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1、 Did you study market research? Yeah, and it really helped me to get into the industry, but I have to say that its more important to get experience in different types of market research to find out exactly what youre interested in. So what are you interested in? Well, at the moment, I specialize in

2、quantitative advertising research, which means that I do two types of projects. Trackers, which are ongoing projects that look at trends or customer satisfaction over a long period of time. The only problem with trackers is that it takes up a lot of your time. But you do build up a good relationship

3、 with the client. I also do a couple of ad-hoc jobs which are much shorter projects. What exactly do you mean by ad-hoc jobs? Its basically when companies need quick answers to their questions about their consumers habits. They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out for example, so the time y

4、ou spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short. Which do you prefer, trackers or ad-hoc? I like doing both and in fact I need to do both at the same time to keep me from going crazy. I need the variety. Can you just explain what process you go through with a new client? Well, together we dec

5、ide on the methodology and the objectives of the research. I then design a questionnaire. Once the interviewers have been briefed, I send the client a schedule and then they get back to me with deadlines. Once the final charts and tables are ready, I have to check them and organize a presentation. H

6、mm, one last question, what do you like and dislike about your job? As I said, variety is important and as for what I dont like, it has to be the checking of charts and tables.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Question 1: What position does the woman hold in the com

7、pany?Question 2: What does the woman specialize in at the moment?Question 3: What does the woman say about trackers?Question 4: What does the woman dislike about her job?Conversation Two Hello, Im here with Frederick. Now Fred, you went to university in Canada? Yeah, thats right. OK, and you have ve

8、ry strong views about universities in Canada. Could you please explain? Well, we dont have private universities in Canada. Theyre all public. All the universities are owned by the government, so there is the Ministry of Education in charge of creating the curriculum for the universities and so there

9、 is not much room for flexibility. Since its a government operated institution, things dont move very fast. If you want something to be done, then their staff do not have so much incentive to help you because hes a worker for the government. So, I dont think its very efficient. However, there are ce

10、rtain advantages of public universities, such as the fees being free. You dont have to pay for your education. But the system isnt efficient, and it does not work that well. Yeah, I can see your point, but in the United States we have many private universities, and I think they are large bureaucraci

11、es also. Maybe people dont act that much differently, because its the same thing working for a private university. They get paid for their job. I dont know if theyre that much more motivated to help people. Also, we have a problem in the United States that usually only wealthy kids go to the best sc

12、hools and its kind of a problem actually. I agree with you. I think its a problem because youre not giving equal access to education to everybody. Its not easy, but having only public universities also might not be the best solution. Perhaps we can learn from Japan where they have a system of privat

13、e and public universities. Now, in Japan, public universities are considered to be the best. Right. Its the exact opposite in the United States. So, as you see, its very hard to say which one is better. Right, a good point. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Question

14、 5: What does the woman want Frederick to talk about?Question 6: What does the man say about the curriculum in Canadian universities?Question 7: On what point do the speakers agree?Question 8: What point does the man make at the end of the conversation?Section BPassage OneA recent International Labo

15、r Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early. The report warns the picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an

16、 economic rebound. Patrick Belser, an international labor organization specialist, says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment. The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be a great pressure on wages in

17、the future as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on employers to raise wages to attract workers will decline. So, we expect that the second part of the year would not be very good in terms of wage growth. The report finds more than a quarter of the

18、countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms. They include the United States, Austria, Costa Rica, South Africa and Germany. International Labor Organization economists say some nations have come up with policies to lessen the impact of lower wages during the economic crisis. An

19、 example of these is work sharing with government subsidies.?Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs. For this scheme to work, the government must provide wage subsidies to compensate for lost pay due to the shorter hours.Questions?9?to?11?a

20、re?based?on?the?passage?you?have?just?heard.?Question?9:?What?is?International?Labor?Organizations?report?mainly?about?10: According to an International Labor Organizations specialist, how will employers feel if there are more people looking for jobs?11:does?speaker?mean?by?work?sharing?scheme?Passa

21、ge?Two?Is there really a magic memory pill or a herbal recall remedy? I have been frequently asked if these memory supplements work. You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory. But your

22、memory doesnt need a cure. What your memory needs is a good workout. So really those supplements arent going to give you that perfect memory in the way that they promise. The other thing is that a lot of these supplements arent necessarily what they claim to be, and you really have to be wary when y

23、ou take any of them. The science isnt there behind most of them. Theyre not really well-regulated unless they adhere to some industry standard. You dont really know that what they say is in there, isnt there. What you must understand is that those supplements, especially in some eastern cultures, ar

24、e part of a medical practice tradition. People dont just go in a local grocery store and buy these supplements. In fact, they are prescribed and theyre given at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner whos been trained. And thats not really the way theyre used in this country.

25、 The other thing people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact. A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldnt otherwise be

26、ing countering or be at risk for. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. Question12. What question is frequently put to the speaker?Question13. What does the speaker say about most memory supplements?Question14. What do we learn about memory supplements in eastern cultures?

27、Question15. What does the speaker say about memory supplements at the end?Section?CRecording 1 The negative impacts of natural disasters can be seen everywhere. In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive powers of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and th

28、e destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands. A study by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than two million people. These catastrophic events caused more than $ trillion in econo

29、mic losses. . weather expert Geoffrey Love says that is the bad news. “Over the last 50 years, economic losses have increased by a factor of 50. That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10 simply because we are getting better at warning people. We are making a d

30、ifference. Extreme events, however, will continue to occur. But, the message is that they need not be disasters.” Love, who is director of Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or wat

31、er-related extremes. These include droughts, floods, windstorms, strong tropical winds and wildfires. He says extreme events will continue. But, he says extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them. “Many of the remedies are well-known. From a planning perspective, it is pretty simple. Build better buildings. Dont build where the hazards will destroy them. From an early-warning perspective, make sure the warnings go right down to the community level. Build community action plans. “The World Meteorological Organization points to Cuba and Bangladesh as exampl