Self-Study and Exam
Practice of Unit 5
English Department, Huzhou Teachers College
Objectives
1) To enable students to talk about recruitment.
2) To practise text level reading skills.
3) To practise a collaborative speaking test.
Tasks and Schemes
1. Exercises (self-study a&b)
2. Exam practice
 Self-study 5a:
1. Find out the extra words in lines
1 – 12.
1) In line 5 there is no objective of
reference.
2) In line 12, it is unnecessary to add
definite article because the later
expression is plural form.
2. Fill in suitable words and then
translate them.
1) We pay competitive salaries because we
don’t want our people to feel unappreciated
and undervalued.
 公司实行竞争性工资，因为我们不想让
员工觉得不受赏识，个人价值被低估。
2) Some managers are incapable of
understanding that an employee’s goals
might not be the company’s.
 一些经理并不明白，员工的目标不一定
是公司目标。
3) You can motivate workers by ensuring
that they always have interesting and
varied work.
 通过保证员工不断从事有趣、内容多
变的工作，可以起到激励员工的作用。
4) I find it a lot easier when I’m working
towards specific objectives and goals.
 一旦有了确切具体的目标，我觉得工
作起来会容易得多。
5) Progress meetings tend to be
spontaneous and held at pretty irregular
intervals.
 工作进展会议往往不定期随机召开。
6) Any motivational technique will be
ineffective if the employees are
determined not to enjoy their work.
 一旦员工铁定了心不喜欢自己的工作，
任何激励的方法都无能为力。
7) All the way through the negotiations both
sides remained inflexible on the issue of
longer hours.
 在整个谈判过程当中，双方在加班问
题上各执己见，毫无回旋余地。
8) Management dismissed the union’s
behavior as irresponsible and
unreasonable.
 管理层把工会行为视作不负责任和无
理要求草草处理。
3. Match the verbs with a similar
meaning.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
Remain / stay honest
Restore / repair a clock
Schedule / pan a campaign
Appreciate / value employee’s work
Sever / cut the connection
Rename / rebrand the project
Address / deal with the problem
Quit / resign one’s job
4. Fill in suitable preposition and translate
each sentence.
1) I prefer working on big projects because
I like to have something to get my teeth
into.
 我更愿意搞大项目，因为我喜欢做能
让我专注其间的事。
2) A lot of the problem stems from a
personality clash between Helen and her
line manager.
 由于海伦与直属经理个性不和，导致
了许多问题的发生。
3) Attitudes
toward
motivational
techniques vary substantially within
the workforce.
 工人对激励方法的态度差别很大。
4) In terms of pay and conditions, I
don’t think we are falling behind our
competitors.
 说到报酬和工作条件，我觉得我们
并不比别家公司差
5) There’s a lack of promotion
opportunities.
 缺少晋升机会。
6) Not working overtime is often seen
as a failure to show commitment to
the company.
 不加班常常被认为是是公司缺乏
奉献精神的表现。
 Self-study 5b
1.
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2.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
Put the steps into the correct order:
4-2-3-5-7-1-6
Match the words and do translation
Recruitment agency招聘代理公司
Extension number分机号
Future reference将来查询，备用
Executive search 猎头
Neutral location中间地带
Key player核心参与者、主要商家、关键角色
Sensitive information敏感信息、机密
Skills shortage技术人员短缺
3. Fill in suitable propositions and translate
them.
1) Headhunting is on the increase as
advertising becomes less and less costeffective.
 随着广告招聘越来越难以获得成本效
益，猎头活动不断增加。
2) Headhunters are able to target people who
are not actually on the job market.
 猎头有办法猎取并未真正进入劳动力
市场的人士。
3) A headhunter will always make a careful
note of names for future reference.
 猎头总是仔细记下名字，以备日后查询。
4) Recruitment in the UK is divided into
agency recruitment, advertising or
executive search.
 在英国，人员招聘方式有代理招聘、广
告招聘和猎头等多种形式。
5) Headhunters can offer companies access to
commercially sensitive information.
 猎头公司可以为公司提供商业机密。
6) Executive search firms monitor Internet
forums, noting any interesting names they
come across.
 猎头公司主持网上论坛，对他们碰见的任
何有趣人物都会记录在案。
7) The headhunter assists in the offer process.
 猎头会协助整个开价过程。
8) You don’t need to be fed up with your
job to be susceptible to an approach from
a headhunter.
 猎头手段高明，你无需讨厌自己的工
作，也会被他们说得动心。
9) A brilliant contribution to an Internet
forum could possibly attract the attention
of a headhunter.
 一篇投给因特网论坛的出色稿件便可
能引起猎头的注意。
4. Match the words and translate them:
1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

Fill a vacancy
填补空职位
Present findings
提交调查结果
Shortlist candidates
对应聘者进行初选
Pay a retainer
付订金
Conduct business
经商
Compile a list
整理出一份名单

Exam practice
I.
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1)
Reading test part one:
To make up for; balance补偿
Difficult points:
This company will sell off assets to offset poor financial
results.
In a series of downsizing measures ——using severaldelayed
ways
of redundancy. (A)
The proposed joint venture with DTR International, one of
Taler Chemicals’ main competitors, is likely to shelved. (A)
The company, whose flagship training centre in Copenhagen
is currently being modernized and refurnished, made an
interim profit of $12m, compared with $23m in 1998. (C)
Shake-up at BTED. (D)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
The announcement follows confirmation that the company has
also decided to postpone the planned upgrading of haulage
systems at its Stockholm subsidiary.
The business of carrying
goods by road 搬运
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1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
Match the sentence with the suitable passage.
B
C
E
A
D
C
B
E
II. Fill in the suitable word in each blank.

Relevant explanation
Corporate hospitality: to offer some strategies for companies
to communicate with others better.企业攻关
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1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
The answers
Which
Unlike
However
Only
Each
A
Such
Both / each
One
Than
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