我正在为我在某大学教的商务英语课出期末试卷。这是我在永远离开中国前的最后一项任务。哎哟，这考卷我出得真是开心啊:) [美国媒体]

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Section B: Business talk.
You will hear an interview. Listen and choose the best answer to each question. Then transfer the letter A B or C of your answer to your answer sheet. You will listen to it ONLY ONCE.

B小节：商务对话

13. What happened in 2000?
A. The Lakers won the World Series
B. The dot-com bubble burst
C. All of the cats in Italy walked to Greece

13.2000年发生了什么事情？
A.湖人队赢得总冠军
B.互联网泡沫破裂
C.意大利所有的猫都向希腊走去

14. What was wrong with the Internet companies?
A. They didn't have well thought-out business plans
B. They sold only the left shoe never the right
C. They failed to put conversheets on their TPS reports

14.互联网公司出什么问题了？
A.他们没有深思熟虑的商业计划
B.他们只卖左脚的鞋，而不卖右脚的
C.他们没给其TPS报告贴上透明的塑料薄膜保护层

15. Why was the market not ready for Internet shopping in 2000?
A. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
B. President Bush blocked Google and Facebook while he was president
C. Most people in 2000 did not have broadband Internet connections

15.为什么2000年的市场还没有为网上购物做好准备？
A.当你可以免费得到牛奶时，为什么要花钱买母牛呢
B.布什在担任总统期间封锁了谷歌和脸书
C.2000年大多数人都没有宽带互联网

16. What was the positive effect of the dot-com bubble brusting?
A. A gentleman never tells even when the internet is involved
B. It weeded out some of the weaker companies
C. It created a massive typhton. Dogs and cats slept together. Mass hysteria.

16.互联网泡沫破裂的积极影响是什么？
A.即使在网络上，绅士也从来不说话
B.它淘汰了一些较弱的公司
C.它引起了一场大台风。猫狗啥人都抱团取暖。集体癔症。

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–]Xupc 32 指标 17小时前 
You should take your job seriously. Putting crap in the exam without any proper regard for learning outcomes etc and make the whole process a joke is a horrible thing to do no matter how crappy your work or the University is. I feel bad for your students.

你应该要认真对待你的工作。在试卷中写一堆废话，一点都不尊重学生的学习成果，无论你的工作或大学多么糟糕，把整个过程当做一个玩笑是一件可怕的事情。我为你的学生感到难过。

[–]PristinePlankton 4 指标 10小时前 
OP is a foreign expert. He knows what he's doing.

贴主是一个外国专家。他知道自己在做什么。

[–]smasbut 2 指标 5小时前 
Foreign teachers aren’t allowed to fail students so why not make the exam a joke?

外国老师不允许当掉学生，所以为什么不能把考试当做一个笑话？

[–]HotWaterComrade 1 指标 5小时前 
Because then you are not a teacher. You are just a joke. People like him are the reason why educator is almost a derogatory term for foreigners.

因为这样你就不是一个老师。你就是个笑话。像他这样的人就是为什么对外国人来说教育家是一个贬义词的原因。

[–]smasbut 3 指标 4小时前 
The reason foreign teachers are treated like a joke in China is because the majority of them are just hired to be white faces not legitimate educators.... There are no hiring standards beyond a degree and in a lot of training centres it’s pretty much impossible to get fired if you show up on time and not too hungover....

外国教师在中国被当作笑话对待的原因是因为他们中的大多数人只是因为其白人面孔而被雇佣，而不是作为合法的教育工作者被雇佣...没有超过学位以上的招聘标准，在很多培训中心，如果你能准时到场且不常宿醉，你是几乎不可能被解雇的。

OP actually looks like he put more effort into this test than many ‘teachers’ would and actually used correct grammar unlike many of the ‘educators’ I’ve seen here.

实际上，贴主似乎比许多“老师”投入了更多的精力，并且使用了正确的语法，不像我在这里看到的许多‘教育工作者’那样（语法错误频出）。

[–]InfinitySparks 1 指标 16小时前 
You realize this is a listening comprehension test right? It's not like this is just completely random.

你知道这是听力测试对吧？这不是完全随机的。

[–]interbang[S] -9 指标 16 小时前 
It does say “you will hear an interview” but idk maybe he just read the funny bits :-)

它的确写着“你会听到一段对话”，但我不知道，也许他只是读其中一些有趣的部分:-)

[–]parkyuman 7 指标 16 小时前 
Was there really something about Italian cats walking to Greece in the interview? I know you put some obvious wrong answers but they just seems completely off topic. I would write something at least kind of related.

