考试英语听力材料（高考）23 独白

2020年高考（山东II卷）英语听力 独白Thank Mr. Williams for inviting me back.感谢威廉斯先生邀请我回来。I'd love to share with you my life experiences after graduation.我很乐意和你们分享我毕业后的生活经历。Well,I graduated from here in 2001.我2001年从这里毕业。When I was thrown into the job market, finding a job was not difficult.当我进入就业市场时，找工作并不难。Most of my classmates found good jobs in big cities.我的大多数同学都在大城市找到了好工作。If I were born a decade later, things might have been totally different.如果我十年后再出生，情况可能完全不同。I finally accepted a job with my current employer, and now work as a translator.我最后接受了现任雇主的工作，在做翻译。I won't say my job is not demanding.我不会说我的工作要求不高。Sometimes I'm kept very busy working late into the night.有时我一直忙到深夜。And I also have to travel to other cities to attend some conferences several times a year.我每年还要去其他城市参加几次会议。But I must admit, I'm happy with what I'm doing, which is related to what I learned at university.但我必须承认，我对自己所做的一切很满意，它与我在大学里所学的东西相关。That's why I haven't changed jobs for the last decade and a half.这就是我在过去15年里没有换工作的原因。In recent years, I have been thinking about trying other things, such as running a coffee shop or a bookstore.近年来，我一直在考虑尝试其他的事情，比如经营咖啡店或书店。But I haven't really set out to do that because any decision I make might create challenges for my family.但我并没有打算这么做，因为我做的任何决定都可能给我的家庭带来挑战。I got married five years after I left college.我大学毕业五年后结婚了。For me, family comes first.对我来说，家庭排在第一位。Today,you college students are facing a totally different time from what we were presented with ten years ago.今天，你们这些大学生正面临的时代，与我们十年前完全不同。Obviously,there are difficulties, but chances exist, and you'll have hope of leading a successful life.显然，有困难，但也存在机遇，你们将有希望过上成功的生活。