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Conversation One
對話一
So John, I hear you and Arthur share a job, don't you?
約翰，我聽說你和亞瑟共同擔當一份工作，是嗎？
Yes. We've shared a sales job at Sonatech for about two years now.
是的，我們在Sonatech做銷售工作做了兩年了。
Well, how do you divide up your schedule?
你們是怎么分開工作安排的？
You know we are both sales representatives, and we take orders over the phone. When we started job sharing it was difficult, because we both worked all day Monday. I worked Tuesday and Thursday and Arthur worked Wednesday and Friday. The problem was that when I was in the office on Tuesday. I would talk to people, then they would call back on Wednesday with a question. But Arthur couldn't answer the question and he couldn't ask me about it because I wasn't in the office. So he had to ask the people to call me back the next day, Thursday. Of course, they didn't like to wait until the next day to have their questions answered.
我們都是銷售代表，通過電話獲得訂單。剛開始分工的時候很麻煩。因為我們都在周一上班。我在周二、周四工作，而亞瑟在周三、周五工作。問題是周二我在辦公室打完電話，之后客戶可能在周三打電話咨詢，但是亞瑟不能回答這些問題，我又不在辦公室，他也無法問我。所以他只能告訴他們明天，也就是周四再打來。顧客當然不愿意等到第二天才知道結果。
Yes, that sounds like a problem
是的，這聽起來是一個問題。
So, finally we decided that Arthur would work in the mornings and I would work in the afternoons. Now if someone calls with the question for me in the morning, Arthur tells them to call me in the afternoon. This way, people get their questions answered the same day.
所以最后我們決定亞瑟在早上工作，我在下午工作。現在即使有人早上打電話找我咨詢，亞瑟也可以讓他們下午再打來。這樣，人們就可以在當天得到咨詢結果。
What do you do about vacations?
你們怎么放假？
Well, Sonatech gives the usual two weeks of vacation to full-time employees, I take a week and Arthur takes a week.
Sonatech給全職員工兩周的假期。我休息一周，亞瑟休息一周。
It sounds like job sharing has worked out well for you.
聽起來這種工作分享很適合你。
Yes, it has. We are both happy with it.
是的。我們對此都很滿意。
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
問題19至21是基于你剛才聽到的對話。
Question 19. What do John and author do at Sonatech?
問題19. 約翰和亞瑟在Sonatech做什么？
Question 20. What problem did John and Arthur have when they started job sharing?
問題20. 剛開始分享工作的時候，約翰和亞瑟遇到了什么問題？
Question 21. What does John say about their annual vacation?
問題21. 約翰說他們的年假是什么樣的？
