最新版英语听力教程 Model Test9-part c

　　[00:28.50]You'll hear three pieces of recorded material.

[00:33.36]Before listening to each one,

[00:36.91]you will have time to read the questions related to it.

[00:42.06]While listening,answer each question by choosing A,B,C or D.

[00:48.33]After listening,

[00:51.57]you will have time to check your answers.

[00:55.93]You will hear each piece once only.

[01:00.60]M:Questions 11-13 are based on the following radio speech on How to Get a Raise

[01:07.68]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 -13.

[01:14.45]W:Here're proven tips from a career strategist to put extra money in your paycheck

[01:23.49]To win a raise you must be a top performer you have to make your case known.

[01:30.75]Yet when it comes to asking

[01:34.69]for an increase many of us become like Oliver Twist approaching his master for gruel 1:

[01:42.14]"Please,sir,I want some more."

[01:46.58]Everybody wants a raise.But few know how to ask without sounding like a beggar.

[01:53.35]Here are two steps to help you make an affective case:

[01:58.49]1.Change your attitude

[02:02.75]The most common roadblock to higher earning is what I call

[02:08.39]the "good student" attitude.

[02:12.15]Think back to the eighth grade,when your job was merely to pass

[02:18.00]The requirements were clearly spelled out.

[02:22.16]At the end of the year every student who had done an adequate job

[02:27.83]was automatically 2 promoted.

[02:31.59]Work is different.

[02:34.54]You can't expect the system to take care of you.

[02:39.27]You must take care of it. Too many of us forget this.

[02:44.60]When there's a pitfall 3 in the workload 4,

[02:48.46]for example,we sit around waiting for"them" to tell"us" what to do.

[02:54.03]If profits sink,we blame "them" for decisions that we knew to be bad--

[03:00.19]forgetting that we never tried to influence those decisions.

[03:05.97]And we fear that mixing with the boss would be seen as "apple-polishing."

[03:11.71]This attitude can be dangerous.

[03:15.47]You need to make your relationship with your boss

[03:20.23]as important as doing your job well.

[03:24.90]2.Give more of yourself.

[03:29.45]Just doing your job well does not get you a raise.

[03:35.01]That's exactly what you were hired for in the first place.

[03:40.66]To fatten 5 your pay check,

[03:44.21]you need to do something extra.

[03:47.97]Many of us already work beyond the boundaries of our jobs without realizing it

[03:54.81]Try this:at the end of every workday,ask yourself:

[04:00.67]"What have I done that wasn't called for in my job?"

[04:06.23]Write it on your calendar.

[04:09.76]When your next performance appraisal 6 comes around,

[04:14.43]you'll have a record of achievements that you could never reconstruct from memory.

[04:20.78]W:Questions 14-16 are based on the following speech on the New Millennium 7.

[04:28.04]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.

[04:33.89]M:My dear friends all over the world.

[04:38.60]Today we celebrate a special New Year with a momentous 8 number:

[04:44.47]the Year Two Thousand.

[04:48.42]As we move into a New Millennium,

[04:52.21]many of us have much to be thankful for.

[04:56.57]Most of the world is at peace.

[05:00.51]Most of us are better educated than our parents or grandparents,

[05:06.29]and can expect to live longer lives,

[05:10.54]with greater freedom and a wider range of choices.

[05:15.51]A new century brings new hope,

[05:19.58]but can also bring new dangers

[05:23.74]or old ones in a new and alarming form.

[05:28.28]Some of us fear seeing our jobs and our way of life

[05:33.74]destroyed by economic change.

[05:37.58]Others fear the spread of violence or disease

[05:42.44]Others still are more worried that

[05:46.49]human activities may be ruining the global environment

[05:51.76]on which our life depends

[05:55.84]No one knows for sure how serious each of these dangers will be.

[06:01.48]But one thing they have in common:

[06:06.94]they do not respect state frontiers.

[06:11.80]Even the strongest state,acting alone,

[06:16.48]may not be able to protect its citizens against them.

[06:21.23]More than ever before in human history,

[06:27.16]we all share a common destiny 9.

[06:31.21]We can master it only if we face it together

[06:35.89]And that,my friends,

[06:39.65]is why we have the United Nations

[06:43.72]Through the United Nations we are working together to preserve peace;

[06:49.36]to outlaw 10 weapons that kill and maim 11 indiscriminately;

[06:54.64]to bring mass murderers and war criminals to justice.

[07:00.21]Through the United Nations

[07:03.68]we are working together to defeat AIDS and other epidemics 12

[07:09.64]to control climate change;

[07:13.48]to make clean air and water available to everyone.

[07:18.65]Through the UnitedNations we are working together to ensure that

[07:23.98]the global market benefits all of us,

[07:28.42]freeing the poor to lift themselves out of poverty.

[07:33.28]In all these areas and more,

[07:36.83]the United Nations is working for you,

[07:41.19]but it can do little without you.

[07:44.74]After all,it belongs to you,

[07:49.11]to the peoples of the world.

[07:52.76]And therefore it can work much better with your help and your ideas.

[07:59.24]My friends,the new millennium need not be a time of fear or nxiety.

[08:06.09]If we work together and have faith in our own abilities,

[08:11.13]it can be a time of hope and opportunity.

[08:15.86]It's up to us to make it so.

[08:20.11]Happy New Year!

[08:22.88]M:Questions 17-20 are based on a Professor's Lecture on Medical Care.

[08:30.33]You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.

[08:36.49]W:The medical world's gradually realising that the quality of the environment

[08:44.09]in hospitals may play a significant role in the process of recovery from illness

[08:51.25]As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art

[08:56.29]out of the galleries and into public places,

[09:00.84]some of the country's most talented artists

[09:05.52]have been called in to transform older hospitals

[09:10.66]and to soften 13 the hard edges of modern buildings.

[09:16.12]Of the 2,500 National Health Service hospitals in Britain, almost 100

[09:24.58]now have significant collections of contemporary art in corridors,

[09:31.35]waiting areas and treatment rooms.

[09:35.19]These recent initiatives 14 owe a great deal to one artist,

[09:41.25]Peter Senior,who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital

[09:47.00]in northeastern England during the early 1970s.

[09:52.43]He felt the artist

[09:56.38]had lost his place in modern society,and that

[10:00.22]art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.

[10:04.89]A typical hospital waiting room

[10:09.15]might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week.

[10:14.50]What better place to hold regular exhibitions of art?

[10:20.07]Peter Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings

[10:26.02]in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975.

[10:33.89]Believed to be Britain's first hospital artist.

[10:38.46]Senior was so much in demand that he was

[10:43.71]soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates

[10:49.48]The effect is striking 15

[10:52.83]Now in the corridors and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full

[10:59.30]view of fresh colours,

[11:03.14]playful images and restful courtyards

[11:07.98]The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs

[11:14.14]when a patient is recovering from an illness.

[11:18.50]A study has shown

[11:21.98]that patients who had a view onto a

[11:26.11]garden needed half the number of strong pain killers 16

[11:31.44]compared with patients who had no view at all

[11:36.50]or only a brick wall to look at.