1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家Lesson 9Willing to TrainCatherine has just left school and she wants to find a job. She and her mother have come to speak to the Careers Advisory Officer. Listen to their conversation. Officer: Oh, come in, take a seat. Im the Careers Officer. Youre Cathy, arent you? Mother: Thats ri
2、ght. This is Catherine Hunt, and Im her mother. Officer: How do you do, Mrs Hunt. Hello, Catherine. Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you. Officer: And youd like some advice about choosing a career? Mother: Yes, she would. Wouldnt you, Catherine? Cathy: Yes, Please. Officer: Well, just let me ask a few
3、questions to begin with. How old are you, Catherine? Mother: Shes nineteen. Well, shes almost nineteen. Shell be nineteen next month. Officer: And what qualifications have you got? Mother: Well, qualifications from school of course. Very good results she got. And shes got certificates for ballet and
4、 for playing the piano. Officer: Is that what youre interested in, Catherine, dancing and music? Cathy: Well . Mother: Ever since she was a little girl shes been very keen on her music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. Shes quite willing to train for a few more years to get
5、the right job, arent you, Catherine? Cathy: Well, if its a good idea. Mother: There you are, you see. Shes good girl really. A bit lazy and disorganized sometimes, but shes very bright. Im sure the Careers Officer will have lots of jobs for you. Officer: Well, Im afraid its not as easy as that. Ther
6、e are many young people these days who cant find the job they want. Mother: I told you so, Catherine. I told you shouldnt wear that dress. You have to look smart to get a job these days. Officer: I think she looks very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other office for a moment and look at som
7、e of the information we have there. Im sure youd like to see how we can help young people. Mother: Yes, Id love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be a very nice teacher. She could work with young children. Shed like that. Or she could be a vet. Shes always looking after sick animals. Officer: Im
8、 afraid theres a lot of competition. You need very good results to be a vet. This way, Mrs. Hunt. Just wait a minute, Catherine. * * * Officer: There are just one or two more things, Catherine. Cathy: Do call me Cathy. Officer: OK, Cathy. Are you really interested in being a vet? Cathy: Not really.
9、Anyway, Im not bright enough. Im reasonably intelligent, but Im not brilliant. Im afraid my mother is a bit over-optimistic. Officer: Yes, I guessed that. Shes a bit overpowering, isnt she, your mum? Cathy: A bit. But shes very kind. Officer: Im sure she is. So, youre interested in ballet and music,
10、 are you? Cathy: Not really. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so Im quite good, I suppose. But I dont think I want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music. Its so lonely. Officer: What do you enjoy doing? Cathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France
11、 with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real intereststhings that would help me to get a job? Officer: No. Im more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do you? Cathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting
12、 new people. Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teaching? Cathy: No, no, I dont really. I was never very interested in school work, and Id like to do something different. Anyway, theres a teacher training college very near us. It would be just like going to school again. Officer: So you dont want
13、 to go on training? Cathy: Oh, I wouldnt mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about being a hairdresseryou meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properlybut I dont know. It doesnt seem very worthwhile. Officer: What about nursing? Cathy: Nursing? In a hospital? Oh, I couldn
14、t do that, Im not good enough. Officer: Yes, you are. Youve got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is very hard work. Cathy: Oh, I dont mind that. Officer: And its not very pleasant sometimes. Cathy: That doesnt worry me either. Mums right. I do look after sick animals. I looked after
15、our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didnt mind. I was too worried about the dog. Do you really think I could be a nurse? Officer: I think you could be a very good nurse. Youd have to leave home, of course. Cathy: I rather think I should enjoy that. Officer: Well, dont de
16、cide all at once. Heres some information about one or two other things which might suit you. Have a look through it before you make up your mind.Task 1: How Do Others Think of My Job?Speaker 1. When I was at university, I wasI was horrified by what had happened to a lot of my friends by the time the
