首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What is special about Mr. Phelps’s degree?
What is special about Mr. Phelps’s degree?
admin
2013-08-05
57
问题
What is special about Mr. Phelps’s degree?
W: Mr. Phelps. I’m Margaret Smith. Please sit down.
M: Thank you. Good afternoon Mrs. Smith.
W: Well now Mr. Phelps—for a start—and just to set the ball rolling—can I check that you’re applying for the post of Management trainee? And that you’re graduating in integrated Business Studies? Tell me, why integrated? Is there something special about this degree?
M: Yes, in a way there is. The subjects in the program, Finance, Marketing, and Banking, and so on, are taught as aspects of a single study that of Business, rather than as separate disciplines which the student has to relate to each other as best he can. I chose it for that reason.
W: And what advantage do you think it has over a more conventional course of study?
M: I think it’s more coherent and more motivating. Everything we have done, including the study of Economics which can easily seem rather dry and remote, is related to one or more of the sorts of careers that we plan to take up.
W: And what makes you apply for this training position Mr. Phelps?
M: I want to work for one of the premier banks of the world. And I want the training opportunities offered by Citibank.
W: You see long term opportunities as more important than the immediate salary, do you?
M: Yes, I do. And my family agrees with me—and that’s generous of them. I’m looking two or three years ahead.
W: Tell us a bit more about these extra-curricular activities of yours. What exactly did you do when you organized this—what is it now? Orientation camp?
M: Well It wasn’t a camp under canvas with singsongs round a campfire of course! We had a number of students who were going to join us in September living on campus during August, and we tried to give them experience of some features of university life that might be unfamiliar and rather alarming. Not academic classes and lectures, but living together, and making friends and taking part in some outside activities, but not too many. And we tried to show them what we had learned about how to organize work, so as to do justice to a range of different subjects. And to let them know the points at which they needed to make choices. And to know that we students in the year senior to them, were friendly and really wanted them to do well.
W: Sounds good. That kind of responsibility can be mtimidating if you are dropped into it without any sort of assistance, especially if you are the first member of your family to get into university.
M: Yes, indeed it can. That was what happened to me. My parents were entirely supportive, but they simply had no idea what the experience of university study was like. It took me several months to find my feet. That’s why I was keen to get involved in the orientation project.
W: So what do you get out of your involvement?
M: As I said, I learned how to identify the problems, and to talk about them in terms that newcomers to the university could understand—or at least, I got to be much better at it! It’s actually quite a difficult thing to do.
W: Can you tell me, in just a sentence or two, how you see a career in Management?
M: Essentially I see Management as an activity that involves problem solving, and communication. A manager identifies and resolves increasingly complex and significant problems as his career develops and he has to communicate adequately the solutions he finds. He has to be able to find a suitable form of words to communicate to his superiors, his colleagues, and increasingly as he gains experience, with the people junior to him.
W: Yes, I’d agree with you there. And you imply, Mr. Phelps, that he has to be a team worker. Yet you claim that you can work independently. Can you reconcile these two claims?
M: I think so. I don’t see them as contradictory when I say that I can work independently I mean that I’m a self-starter. If I see that something needs doing I like to check first that it does fall within my terms of reference, and then to get on with it. Of course you have to be careful that you don’t tread on someone else’s patch if you do that. I’m afraid I’ve learnt that the hard way.
W: Mr. Phelps, have you any questions for us?
M: Do you think there may be opportunities in future for today’s recruits to work—for a time—elsewhere than Hong Kong? I’m very keen to see something more of South East Asia and I’m especially interested in the possibility of Japan.
W: I think the future prospects for people joining us now are very good indeed. Anything further Mr. Phelps?
M: No, thank you. And thanks for the opportunity of the interview. I do hope I’ll hear further from you.
W: Well. We usually expect to be in touch with successful applicants within a week. Thank you for coming in. It’s been good to talk to you.
选项
A、Having fun around a campfire in open air.
B、Helping freshmen adapt to college life.
C、Welcoming newcomers at the school gate.
D、Offering optional courses free of charge.
答案
B
解析
从Phelps的回答可知,Orientation Camp这个活动的内容主要是在暑假8月份左右时老生与新生分享大学生活经验、消除他们对新生活的陌生感,因此B正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/v74O777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
______studiesthetotalstockofmorphemesofalanguage,especiallythoseitemswhichhaveclearsemanticreferences.
AftersomanyyearsofstudyingEnglish,youmaystillgetconfusedlikeyoufirstcomeherejustbecauseoftheslangthestude
ThesymbolmarkingthedeclinationoftheBritishEmpireis
Materialculturereferstothetouchable,material"things"--physicalobjectsthatcanbeseen,held,felt,used--thataculture
TessoftheD’urbervilleswaswrittenby______.
American’slifehasonceagainbeengreatlychangedbythenewageofscienceandtechnologysincetheSecondWorldWar.Everyth
TheOldManandtheSeaiswrittenby______.
TheCanterburyTaleswaswrittenby______.
TheBritishrecordedhistorybeginswith______.
“人们的生活越来越富裕,但却远不如以前那样快乐了”,这个现象似乎早已成为现代生活永恒的矛盾之一。一个可能的答案就潜藏在我们的心理因素中,即如何才能够满足。我们对于地位、财富的需求从来都不是孤立定位的,而是在参照组——通常是那我们自认为与其地位相当的人——比
随机试题
下列关于我国法律制定的表述,正确的是
默认情况下,在Windows7的“回收站”中,可以临时存放()。
患儿2岁,因不会说话、不能独立行走而就诊,经常患肺炎,体温37.7℃,脉搏110次/分,双眼距宽,双眼外侧上斜,耳廓小,鼻梁低,四肢短,肌张力低下,双手第5指只有一条褶纹,胸骨左缘3-4肋间Ⅲ级收缩杂音,腕部X线片是一个骨化中心。该患儿最可能的诊断是
患者,男性,48岁。胃镜活检病理为胃窦中分化腺癌,腹部增强CT未见肝转移结节,行胃癌根治术。术后病理回报:肿瘤3cm×4cm,侵犯全层,切缘未见肿瘤侵犯,周围淋巴结4/24。其TNM分期为
生殖能力最旺盛期是( )。
甲是该合伙企业的合伙事务执行人,其行为符合法律规定的有:()
下列哪种光源的显色指数为最大?
有游客对于我国进行蓄意污蔑和故意挑衅,导游应立场坚定、观点鲜明、有理有据地予以驳斥。()
已知A是3阶的实对称矩阵,α1=(1,-1,-1)T,α2=(-2,1,0)T是齐次线性方程组Ax=0的解,又(A-6E)α=0,α≠0.用正交变换x=Py化二次型xTAx为标准形,并写出所用的正交变换;
•Readthetextbelowaboutopinionsonethicsandmissionstatements.•Inmostofthelines(34-45)thereisoneextraword
最新回复
(
0
)