?You will hear five short recordings. Each speaker is reporting on a training course they have attended.
?For each recording, decide what training course each speaker has attended.
?Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording.
?Do not use any letter more than once.
?After you have listened once, replay the recordinqs.
A.financial planning
B.stress management
C.marketing strategies
D.negotiation skills
E.time management
F.computer skills
G.presentation skills
H.team-building
听力原文: One of ray main goals in this survey course of American painting and architecture is to train you to see. I want you to increase your stock of visual experiences by using the slide library at least five hours a week. The library, which is maintained by the Art History Department, is located in the basement of the Art Center, and is open seven days a week.
By the end of this course, I expect you to be able to identify two thousand slides of various American works of art. Slide identification questions will appear on the weekly exam and the final. During each of the ten weeks of this course, I will show a set of two hundred slides during my lectures. You should plan on looking at each set twice in the slide library, once before the week's lectures end one after. This pattern of three exposures will improve your visual memory. Please do not remove the slides from the slide library. Doing so is a cause for dismissal from the course.
Although becoming familiar with two thousand slides may sound difficult, experience has shown me that this is the beast way to increase the visual abilities of students such as yourselves, who have never taken an art history course before.
(33)
A.The material to be tested that day.
B.The history of the slide library.
C.The use of slides in the course.
D.The outline of the course.
Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.
A.If
B.one
C.you
D.to succeed
A. ”
B.post hoc
C.guilt by association
D.oversimplification
E.begging the question
A.People working in a large factory.
B.People walking on crowded city streets.
C.An everyday activity in a small town.
D.A well-known historical event.
A、hasty generalization
B、post hoc
C、guilt by association
D、oversimplification
听力原文: New product introductions are healthy for the industry. They generate excitement in the marketplace and sales in your store. Many of your customers are anxious to learn about what's new. By having just what they've been looking for, the company can increase the bottom line while simultaneously meeting the end user's insatiable need for more, better, and faster.
At a recent industry convention, I heard a question, "How de we compete with other companies?" My reply is this: stay focused. Identify your advantage over them and maximize its potential. When new products come to market, the company becomes more than a place to buy power tools. You become a problem solver for the customer. This is a huge advantage over the other companies.
Many new products are more technical in nature. Therefore, they require salesmanship. The only way to get them into the hands of the people for whom they were designed is to take them directly to the job site and demonstrate them. This is one area where companies can sharpen their competitive edge.
Your customers are able to discern the difference between makeshift solutions and application-specific products. By focusing on their needs, industrial companies can offer the right solution for demanding jobs.
These solutions are coupled with the necessary product knowledge to educate the customer about u sing the product. This factor distinguishes your business from all of the others. Your customers aren't only buying a power tool from you--they're purchasing a value-added service that helps them become more profitable in their business.
With that in mind, let me turn the question a- round and ask, "How can other companies compete with the value-added service that you offer to customers?"
The answer is simple: They cannot if you focus on the aspects that distinguish the company. While the face of the tool industry is changing, there is one constant that will continue to direct its path: the end user's need for increased productivity. Companies are poised to sharpen their competitive edge by offering solutions to the highly specific needs of the professional.
•You will hear a talk presented by a reporter, about new product introduction.
•For each question 23-30 mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
•After you have listened once, replay the recording.
The satisfaction of customers' desire for new products is______.
A.exciting
B.endless
C.upsetting