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听力文本如下:
She says, "I made sure that I followed through with the right departments, keeping my team informed of the progress."
To follow through means to finish what you have started.
This is, again, a positive quality that businesses are looking for-someone who will follow through on things, or, we may even say, someone who has "good follow through."
Using it as a noun, it means to be able to finish what you are starting, and in this example, she uses this as a piece of evidence-as a sample of her personal qualities.
"This is the type of work I enjoy," she says, "and that's why I applied for a position" in "your company."
Once again, she's connecting what she's done in the past with the company she's interviewing with right now.
She's showing them why she would be a good person for their company.
At the end of the interview answer, she says, "Your company is a leader in software development and is in the forefront of new ideas in the field."
Everybody likes compliments.
Everybody likes to know that they work for a good company, so it's very important in the interview to, at some time, say, "Well, I want to work for your company because you're a great company"-you're a good company.
You don't have to do this too much, but this is a good example of the person saying, "I want to work at your company because it's a good company."
She says, "Your company is a leader in software development and is in the forefront of new ideas."
The forefront, "forefront," means to be in the leading position-in first position-someone who is a leader in their area.
She says, "that the products" the "company has developed have been outstanding"-they've been excellent-"and are the best" in "the market.
I want to work in a company where I can be challenged and where I can make a contribution."
Here is the reason why she wants to work in this company.
She says they're a good company, and she wants to work in a company she "can be challenged."
To be challenged means that someone gives you a problem that you can solve.
Someone gives you something difficult or interesting to do, that's a challenge.