新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 6

[27:25.42]Each passage will be read twice. At the end of each passage you will hear some questions.
[27:32.36]After you hear a question, you should either decide which of the four choices is the best answer to the question you heard,
[27:40.54]or answer the question in your own words according to the passage.
[27:45.25]The questions you should answer are also printed in your book, but you should read them only after you hear them from the tape.
[27:55.04]Passage  1  M:How long have you worked for AM-ADMEL, Gill?
[28:01.56]W:Only for a year. It's May now, isn't it? Yes, I joined last August in fact.
[28:08.26]M:August 1996.
[28:10.96]W:Yes.
[28:12.00]M:What did you do before that?
[28:14.12]W:I used to work for a travel agency in London.
[28:17.04]M:It sounds interesting. Was it?
[28:19.67]W:Not really. It was just secretarial work, rather like this job.
[28:24.89]And it wasn't too well paid. But I took a secretarial course when I left school and I couldn't think what else to do.
[28:32.38]M:So you went straight from school into a secretarial course, did you?
[28:36.55]W:Well, not quite. I took "O" levels and left school when I was 16-in 1989, I think it was.
[28:44.18]And then I went to work in a hotel in Austria for a year, to learn some German.
[28:48.94]M:Austria? Why Austria?
[28:51.74]W:I don't know really. Well, we used to go there on holiday quite often when we were younger-and-well I like Austria actually.
[29:01.25]Anyway then I went back and did the secretarial course. That was a year's course.
[29:07.01]M:And then you got the job at the travel agency I suppose.
[29:10.79]W:Yeah, that's right. That was in 1991.
[29:14.14]M:So you were there five years!
[29:16.51]W:Yes, it's awful isn't it? Actually, I'm thinking of giving it all up to become a nurse.
[29:22.88]M:Really?
[29:24.11]W:Well, I worked in a hospital in Twickenham during my last year at school.
[29:28.54]Just cleaning and helping to make beds and so on. It was part of our Practical Careers training.
[29:35.45]M:And you liked it?
[29:37.03]W:Yes, it was interesting.  (278 words)
[29:39.37]Q13.What did the woman do immediately after she finished school?
[29:46.39]Q14.How long has the woman been doing secretarial work?
[29:52.76]Q15.What are the two reasons the woman went to Austria?
[29:58.92]Q16.What makes the woman think of becoming a nurse?
[30:04.61]Passage 2 Of all the sciences, only two are subjects that have a direct and noticeable effect on our lives every day.
[30:16.20]One is meteorology, the study of weather. Heat, cold, sun, and rain affect us in many ways-
[30:25.31]in the kind of clothing wear,for example, and the types of activities we do outdoors.
[30:32.11]Economics is the other science that affects the everyday lives of all of us.
[30:36.22]Each time we spend money,or it is spent on us,we are contributing to the economic life of our country and,in fact,of the world.
[30:42.70]Most people have a basic understanding of the weather, but how many people feel comfortable with the subject of economics?
[30:51.80]Often, economics seems to be a mysterious subject.
[30:56.02]Newspapers and television use terminology that can resemble a foreign language.
[31:02.71]They speak of the gross national product, the cost of living, the prime rate, the money supply, productivity,
[31:13.12]the unemployment rate, the balance of payments, and so forth.
[31:18.77]In some ways, economics is like an enormous jigsaw puzzle.
[31:24.20]Each piece is basic, but the pieces interconnect, one to another, in a large picture.
[31:32.52]To look at the whole picture, you must begin piece by piece. (199 words)
[31:38.21]Q17.In the present context, which of the following facts does the speaker want to emphasize about the study of weather?
[31:48.00]Q18.What will the speaker most probably continue to talk about next?
[31:55.09]Q19.What does economics affect according to the passage?
[32:01.25]Q20.Why should people examine economics little by little?