2006年英语专八真题听力原文

　　SECTION B INTERVIEW

　　Interviewer: Well, I see from your resume , Miss Green, that you studied at the universitycollege. How did you find there?

　　Miss Green: I had a great time. The teaching there was good and I made a lot of friends. Thepsy¬chology department was a great place to be. ( Q1)

　　Interviewer: How come you chose psychology?

　　Miss Green: Well, at first I didn't have any clear idea of what I wanted to do after university. Iguess I've just always been interested in people and the way they act. I wanted to know whypeople think and act the way they do. It's a fascinating area.

　　Interviewer: And what was the course like? .

　　Miss Green: Good. The teachers were all really nice and they had the special approach toteaching. You know they didn't just give us lectures and tell us to read books like they might doin some more traditional places. The whole course was based on the problem-solvingap¬proach. You know they described a pai-ticular situation to us and we discuss what mighthappen. And after that we do some reading and see if it confirmed our own ideas. That's whatI liked best—the really practical orientation of the course. I learnt very well with that style. Sofor me, it was just great. ( Q1)

　　Interviewer: I see from your resume that you graduated about four years ago and afterthat... let me see...

　　Miss Green:I got a job with the Department of Employment. It was only a temporary thing forabout five months. I was a researcher in the department. We design a survey, go out to thefactories, and ask all the questions to the workers and the management , then go back to theoffice, analyze all the data and produce a report. ( Q2) It was quite interesting and I guessedthe psychology course at college helped me a lot.

　　Interviewer:And after that you worked for three years in an Advertising Agency. That must bea bit of change from the Department of Employment, wasn't it?

　　Miss Green: Well, not really. I supposed the office furnishings were a bit more sophisticated,but the work was quite, similar. I was basically still doing the same thing—designingques¬tionnaires, going out, asking questions and writing reports. The only difference was thatthis time I wasn't asking people about their work. I was asking them what kind of sham¬poothey bought and if they preferred brand X to brand Y. ( Q3) Then I make up a re¬port andthe agency would use the information in the advertising campaigns. I enjoyed my work a lot.

　　Interviewer: So why did you decide to leave?

　　Miss Green :Three years is a long time to be asking people those sorts of questions aboutshampoo and drinks. No. Seriously , after two years I was in charge of the research departmentof the agency and .I had one assistant researcher. I guess after two years of doing that, Isup¬pose I felt, you know, I can do this well. And now I want to do something else that's alittle different. And there was nowhere for me to go inside the company. It just wasn'tchallenging for me any more and because I needed a challenge, I decided to move on. ( Q4)When I heard about the position of senior researcher here, I thought that's exactly what Iwant—the chance to combine my management skills and my research interests working in amuch larger department with more varied work.

　　Interviewer: And you felt that the job description and our advertisement would offer you thekind of challenge you're looking for?

　　Miss Green:Exactly. Yes. As I said, management in a larger organization and researchcombined. Also to be honest with you, I heard about the job before it was advertised. A friendof mine, who works here, Mark Austen, told me a few weeks ago that you were looking forsomeone to take over the job. He described the position to me in quite a bit of detail. And Ithought, "Well, , that's exactly what I'm looking for. " So really I'd written my let¬ter ofapplication before the job was even advertised.

　　Interviewer: I should tell you that with the present cutbacks, we've only got one full-timeadminister assistant in the section. How would you feel about doing your own wordprocessing, photo copying, that sort of thing?

　　Miss Green: Oh, I'm used to that. I've done all my own word processing for ages. It's the onlyway to write really , isn't it? I can type well about 60 words a minute. I did a secretarial courseafter I left school, so I learnt typing in short hand. Then a few years later, I bought a PC and Ilearnt how to do word processing, too. ( Q5 )

　　Interviewer: Well , that's handy. Now in the position you've applied for , you'd have five to sixassis¬tant researchers responsible to you. That's considerably more responsibility than you'vehad before. So you're obviously ambitious. And as you said, you like challenge. I waswondering what you see yourself doing in, say, five or ten years on the track.

　　Miss Green:Oh, that is a difficult question. Let me try to answer your question in this way. I'm-par¬ticularly interested in experimental design and also in teaching. I'd like to continue theorganization and planning site of research, but do some teaching, too. I know that you havelecturers here who do just that sort of thing—some practical worker and some un¬dergraduateand postgraduate teaching. So that's what I really be aiming for—to be a lec¬turer here as well. ( Q5 )

　　Interviewer: Well, that is certainly a career path that we'd encourage you to follow. But ofcourse it might be necessary to upgrade your present qualifications first. I see from yourresume that you've enrolled in an M. A. in experimental psychology. Could you tell me a bitabout the courses you're planning to fake?

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