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1、.专业.专注.Unit 1 Nine to five Outside viewPart 1SamanthaGraduation. What a day! Your life is about to begin! And then your parentssayMotherGet a job.SamanthaI tell you! Looking for your first job out of college can be pretty hard.Reading all the job listings is so annoying. Even trying to figure out wh

2、at the actual job is can be difficult. Searching through the want ads can be so boring. And writing your resume is really hard work.SamanthaI dont have that day open.SamanthaGetting a job interview, and than going on it the whole process is pretty tough .InterviewerSorry to keep you waiting. Uh, hav

3、e a seat. I have your resume here, andyoure interested in the assistants position.SamanthaYeah. Yeah, I am.InterviewerWell, the right candidate for this job has to be very outgoing and sociable. After all, it is a sales position.SamanthaWell, Im a real extrovert. Definitely.InterviewerAnd the right

4、candidate has to have great self-confidence. Customers need to fell that you know what youre talking about.SamanthaWell, Im really self-confident. Um, I know what Im talking about and I. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.think I can project that.InterviewerSo, what skills would you bring to this job?SamanthaWell, I r

5、ealize that Im completely overqualified for the position. I mean, um, in my last job, I was running the whole place.InterviewerOh, so youve supervised people?SamanthaYep. Five of them. So, obviously I could do this job, no problem. I also have really good computer skills. Um, what else do you want t

6、o know about me?InterviewerUh SamanthaEven though I was trying really hard, even though I had sent out about 300 resumes, even though I asked all my friends and relatives if they knew of anything, I wasnt getting anywhere! Despite all my best efforts, I was still unemployed.Part 2MotherPlease, why d

7、ont you see a career counselor? Ill pay for it. Anything tohelp you get a job!PhyllisSamantha, Im Phyllis Stein. Welcome.SamanthaOh, hi, Phyllis. Nice to meet you.SamanthaSo. I figure, heck, why not? I met with Phyllis Stein, a professional job coach.PhyllisInterviewing is vital to getting the job t

8、hat you want.SamanthaShe showed me how to prepare for an interview by doing research on the. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.position and the company. And later, she coached me on my interviewing skills.PhyllisI am going to pretend to be your interviewer, and then well stop it andreplay it and look at the video and

9、 see what we could learn from that. OK?PhyllisI dont think that you should go into an interview having not practicedwith some of the questions that are pretty standard.PhyllisTell me about yourself.SamanthaWell, my parents my mom is a social worker, and my dad is an engineer.PhyllisYour preparation

10、is really important.PhyllisWhat do you know about our organization?SamanthaWell, I saw on, um, the Internet that you do business publishing? Right?PhyllisTheres a whole range of things that have to do with how you present yourself.PhyllisWhy should I hire you?SamanthaOh, well, um, Im a really outgoi

11、ng person, and I like, I like people a lot.Im responsible and nice.PhyllisYou need to think about what the interviewer is actually looking for.PhyllisSamantha, what was a major problem that youve encountered and howdid you solve it.SamanthaI havent really had any problems to deal with.PhyllisThank y

12、ou. Now, lets look at your mock interview on videotape.PhyllisI think it boils down to preparation, presentation, and understanding what. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.the interviewer is looking for.PhyllisTell me about yourself.SamanthaUm, well, my name is Samantha Green and, um, I grew up in Cambridge and, um,

13、I went to Boston College.PhyllisAnother way of answering it is not telling about yourself, but telling aboutyourself in relationship to the job. So, they dont care so much about your parents and that your want to live in Cambridge. They may need you to be able to be a troubleshooter. You use some ex

14、amples in your life from being a troubleshooter.SamanthaPhyllisPhyllisPart3Samantha SamanthaSamanthaI havent really had any problems to deal wit.One of things that someone who is an assistant in a trade show is doing, is dealing with problems.You need to be sure that you stay, sourt of, on target wi

15、thpresentingpresenting yourself in the strongest possible way.This time I felt a lot more confident when I went in for interview.I have developed strong communication skills. In college I worked on the school paper, and Ive brought some writing samples to show you. I also worked every summer at a be