对话里真的有关于意大利的猫走到希腊的故事吗？我知道你在题目里放了一些明显错误的选项，但它们看起来完全离题。我的话至少会写些与主题有关的东西。

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[–]interbang[S] 0 指标 16 小时前 
The answers are deliberately off topic. It’s a very easy exam.

答案是故意偏离话题的。这是个很容易的考试。

[–]Broomerang13 5 指标 16 小时前 
The sad part is you will probably still have at least one student do bad on it.

可悲的是，你可能仍然会有至少一个学生不及格。

[–]Xupc 5 指标 6 小时前 
No. The sad part is that he still thinks that this is appropriate.

不。可悲的是，他仍然认为这（外国老师不被允许有不及格的学生）是合理的。

[–]interbang[S] 2 指标 4 小时前* 
The sad part is you have no sense of humor...
Dai e' uno scherzo...

可悲的是你毫无幽默感...哥们，这是一个笑话...

[–]Broomerang13 2 指标 6 小时前 
This isn’t the whole test. If the whole thing was like this I would agree with you but he isn’t showing the whole thing. Just about every semester when I was in Uni at least one of my professors would have a joke question or two on the final. We also don’t know the level of his students which in turn could mean this is actually really hard for them. It’s an elective class but also semi mandatory so without knowing more information it is what it is.

这不是整张试卷的内容，如果整张试卷都是这样的话，我会同意你的观点，但他并没有展示整张试卷的内容。我上大学时几乎每学期，至少有一位教授会在期末考试中出一两个玩笑问题。我们也不知道他学生的水平，而这可能反过来说明这对学生他们来说真的很难。这是选修课，但也是半必修课，所以在不知道更多信息的情况下，它就是这个样子。

[–]interbang[S] 2 指标 3 小时前 
And to further make a fairly funny joke unfunny and boring this test is not a big part of their grade. Most of their course grade is on their speaking test which is a mock business meeting where I observe them solving a business problem together (like raising profits for a car company etc) and then I give a grade for each student based on pronunciation fluency grammar and diction. This "listening test" is just a pain in the ass part of the course that they all have to do. I was told by the department that it's not important and I should make it "short and easy".

而且，这还让一个相当有趣的笑话变得不好笑和无聊了，这个试题在他们的分数占比中也不大。他们的大部分课程成绩评分都在其口语测试上，那是一个模拟商务会议，我评比他们一起解决一个商业问题（比如为一家汽车公司提高利润等），然后根据发音、口语流利程度、语法和用词给每个学生打分。这个“听力测试”只是他们都必须做的课程中的一个讨厌的事情。学习部门告诉我，这个部分的测试不重要，我应该把它出得“简短容易”。

Also since some of you made this so serious: this test is also deliberately easy because it's a good way for me to see which students are paying attention. If a student is just marking random answers this is a great way to suss that out.

另外，由于你们中的一些人把这件事搞得很严肃：这个试卷是有意简单化，因为这对我来说是一个很好的观察哪些学生有在认真听课答题的方式。如果一个学生只是随机乱选答案，这是证明解决这一点的好方法。

I'm also hoping for giggles. A lot of time you can suss out the more advanced students who are shy about speaking by telling jokes.
They also know ahead of time that it will be easy and they know to put more time and energy into preparing for the speaking test.

我也希望你能咯咯笑。很多时候，你可以通过讲笑话来找出那些羞于说话的优等生。学生他们也被提前告知这听力测试将会很容易，他们知道要投入更多的时间和精力为口语考试做准备。

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[–]ting_bu_dongUnited States 8 指标 12小时前 
What happened in 1989?
A) No thing
B) Nothings
C) Nothing

1989年发生了什么事？
A）没个事
B）什事也没发生
C）没发生什么事
（译注：A）no thing错误用法，其中应加不定冠词“a”；B）nothings错误用法，nothing是不定代词，无单复数之分，C）为正确用法，此回复指在讽刺中国人的英语语法问题）

[–]interbang[S] 3 指标 12小时前 
17.What does Wendy Taylor need to do to correct the mistake?
She has to check the original purchase order and issue a new invoice
She doesn’t need no education. She doesn’t need no thought control

17.温迪·泰勒需要做些什么来改正这个错误？
她必须检查原始的订单并重开发货单
她不需要不受教育。她不需要不受思想控制

18.How long will it take Wendy Taylor to call Darren Bailey back?
If he’s lost he will look and he will find her. Time after time.
Wendy Taylor will call him back before 1:00pm It will take as long as it takes. Don’t rush her

