【正确答案】
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【答案解析】[解析] 1-5
M: Well, I see from your resume, Ms. Green, that you studied at University of California. How did you find it there?
W: I had a great time. The teaching there was good, and I made a lot of friends. The psychology department was a great place.
M: How come you chose psychology?
W: Well, at first I didn"t have any clear idea of what I want to do after university. I guess I have just always been interested in people, and the way they act. I want to know why people think and act the way they do. It"s a fascinating area.
M: And what was the course like?
W: Good, the teachers were all really nice, and they had the special approach to teaching. You know, they didn"t just give us lectures and tell us to read books like they might do in some more traditional places, the whole course was based on a problem-solving approach. You know, they"d describe particular situations to us, and we"d discuss what might happen, and after that, we"d do some reading and see if it confirmed our own ideas. That"s what I like best, the really practical orientation of the course. I learned very well with that style, so for me it was just great.
M: I see from your resume that you graduated about four years ago and after that, let me see...
W: I got a job with the department of employment; it was only a temporary thing for about five months. I was a researcher in the department. We designed survey, went out to the factories, and asked all the questions to the workers and the management, then went back to the office, analyzed all the data and produced a report. It was quite interesting, and I guess the psychology course at college helped me a lot.
M: And after that, you worked for three years in an advertising agency. That must have been a bit of change from the department of employment, wasn"t it?
W: Well, not really. I suppose the office furnishings were a bit more sophisticated but the work was quite similar. I was basically still doing the same thing, designing questionnaires, going out, asking questions and writing reports. The only difference was that this time I wasn"t asking people about their work. I was asking them what kind of shampoo that their advertising campaigns, I enjoyed my work a lot.
M: So why did you decide to leave?
W: Three years is a long time to be asking people that sort of questions about shampoo and drinks. No, seriously, after two years, I was in charge of the research department of the agency, and I had one assistant researcher, I guess after two years of doing that, I suppose I felt, you know, I can do this well and now I want to do something else that"s a little different, and there was nowhere for me to go inside the company. It just wasn"t challenging for me anymore, and because I needed challenge, I decided to move on. When I heard about the position of senior researcher here, I thought, that"s exactly what I want, the chance to combine my management skills and my research interests, working in a much larger department with more varied work.
M: And you felt that the job description in our advertisement will offer you the kind of challenge you are looking for?
W: Exactly. Yes, as I said, management in a large organization and research combined, also, to be honest with you, I heard about the job before it was advertised, a friend of mine who works here, Mark Aston, told me a few weeks ago that you were looking for someone to take over the job. He described the position to me in quite a bit of detail, and I thought, well, that"s exactly what I am looking for. So really, I"d written my letter of application before the job was even advertised.
M: I should tell you that with the present cutbacks, we"ve only got one full-time administrative assistant in the section. How would you feel about doing your own word processing, photo copying, that sort of things?
W: Oh, I am used to that. I"ve done all my own word processing for ages. It"s the only way to write really, isn"t it? I can type well, about sixty words a minute. I took the secretarial course after I left school so I learned typing in a short time, then a few years later I bought a PC, and I learned how to do word processing too.
M: Well, that"s good. Now, in the position you"ve applied for, and you"d have five assistant researchers reporting to you. That"s considerably more responsibility than you have had before, and as you said you like a challenge. I was wondering, what you see yourself doing in, say, five or ten years down the track?
W: Oh, that"s a difficult question. Let me try to answer your question this way. I am particularly interested in experimental design and also in teaching. I know that you have lecturers here who do just that sort of thing, some practical work and some undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. So that"s what I am really aiming for, to be a lecturer here as well.
M: Well, that"s certainly a career path we"d encourage you to follow, but of course it might be necessary to upgrade your present qualifications first. I see from your resume that you"ve been enrolled in a MA in experimental psychology, could you tell me a bit about the courses you"re planning to take?
1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Ms. Green"s university days?