毕业生求职（18）Two

A: What kind of sports do you like? And do you watch or play?

B: I like both watching and playing. And I enjoy almost all sports, but I especially like tennis. I was in the tennis club all through high school, so particularly in the case of tennis I prefer doing to watching.

A: What kind of books do you like?

B: I like biographics. It's intersting to read about the backgrounds of people who have become famous, and see what I can learn from their lives.

A: Who is your favorite writer?

B: I like the novels of Charles Dickens very much. I've read almost all of them in the original.

A: Can you name one person that you respect very much?

B: My English teacher at college. He has so much humour¹ and vitality², and I am very impressed with his tactfulness. He can make a person see the contradictions³ in his thinking without making him feel foolish. I've learned⁴ a lot from watching the way he applies himself to his teaching⁵, and how he leads people to seeing things.

A: What basic principles do you apply to your life?

B: Not to put off till tomorrow what you can do today. I feel that time gives away very easily --- you think you have it, and it is gone quickly! Putting things off just makes it worse later. So even if it is hard at the time, I try to get things done that day and not leave them till the next day.

A: Tell me why you are interested in working for this company, will you?

B: I think working in this company would give me the best oppotunity to use what I've learned at college, studying public administration⁶ for four years. I think this company has a great future and I'll be able to develop my own capabilities⁷ here. So for a long time I've been thinking I'd like to work with this company.

A: Have you ever worked during your university days?

B: Yes. I worked as a tutor⁸ to teach English to a middle school student.

A: There's a good chance for you to come to work for this company. But, you will have to have another interview with our manager himself in Chinese.

B: Of course.

A: Thank you for coming. Good-bye!

B: Good-bye!