高级听力 Unit 6 Part 2 & 3

两则面试，一则是策展会议面试，一则是宇航员面试。

At a Job Interview

M: Hello. My name is Hudson. Dick Hudson.

F: I’m Pamela Gable.

M: Well, take a seat, please. Miss Gable, it is Miss, isn’t it? Well, let me just check that I’ve got these particular rights. Your surname is Gable, spelt G-A-B-L-E, and your first names are Pamela Ann, fine. You live at 147 Collingdon Road, Croydon. Your telephone number is 2468008. You were born on July the 18th 1975, and, that’s about it. OK? Fine, let’s see. What are you working with at the moment?

F: I'm personal assistant to the manager of a modeling agency.

M: Oh, really? And what does that involves?

F: A bit of everything, really. I have to keep the accounts, write a few letters, answer thee telephone, and that sort of thing.

M: You work with people a lot, do you?

F: Oh, yes I have to look after all the models who work for us, you know, keep them happy, lend an understanding ear to their heartache, you know.

M: Have you ever had anything to do with hotels or conferences, hotel management, for instance?

F: No, not really. I did work for a short time as a courier for a tour operator, taking foreigners on guided tours of London. Perhaps that’s the sort of thing you mean?

M: Yes I think it is. Do you speak any languages?

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Astronaut Wanted: No Experience

M：Ms. Sharman, we all know that you have a place in history as Britain's first astronaut. I don't think any of us has any plans to follow you into the space, but we certainly want to know how you set about getting yourself into orbit.

F: I was driving my car home from work. I was trying to listen to some music really. I was just flicking through some radio stations finding some light music. And the advert went: Astronaut wanted, no experience necessary. And then went on to describe that the Russians had offered opportunity to somebody from the United Kingdom to train and then to blast off on one of their rockets and to do experiments in space. I thought “Wow! Yes! This is really something I really want to do!” Because I had never thought about being an astronaut before that. I mean nobody tells you at school that if you studies sciences and keep up with your languages then maybe one day you can be an astronaut.

M: It was an immediate decision in fact, isn’t it?

F: Absolutely. I mean I was. I did chemistry at university. I’d been an engineer and then a technologist and I enjoyed my job very much. I’d never thought about being an astronaut. There was never the opportunity for anybody from this country to be an astronaut. Now maybe if I’d grown up in Russia or America, maybe that would have been an ambition, but there was no chance as far as I was concerned when I was a child.

M: You had some of the right qualifications they’d been looking for, though.

F: They wanted a scientist of technologist, primarily, and the job was to do experiments in space. I mean that was the prime job. And of course the training and the launch and the weightlessness and looking back at the earth, all of those things are extras. The actual job was to do experiments in space, so we had to be scientists.

M: Also it had to be someone who was extremely fit even before you went through their programme. I mean, were you a sportswoman?

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