[文学]新理念 英语 大二 课件Unit 2 Career Planning.ppt

Section VI Funny Time A New Employee Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel directors office. What is the meaning of this? the director asked. When you applied for the job, you told us you had five years experience. Now we discover this is the first job you ever held.  Well, the young man said, in your advertisement you said you wanted somebody with imagination. 参考译文 新员工 一个年轻人在被雇用几个星期后，被叫到人事经理的办公室。“这是什么意思？”经理问，“当你申请这份工作时，你告诉我们有5年工作经验，现在我们发现这其实是你的第一份工作。” “嗯，”年轻人回答，“你们的广告上说需要找一个有想象力的人嘛。” Exercises Reading Comprehension Vocabulary and Structure Text B ? Reading Comprehension I. Discuss the following questions after reading the passage. 1. What difficulties did the writer meet when he became a newspaper solicitor for the first time? Text B People do not like a solicitor knocking on their door trying to sell them something. 2. What did he learn from the working experience as a newspaper solicitor? He learnt to be more perseverant as well as become stronger to confront with some intimidation in his life. II. Choose the best answer according to the passage. 1.( ) What was the writer’s attitude towards the job as a newspaper solicitor? A. Shameful. B. Pessimistic. C. Appreciated. 2.( ) Which statement is wrong according to the second paragraph? A. The job as a newspaper solicitor was easy for a child. B. The boy was brave enough to knock the door again and succeeded. C. The writer later was responsible for training new solicitors. C A 3.( ) What character helped the writer stick to his dream of becoming a professional musician? A. Hardworking. B. Outgoing. C. Perseverance. 4.( ) What did the writer do according to the intimidation of a former manager? A. He back off. B. He faced him very bravely. C. He was afraid of him so he dropped the legal matter. C B 5.( ) That experience helped the writer in many ways except____. A. become stronger to face intimidation B. become