A secretary’s job is to keep an office running smoothly.()
A.秘书的工作就是保持办公室地面光滑
B.秘书的工作就是使办公室顺利运转
A.秘书的工作就是保持办公室地面光滑
B.秘书的工作就是使办公室顺利运转
Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man's secretary became his personal servant, in charge of remembering his wife's birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep away people he did not wish to speak to; and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand.
Now all this may be changing again. The microchip(芯片) and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical(文书的) work that secretaries did.
"Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve the high-tech work and then men will want to do it again. "
That was said by one of the executives(male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way in the U. S.
Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine (乏味的) , will there be a male takeover? Men should be careful of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as men—not just because they can buy negligees(妇女长睡衣) for the boss's wife, but because they are as efficient and well trained to cope with word processors and computers as men.
Before 1914 female secretaries were rare because they______.
A.were less efficient and less trained than men
B.were looked down upon by men
C.would have disturbed the other office workers
D.wore stockings and were not as serious as men
Tom wished to __________ for the post of secretary and advertised in today’s news-paper.
A.propose
B.appl
C.ask
D.request
A female secretary has been expected, besides other duties, to______.
A.be her boss's memory
B.do everything her boss asks her to do
C.clean her boss's clothes
D.telephone the boss's wife
A secretary in the future will______.
A.have more work to do
B.be better paid
C.have higher status
D.have less work to do
A.Good
B.Quite well
C.No problem
D.Not bad
The computer can be described as______.
A.expensive but efficient
B.heavy and inefficient
C.possessing a beautiful handwriting
D.the President's most reliable secretary
Client:Hello.May I speak to Mr.Turner?Secretary:__________
A.Fm sorry.He’S at a meeting right now.
B.Speaking,please.
C.Hello.Who’re you,please?
D.Hello.Thank you for calling.
A.“It’s my pleasure.”
B.“Never mind”.
C.“You’re welcome.”
D.“Oh, it’s nothing.”
He will surely finish the job on time ______ he's left to do it in his own way.
A.in that
B.so long as
C.in case
D.as far as
When the businessman got back to his office, he said to his secretary, "I told you it should be a twenty-minute speech !"
"That's what I gave you ," she answered, "the original and two copies. The original for you to read at the meeting, and two copies for the files, after you have checked them."
What was the secretary asked to do?
A.To give a speech instead of the businessman.
B.To type a one-hour speech for the businessman.
C.To choose a speech from a book of speeches and type it.
D.To make up a speech from some others and type it.
Many Ph. D. s are out of job because______.
A. they are improperly educated
B. they are of little commercial value to their society
C. there are fewer jobs in high schools
D. they prefer easier jobs that make more money