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Interviews
Directions: This part consists of 10 units of unscripted and unrehearsed interviews of people talking about their jobs and an accompanying series of exercises. Its aim is to give you practice working with authentic language materials and, ultimately, to help you extend the range of your communicative abilities in English.
UNIT ONE--- ENTERTAINMENT／HOLLYWOOD
NOW LISTEN TO PART I
Match phrases from Column B that correctly complete sentences started in Column A. Column A Column B 1．The traditional image of Hollywood was a. a different 1ife style. mainly based on...
2. In Hollywood today, actors and actresses live... b. fabulous mansions.
3. In Hollywood today, a star’s career can rise or c. important status symbols. fall with...
4. In Hollywood, owning a beach home, having d. motion picture studios. servants and driving a certain kind of car used to be...
5. Years ago Hollywood stars used to live in... e. the star system.
6. Hollywood actors and actresses used to have f. a season on television lifetime contracts with... NOW LISTEN TO PART II
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1.Actor Dallas Mckennon pointed out that broadcast stations are granted a license to... a. entertain and advertise. b. educate and advertise. c. educate and entertain. 2. Dallas Mckennon said that one of the reasons he likes to act in cartoons is that... a. cartoons are a less violent medium. b. cartoons are a violent medium.
c. cartoons are a more violent medium。
3. According to Dallas Mckennon, cartoons give an actor an opportunity to …
a. express himself in about the same way as he can in live action in front of the
camera.
b. express himself in a way he can’t in live action in front of the camera,
c. express himself in exactly the same way as he can in live action in front of the
camera.
4. Dallas Mckennon said that for cartoons, actors are selected... a. for the way they look, not the way they sound. b. both for the way they look and the way they sound. c. for the way they sound, not the way they look. NOW LISTEN TO PART III
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. In talking about his career in Hollywood, Dallas McKennon said that his work has been...
a. exclusively in cartoons.
b. only in Disney feature films.
c. mainly in cartoons and Disney feature films.
2. Dallas McKennon pointed out that one of the special features of Walt Disney cartoons is
a. the lifelike quality of the mock set.
b. the lifelike quality of the cartoon characters.
c. the lifelike quality of the humans who do the voices.
3. According to Dallas McKennon, the old way of making cartoons was to... a. do the drawings first, and then have the actors record the sound. b. photograph the actors first, and then do the drawings. c. record the sound first, and then photograph the actors.
4. Dallas McKennon said that in the old days, Walt Disney used to... a. record his own voice. b. do the drawings himself. c. play the background music. NOW LISTEN TO PART IV
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. Actor Dallas McKennon said that when he acted in the Daniel Boone television series....
a. he didn’t like the part of the character he was playing. b. he really lived the part of the character he was playing. c. he really hated the part of the character he was playing.
2. Dallas McKennon said that one of the reasons he enjoyed doing the Daniel Boone TV series was that...
a. he felt he was getting some good acting experience. b. he had always wanted to be on television. c. he had always been interested in history.
3. Dallas McKennon said that he played the part of Cincinnatus in the Daniel Boone show for a period of..
a. six weeks. b. six months. c. six years.
UNIT TWO---POLICE WORK
NOW LISTEN TO PART I
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. Officer Senn talked about experiences she has had with... a. bank robbers. b. traffic violators. c. shoplifters.
2. A lot of people won’t talk to a police officer in full uniform because... a. they resent authority.
b. they are afraid of police officers. c. they don’t want to get into trouble.
3. Officer Senn believes that children’s attitudes toward police officers are mainly influenced by...
a. the things they learn from their teachers. b. ideas they pick up from their parents.
c. the attitudes of other school kids.
4. Officer Senn said that junior high and high school students are nice and will talk to a police officer as long as... a. they are in large groups.
b. they are with their peer groups. c. they are alone or in pairs. NOW LISTEN TO PART II
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. Officer Senn stressed the fact that male and female officers... a. do the same kind of work.
b. are not expected to do the same kind of work.
c. are expected to do the same kind of work except for breaking up bar disturbances.
2. Jo Anne Senn pointed out that the one advantage female officers have over male officers is that...
a. female officers don’t have to wear a police uniform and male officers do. b. most men won’t strike a female officer as easily as they will a male officer.
c. female officers don’t have to do the dangerous kind of police work that male officers do.
3. Officer Senn said that a police uniform doesn’t protect an officer from the danger of being attacked...
a. if somebody has had too much to drink and is drunker than a skunk. b. if somebody has had a bad day and is out to get a cop. c. if somebody has had too much to drink and is agitated.
4. Jo Anne Senn said that she’d rather deal with ten drunk men than one drunk woman because
a. men still have a little respect for women. b. a woman can be so agitated. c. a woman is so unpredictable. NOW LISTEN To PART III
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. Jo Anne Senn believes that an officer working in a small police department...than an officer working in a large department. a. has a better chance of survival
b. is in more danger of being hit by a car. c. runs more risk of being assaulted.
2. Officer Senn has never had her teeth knocked out like some officers have, but she... a. has been beaten up brutally three times. b. has had her rib cage stomped in two times. c. has been hit by a car several times.
3. Being put in a dangerous situation doesn’t bother 0fficer Senn… a. until somebody grabs hold of her jacket and punches her.
b. until after the experience is over and she begins to think about it. c. until she turns her back and walks back to her car.
NOW LISTEN TO PART IV
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. According to Officer Senn, the most difficult thing about being a police officer is that
a. it makes people think you are different from everybody else. b. it causes you to feel uncomfortable going out for an evening. c. it has to take priority over everything else in your life. 2. Officer Senn said that the thing people seem to forget is... a. that police officers are on duty twenty-four hours a day. b. that police officers do the same things other people do.
c. that police officers have to be willing to give up their time for their work. 3. Jo Anne Senn likes being a police officer because. a. she enjoys working with people. b. she enjoys teaching children. c. she enjoys having a full-time job.
4. Officer Senn hopes that eventually she will be able to... a. move to a larger department and become chief of police. b. get a teaching degree and teach young children. c. 1eave police work entirely.
UNIT THREE---A SUCCESSTUL SMALL BUSINESS
NOW LISTEN TO PART I
Choose the correct completion for each statement.
1. Jim Thayer believes that having all union employees is the...thing from an employer’s point of view. a. easiest
b. most difficult c. 1east desirable
2. Joining a union gives an employer the security of...
a. never having to worry about having bargaining agents. b. never having to worry about having strikes. c. never having to worry about having employees.
3. When an employee joins a union, according to Jim Thayer, the employee... a. becomes more independent.
b. becomes his or her own bargaining agent. c. becomes a captive.
4. Jim Thayer believes that when you work for a small business which is non-union, you ...
a. find that your freedom is greatly reduced. b. have a higher degree of freedom. c. lose your freedom.
5. According to Jim Thayer,you absolutely lose your freedom... a. when you go to work for a small business that is non-union. b. when you are able to negotiate one-to-one.