SECTION BINTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen c

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文：INTERVIEWER: On the matter of employer-employee relations, we read a lot and hear a lot about uh...union problems and strikes…

INTERVIEWEE: Well, I think that-.-probably, the-.-oh--speaking of it from an employers standpoint, the easiest thing for an employer to do would be to join a union. Now this might seem...

INTERVIEWER: From an employer's…oh…

INTERVIEWEE: From an employer's standpoint. The reason is that you have the security of never having to worry about having employees. Uh…you'd be meeting a…

INTERVIEWER: Oh-huh…

INTERVIEWEE: a certain criterion because the unions set the criteria for the people that work--their salaries, their fringe benefits, and so on.

INTERVIEWER. And you...you probably have one outfit to deal with, rather than--

INTERVIEWEE: That's correct. So you--From the employee' standpoint, of course, you have the problem that the employee is…is a captive to a set of criteria…

INTERVIEWER: Uh-hum.

INTERVIEWEE:…and his freedom is greatly reduced because of the fact that..-that his bargaining agent is someone else—it’s not himself.

INTERVIEWER. He's no longer in an individual-to-employer situation…

INTERVIEWEE: That is correct.

INTERVIEWER: Is it a trade-off…oh…to a certain extent？ I mean, oh…

INTERVIEWEE: Well my feeling is…one of the nice things about working for a small business which is non-union, you have a higher degree of freedom. And that it's much easier from the employees standpoint…uh…to be able to negotiate one-to-one, than to work through a shop steward, or…or a union agent that tells you what you're going to do…

INTERVIEWER: Uh-huh…

INTERVIEWEE: And so…uh…that's one of the great advantages of a small business--because most of them are non-union, and they have survived in the country...

INTERVIEWER: Un-hm…

INTERVIEWEE:…and…and it's those people that are really independent that have made this country go. But when you become a captive to any big organization--whether it's a corporation, a union or a government--you just absolutely lose your freedom.

The interviewee believes that having all union employees is the ______way of operating from an employer's point of view.

A．simplest

B．most difficult

C．most tedious

D．least desirable