Task 5:(10mins)

Compound dictation

Listen to a short passage concerning unemployment in South African and fill in the missing information.

 

(From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report.)

The South African Department of Labor reported last month that the nation has too few jobs for    1    laborers. The department also said there are not enough workers for highly skilled      2     .

The sharp      3      between jobs and skills were      4      recently when officials advertised  a job opening in the government. The position was that of auditor-general or chief financial supervisor. With a 26 percent       5   rate nation-wide, there was no      6    interest in the job.

90 people asked to be considered. But officials said many of them lack the necessary skills or education. The auditor-general is      7     supervising and independently examining South Africa’s finances. The advertisement said, the position required the person to be a trained     8    . 

It said candidates had to have at least a  9   and years of experience. Yet among the job-hopefuls were     10    , a security guard, a secretary and some whose highest education level was high school.