问答题Conversation 1 1.How do
you think the person feels in this recording? Why do you think this is the
case? 2.Pause the recording when you hear the 《beep
》tone. 3.Summarize out loud briefly what happened.
4.Restart the recording and see if the spoken summai'y is close to your
own or not. 5.What other points would you add?
【正确答案】In the first conversation the woman feels disappointed because it wasn't her fault she didn't get the job.
【答案解析】[解析]
Woman: Well, I came in the front door of this great big office building and there was this huge plant or a tree. I...I don't know what it was. It was just being delivered off a very large lorry. I could hardly get through the main door. So, the doorman and receptionist were extremely busy. It took about ten minutes before I finally found out where the interview was and where it was supposed to be taking place and all that. So, I went in the lift. You know it was one of those gigantic modern steel-plated affairs. I...l pressed the button for the fourteenth floor. There was another girl in there and a man with a toolbox or something. Anyway, the lift stopped and the man got out and do you know what happened? The lift started to move and then stopped between the eleventh and twelfth floors. Fortunately the girl in the lift with me said they'd been having a lot of trouble with the lift and there was no need to panic. She pressed one of the buttons and spoke to this man called Joe and explained the lift had got stuck. She was incredibly cool. Anyway, after what seemed ages to me, it must have been about, oh, ten minutes, the lift slowly moved up to the twelfth floor. And when the door opened, there was a man standing there. It was the man who'd just got out of the lift. By that time, of course, I was extremely late for the interview. So I ran up the stairs after I'd found them. And that took some time. Well, as you can imagine, things didn't get off to a good start. I explained everything, but in the end I didn't get the job. They said they wanted someone with a lot of experience with using data processing systems. But 1 still believe it was because I'd got there so late.
You know, first impressions and all that...