17、y reached the end of the course. Having spent their university careers being all the things one is at universityclever, artistic, very noisyat the end of their time they all seemed to take entry exams for the . the Civil Service, and there were some of them who went . huh . went as low as to go into
18、 the Tax Office huh. How grey, how grey, I thought. But now huh. well, look at me! Speaker 2. The circular letters I get drive me absolutely mad, from American Express, etc. Theyre sent to my work address and theyre all addressed to Mr. S Andrews! Obviously they found the name on some published list
19、 and assumed that anybody who wasnt a secretary must of course be a man. Its stupid really, because the Company does put Mr. or Ms. in front of the names on its departmental lists, but perhaps because they naturally assume its a man, theyre just blind to the womens names amongst the heads of departm
20、ents. Speaker 3. I work in London at er . a large hospital as a nursing officer. Its erm . its what a lot of people call a male nurse, which I think is the most ridiculous term Ive ever come across. It . sort of implies that a nurse ought to be female and that by being male Im different, but er . th
21、e idea still carries on. The other thing is that people always say I suppose you really wanted to be a doctor, just because Im a man. They cant imagine that I really wanted to be a nurse and that er . erm . it wasnt just that I failed to be a doctor. And . what they dont realize is the works complet
22、ely different, you know as a . a male nurse youve much more contact with the er . patients and, you know, a long term responsibility for their . their welfare huh. Theres no way Id want to be a doctor. Well, except for the money of course. Speaker 4. Whenever I say Im a bank manager, half the time p
23、eople tend to laugh. Ive never understood why. I suppose bank managers do have a rather stuffy bourgeois image, but I cant see why its funny. Speaker 5. Im a sales representative, what used to be called a travelling salesman, and for some reason theres lots of dirty jokes about travelling salesmen.
24、Cant think why. Well, I suppose its because they tend to travel a lot, you know, a night here, a night there. Well, people get the idea theyre not particularly dependable, sort of fly by nights I suppose, you know, wife in every port. But it aint true, I promise you. Speaker 6. Im an apprentice hair
25、dresser. I enjoy the work very much. Im learning a lot, not just about hair, but how to get along with people. Im gaining confidence cos I never had that at school. I left as soon as I could. I hated it. I remember teachers used to look down on jobs like hairdressing. They were ever so stuck up. The
26、y thought that only girls who were a bit dim went in for hairdressing, but Im not dim at all. If I work hard in the salon and get all my certificates, if I save hard, in a few years I could start my own business, and Id be earning five times as much as those old bags at school!Task 2: Job Stereotype
27、sInterviewer: Well, we heard some people just now who seem to feel that other people have a wrong idea about the work they do. Do you think this sort of thing is very widespread? Sociologist: Oh absolutely. Most jobs or professions seem to have an image or a stereotype attached to them, often much t
28、o the irritation of the job holders. But there is a serious point to all this, too, that maybe young people actually choose their careers under the influence of these false images. And certainly, there is evidence that they may even avoid certain careers because they have a negative image. Well, on
29、a large scale, as you can imagine, this could cause problems for whole sectors of the economy. Interviewer: Er, you say theres evidence? Sociologist: Oh most definitely. There was a survey recently into childrens attitudes to different professions. Interviewer: How was that done, though? Because, af
30、ter all, children dont know much about the world of work before they get into it. Sociologist: Well, exactly. What the investigators wanted to get at was their impressions and their prejudices. They used a very simple technique. They gave the children twelve pairs of statements. In each pair one sta
31、tement was positive, the other was its opposite. Interviewer: For example? Sociologist: Well, for example, Such and such a person is likely to be boring or interesting company. Interviewer: I see. What professions did they ask about? Sociologist: (laugh) Do you want the whole list? Interviewer: Well
32、, why not? Sociologist: OK. Here goes. They looked at: physicists, lawyers, economists, accountants, sales representatives, estate agents, biologists, and three types of engineermechanical engineers, electrical and civil. The children were asked to say which of the statements was most true about eac
33、h profession. Interviewer: And the results? Sociologist: Well, they were rather striking concerning one profession in particular, the poor old engineer. Of all the jobs mentioned, he came out really much worse than you might expect. The vast majority of children (90% in the case of the mechanical en
