I have spent a lot of time working on this problem.

听力原文：M: I have always enjoyed working in marketing and research, and I think I have gained a very. good knowledge of the skills necessary to do a job effectively. At the moment, I'm working as a Research Manager. Energy and ideas are very important, and in my present employment I've shown that I have these qualities. The company deals in the production of building equipment and I've been with them for five years now. I'm sure you have heard of my present company, Standard Construction. My position involves finding out the latest scientific developments. I have a good academic background in this field and graduated in Chemistry from London University fourteen years ago.

One thing I particularly enjoy about my present job is traveling, mainly in Europe and the United States. I meet representatives of other companies and discuss new ideas for the use of new materials in construction. It's very important to know what is happening in other countries like Germany and France.

Before this, I was Marketing Assistant for a Spanish plastics company for four years. My knowledge of different languages and cultures has been a great advantage, and I plan to learn German as well. At the moment, I regularly do business in French and Spanish, and travel widely in Europe including frequent visits to Sweden and Holland, where my business is all done in English.

I plan to leave my present job before the end of the year. There are several projects I have to finish in October and November. If I were offered a post here I would be available to begin in December. I want to work for a company that has ambitions to be a world leader in its field, which is why I'm applying for this position.

&8226;Look at the notes about the career of Harry Robbins.

&8226;Some information is missing.

&8226;You will hear a presentation given by Harry Robbins at an interview.

&8226;For each question (16--22), fill in the missing information in the numbered space using one or two words.

&8226;You will hear the recording twice.

INTERVIEW NOTES

Current position: (16) ________

Company's main product: (17) ________

Company name: (18) ________

Subjects studied at university: (19) ________

Previous job: (20) ________

Languages spoken other than English: (21) ________ and ________

Can start working in: (22) ________

(16)

听力原文：M: We've been working on this proposal for so long that my eyes are starting to blur.

W: Why don't we get out of here? The green meadow around the library is good for your eyes. We can wrap it up later.

Q: What does the woman mean?

(14)

A．The man should relax for a while.

B．The man should see a doctor in the library.

C．It shouldn't take long to write the proposal.

D．The man should wrap up his books as quickly as possible.

听力原文：W: Wow! We've been working on this experiment for over four hours. Do you think we should keep going?

M: Well, I don't know about you, but I'm ready to call it a day today.

Q: What will the man probably do?

(15)

A．He will not continue with the experiment today.

B．He will work on the experiment without the woman.

C．He does not know when the experiment will be finished.

D．He will spend more hours on the experiment.

Tom: I've been working on this paper for 7 days on end. I think I deserve a break.

James:______.

A．How about a round of tennis this afternoon?

B．What paper are you working on?

C．Would you like something to drink?

D．Can I help you with the paper?

By reason of this examination, Athenians, I have made enemies of a very bitter and fierce kind, who have spread abroad a great number of slanders about me. People say that I am a' wise man' , thinking that I am wise myself in any matter in which I show another man to be ignorant. But, my friends, I believe that only God is really wise, and that by this Oracle he meant that men' s wisdom is worth little or nothing. I do not think he meant that Socrates was wise. He only took me as example as though he would say to men, ' He among you is the wisest who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is worth little at all. '

When we speak of leisure nowadays, we are not thinking of securing time or opportunity to do something; time is heavy on our hands, and the problem is how to fill it. Leisure no longer signifies a space with some difficulty secured against the pressure of events: rather it is a pervasive mptiness for which we must invent occupations. Leisure is a vacuum, a desperate state of vacancy a vacancy of mind and body. It has been commandeered by the sociologists and the psychologists: it is a problem.

Enrico Mingardi spent a good part of the morning with me explaining his ideas on hew to improve the water-bus service in Venice. Being the chairman of the ACTV, the public transportation company, he discovered that some of his ideas weren't very popular. But he did think it would be easy enough to change the timetable on one line.

Almost immediately, he told me, a request was delivered from people who liked it better the old way. "They collected 750 signatures against the change," he recalled, "so I said OK, I'll put it back." He put it back. Another request arrived. This one carried 1,500 names of angry residents protesting the reversion (复原); they had liked it better the new way.

"Were some of the names the same?" I asked, joking.

He shrugged. "Sure," he replied.

Venice. The mere name makes people think of its astonishing 1,500 years, an incomparable heritage of art, polities, and commerce. Ten million visitors a year arrive to wonder at the remains of its glory, the architecture and paintings, and to be seduced (诱使) by the dreamlike charm of a place that seems to exist somehow apart from real life, a kind of baroque (巴罗克式的) style, floating in mist and shadow, entranced by the continual murmur of the water as it never get tired of kissing the stones.

But Venice is not a dream. In these days it is facing more than its share of reality. In fact, as the event of the bus requests demonstrated yet again, Venice at heart is a classic small town, trapped in the body of a monument.

To begin with, Venice actually is small. You could walk from one end to the other in an hour. And you will walk, because the streets are usually the size of an average sidewalk, or less. Walking, as much as the surrounding water, dictates the shape of Venetian life: the reasonable pace, the sudden street corner encounters with friends, the pause to talk. Among the many things the Venetians love about their town—no ears, virtually no crime—this intimacy is the best. They like to say their city is like a living room.

Is Venice still sinking? This is the question everybody outside Venice seems to ask. In a word, yes, though the rate has slowed, mainly because the pumping of groundwater for industries on the mainland has been stopped.

What is Enrico Mingardi?

A．He is in charge of the public transportation.

B．He is responsible for the improvement of the water-bus service.

C．He works for a TV station.

D．He is the chairman of a public transportation company.