新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 5

[05:05.39]Words You Need to Know
[05:07.55]panel truck       previous       normal
[05:19.93]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the statements you hear from the recording are true (T) or false (F).
[05:32.64]The summer I was ten, in the Depression year of 1935, I worked on a big panel truck delivering foods to as many as 100 stores a day.
[05:43.30]For 12 hours' work I received a sandwich, a soft drink and 50 cents.
[05:48.98]Since I had no previous work experience, I thought working this hard was normal.
[05:54.17]On days that I wasn't delivering food, I worked at the candy store.
[05:58.78]Once while sweeping, I found 15 cents under a table and gave it to the owner.
[06:04.64]He put his arm around me, admitting he had put the money there to see if he could trust me.
[06:09.72]I ended up working for him and his wife all through high school.
[06:13.79]I've never forgotten that honesty is what kept me in that job.
[06:18.29]I saved every penny from those two jobs and opened my first bank account.
[06:23.22]There were many other jobs over the years-waiter, parking-lot attendant, housecleaner.
[06:28.94]With each job, I couldn't help remembering the lesson I learned that day in the candy store about trust.
[06:34.92]That's the key in working with others and building a business-and, that's what made my own business successful.  (195 words)
[06:42.34]1)I worked as a truck driver in the summer of 1935.
[06:48.60]2)I hated having to work hard.
[06:52.85]3)I worked at a candy shop when I wasn't delivering food.
[06:58.36]4)Once I found 15 cents while I was cleaning the truck.
[07:03.40]5)The owner of the candy shop had put the money there to see if I was honest.
[07:09.73]6)I saved some money from the job with the candy shop.
[07:14.77]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks with the information you get from the recording.
[07:24.35]Practice Four Working as a Waiter
[07:27.88]Words You Need to Know
[07:29.78]immigrant     on the spot      wait on     dime     quarter
[07:54.91]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and complete the table with the information you get from the recording.
[08:05.14]When I was 12, my family moved to Chicago. There I convinced a restaurant manager that I was 16, and he hired me as a waiter for 25 cents an hour.
[08:16.12]The restaurant was owned by two Greek immigrant brothers, Frank and Georget Regas,
[08:21.05]who had started in America as dishwasher and hotdog seller.
[08:25.01]They were tough and set high standards, but they never asked their employees to do what they wouldn't do themselves.
[08:31.16]"My boy," Frank told me, "as long as you try, you can work for me. But when you don't try, you can't work for me."
[08:37.75]Trying included everything from working hard to treating customers politely.
[08:43.15]I remember once, when the restaurant was at its busiest, Frank noticed a waitress was not treating a customer politely.
[08:50.86]He fired the waitress on the spot and finished waiting on the table himself.
[08:55.50]He always knew exactly what was going on in the restaurant.
[08:58.70]The usual tip in those days was a dime, but if I brought out the food quickly and was especially polite, I could sometimes get a quarter.
[09:06.48]I remember trying to see how many customers I could wait on in one night. My record was 100.  (200 words)
[09:11.70]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and correct the 8 mistakes with the exact words you get from the recording.
[09:23.47]Happy Minute
[09:25.02]Listen to the passage and answer the following question briefly.
[09:30.06]What isthe animal that is struggling in the waves?
[09:33.66]I was a waiter at a restaurant on a beach in Southern California.
[09:37.84]One day while still new at the job, I noticed two kids jumping up and down near the water's edge,
[09:44.50]pointing toward an animal that appeared to be struggling in the waves.