【答案解析】我的名字叫帕特里克·弗登。我负责公司的网络维护。我认为对网络维护最好的描述是：它是一项解除故障的工作，有各种工作职责，诸如数据备份、新机器安装、操作系统安装、本公司生产的产品安装等。这项工作很具有挑战性，因为总是有各种各样的问题：有时候只是机器缆线松了的问题，有时候是要花几个小时才能解决的故障。 [听力原文]
My name is Patrick Verdon. I deal with the systems administration for the company. I think the best description of systems administration is that it"s a trouble-shooting kind of job, there are all kinds of responsibilities, such as back-up of data, installation of new machines, installation of the operating system and installation of the product that the company actually produces. It"s quite a challenge, because there"s such a variety of problems: sometimes it"ll be a loose cable on a machine that"s a problem, another time it"ll be a trouble that will take hours to solve.

【答案解析】我认为网络管理工作的好处是具有挑战性。有时候整天很平静，而有时候会整天忙得不可开交，各种问题层出不穷。所以你总是要面对不同的问题，这是很好的。我不喜欢这项工作的地方是得给所有数据做常规的备份，这需要花不少时间。我不是很喜欢的另一点是网络管理工作要在下班后进行这一概念。因为事实上处理问题的最佳时机是别人不工作的时候，这意味着我们最好在六点以后人们都回家了才开始工作，所以在极端情况下，我们会在单位留到清晨。 [听力原文]
I think the nice part of systems administration is the challenge. Sometimes it"s very quiet, but on the other hand you can have a day when it"s completely hectic and all kinds of different problems come up. So you"re always being confronted with different problems, which is nice. The things I don"t enjoy are the routine back-ups of all the data; these take a bit of time. One other thing that I don"t quite like is the out-of-hours concept of systems administration, because the best time to actually fix problems is when people aren"t working, which means that ideally we should do that after six when everybody"s gone home, so, we can be here until the early hours of the morning at the extreme.

【答案解析】我是保罗·洛克伍德。我是本公司的培训专员之一，我的工作是为我们的客户和代理商开设、提供培训课程。我最喜欢我的工作之处是可以直接和客户打交道，对他们碰到的问题以及如何解决有直接认识。我不太喜欢我的工作之处是我觉得自己往往要花大量的时间教学或准备培训材料，没有足够的机会亲自动手做我喜欢的编程。总的来说，我喜欢我的工作，喜欢我所在的公司。这是个非常好的环境，也是非常激励人的环境。 [听力原文]
I"m Paul Lockwood, and I"m one of the training officers at the company and my job is to run and provide training courses for our customers and agents. The thing I enjoy most about my work is being able to have direct contact with customers and direct knowledge of the sort of problems they encounter and how to resolve them. The thing I don"t enjoy so much is that I feel that I tend to be spending a lot of time either teaching or preparing training material, and I don"t get enough chance to do hands-on programming that I would like to do. Generally speaking, I enjoy my job. I enjoy the company that I work for. It"s a very good environment, a very stimulating environment.

【答案解析】水是生命之源，也是维系这个星球上所有生命的纽带。它直接关系到我们联合国的各项目标：改善孕产妇和儿童的健康；延长预期寿命；增加妇女的权力；粮食安全；可持续发展；适应和减缓气候变化。2005年至2015年被宣布为“生命之水”国际十年行动正是基于对这些关系的认识。我们不可缺少的水资源确实具有巨大的复原力，但也正日益脆弱并受到威胁。 [听力原文]
Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet. It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy, women"s empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Recognition of these links led to the declaration of 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action "Water for Life". Our indispensable water resources have proven themselves to be greatly resilient, but they are increasingly vulnerable and threatened.