2008年6月四级听力passage原文
2008年6月四级听力passage原文
Passage One
Time! I think a lot about time. And not just because it’s the name of the news organization
I work for. Like most working people, I find time or the lack of it a never ending frustration
and an unwinnable battle. My everyday is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win.
This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the Families and Work Institute’s national
study of the changing workforce, fifty-five percent of employees say they don’t have enough time for themselves, sixty-three percent don’t have enough time for their spouses or partners, and sixty-seven percent don’t have enough time for their children. It’s also not a new complaint. I bet
our ancestors returned home form hunting wild animals and gathering nuts and complained about how
little time they had to pay in battle scenes on their cave wars. The difference is that the boss
of animal-hunting and the head of nut-gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you. Today’s workers are still
demanding control over their time. The difference is today’s bosses are listening. I’ve been
reading a report issued today called “When Work Words” produced jointly by three organizations.
They set out to find and award the employers who employ the most creative and most effective
ways to give their workers flexibility. I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss
should read it for ideas.
26. What is the speaker complaining about?
27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors?
28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses all bosses read the report by the three
organizations?
Passage Two
“Loving a child is a circular business. The more you give, the more you get, the more you want
to give.” Penelope Leach once said. What she said proves to be true of my blooded family. I was
born in 1931. As the youngest of six children , I learned to share my parents’ love. Raising
six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parent’s
relationship and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. Daddy never had very close
relationships with his children and drifted even farther away form us after the divorce.
Several years later a wonderful woman came into his life, and they were married. She had two
sons, one of them still at home. Under her influence, we became a “blended family” and a good
relationship developed between the two families. She always treated us as if we were her own
children. They shared over twenty-five year together before our father passed away. At the time of
his death, the question came up of my mother-Daddy’s first wife—attending his funeral.
I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my stepmother when I asked her if she would
object to Mother attending Daddy’s funeral. Without giving it a second thought, she immediately
replied, “Of course not, Honey. She’s the mother of my children.”
29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parent’s divorce?
30. What brought the father closer to his own children?
31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this tale?
Passage Three
In February last year, my wife lost her job. Just as suddenly, the owner of the greenhouse
where I worked as manager died at heart attack. His family announced that they were going to
close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. Things looked pretty gloomy.
My wife and I read the want ads each day. Then one morning, as I was hanging out the “Going Out
of Business” sign at the greenhouse, the door opened, and in walked a customer. She was an
office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of town. She
was looking for pots and plants to place in the reception areas in the offices. “I don’t knwas
helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. Perhaps as many as a dozen firms have
recently opened offices in the new office park, and there were several hundred more acres with
construction underway. That afternoon, I drove out to the office park. By six o’clock that
evening, I had signed contracts with seven companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to
maintain them. Within a week, I had worked out an agreement to lease the greenhouse from the
owner’s family. Business is now increasing rapidly, and one day, we hope to be the proud owners
of the greenhouse.
32. What do we learn about the greenhouse?
33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning?
34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager?
35. What was the speaker’s hope for the future?
Passage One
Time! I think a lot about time. And not just because it’s the name of the news organization
I work for. Like most working people, I find time or the lack of it a never ending frustration
and an unwinnable battle. My everyday is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win.
This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the Families and Work Institute’s national
study of the changing workforce, fifty-five percent of employees say they don’t have enough time for themselves, sixty-three percent don’t have enough time for their spouses or partners, and sixty-seven percent don’t have enough time for their children. It’s also not a new complaint. I bet
our ancestors returned home form hunting wild animals and gathering nuts and complained about how
little time they had to pay in battle scenes on their cave wars. The difference is that the boss
of animal-hunting and the head of nut-gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you. Today’s workers are still
demanding control over their time. The difference is today’s bosses are listening. I’ve been
reading a report issued today called “When Work Words” produced jointly by three organizations.
They set out to find and award the employers who employ the most creative and most effective
ways to give their workers flexibility. I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss
should read it for ideas.
26. What is the speaker complaining about?
27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors?
28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses all bosses read the report by the three
organizations?
Passage Two
“Loving a child is a circular business. The more you give, the more you get, the more you want
to give.” Penelope Leach once said. What she said proves to be true of my blooded family. I was
born in 1931. As the youngest of six children , I learned to share my parents’ love. Raising
six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parent’s
relationship and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. Daddy never had very close
relationships with his children and drifted even farther away form us after the divorce.
Several years later a wonderful woman came into his life, and they were married. She had two
sons, one of them still at home. Under her influence, we became a “blended family” and a good
relationship developed between the two families. She always treated us as if we were her own
children. They shared over twenty-five year together before our father passed away. At the time of
his death, the question came up of my mother-Daddy’s first wife—attending his funeral.
I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my stepmother when I asked her if she would
object to Mother attending Daddy’s funeral. Without giving it a second thought, she immediately
replied, “Of course not, Honey. She’s the mother of my children.”
29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parent’s divorce?
30. What brought the father closer to his own children?
31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this tale?
Passage Three
In February last year, my wife lost her job. Just as suddenly, the owner of the greenhouse
where I worked as manager died at heart attack. His family announced that they were going to
close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. Things looked pretty gloomy.
My wife and I read the want ads each day. Then one morning, as I was hanging out the “Going Out
of Business” sign at the greenhouse, the door opened, and in walked a customer. She was an
office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of town. She
was looking for pots and plants to place in the reception areas in the offices. “I don’t knwas
helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. Perhaps as many as a dozen firms have
recently opened offices in the new office park, and there were several hundred more acres with
construction underway. That afternoon, I drove out to the office park. By six o’clock that
evening, I had signed contracts with seven companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to
maintain them. Within a week, I had worked out an agreement to lease the greenhouse from the
owner’s family. Business is now increasing rapidly, and one day, we hope to be the proud owners
of the greenhouse.
32. What do we learn about the greenhouse?
33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning?
34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager?
35. What was the speaker’s hope for the future?
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