34、gineer), thought that engineering was a dirty job. They also thought the job was of low status and subordinate; that is, the engineer is more likely to take orders than to give them. Oh, and insecure too. The only other person they thought more likely to actually lose his job was the sales represent
35、ative. But，I must say there were good points too. Engineering was seen to be interesting, well paid work. Interviewer: Hmm, not such a rosy picture, really. Sociologist: No . but it got better when the children were asked about how they imagined the engineer as a person. The majority of the children
36、 chose positive comments, except that they thought the engineer was likely to be badly rather than well dressed. (laugh) Interviewer: Well, what about the other professions, then? Erm . what came out favourite, for example? Sociologist: Oh the lawyer without a doubt. He collected by far the greatest
37、 number of positive opinions. The sales representative and then the estate agent were right at the bottom. Interviewer: Oh, so the engineers werent right down there? Sociologist: Oh no! The childrens ratings put them just above the poor old sales representative all bunched together. Probably the chi
38、ldren dont have that much of an idea of their real work. I think they . (laughs) . they went by the titles, really, since civil engineer came out top, perhaps the suggestion of the name? Interviewer: Oh, I see. You mean that he was a . a more civilized sort of chap than the others? Sociologist: (lau
39、ghs) Yes, right. Reasonable sounding, isnt it? Interviewer: Yes. Quite sensible, I suppose. And I imagine the mechanical engineer came out bottom? Sociologist: Absolutely right. In fact 90% of the children associated him with dirty work, as against 76% for the electrical engineer and 68% for the civ
40、il engineer. Interviewer: And the other professions? Sociologist: Well, after the lawyer came the accountant; then the scientists, the physicist first. The economist came just above the engineers. Funnily enough, he was the only one that the majority of children felt would be gloomy rather than chee
41、rful. Interviewer: A real sign of the times, that. Sociologist: Yes. But I still think the most serious implication of the results of the survey was the childrens apparent ignorance of the importance of the engineers role in society. Interviewer: Hmm. Sociologist: After all, in most other European c
42、ountries to be an engineer is to be somebody. And I imagine that this means that many bright children, who might really enjoy the profession and do well in it, probably never consider it, which is a great pity for the country as a whole. We do need good engineers after all.Learning to Rephrase1.Bart
43、ering is the process by which trade takes place through the exchange of goods. 2. Whereas in the past, seashells and spices had no specific value, this new money idea had a stated value. 3. However, due to recent economic developments, the world is once again conducting trade by bartering goods for
44、goods. 4. We refer to the more valuable currency as hard currency while we term the less valuable money, soft currency. 5. In fact, hard currency is usually demanded by the seller, particularly if the seller is from a nation having hard currency. 6. Inflation refers to an abnormally rapid increase i
45、n prices. 7. As a result of the scarcity of hard currency in some nations and the recent high world-wide inflation, it is obvious that the conventional method of payment in hard currency must be supplemented by other types of payment such as bartering. 8. Not only is the following illustration a goo
46、d example of bartering, it also reveals, to a small degree, consumer preferences in beverages in the USSR and the United States. 9. It seems that Pepsi-Cola was the first company to introduce cola into the USSR, much to the disappointment of Coca-Cola. 10. Of course, bartering presents some great pr
47、oblems that are not always easy to overcome.Dictation 1How to Make Wine This is how wine is made in our winery. After the grapes are picked in late summer, they are pressed so that all the juice runs out. Then the juice is separated from the skins and pips and it is put into large containers and lef
48、t to ferment. Later, it is put into smaller containers. Then it is left for about a year when it is put into bottles. If it is a good wine, the bottles are kept for several years but the cheaper wines are sold immediately.Dictation 2Alan Simpson The mystery of the man found wandering in the city cen
49、tre has now been solved. The man, whose name is now known to be Alan Simpson, is a medical student. Mr. Simpson was taking part in an experiment conducted by the university department of psychology, when he walked away, unnoticed by the staff supervising the experiment. He has now regained his memory, and has left hospital. Several people, including his sister, April Simpson, telephoned the police to identify Mr. Simpson after seeing his picture in the press.高考资源网版权所有，侵权必究！
