化学秘密A new start-英语听力

[00:07.668]A New Start [00:46.724]'Mr Duncan? Come in please. Mr Wilson will see you now.' [00:52.537]'Thank you.' [00:55.460]John Duncan stood up and walked nervously towards the door. [01:02.420]He was a tall, thin man, about forty-five years old, in an old grey suit. [01:09.924]It was his best suit, but it was ten years old now. [01:16.221]He had grey hair and glasses. [01:19.882]His face looked sad and tired. [01:23.333]Inside the room, a man stood up to welcome him. [01:29.236]'Mr Duncan? [01:31.674]Pleased to meet you. [01:34.006]My name's David Wilson. [01:36.684]This is one of our chemists, Mary Carter.' [01:41.565]John Duncan shook hands with both of them, and sat down. [01:48.164]It was a big office,with a thick carpet on the floor and beautiful pictures on the walls. [01:57.093]David Wilson was a young man, in an expensive black suit. [02:04.124]He had a big gold ring on one finger. [02:08.757]He smiled at John. [02:12.157]'I asked Miss Carter to come because she's one of our best Chemists. [02:17.756]She discovered our wonderful new paint, in fact. [02:21.820]When…I mean, if you come to work here, you will work with her.' [02:29.772]'Oh, I see.' [02:32.788]John looked at Mary. [02:36.100]She was older than Wil-son—about thirty-five, perhaps—with short brown hair, and a pretty, friendly face. [02:46.628]She was wearing a white coat with a lot of pens in the top pocket. [02:53.895]She smiled at him kindly, but John felt miserable. [02:59.335]I'll never get this job, he thought. [03:04.479]I'm too old! Employers want younger people these days. [03:10.320]David Wilson was looking at some papers. [03:13.675]'Now, Mr Dun-can,' he said, [03:16.981]'I see that you are a very good biologist. [03:21.819]You worked at a university…and then for two very famous com-panies. [03:28.525]But…you stopped working as a biologist nine years ago. [03:34.189]Why was that?' [03:36.132]'I've always had two interests in my life,' John said, [03:42.892]'biol-ogy and boats. [03:45.932]My wife was a famous sailor…Rachel Hors-ley…Perhaps you remember her. [03:53.165]She sailed around the world alone in a small boat.' [03:58.144]'Yes,'said David Wilson,' I remember her.' [04:05.765]'So we started a business,' said John. 'We made small boats together, and sold them.' [04:13.276]'And did the business go well?' asked Wilson. [04:19.045]'Very well at first. [04:21.220]Then we wanted to build bigger, better boats. [04:26.272]We borrowed too much money. And then my wife…'John stopped speaking. [04:34.294]'Yes, the Sevens Race. [04:39.826]I remember now,' said David Wil-son. [04:46.503]Both men were silent for a moment. [04:49.237]Wilson remembered the newspaper reports of the storm and the lives lost at sea. [04:55.241]He looked at the man who sat sadly in front of him. [05:00.708]'So, after my wife died,' continued John,'I closed the business.That was five years ago.' [05:13.634]'I see,' said David Wilson. [05:19.180]'It's a hard world, the world of business.' [05:23.292]He looked at John's old grey suit. [05:29.960]'So now you want a job as a biologist. [05:32.900]Well, this is a chemical company, Mr Duncan. [05:37.500]We make paint. [05:39.813]But we need a biologist to make sure that everything in this factory is safe. [05:46.468]We want someone to tell the government that it's safe to work here, and that it's safe to have a paint factory near the town. [05:57.867]That's impor-tant to us.' [06:00.902]'And if something's not safe, then of course we'll change it,' mary Carter said. [06:08.404]David Wilson looked at her, but he didn't say anything. [06:14.293]'Yes, I see,'　John began nervously. [06:20.436]'Well, I think I could do that. [06:24.693]I mean, when I worked for Harper Chemicals in Lon-don I…' [06:29.437]He talked for two or three minutes about his work. [06:35.764]David Wilson listened, but he didn't say anything. [06:40.860]When he smiled, it was a cold, hard smile, and it made John feel un-comfortable. [06:50.045]He remembered his old suit and grey hair, and he wished he hadn't come. [06:57.241]'You really need this job, don't you, Mr Duncan?' david Wilson said. [07:04.715]'You need it a lot.' [07:07.813]'Yes, I do,' he said quietly. [07:12.405]But he thought: I hate you, Wilson. [07:18.466]You're enjoying this. [07:20.606]You like making people feel small. [07:24.894]I hate people like you. [07:28.556]Wilson's smile grew bigger. [07:31.286]He stood up, and held out his hand. [07:35.948]'OK,' he said. [07:40.820]'When can you start?' [07:42.252]'What?' John was very surprised. [07:46.708]'What did you say?' [07:48.994]'I said, 'When can you start?', Mr Duncan. We need you in our factory as soon as possible. Will Monday be OK?' [08:00.151]'You mean I've got the job?' [08:04.431]'Of course. Congratulations!' Wilson shook John's hand. [08:13.348]'My secretary will tell you about your pay. [08:17.264]You'll have your own office, and a company car, of course. [08:21.531]I'd like you to start work with Mary on Monday. [08:25.844]Is that OK?' [08:29.044]'I…Yes, yes, of course. [08:33.988]That's fine. [08:35.966]Thank you, thank you very much.'