Conversation Two
W: With us now, is Malcolm Bricklin, CEO of Visionary Vehicles.
M: Hello, everyone.
W: We have been hearing a couple of things about this news that [22]Ford Motor Company is slashing up to 30,000 jobs, shutting down 14 plants nationwide. Is it a big deal if we are no longer manufacturing these cars, Malcolm?
M: I think it's a huge deal. I mean the companies are massive employers both directly and indirectly. If you look at Ford after their restructuring, they've actually got 87,000 employees which is twice as many as Microsoft have worldwide. Moreover, if you look at those jobs, they are very high-paying jobs. These are people who can afford to buy their own products.
W: Er, [23]it seems to indicate a big hit for our economy if these jobs go bye-bye.
M: Yeah, it's a really sad day for America.
W: But it is not as if cars are stopped being made, right?
M: Correct. Still a large number of cars are being made by American manufacturers. More than half of the American cars sold in America are American. [24]So what has happened over time is that as the market share has fallen, foreign car companies have come in, taken over plants and set up new plants, and they have taken over that capacity. So, it is not like there are fewer cars being produced in America than there were 30 years ago.
W: Let me ask you about the Chinese coming in. What would it mean to American jobs, if and when that happens?
M: [25]The Chinese cars we have seen so far aren't that great and they don't have the branding necessary to make a huge impact in the world stage.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
22. What do we know about the Ford Motor Company from the conversation?
正確答案：A
解析：選項都提到it，從factories, jobs, employees, restructuring, cars等來看，問題應該與某個汽車生產公司有關。對話開頭女士提到，福特汽車公司正在全國范圍內關閉14個工廠。A中的closing down是原文shutting down的同義替換，因此為正確答案。B與D都與對話不符，C有一定的干擾性，注意對話中男士提到的重組后的福特公司雇員數目是微軟的兩倍，而不是C所說的重組前的兩倍。
23. Why is it a big deal if the American automakers no longer do the making?
正確答案：C
解析：男士解釋了高工資員工失業的情況，女士繼而總結出“這將對美國經濟產生重大的影響”。故選C。
24. What happened to the foreign automakers in America?
正確答案：D
解析：聽到相關信息時進行信息的匹配，D屬于聽到的兩處原文的合并。A、B、C均與原文信息相反。
25. What does the man think of Chinese car manufacturing?
正確答案：B
解析：對話最后提到中國的汽車，原詞impact被否定，因此同義表達B正確。A和C是正面評價，B和D是相對負面的評價，讀選項時可以馬上進行粗略的分類。