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【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] W: I hear you're finally retiring at the end of this year, Brant. What will you do with yourself when you've stopped work? M: Absolutely nothing. I'll have been working for this company nonstop for forty years by the end of October, and I think I deserve a complete rest. W: Forty years! You'll have seen a lot of changes in that time, I imagine. M: Yes, and most of the changes have only made things worse. I used to be proud of my work; but how can you take a pride in what you're doing when every two or three years they put a new manager with newly fresh ideas in charge of the factory—and he tells you what you've been doing is all wrong? W: Why have you stayed on all these years then, Brant? M: Well, it's the same thing wherever you go. However well you do your job, you don't get promotion in any firm unless you're a friend of the manager's—and the present manager has certainly been no friend of mine. W: Well, I don't know. They don't promote you, whoever you know, if you're inefficient. M: Nonsense! What about young fellow Chris? He's an assistant manager already and he's completely incompetent. He's only there because he's a relative of the managing director's. They'll probably make him a director soon! W: By the sound of it you won't be sorry to leave. M: No I won't, but it'll be no better at home. Instead of the manager giving me stupid orders, it will be my wife. Now she will be telling me off all day long. What is the man's attitude toward the changes in his company? 女士谈到,男士一定见证了公司很多的变化,男士回应说绝大部分的变化都是使事情变得更加糟糕,故选C。 观点态度题。由worse一词可以判断出男士对公司出现的变化有所不满。
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【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[听力原文] What can lead to one's promotion at work according to the man? 男士说,在任何一家公司,不管你把工作做得多好,如果你不是经理的朋友,就得不到晋升。故选A。 男士在表述个人观点时,使用了关键词a friend of the manager's。如果错过了这句话,也可以从他举出的Chris的例子中推断出。虽然Chris并不能胜任工作,但是他是总经理的亲戚,他仍然能够晋升。所以A对B错。C、D两项在对话中没有提到。
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【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the man say about young fellow Chris? 谈及Chris时,男士说Chris已经是经理助理了,但他完全不胜任这个职位,故选B。 A“他是公司的经理”,男子说的是Chris可能很快就升为经理,故排除A。C“他是经理的密友”,对话只说到Chris是经理的一个亲戚,故排除C。D“他是该男士的一个亲戚”,对话中男士并没有说Chris是他的亲戚,他们只是同事关系,故D错误。
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【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the man complain about after he gets retired? 男士说:“现在不是经理胡乱指使了,换成了我妻子。她整天没完没了地向我发号施令。”C中的give out是对录音原文tell me off的同义替换,故选C。 对话尾声,短语instead of对其后的内容具有否定作用,故A“他经理下的愚蠢指令”可排除。B“因自己无用而感到的空虚”和D“退休金不足”这两项在对话中均未提及。长对话的结尾处经常会设出题点,所以一定留意去听。