Ucreate 一起备课——新闻英语听力
3 STEPS TO IMPROVE LISTENING
New Study Shows Best, Worst Pay for Women
作者：刘立军 1 王珍珍 2 编辑：陈 萌 3
Step 1: Listen LISTENING TASK 1: Information filling You’re going to hear a genuine VOA News report. Listen carefully and fill in the missing information in the chart below.
WAGE DIFFENENCES BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN 28 percent less than men
15 percent less than men
7.8 percent more than men
LISTENING TASK 2:
QUESTION 1: What jobs have the biggest wage differences between men and women in the USA?
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LISTENING TASK 2: Choose the best answer
You will hear one VOA News report. At the end of it, you will hear FIVE questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D].
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only be explained by bias against women, or other causes - such as women not negotiating as well for pay, he said. [Q4] According to the study, women earned at least 15 percent less than men in these job categories: psychologists, pharmacists, physicians, opticians, pilots and game artists. [Q5] But in the fields of social work, selling merchandise, research assistants and physician advisors, women earn more than men, Glassdoor said. In social work, women earned 7.8 percent more than men, the report said. That was the job category with the biggest advantage for women. It was still far less than the 28 percent pay advantage for men in some fields, the study said. Adapted from /show-8464-236152-1.html 2 QUESTIONS:
QUESTION 2:
[A] Germany. [B] China. [C] Australia. [D] United Kingdom.
QUESTION 3:
[A] American women earn as much wage as men in the fields of social work. [B] American women earn less because they are taking different kinds of jobs. [C] American women cannot find a job in the job market because they are less proficient in the operating skills. [D] Prejudice against women is the main reason of wage differences between women and men.
[A] Psychologists, pharmacists and physicians. [B] Computer programmers, chefs and dentists. [C] Opticians, pilots and game artists. [D] Pilots, pharmacists and physicians.
VOCABULARY
词汇和短语 词性
bias
n.
pharmacist n.
optician
n.
merchandise v.
音标 ['baɪəs]
['fɑː(r)məsɪst]
[ɒp'tɪʃ(ə)n] ['mɜː(r)tʃ(ə)ndaɪz]
英文释义
a strong feeling in favour of or against one group of people, or one side in an argument, often not based on fair judgement a person whose job is to prepare medicines and sell or give them to the public in a shop / store or in a hospital a person whose job is to examine people’s eyes and to recommend and sell glasses goods that are bought or sold; goods that are for sale in a shop / store
QUESTION 1: What jobs have the biggest wage differences between men and women in the USA? QUESTION 2: Which country is not mentioned in wage differences between men and women? QUESTION 3: What is the news mainly about? QUESTION 4: What is the wage difference between men and women of being a physician in the USA? QUESTION 5: In which fields of social work, do women earn more than men?
Overall, the study found that women earn 5.4 percent less than men for doing the same job, in the same location and for the same employer. [Q2] The wage differences between women and men were similar in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and France, Glassdoor said. Andrew Chamberlain is the chief researcher at Glassdoor. He said 5.4 percent is a big difference in pay between men and women because it cannot be explained by women and men taking different kinds of jobs. [Q3] It can
QUESTION 1:
[A] Psychologists, pharmacists and physicians. [B] Computer programmers, chefs and dentists. [C] Opticians, pilots and game artists. [D] Pilots, pharmacists and physicians.
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Step 2: Learn the key words and listen again
Try listening again. Here are the definitions of key vocabulary items in the news which may help you.
JOBS

WAGE DIFFENENCES BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN
28 percent less than men




15 percent less than men




7.8 percent more than men
1 燕山大学教师，英国华威大学应用语言学硕士。 2 燕山大学教师，上海外国语大学英语语言文学硕士。 3 外语教学与研究出版社编辑。
中文释义 偏见； 偏心； 偏向
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