
man
or
woman
should
not
do
when
he
first
asks
an
editor for a job:
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 police
stations and write a true story of what is
happening there. Being a
foreign
correspondent or a columnist will come later.
A young person should not tell tile 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 take
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.
A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As
a
new
journalist,
it
is
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
5
【答案】
A.
1)
acd
2) abe
B.
1) she is the wrong sex
2) she wears the wrong clothes
【原文】
SYLVIA: We've
got a new manager in our department.
LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didn't you?
SYLVIA: Yes, I did.
LARRY: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?
SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company only two years.
I've been here longer. And I
know more about the job, too!
LARRY:
Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not
to you?
SYLVIA: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course !
LARRY: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a woman?
SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair.
LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear?
SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why?
LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.
SYLVIA:
You
mean
you
think
I
didn't
get
the
job
because
I
come
to
work
in
jeans
and
a
sweater?
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LARRY: It's possible, isn't it?
SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes?
LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it.
SYLVTA: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?
LARRY: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all!
SYLVIA: Why should I do that? I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing!
LARRY:
Hmm.
Perhaps
it
should
be
the
only
important
thing.
But
it
isn't.
Not
inthis
company.
Task
6
【答案】
A.
1st man
Former Jobs
Car salesman
When Laid-off
Recently
Why Laid-off
Low
sales,
due
to
the
increase
of
interest
rates
Plant
moved
to
Singapore
where
workers
are
paid
much less
2
nd
man
Worker
at
a
vacuum
10 months ago
cleaner plant
B.
1
st
speaker(bcd)
2
nd
speaker(ae)
C.
1) F
2) F
【原文】
Al: Is this the right line to file a
claim?
Bob: Yeah. It's the same line
for everything. You just stand here and wait.
Al: Oh. Is there always such a long line?
Bob: Every week. Sometimes
longer. Is this your first time here?
Al: Yes.
Bob: What happened?
Your plant closed down?
Al:
No.
I'm
a
car
salesman,
or,
I
was
a
car
salesman.
But
we
just
aren't
selling
cars.
It's
the
interest rates. Two years ago, I
averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how
many cars
I sold last month? One. One
car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest
rates are up again.
The boss let three
of us go. How about you?
Bob: I worked
at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty
workers. We put in a good day's work.
But
the
machinery
was
getting
old.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
the
whole
plant
was
old.
So
the
management decided to build a new
plant. You know where? In Singapore. The workers
here
made about seven dollars an hour,
a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You
know
how much they're paying the
workers in Singapore? $$2.50 an hour! Anyway, all
fifty of us
got laid off.
Al: How long ago was that?
Bob:
They closed down ten months ago.
Al: Any luck finding another job?
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Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes
two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had
something.
They liked my
experience with machines. But I never heard from
them again.
Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.
Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself
into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here
next week.
Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.
Task
7
【答案】
A.
1)
F
2) F
3) T
4) F
5) T
6) F
B.
1) According to the
first speaker, it is frustrating because the
teacher cannot see clearly the results
of his efforts.
2) According
to the second speaker, English language teaching
is a good job, because it guarantees
a
stable income and regular working hours and means
less pressure. He also likes the way elderly
teacher are.
【原文】
Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're
doing to teaching?
John Smith: Yes, one
of the things I found a bit frustrating about
teaching was that it was rather,
very
intangible than um, especially if you're teaching
in England and most of the students know
quite a lot of English before they
arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the
classroom, in pubs
or coffee shops or
other places, with the families they're living
with. It's very difficult to pin down
how much they learn from your actual
lesson, whereas in marketing um, again there are
lots of
areas that are gray rather than
black or white, but there are quite a few other
areas where one can
see quite clearly
the results of one's efforts.
Interviewer: What did you do after you
quit your job in advertising?
Second
Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked
as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time
job
with
any
newspaper.
I
just
had
to
contribute
things
as
they
came
along
and
1
wrote for
magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting
for the VOA. Well, this
was in a way
the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a
lot but I found it very
hard to earn
enough money to live on.
Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacher?
Second Man: Well, and so I
thought. Well, I must do something which produces
an income that I
can
be
sure
of.
While
I
was
working
as
a
journalist
I
had
done
an
article
for
a
magazine about the English language
teaching world and m fact I had come to the
school where I now teach as a
journalist and interviewed a lot of the people.
And I
thought it seemed a very nice
place and I thought that the classes I visited had
a very,
very nice feeling about them,
and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have
me.
Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?
Second
Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work
regular hours. It I advertising you just had
to stay at the office until the work
was finished [I see.] and it could be three
o'clock
in
the
morning.
[Oh,
dean]
Also
you
were
very
often
made
to
work
at
weekends.
Often some job would come up that was
very important and they said it had to be
finished
—
it had to go into the newspapers next week.
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