听力真题

Test 10
Corporations as a group offer a variety of jobs. Most large companies send people to colleges to (36) ______ graduating students with the required (37) ______ training. A large university may have more than 500 companies a year (38) ______ on its doors. Big firms are the best places for a job because their normal (39) ______ , employee retirements and turnover create thousands of job (40) ______ nationwide each year.
Corporations, however, (41) ______ the rule that the biggest isn't always the best. Many small firms with a few hundred employees have positions that may correspond with your (42) ______ goals, too. Such firms may not have the time, money or need to send people around to your college; you will probably have to (43) ______ them yourself either directly or through an employment agency. Don't ignore these little companies. (44) ______________________________________________________________________ . You could become a big fish in a small pond, reaching a high-level position more quickly than you would if you had climbed the more competitive ladder of a corporate giant.
For example, a small company may need a bright engineering, accounting or management graduate who report directly to the senior vice-president of engineering, the company controller or the general manager. (45) ________________________________________________________________________ . So big companies might not be the best choices for job seekers. In addition, (46) ____________________________________________________________ .

答案解析

答案解析：
36. interview
解析：根据空格前的to推断此处应为动词原形。
37. academic
解析：此处应填入一个形容词或名词修饰其后的training，academic指“学术的，学科的”。
38. knocking
解析：knock是个常见的词，注意此处为-ing形式。
39. growth
解析：根据空格前的形容词，推断此处应为名词作中心语，growth为grow的名词形式。
40. openings
解析：即使不明白此处的opening的具体意思，但open是个常用词，此处应该不会拼写错误。此处的openings指“（职位的）缺口”。
41. illustrate
解析：此处应填谓语动词，illustrate指“说明，表明”，注意双写l。
42. professional
解析：professional goals表示“职业目标”，是常见短语。
43. contact
解析：根据空格前的have to可推断此处可能为动词原形。
44. 标准答案：Their salaries are usually competitive and the chances for advancement and recognition even stronger than those of a big firm
听音关键：salaries, competitive, chances, advancement, recognition, stronger>big firm
答案重构：Their salaries are competitive and the chances for promotion and recognition are higher
画龙点睛：advancement在此指“晋升”，可用promotion替换。
45. 标准答案：In large firms it may take years to reach that level and accumulate similar in-depth experience
听音关键：large firms, take years, reach, accumulate, reach, in-depth experience
答案重构：In big companies, it will take a long time to reach that level and gain the same experience
画龙点睛：reach...level指“达到……水平”；accumulate similar in-depth experience意为“积累类似的资深经验”。
46. 标准答案：responsibilities may come faster in a small firm with less specialization and fewer lower-level employees to receive delegated authority
听音关键：responsibilities, faster, small firm, less specialization, fewer lower-level employees, delegated authority
答案重构：people takes more responsibilities in a small firm with less specialization and fewer lower-level employees to receive delegated authority
画龙点睛：此句也可以用具体的人作主语来改写。