18.温迪·泰勒需要花多长时间给达伦·贝利回个电话？
如果他迷路了，他需要设法找回她。一次又一次
温迪泰勒会在下午1点前给他回电话。这电话该费多长时间就费多长时间。别催她

19.What company does Wendy Taylor work for?
She works for Dunder Mifflin
She works for Winnie The Pooh Inc.
She works for Fenwick Plastics

19.温迪·泰勒在哪家公司工作？
她为米福林造纸（美剧中虚构的公司）工作
她为小熊维尼公司工作
她为芬威克塑料工作

20.Why is Darren Bailey overdue on two invoices?
He understands just a little. No comprende it’s a riddle
His office is very busy but he will authorize payment as soon as possible
He was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana

20.为什么达伦·贝利有两个票据过期未开？
他只懂一点。不是太明白，对他来说这像个谜题
他的办公室太忙了，但他会尽快授权付款的
他那时在墨西哥提华纳市吃烤蜥蜴来着

[–]baozitou 1 指标 3小时前 
Yes there is going to be one weirdo who insist on politicizing everything. Look Ma how I'm superior to the Chinese for knowing 1989!
(Nah probably that's the only thing you know about China.)

对，这里会有一个坚持任何事都政治化的怪胎。看看，我比中国人都优越，因为我知道1989年发生了什么！（不，那估计是你知道的关于中国的唯一一件事）

[–]ting_bu_dongUnited States 3 指标 3 小时前 
Even not engaging in political statements is a political statement. It says "I believe that it is best for people to not make political statements."
Read your Aristotle. Man is a political animal. So everything is politics.
What a weirdo that guy.

现在即使没涉及到政治表态的回复都算作政治表态了。那句话讲的是“我相信人们最好避免发表政治立场申明”。读读亚里士多德吧。人都是政治动物。所以，一切都是政治的。那家伙真是个怪胎。
 
[–]snicksnackwack 8 指标 8 小时前 
The indignant self-righteous responses here are hilarious.

这些愤愤不平，自以为是的回复实在是太搞笑了

[–]smasbut 5 指标 4 小时前 
Lot of bitter ‘educators’ here...

这里有一大堆尖酸刻薄的“教育工作者”...

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[–]PM-ME-YUAN 3 指标 3 小时前 
This is university level? But you can answer this without even hearing the recording because you just sext the one not stupid answer.

这是大学级别的吗？但是你甚至不用听录音就可以回答这个问题，因为你只需要选择不蠢的那个答案就行了。

[–]interbang[S] 1 指标 3 小时前 
Yup. But the students who aren't listening to the recording probably don't have great English reading ability either...

没错。但是那些没有认真听录音的学生可能也没有很好的英语阅读能力...

[–]kainanliu 2 指标 6 小时前 
B A C B Did I get them right?

答案是BABD，我做对了吗？

[–]frenzyattack 3 指标 1 小时前 
your listening comprehension is through the roof!

你的听力理解能力爆表啊！

[–]interbang[S] 1 指标 6 小时前 
Yup.

都对了。

[–]duaki 2 指标 4小时前 
Unexpected office space there....on q14

第14题（题干）那儿......有个多余的文字空格。（亲，看的真是仔细......）

[–]shinianhou 3 指标 17小时前 
This is so funny. And easy to pass the students should have no problem passing the exam.

太有趣了，而且这很容易，学生通过这场考试应该是没问题的。

[–]interbang[S] 7 指标 17小时前 
That was the idea. The class is like a "required elective" on top of a really massive course load so I just wanted to go easy on them for their last test with me.

这就是我这么出卷的目的，这门课像是一门“必修课”。除了超负荷的课程之外，我只是想让他们和我在最后一次考试中轻松通过考试而已。

[–]dtlv5813 1 指标 15小时前 
Wait. The dot com bubble bursted because of lack of broadband infrastructure? That is an interesting perspective. Though I'd think other factors are more relevant to the immediate demise of the bubble eg the fed.

等等，由于缺乏宽带基础设施，互联网泡沫就破灭了？这观点挺有趣的。尽管我认为其他因素与互联网泡沫的破灭更相关，如美联储。

[–]interbang[S] 3 指标 15小时前 
Yeah the recording they have to listen to isn't exactly... thorough.

是的，他们必须听的这段录音其实.....并不全面周密。

[–]lvfeiliGermany 1 指标 56 分钟前 
The question/answer pairs do not imply this causality. 0 points for logic.

问题和对应的答案选项毫无因果关系。逻辑0分。

[–]Yildabaoth 4 指标 7小时前 
Wow you should at least be some serious alternative answers.
Very unprofessional.

哇，你至少应该出些严谨的二选一题目。太不专业了。