2024年4月12日发(作者：)

中级-Jobs and careers

(总分80,考试时间90分钟)

Who should we short-list?

1. Before you listen to the recording, look at this advertisement and decide what kind of person the

advertiser is looking for. Highlight the important points in the ad.

Assistant Marketing Manager

We are a well-known international manufacturer, based in the UK, and we are expanding our

export marketing activities in our European headquarters in London.

We are looking for a lively and intelligent person to join our team as soon as possible. The

work will involve working in our London office, telephoning and corresponding with our overseas

clients and agents, and some travel, mainly to European countries. Applicants should be fluent in

at least one foreign language. Experience in marketing would be an asset but not essential. The

successful applicant will be paid top London rates and provided with generous removal expenses.

You'll hear three telephone messages. Each of the speakers has held interviews with applicants

for the job.

1 Listen and take notes. You'll need to pause the recording frequently.

2 Compare your notes with the notes in the Answer Key.

3 Decide which of the job applicants sounds most promising:

Which of them will you put on the short list for a second interview in London?

Which of the three candidates do you rate most highly, judging from what you've heard about

them?

If possible, compare your views with another student who has done this exercise.

REPORT FROM :

Best candidate: ______ Age:______

Education :______

Languages :______

Work experience:______

Personality:______

Availability :______

Suitability:______

Address :______

Phone :______

Abstract nouns

Use a dictionary to look up any unfamiliar words in these exercises.

1. What are the noun forms of these verbs? Only write down the ones which are unfamiliar or

which you're unsure of. acknowledge achieve agree announce arrange develop endorse

judge measure repay adapt alter apply authorize cancel centralize confirm consult declare

determine devalue imagine modify recommend specialize appreciate arbitrate calculate

collaborate co-operate eliminate fluctuate integrate locate speculate attract collect contribute

correct deduct delete interrupt pollute predict protect reduce

1. What are the noun forms of these adjectives? Only write down the ones which are unfamiliar or

which you're unsure of. calm careless cheap friendly helpful late loud serious confident

intelligent patient different capable flexible formal possible probable popular real reliable scarce

sincere

Have a nice day

Read this article and then fill each gap below with one word.

Have a nice day

Hotel, shop and restaurant chains, which employ thousands of people in low-paid, dead-end

jobs, are discovering that high labour turnover rates resulting from the indiscriminate hiring of

"cheap" workers can be extremely costly.

Cole National, a Cleveland-based firm which owns Child World, Things Remembered and

other speciality shops, declared a "war for people" in an effort to recruit and keep better staff.

Employees were asked: What do you enjoy about working here? In the past year, have you

thought about leaving? If so, why? How can we improve **pany and create an even better place to

work? Employees replied they wanted better training, **munications with their supervisors and,

above all, wanted their bosses to "make me feel like I make a difference". Labour turnover

declined by more than half; for full time sales assistants, it declined by about a third.

Marriott Corporation, a hotels and restaurants group, has also decided to spend more money on

retaining employees in the hope of spending less on finding and training new ones. In one year, it

had to hire no fewer than 27,000 workers to fill 8,800 hourly- paid job slots.

To slow its labour turnover, Marriott had to get a simple message accepted throughout its

operating divisions: loyal, well motivated employees make customers happy and that, in turn,

creates fatter profits and happier shareholders, hnpruved training of middle managers helped. So

did a change in bonus arrange- ments.

At the same time, Marriott became more fussy about the people it recruited. It screened out job

appli- cants motivated mainly by money: applicants which **pany pejoratively described as "pay

first people". Such people form a surprisingly small, though apparently disruptive, part of the

service-industry workforce. Marriott found in its employee-attitude surveys that only about 20%

of its workers at Roy Rogers restaurants and about 30% of its workers at Marriott hotels regarded

pay as their primary reason for working there.

Many middle managers in service industries are **fortable coping with demands for more

money than with demands for increased recognition and **munica- tions. They will have to

change their ways. Surveys say that when 13,000 employees in retail shops across America were

asked to list in order the 18 reasons for working where they did, they ranked "good pay" third. In

first place was "appreciation of work done", with "respect for me as a person" second.

1. Many workers in service industries are ______ badly and their work is______

2. Service firms with large numbers of low-paid workers often have a high staff______

3. Cole National conducted a ______ among its staff, because they wanted to recruit and ______

better workers.

4. Staff replied that they wanted their managers to show that they were______

5. Marriott discovered that customers are happier when the staff are ______ and ______ motivated.

They found that most of their workers were______ mainly motivated by pay.

6. For most US shop workers pay is the ______ most important reason for job satisfaction.

Employment

1. Fill the gaps in these sentences, then add the words to the puzzle below.

On ...

on a large scale on approval on behalf of on business on closer inspection

on condition on display on loan on order on paper on the phone on request on

schedule

on the spot on time on vacation /on holiday

1. They produce this kind of material on ______ so they should be able to supply us quickly.

2. You will find our new product ______ at our showroom.

3. We have a sales engineer ______ who can fix the fault this week.

4. We can supply samples and demonstration equipment ______

5. We have had the goods ______ for three months, but they haven't arrived yet.

6. We accepted delivery of the goods as undamaged, but ______ we find that five ot **ponents are

unusable.

7. I spoke to him ______ last week about this.

8. We can have the goods for four weeks ______ Then we can return them or pay for them.