五个嘉宾谈论有问题的项目BEC中级听力训练文本

 You will bear another five recordings. Five speakers are talking about problems with a project.

 For each recording, decide what the problem was.

 Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording.

 Do not use any letter more than once.

 After you have listened once, replay the recordings.

 You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H.

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 Now listen, and decide what each problem was.

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 Eighteen

Well, we’d put together what we thought was an excellent team for the project - that is, until we hit technical problems and realised that we needed staff with a wider range of specialised technical experience than the people we’d recruited. So we had to advertise again to replace some key members of the team; we were lucky that we just about managed to cover the extra costs within the budget. Our customers were very satisfied with the outcome.

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 Nineteen

Although we had minor problems with suppliers from the start, these were easily overcome. Initially, I thought we’d underestimated the cost of the project, as it was so tight most of the time, but we managed to avoid an overspend. It was a very stressful time. However, it was the breakdowns which really upset the staff, and I wouldn’t have blamed them if they’d walked out on strike the fifth time it happened in a week.