【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文]1-5
M: Miss Ellen Chan? Good to see you. Thank you for coming in to the interview. Now, let me see. You are applying for the vacancy we have for a Marketing Officer Trainee. Isn’t that right?
W: Yes, that’s right.
M: Mm. And you’re in the final year of a degree in Business Administration?
W: Yes, I expect to graduate in the summer of 2009.
M: With French as your major and Marketing as a minor, right?
W: No. [1]Marketing is my major—and French my minor. I’m looking for a career in Marketing, with my languages as a useful back-up.
M: Oh yes, sorry. Well now. I notice that you intend to complete your degree in three years instead of the usual four, and that you were able to persuade the university authorities to agree to that. Why did you decide to approach them in the first place?
W: Well, the reason I wanted to complete the degree as quickly as possible is that I am older than most undergraduate students. I’ve had work experience before starting the degree, and I was anxious to be back into the working world as soon as I could. I made up my mind to show in the first term that I am well-organ-ised and hard-working. I did this, and the university authorities agreed very readily.
M: Have you any regrets about that decision?
W: Well, no, no serious regrets. But I should have liked to give more time to the dramatic and musical activities. I’ve had to cut down on these in my final year.
M: Now, you say in your letter that you are aggressive and ambitious. What exactly do you mean, Miss Chan?
W: I mean that I really do want to test my abilities against very high standards. That’s why I Want to work for your company. And I don’t mean that I bully people. I hope I never do that. But I am determined and I am direct—and most people like that and respond to it. They don’t feel threatened by it.
M: Mm… I think we see eye to eye there. How about those languages? I can hear how good your English is. How is it you can speak both Cantonese and Mandarin?
W: I grew up speaking both languages. [2]My father is a native speaker of Mandarin, and my mother’s Mandarin is very good. And of course I have always spoken Mandarin to my grandparents and my other relatives. I studied French in school and now at university.
M: And how good is your French now?
W: Not as good as my English. I can read it easily and write with no more than a few mistakes, but, I have never spent more than a few weeks in a French speaking country, so neither my listening comprehension nor my speaking are fluent.
M: Mm. Now. How much do you know about the sort of work that the Marketing Officer Trainee does in a company like ours?
W: Well. [3] My reading of the job description suggests that a trainee probably starts as an apprentice working closely with an experienced Marketing Officer, learning how to keep records, identify opportunities, and implement plans and, I suppose, gradually taking on more responsibility and exercising more initiative.
M: Well, Miss Chan, [4]one of your referees say you left a place where you were employed, unexpectedly, in circumstances, and not entirely clear. What happened?
W: I’m not sure what he means. [4] I have certainly never been dismissed. But I did give in my notice and leavea part time job when I had the offer of a university place. I said very little about my reasons for going. They would have been thought strange and rather snobbish.
M: Mm. I see. Well, on another topic altogether. Do you see a use for your languages in all this?
W: Well. Not on a daily basis. My experience is that-if you do have a control of several languages, then you put that to use only occasionally—but the occasion is often a highly critical one! You are in a position to be—well, just for that moment—extremely useful! And that is very satisfactory.
M: Well, mm. Any questions you would like to ask, Miss Chan?
W: Mm, just one. It has to do with, mm progression in your company. [5] I notice there is a three-month probationary period followed by six months further training. Well, what happens then? Where are successful applicants say urn, eighteen months after they join your company?
M: Earning very competitive salaries—well we don’t want to lose them—on their way to developing one of several specialisms we require.
W: Thank you. Thank you for your time. I hope I’ll hear further from you soon.
M: Hmm. We have two more applicants to interview on Thursday. Well, our Company practice is to advise all short-listed applicants whether they have been successful or not by telephone or by mail within a week after that. Well. Goodbye Miss Chan. We’ll be in touch with you.

[解析] 考官错以为Miss Chan主修法语、辅修市场营销，Miss Chan毫不含糊地给予更正，说自己主修市场营销、辅修法语。因此B不符合Miss Chan的教育背景，为正确答案。
[点睛] 事实细节题。Miss Chan提到自己比大多数的本科生年纪大些；她也提到在修学位
前曾工作过；able to persuade，did this，agreed very readily等词语表明Miss Chan成功说服学校批准她缩短学习年限。因此A、C、D符合其背景，应排除。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] Miss Chan说她同时接触到普通话和粤语两种语言，她父亲的母语是普通话，母亲的普通话也很棒，她还经常跟祖父母和亲戚讲普通话，可见Miss Chan的普通话相当地道，因此A为正确答案。
[点睛] 推理判断题。Miss Chan说自己法语没有英语好，因此B错误；考官问她工作中是否用到各种语言，注意此处用了“On another topic altogether”这样的过渡语引出新话题。Miss Chan回答中的“Not on daily basis”和“only occasionally”表明她只偶尔使用法语，因此C错误；她进而表示虽然语言在工作中用的不多，但每次都发挥重要作用。因此D错误。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 面试中考官问Miss Chan对Marketing Officer Trainee这个职位的认识。Miss Chan说她从职位描述中得知，市场营销培训生任职初期要在有经验的Marketing Office指导下工作、学习各种工作技能。可见，该职位并不是一上岗就独挡一面，因此答案是B。
[点睛] 如前所述，A符合对话内容，应排除；Miss Chan提及市场营销培训生要负责做记录、执行计划，因此C符合对话内容，应排除；她还提及市场营销培训生要承担越来越重要的责任、逐渐表现出自主性，因此D符合对话内容，应排除

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 面试中考官指出Miss Chan的一名推荐人说她曾经不知出于什么原因突然离开供职的公司，让Miss Chan对此加以解释。Miss Chan肯定自己从未遭到过解雇，并且表示她曾因被某大学录取而离职，因此A符合对话内容，为正确答案。
[点睛] 推理判断题。面试中未提及Miss Chan的推荐人暗示她与其他同事关系不好，因此B错误；面试中Miss Chan说她本人就离职的原因“said very little”，可见她对离职并没给出具体原因，因此C错误；面试中也未提及Miss Chan与某个雇主大吵一架，因此D错误。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 对话将近尾声时，Miss Chan提及她在招聘信息中看到该职位要求有三个月的试用期，试用期后要进一步接受六个月的培训。可见D是面试中提及的信息，而C不符合对职位前景的描述，因此为正确答案。
[点睛] 事实细节题。考官让Miss Chan问到在该公司工作18各月后的职业前景如何，考官表示将可拿到具竞争力的薪水，因此A符合对职位前景的描述；考官还说员工可以发展某种专业技能，因此B符合对职位前景的描述。