Harvard professors retire at 65.
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Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文:W: Is it possible to make a comfortable living from art today? I mean, while you're not well-known.
M: A good many of us go in for commercial art nowadays.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
(12)
A. Well-known artists are well-paid for their work.
B. Many artists start to do business nowadays.
C. The man is a well-known artist.
D. The woman is a commercial artist.
听力原文:M: How far from the post office were you when you saw the accused?
W: About 50 yards. He was climbing out of a broken window of the post office.
Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
(14)
A. Teacher and student.
B. Manager and office worker.
C. Postman and customer.
D. Lawyer and witness.
Employers advertise for people with 1-5 years experience because they don't need more experienced employees.
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
Inequality at work is still one of the cruelest and most glaring forms of inequality in our society. We cannot hope to solve more obvious problems of industrial life, many of which arise directly or indirectly from the frustrations created by inequality at work, unless we tackle it head-on. Still less can we hope to create a decent and humane society?
The most glaring inequality is that between managers and the rest. For most managers, work is an opportunity and a challenge. Their jobs engage their interest and allow them to develop their abilities. They are constantly learning; they are able to exercise responsibility; they have a considerable degree of control over their own and others'--working lives. Most important of all, they have the opportunity to initiate. By contrast, for most manual workers, and for a growing number of white-collar workers, work is boring, monotonous, even painful experience. They spend all their working lives in conditions which would be regarded as intolerable--for themselves--by those who take the decisions which let such conditions continue. The majority has little control over their work; it provides them with no opportunity for personal development. Often production is so designed that workers are simply part of the technology. In of ices, many workers feel alienated from their work and their firm, whether it is in public or in private ownership.
Rising educational standards feed rising expectations, yet the amount of control which the worker has over his. own work situation does not rise accordingly. In many cases his control has been reduced. Symptoms of protest increase--rising sickness and absenteeism, high turnover of employees, restrictions on output, and strikes, both unofficial and official. There is not much escape out and upwards. As management becomes more professional--in itself a good thing-- and managers don't think there is close connection between production and working condition.
In the writer's opinion people judge others by______.
A. the type of work they do
B. the place where they work
C. the time they spend at work
D. the amount of money they earn