【新多益聽力】簡短獨白平時訓練與準備方法

如果沒有看上下文，其實四個選項都有可能是正確答案，(A)選項是在工作場合中常見的情況，要介紹同事給客戶或廠商認識，就可能說出她是部門主管，以後彼此可以聯繫；而(B)選項則代表男生自己可能因為職級不夠，必須要給身為部門主管的女士來做最後決定；(C)選項則有可能是公司在跟印名片或活動海報等等之類的廠商對話，說明印製的資料有誤，女生的職稱應該是主管才對；而(D)選項則可能出現在宴會或派對這樣的場合，向別人介紹她身為部門主管的成就之類的。

Hi, Aaron. I just got out of my meeting with Janet Lin from Product Development. She liked our design for the company's new line of raincoats, but unfortunately, she wants us to use different colors than what we proposed. I tried my best to convince her that a fresh, new look was needed, but she insisted on a more traditional approach. There wasn't much more I could do. You know...she's the head of the department. Anyway, I'm back at my desk now, so I'm going to find a time on our calendars tomorrow when we can get together and start on these changes.

說話者表示他沒有辦法多做什麼了，因為對方的「她」是部門主管，這就代表他無法做最後的決定，所以答案是(B)。
明白了嗎？釋義題一定要將該句子前後的內容一併聽懂，才可以選出正解喔！

跟Part 3一樣，Part 4的圖表題當中，除了傳統的四選一題目之外，還會加上一組圖表，但不是題組的每一題都需要看圖表，只有在題目說“Look at the graphic”的時候，這個題目才會需要看上面的圖表，通常三題當中只有一題會需要，以本題組範例而言，只有第二題需要搭配上方的圖表作答。

I have one final issue to discuss at today's staff meeting. I just handed out a graph summarizing our shoe store's annual sales data. And, well... I think this information is particularly interesting since we relocated to a different neighborhood this year. As you might have expected, the relocation decreased our sales significantly at first. During the quarter we moved, we experienced the lowest shoe sales of the entire year. That was largely because people in the new neighborhood didn't know about us. However, thanks to the newspaper advertisements and radio commercials we put out, business picked up quickly, and we ended the year by making a record number of sales.

發現了嗎？獨白中就是講到「公司搬遷時，我們經歷了整年度銷售額最低的時期」，所以你就要從圖表中找出表現最差的座標，再對應到選項中的季節去作答，所以答案會是(C)喔！