Survey on vacation jobs

题目与答案

1. | Vacation Job | Main advantage | Main disadvantage | Recommendation |

   | --- | --- | --- | --- |

   | Stocktaking | 11_____ | Tiring | 12..... |

   | Office work | Air-conditioning | 13..... | Choose a 14..... |

   | Theme park attendant | 15..... | Rude customers | 16..... |

   答案：travelling

   原文定位：The thing that students said they enjoyed most about this job was the travelling. They were often required to go to branches to do their stock takes, and this was regarded as an interesting plus

   同义替换：「Main advantage」↔「enjoyed most」

2. | Vacation Job | Main advantage | Main disadvantage | Recommendation |

   | --- | --- | --- | --- |

   | Stocktaking | 11..... | Tiring | 12_____ |

   | Office work | Air-conditioning | 13..... | Choose a 14..... |

   | Theme park attendant | 15..... | Rude customers | 16..... |

   答案：get good shoes

   原文定位：Now, one thing we did ask the students in our survey was whether they had any recommendations for other people taking on their job, and they said, perhaps not surprisingly, "Get good shoes. That's the only way you can keep going

3. | Vacation Job | Main advantage | Main disadvantage | Recommendation |

   | --- | --- | --- | --- |

   | Stocktaking | 11..... | Tiring | 12..... |

   | Office work | Air-conditioning | 13_____ | Choose a 14..... |

   | Theme park attendant | 15..... | Rude customers | 16..... |

   答案：wearing formal clothes

   原文定位：Lots of students named air conditioning as the best thing about office work. The downside, which many talked about, was wearing formal clothes

   同义替换：「Main disadvantage」↔「The downside」

4. | Vacation Job | Main advantage | Main disadvantage | Recommendation |

   | --- | --- | --- | --- |

   | Stocktaking | 11..... | Tiring | 12..... |

   | Office work | Air-conditioning | 13..... | Choose a 14_____ |

   | Theme park attendant | 15..... | Rude customers | 16..... |

   答案：large office

   原文定位：The advice most people gave was to select a large office. That way you have more variety of social contacts, otherwise the work can get very boring

   同义替换：「Recommendation」↔「The advice most people gave」，「Choose」↔「select」

5. | Vacation Job | Main advantage | Main disadvantage | Recommendation |

   | --- | --- | --- | --- |

   | Stocktaking | 11..... | Tiring | 12..... |

   | Office work | Air-conditioning | 13..... | Choose a 14..... |

   | Theme park attendant | 15_____ | Rude customers | 16..... |

   答案：good pay

   原文定位：The third job, which had attracted large numbers of students, was as a theme park attendant. And again, I got a surprise here because the big plus people talked about was good pay

   同义替换：「Main advantage」↔「the big plus」

6. | Vacation Job | Main advantage | Main disadvantage | Recommendation |

   | --- | --- | --- | --- |

   | Stocktaking | 11..... | Tiring | 12..... |

   | Office work | Air-conditioning | 13..... | Choose a 14..... |

   | Theme park attendant | 15..... | Rude customers | 16_____ |

   答案：live nearby

   原文定位：People said that it was a good idea to live nearby because there’s a lot of shift work, and you don’t have to worry about transport at difficult times of the day

   同义替换：「Recommendation」↔「a good idea」

7. 17 Peter learned about the job
   • from a college friend
   • on the computer
   • from a student job centre

   答案：on the computer

   原文定位：Peter Marshall had read about work opportunities on the zoo website and just went along with a friend to talk to someone in personnel

   同义替换：「learned about the job」↔「read about work opportunities」，「on the computer」↔「on the zoo website」

8. 18 Peter mainly enjoyed the job because it was
   • easy
   • challenging
   • unusal

   答案：unusal

   原文定位：In previous years, he'd done singularly unexciting shop work, so he was very pleased to be doing such original work

   同义替换：「mainly enjoyed the job」↔「very pleased to be doing」，「unusual」↔「original」

9. 19 The job's most interesting aspect was
   • learning about the environment
   • working with children
   • caring for the animals

   答案：working with children

   原文定位：He loved working on the educational side, in particular helping young kids understand about the animals in their natural environment. He said it was the most intriguing thing he'd ever done

   同义替换：「most interesting aspect」↔「the most intriguing thing」，「working with children」↔「helping young kids」

10. 20 Peter has decided that next vacation he
    • won't take a job
    • will work at the zoo
    • will work elsewhere

    答案：won't take a job

    原文定位：He tells us, though, that with final exams coming up, he won’t be able to do any paid work this coming vacation

    同义替换：「next」↔「this coming」，「job」↔「work」