新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 5

[10:38.89]M:But I thought that, nowadays, the best qualified person, man or woman, got the job.
[10:45.55]A:Very often not. Employers still seem to think women work only for "pin-money",
[10:53.69]and then they're always afraid they'll leave after a year or so to have children.
[10:59.95]M:But surely most responsible firms provide for maternity leave, child-care and so on.
[11:06.50]K:Not nearly enough. In a way it's our own fault. We still think that unless we have children,
[11:15.25]We won't be properly fulfilled as women. If we do have them and go out to work,
[11:23.28]we spend half our time feeling guilty because we ought to be seeing more of them.
[11:29.76]And another thing, a married woman who has probably worked just as hard all day as her husband is still expected to do the housework and the shopping and cook the evening meal while her man watches the telly.
[11:48.19]By the time she gets to bed, she's worn out.  (392 words)
[11:52.12]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the dialogue again and decide whether the statements you hear are true (T) or false (F).
[12:06.08]1)According to Max, women get the best of both working and family life.
[12:14.87]2)In one of the women's opinion, discrimination began when she entered the school.
[12:23.54]3)Women university students are usually less bright than men.
[12:31.54]4)Women often experience unfair treatment from their bosses.
[12:38.99]5)There are many more men than women engaged in professions.
[12:46.22]6)Women are happy to go out for work and also do all the housework and childcare, according to Max.
[12:56.81]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the dialogue again and fill in the table with the information you get from the recording.
[13:10.52]Happy Minute
[13:11.71]Enjoy listening to the story and answer the following question.
[13:17.08]Why did the woman's co_workers look at her surprisingly?
[13:22.98]A busy working mom, I try to pack in as many errands on my lunch break as possible.
[13:31.80]Once I raced to get a chest X-ray at the hospital, then went to the cleaners and, finally,
[13:41.30]the supermarket. When I returned to the office, I noticed strange looks from my co-workers.
[13:50.16]Eventually one of them inquired what I did during lunch, and, after explaining the hectic hour,
[14:00.24]I asked, "Why do you want to know?" "Well," he said, "your blouse is on inside out."
[14:09.74]Lesson Two Jobs for a New Century
[14:15.32]Practice One Moving Up  Words You Need to Know
[14:23.50]install     abolish     humiliating     supervise
[14:34.22]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which is the best answer to each of the following questions you hear on the recording.
[14:48.84]When he first heard the news on the radio, Charles could hardly believe it.
[14:54.60]He had been told by some friends to expect what happened, but still, he just couldn't accept it.
[15:02.95]He had spend too many years perfecting his trade to think that the time would come when machines would replace him and his skills.
[15:14.18]That was the news that struck his ears early on that morning five months ago when the announcement came.
[15:23.58]The company was going to install machines and save thousands of dollars in production costs.
[15:31.57]Unfortunately, for Charles it meant that his job was going to be abolished.
[15:38.99]At first he had thought it was humiliating to be replaced by a machine.
[15:45.14]But, now months later, he felt relieved that his skills were not lost but, instead, valuable enough to be placed in a computer!
[15:57.89]Those skills were still producing useful products for people, and now his job was to supervise rather than do the work himself.
[16:09.23]Charles had, as they say,"moved up in the world." He was no longer a worker; he was a manager!  (182 words)
[16:18.12]1)What news did Charles hear?
[16:23.23]2)How did Charles get the news?
[16:27.88]3)What would Charles do for his new job?
[16:33.20]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks with the information you get from the recording.