听见英国 UNIT 8 LISTENING 1 Worst Job Ever Had 最糟的工作体验

 

UNIT 8  Work and Business 工作与社交

 

LISTENING 1    Worst Job Ever Had 最糟的工作体验

 

Vocabulary

 

接下来听到的对话中，用到了1~9 所列出的单字和片语，请从（A）~（I）中选出一个意思最接近的选项。

 

1.  factory                   (A) terrible or very bad

2.  remove                   (B) again and again

3.  repetitive                 (C) to give food to something or someone

4.  quit                      (D) a building where products are made

5.  filth¹ and muck              (E) a way to describe very dirty conditions

6.  feed                      (F) to voluntarily stop your job

7.  sty                       (G) a shelter made for pigs

8.  froze                      (H) past tense of ‘freeze’

9.  awful                       (I) to take away something

 

 

Listening Warm-Up

 

请根据独白内容，分别在空格内填入三位说话者的工作场所和城市。请注意，一位说话者所填的可能不只一项。且列出的选项不一定都正确。

 

Speaker1 ____________________________
Speaker2 ____________________________

Speaker3 ____________________________

 

a farm                   Australia

a college                 clothes shop

London                  Wimbledon

a factory

 

Task 1

 

请根据独白内容，分别在空格内填入三位说话的工作内容，请注意，一位说话者所填的可能不只一项，且列出的选项不一定都正确。

 

Speaker1 ____________________________
Speaker2 ____________________________

Speaker3 ____________________________

 

  feed and clean             take off clothes

  find bad beans             paint

  stand still                 put lids on tins

 

Task 2

 

请根据独白内容，判断下面句子是否正确，如果符合独白内容，请在T做记号，如果不符合，请在F做记号。

 

1.       Speaker 1’s job was boring.                                （T）（F）

2.       Speaker 2 had to get up very early.                           （T）（F）

3.       Speaker 3’s job was difficult and cold.                        （T）（F）

4.       Of all three speakers, Speaker 2 worked the longest.             （T）（F）

5.       Of all three speakers, Speaker 3’s pay was the best.              （T）（F）

 

Task 3

 

下面是Speaker 1 独白的内容，请再听一次，在空格内填入遗漏的部分。

 

Well, I’ve had some terrible jobs I can tell you, but the worst…. I suppose… the worst was probably in a factory down in ____________. My job … if you could call it that… was to pick out all the____________, you know, the bad beans on the conveyor belt in a baked beans factory. Once I’d removed all the bad ones, the I had to pull a lever² ____________which put a lid on the tins. It war really ________________I can tell you, very repetitive… and the pay … the  pay was___________. I only managed to do it for a couple of weeks before I______________.

1 filth   

n.肮脏，污物，污秽；淫猥

参考例句：

• I don't know how you can read such filth.我不明白你怎么会去读这种淫秽下流的东西。
• The dialogue was all filth and innuendo.这段对话全是下流的言辞和影射。

2 lever   

n.杠（杆），途径，工具，手段；vt.撬动（起）

参考例句：

• He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
• Pity is a lever for quickening love.怜悯是加速爱情的手段。