(单词翻译:单击)
Section C
C部分
In this section, you will hear a monologue.
下面你将听到1段独白。
The monologue will be read twice.
该独白会读2遍。
After the monologue, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, read the questions and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听完独白后，你有一分钟的时间来阅读问题及A、B、C、D四个选项，并从中选出最佳答案。
Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
然后在答题卡上相应的字母中心划一条横线。
I’m Mark. Most students in America take part-time jobs to help to pay for their studies.
我是马克。大多数美国学生做兼职是为了支付学费。
I didn’t plan to do this because I don’t enjoy working for other people.
我不打算这么做，因为我不喜欢为别人工作。
I started my own company, CyberEdit, when I was 19.
19岁的时候，我创办了自己的公司CyberEdit。
Most students have to write essays, and I aimed to provide computer editing services for them.
大多数学生都要写论文，我的目标是为他们提供计算机编辑服务。
During one summer vacation, I worked for an Internet company and in the evening, I spent another four hours working on my website.
在一个暑假期间，我在一家互联网公司工作，晚上，我又花了四个小时在我的网站上。
After that summer, my company grew by about 400%, earning me $40, 000 in the first year.
在那个夏天之后，我的公司增长了大约400%，第一年就为我赚了4万美元。
It’s not easy to develop a business.
发展一家企业并非易事。
If you hope to be financially independent, you must do something while you are young and you can work long hours.
如果你希望在经济上独立，你必须趁着年轻能长时间工作的时候做点什么。
For a long time, I was editing between five and ten documents a night.
在很长一段时间里，我每晚都在编辑5到10个文件。
I spent fifty hours a week doing this. It was hard.
我每周花50个小时做这件事。这很艰难。
Then I hired my first four employees.
然后我雇佣了第一批员工，共4名。
The next year, I turned down a summer job at a big New York investment bank and spent the vacation expanding CyberEdit.
第二年，我拒绝了纽约一家大型投资银行的暑期工作，整个假期都在扩张CyberEdit。
In December, Wired magazine contacted me and asked me to write an article about my life.
12月，《连线》杂志联系了我，让我写一篇关于我生活的文章。
After the article appeared in March, interested investors began emailing me.
这篇文章在3月份发表后，感兴趣的投资者开始给我发电子邮件。
In June, one of the people who had emailed me decided to invest a large sum of money in the company.
6月，给我发电子邮件的其中一个人决定向我的公司投资一大笔钱。
So...the Wired article brought me over a million dollars in funding!
所以……《连线》的文章为我带来了100多万美元的资金！
More than anything else, good publicity helps a new business attract investors and customers.
最重要的是，良好的知名度有助于新企业吸引投资者和客户。
A successful teenage entrepreneur is an interesting story, so getting publicity and funding for the business was easier because of my age.
一个成功的青少年创业者是一个有趣的故事，所以多亏我的年龄，为企业获得宣传和资金更容易。
Investors came to me, not because I was making money and employing fifty people from college, but because they read about it in Wired magazine, and saw it on ABC World News Tonight.
投资者来找我，不是因为我赚钱并雇佣了50名大学毕业生，而是因为他们在《连线》杂志上读到了这件事，并在《ABC今夜世界新闻》中看到了这件事。
My advice to young people who consider starting a company is always the same： Do it now!
我给那些考虑创业的年轻人的建议总是一样的：现在就行动！
Don’t delay starting it until you’ve finished school or had some “real world experience”.
不要等到你完成学业或有了一些“真实的世界经验”后才开始。
I’m Mark. Most students in America take part-time jobs to help to pay for their studies.
我是马克。大多数美国学生做兼职是为了支付学费。
I didn’t plan to do this because I don’t enjoy working for other people.
我不打算这么做，因为我不喜欢为别人工作。
I started my own company, CyberEdit, when I was 19.
19岁的时候，我创办了自己的公司CyberEdit。
Most students have to write essays, and I aimed to provide computer editing services for them.
大多数学生都要写论文，我的目标是为他们提供计算机编辑服务。
During one summer vacation, I worked for an Internet company and in the evening, I spent another four hours working on my website.
在一个暑假期间，我在一家互联网公司工作，晚上，我又花了四个小时在我的网站上。
After that summer, my company grew by about 400%, earning me $40, 000 in the first year.
在那个夏天之后，我的公司增长了大约400%，第一年就为我赚了4万美元。
It’s not easy to develop a business.
发展一家企业并非易事。
If you hope to be financially independent, you must do something while you are young and you can work long hours.
如果你希望在经济上独立，你必须趁着年轻能长时间工作的时候做点什么。
For a long time, I was editing between five and ten documents a night.
在很长一段时间里，我每晚都在编辑5到10个文件。
I spent fifty hours a week doing this. It was hard.
我每周花50个小时做这件事。这很艰难。
Then I hired my first four employees.
然后我雇佣了第一批员工，共4名。
The next year, I turned down a summer job at a big New York investment bank and spent the vacation expanding CyberEdit.
第二年，我拒绝了纽约一家大型投资银行的暑期工作，整个假期都在扩张CyberEdit。
In December, Wired magazine contacted me and asked me to write an article about my life.
12月，《连线》杂志联系了我，让我写一篇关于我生活的文章。
After the article appeared in March, interested investors began emailing me.
这篇文章在3月份发表后，感兴趣的投资者开始给我发电子邮件。
In June, one of the people who had emailed me decided to invest a large sum of money in the company.
6月，给我发电子邮件的其中一个人决定向我的公司投资一大笔钱。
So...the Wired article brought me over a million dollars in funding!
所以……《连线》的文章为我带来了100多万美元的资金！
More than anything else, good publicity helps a new business attract investors and customers.
最重要的是，良好的知名度有助于新企业吸引投资者和客户。
A successful teenage entrepreneur is an interesting story, so getting publicity and funding for the business was easier because of my age.
一个成功的青少年创业者是一个有趣的故事，所以多亏我的年龄，为企业获得宣传和资金更容易。
Investors came to me, not because I was making money and employing fifty people from college, but because they read about it in Wired magazine, and saw it on ABC World News Tonight.
投资者来找我，不是因为我赚钱并雇佣了50名大学毕业生，而是因为他们在《连线》杂志上读到了这件事，并在《ABC今夜世界新闻》中看到了这件事。
My advice to young people who consider starting a company is always the same： Do it now!
我给那些考虑创业的年轻人的建议总是一样的：现在就行动！
Don’t delay starting it until you’ve finished school or had some “real world experience”.
不要等到你完成学业或有了一些“真实的世界经验”后才开始。