16、d-and-breakfast. I worked a lot with our guests. I booked reservations over the phone, got them what they need, and handled any complaints.Well, I feel like I didnt really well, Well see. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.Speaker 1Making a good first impression is the most important part of a job interview.Speaker 2A

17、rriving on the important parts of a job interview.Speaker 3Its very important that you are being confident and youre being clear inyour answers and listening carefully.Speaker 4Not fidgeting and being confident are the most important things in a job interview.Speaker 5Writing a thank-you note is the

18、 most important thing you want to do after a job interview.Speaker 6And go in there with a firm handshake.Listening inPassage 1“Its not enough to ask what successful people are likeIt is only by asking where theyare from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesnt.”This is the b

19、asic idea of an intriguing book calledOutliers , by the American journalist Malcolm Gladwell. The book explores the factors which contribute to people who are extremely successful in their careers,for example, the role that family, culture, and friendship play.Gladwell examines the causes of why the

20、 majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, what the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates did to achieve his extraordinary success, and why the Beatles managed to redefine. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.the whole of popular music in the 1960s.Gladwell points out that

21、 the youth hockey league in Canada recruits from January the first, so that players born early in the year are bigger, stronger and better athletes than others born later in the year. And because they have this advantage at the start of their sports career, theyre given extra coaching, and so theres

22、 a greater chance that theyll be picked for an elite hockey team in the future.He calls this phenomenon accumulative advantage, a bit like the idea that the rich get richer and poor get pooer. Success depends on the process by which talented athletes are identified as much as it does on their own ab

23、ilities.Another aspect which contributes to success is the 10,000 hour rule. Great success demands an enormous amount of time for practice and Training. For example, the Beatles performed live in Hamvurg Germany more than 1,200 times over four years, much more than the 10,000 hours Gladwell claims i

24、s necessary for great success. So by the time they returned to England, they had developed their talent and sounded completely different from any other group.In the same way , Bill Gates had thousands of hours worth of programming because he had access to a computer at his high school. He also becam

25、e a teenager just at the right time to take advantage of the latest developments in computer technology.All through the book, Gladwell repeats his claim that its not just talent or genius which determines someones success, but opportunity, advantage and even simple good luck. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.Outlier

26、s has met with extraordinary success, matched only by Gladwells own career over 25 years in journalism. As a result, many critics have seen it as an autobiography, in which the writer appears to be apologizing for his own personal achievements. But the idea that you have to be born at the right mome

27、nt, in the right place and in the right family, and then you have to work really hard is athought-provoking way of revisiting our traditional view of genius and greatachievement. Its certainly worth reading, as long as you dont take it too seriously.Passage2Presenter:Hi were talking about typical wo

28、rking hours in the US and in Brazil. Eric um youre from the States, tell me what are the typical working hours in the States? Eric:Ertraditionally people go to work at 9 oclock in the morning and they finish at about 5,so sort of a 9 to 5.Presenter:And, and Penny II know youre English but you work i

29、n Brazil, what are the hours in Brazil?Penny:Um varies slightly, sometimes you can start um on an earlier shift, say, 8 oclock in the morning to 5 um or 9 until 6. But in Brazil often people will work longer hours than this.Presenter:Right, right, OK. And what kind of clothes do you wear? I mean do

30、you, do you dress up formally or in a relaxed way?Eric:It used to be that you would wear a jacket and a tie to work forfor men but er nowadays an open shirt is OK. You dont necessarily have to weara tie and sometimes. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.on a Friday you can wear a pair of jeans to work.Presenter:Oh righ

31、t, the dress down Friday?Eric:The dress down Friday ,thats right.Presenter:Does that still happen?Eric:Yes, yes sure it does.Presenter:And how about in Brazil?Penny:Um its fairly casual, quite informal, um I mean you need to look neat and tidy obviously, but you, you have your own choice really on w

32、hat you would wear, there are no rules and regulations. Its important to look smart but be comfortable.Presenter:Right, yeah and do you have meal breaks or is that you just fit in meals when you can or?Eric:Lunch, lunch is usually an hour, sometimes a little shorter if you have to do a lot of work f

