section 1： listening test (30 minutes)
part a: spot dictation
directions: in this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. fill in each of the blanks with the words you have heard on the tape. write your answer in the corresponding space in your answer booklet. remember you will hear the passage only once.
good afternoon, everybody. i’m pleased to be here with you, graduate of 2007. i’m a career counselor and students often approach me with concerns about their future. you see, we are living in a society of GREat changes with the presence of advanced technology. the process of getting a job in today’s world has changed for the majority of the us population.
well, how can you use new technologies to help you? first, let’s look at how you find a job. the traditional method of hunting for a job in the past required first doing research on jobs that were available in your field, typically by looking in newspapers, periodicals and magazines, as well as tv ads and making phone calls to prospective employers. then you decided where and for what post you are going to apply. put your resume with a cover letter in a stamped envelope and waited anxiously for someone to get back to you.
well, today, maybe the job search and application process are very much the same but the tools used are much more advanced and they required more skills and expertise. in fact, technology has not so much changed the process as enhanced it. the benefit both for the employer and employee is that this makes the search more open to people of different social-economic background all over the world. but as more people are involved, it BEComes more competitive for the applicant than it ever was before.
the secret to preparing yourself for the working world today is learning these new and ever-changing tools and combining them with the older methods people have been using for years. for example, on the internet, you can search for employment not only in your own city but also in your state, in your country, and even other countries. you can copy information from a webpage and paste it into a microsoft word document that’s easy to access and edit at any time. in many ways, it’s easier now. just type your job application, click and send it through email. it gets there in an instant.
sd部分简要分析：
此次听写填空部分难度偏低，语速也比较慢，根据统计达到127wmp，较之考纲150wmp的要求还是有一些差距的，加之其主题比较简单，也是广大考生比较熟悉的工作场景（这一场景在我们东方的课堂上已经反复提及，并且作为重点要求大家掌握了），应该说是近年来比较容易的一篇文章。
显而易见，文中的说话人是一个职业咨询师（career counselor），专门为广大毕业生解决就业问题提供咨询。她首先比较了过去和现在找工作的不同之处，进而指出在现代社会中，找工作的过程需要更多的技术含量，使用到很多技术手段和方法。而这些技术本身与其说是改变了找工作的进程，不如说是提高了找工作的效率，透明度，当然，同时也使得就业竞争变得更为激烈。
