Section B: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once.
第二节:在本节中,你将听到两段长对话。每段对话只读一遍。
At the end of each conversation, there will be a one-minute pause.
每段对话后有1分钟的停顿。
During the pause, read the questions and mark your answers on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
在停顿期间,阅读问题并在答题纸上用一条线标出答案,线划在字母的中间。
Conversation One
对话一
Listen to the conversation, and mark each statement as either true(T)or false(F)according to your listening.
听对话,根据对话内容判断所给句子的正误,正确的标T,错误的标F。
While most high schools focus on preparing students for college, businesses in one community outside Chicago are rallying around a different approach, preparing students for work.
虽然大多数高中都把重点放在让学生做好上大学的准备上,但芝加哥郊外一个社区的企业却团结一致采取一种不同的方式,让学生为工作做好准备。
We have Pat Hayes with us tonight to share with us her opinion. Welcome!
今晚我们请到了帕特·海耶斯来与我们分享她的观点。欢迎!
Thanks. I’m really glad to be here.
谢谢。我真的很高兴来到这里。
I’m founder of a local company, Fabric Images, a textile printer.
我是当地一家纺织印刷公司Fabric Images的创始人。
Filling 150 positions here the usual way, relying on diplomas and GPAs, left me frustrated.
在这里,像往常一样依靠文凭和平均绩点填补150个职位让我感到沮丧。
Why is that?
为什么呢?
What does an A mean to an employer today?
对于如今的雇主来说,成绩是A意味着什么?
Nothing.
没什么。
Where did you go to school?
你在哪里上的学?
What level of course?
什么水平的课程?
Was it accelerated?
加速了吗?
Was it a college prep course?
是大学预科课程吗?
I don’t know.
我不知道。
So your job-readiness test called WorkKeys aims to get a better read on an applicant’s skill level.
你的就业准备测试叫做WorkKeys,旨在更好地了解应聘者的技能水平。
That’s right. WorkKeys is an assessment about what you have accomplished in math, in reading and locating for information.
没错。WorkKeys是对你在数学、阅读和查找信息方面的成绩的评估。
Those three characteristics are in about, I don’t know, 98 percent of the jobs at some level.
在某种程度上,98%的工作都有这三个特点。
Tell us more, please.
请向我们介绍更多信息。
More specifically, WorkKeys uses actual workplace scenarios to measure how well individuals can decipher charts, graphs and other visual information, convert ratios, measurements, and make calculations across a variety of situations, and effectively comprehend memos, instructions and other authentic workplace documents.
更具体地说,WorkKeys使用真实的工作场景来衡量个人在各种情况下破译图表、图形等视觉信息,转换比率、测量和计算以及有效地理解备忘录、指示等真实的工作场所文档的能力。
Can every job that you have be profiled based on these core skills?
你做的每一份工作都可以根据这些核心技能进行概述吗?
Sure. And for the first time, I saw a commonality of what an individual had and what I needed, and I could start putting the two things together.
当然。第一次,我看到了个人拥有的东西和我需要的东西的共性,我能开始把两者联系起来。
Then how well does it work?
那么它的效果如何呢?
Though it hasn’t been evaluated by independent research, my company testimonials describe sharp declines in employee turnover and training costs.
虽然还没有经过独立研究的评估,但我公司的证明信描述了员工流动率和培训成本的大幅下降。