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高级口译0509听力原文汇总合集（4）

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　　高级口译0509听力原文汇总合集（4）

　　Questions 11 to 15

　　W: How did you come be director of the Friend’s of the Earth? What’s your background?

　　M: I spent ten years of my life as a teacher. And it was during that time that I began to understand the importance of all of these issues, largely trying to sort of teach them through drama in the classroom by taking concerns about the third world into the costumed drama lessons, and stuff like that, and got more and more hooked on it myself. And then when this job came up, I thought I needed a bit of rest from teaching. Hasn’t been much of a rest, but it’s been teaching of a different kind.

　　W: Do you think what you did … I mean, the skills you picked up as a teacher have been useful in the job you do now?

　　M: Enormously useful. The only difference, really, between this job and being a teacher is that when I was a teacher, the audience was trapped and unable to get out of the classroom. These days at least people come along voluntarily to, to listen if you like, or to work with Friends of the Earth. But I think that some of the things I learned as a teacher, particularly in terms of the English department that I was part of , in terms of understanding, you know, what it is that’s likely to provide people with a sense of fulfillment and aspiration, and all the rest of it. Those things have been terribly important. And I suppose public speaking as well. You know, once you survive a classroom, you survive the kind of situation that allows you to go anywhere for the rest of your life and speak without hesitation.

　　W: That’s true. Yes. How about people’s reactions to you? I mean, environmentalism now is becoming very respectable and very, very popular. But to begin with, the environmentalists weren’t always popular. I remember one politician saying that environmentalists were woolly minds in woolly heads. Have people reacted very adversely to, to you?

　　M: Well, they used to at the start. It was interesting. I mean, well, not adversely, but rather humorously and contemptuously, eco-nut, kind of thing, and the fact that I used to turn up at school on my bike provided a certain amount of, you know, amusement for kids, who couldn’t understand why a teacher didn’t have a car. You know, was I a real human being? Since then, attitudes have changed enormously. And I think as you say, really, that kind of, sense of scoffing, joking, behind someone’s back about it, has disappeared almost entirely. You get now a sense of … that people want to listen, though they still might be skeptical. We haven’t by any means persuaded anybody that we really got the answers to things, yet. But there’s far less of that flippancy. I think now we’ve persuaded people we’ve got a serious message. They’re going to have to take it seriously. And to do so, we’ve had to change our own image. I’m horrified at the number of occasions when I have to put a tie on these days.

　　W: Yeah. Yes, I noticed that I haven’t see many suits and ties around the office. I mean, is there …

　　M: Aha, there is the hid-in-office-tie-cupboard.

　　W: How about your personal life? It must be very stressful, running a job like this. Do you find that it puts a great deal of strain on your private life?

　　M: It does a bit. I think you’ve just got to decide at the start of doing a job like this, that you’re going to give so many years of your life to it. And you accept that during that time, your private life is going to, say, take second place. And as long as you got someone who goes along with that, as it were. I mean, I got married last year. And it’s a bit tricky. But, you know, by and large, we kind of cobble together enough time outside work to make it bearable, but only just. But I don’t think it’s possible to go on doing this kind of job throughout one’s life, because it just takes too much out of you.

　　11. What job did the man have for ten years before he started his current position?

　　12. The man thinks the skills he learned at his previous job are enormously helpful for his current job. Which of the following is not one of these skills?

　　13. According to the man, how did people in general react to environmentalists in the past?

　　14. What specific thing does the man mention they do to change their own image?

　　15. Which of the following statements is not true about the man?

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