33、rom your desk.Presenter:Yeah. How about Brazil?Penny:Thats the same, about an hour.Presenter:And, and with overtime, I mean, if you I mean youre obviously contracted to do a certain number of hours. What happens if you do more than the hours that you thats in your that are in your contract?Eric:I ha

34、ve to make a fairly strict record of my hours so if I go beyond 5 oclock on mostdays I put in for overtime.Presenter:Right.Eric:And its the first hours is one hour of overtime and then theres I think 15 minute. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.periods after that. So I could work an hour and a quarter.Presenter:And y

35、oud be paid for the quarter hours?Eric:Thats right, by the quarter hour.Presenter:How about in Brazil?Penny:Its, its a lot looser in Brazil actually. We, we often end up doing overtime butunfortunately not paid.Presenter:Fine. Thats hard luck. And what about holidays, what about in the States? You d

36、ont have much holidays in the States, do you?Eric:No, when you, when you start at a company you get two weeks holiday or twoweeks vacation as we sayPresenter:YeahEric:Um then its usually not until youve been at the company for about five years that they give you another week. So you get three weeks

37、after youve been there for five years.Presenter:And, and, and what about in Brazil?Penny:Um its quite good actually30days.Presenter:Sounds very generous.Penny:Yeah I can,I can pop back toPresenter:Is that 30 working days or 30 days in total?Penny:Thats 30 working days.Presenter:Wow thats.Penny:Yes y

38、eah its a good deal. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.Presenter:What about retirement？I know its a long way off?When do you retire?Eric:Generally speaking its at 65.Presenter:And,and the same for women?Eric:Um,I think a little sooner than that for women. Women I think 62 or 63.Presenter:Right, good. And, and in Braz

39、il is it similar?Penny:Similar to the states. Its um after 60 for women,65 for men,or um if youveclocked up about 30 or 35 years of service then you can retire after that.Presenter:Right.And whendo you have a pay day? When is pay day?Eric:Um well we get paid, er, twice a month, so we get paid at the

40、 beginning of the month and then we get paid in the middle of the month at the 15th give or take.Presenter:Yeah, and what about Brazil 、Penny:I think it all depends which company youre working for .For the one I am working for right now I get paid twice a month but when I began ,with a different com

41、pany that was once a month so,it varies.Presenter:And are there any company benefits that you have in the states? Do you have a company car or a pension？Eric:Yean we get a company car.Were able towe lease a car in effect but its a company car that we get for 18 months to two years and then we ,erwe

42、can move on to another model from that. There is a fairly good pension scheme, thats still working, and hospitalization as well.Presenter:Oh thats important.Eric:Yeah,a health plan through work is very important. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.Presenter:Right.And what about in Brazil?Penny:Yean excellent benefits

43、like that. Well I mean it does depend on the company and the status of you ,of your job but um you might get a car ,un livingaccommodation ,um school for the children ,um theyll pay for your lunch ,travel passes ,um gasoline ,health insurance ,all sorts of benefits actually its very good. Presenter:

44、Sounds very good, with the holiday and all those benefits it sounds a great place to work.Unit 2 A good readOutside viewPart1British people read a lot. They read books,Newspapers and magazines. And of course they read text messages on their mobile phones. Sixty-five percent of British people list “r

45、eading for pleasure” as a major hobby. A quarter of the population reads more than 20 books each year. So where do these books come from? Well, there are bookshops where you can buy books. And there are lots of public libraries where you can borrow books forfree.Part2In this library you can borrow b

46、ooks but you can also buy a cup of coffee, look at an art exhibition, sit in a quiet study area or connect to the Internet. You can also now borrow CDs, videos or DVDs of films and television programmes. Some libraries even let you borrow computer games. There are often reference rooms where you can

47、 go to look. word 可编辑 .专业.专注.something up or go to study. Many libraries have also got special rooms with books and photographs about the history of the area. Libraries are very important in schools and universities both for reading for pleasure.Part3The British Library is one of the worlds greatest Libraries. The Queen opened its new building in 1998.It receives a copy of every book published in Britain and adds three million new items e