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Hi, my name is Rebecca. And in today's lesson I'm going to give you some basic information about the TOEIC exam.
大家好，我是Rebecca。在今天的课程中，我们将告诉大家一些关于托业考试的基本信息。
So let's look at some of the questions I've written on the board and that way you'll have some basic information about this exam.
先来看看我在黑板上写下的这一些问题，这样你们就会对这种考试有一些基本的了解。
So first of all, what is the TOEIC? The TOEIC stands for Test of English for International Communication.
首先，什么是托业？托业全称为国际交流英语考试。
That means that really the TOEIC is an exam that measures business English, your knowledge of business English or English used in the workplace.
这意味着托业考试实际上是一种衡量商务英语，衡量你的商务英语知识或工作中英语使用的考试。
It's a very popular English proficiency exam. It's taken by about 5 million people every year
这是一个非常受欢迎的英语水平考试。每年约有五百万人参加考试
and maybe 10,000 companies or so use the results of this exam, to help them decide whether to give people a job.
约有一万家企业会通过该考试的成绩，来帮助他们决定要不要录取应聘者。
So very often they request that students, or rather job applicants, put the results of their exam on their resume,
所以他们经常要求学生或应聘者在他们的简历上标明该考试的成绩，
so that they can judge what their level of English is, okay?
以此来判断他们的英语水平。
And that will also help you to understand some of the answers to the other questions that we have.
这也将帮助你理解其他问题的答案。
So what does the TOEIC exam measure? The TOEIC measures your ability to read, write, speak, and understand English as it's used in the workplace.
所以托业考试要考察那些内容呢？该考试要考察你在工作场合使用英语的读、写、说和理解能力。
So it's basically testing your knowledge of quite basic and fundamental business English, all right?
所以它基本上是测试你的基本商务英语知识。
It's not general English. It's not academic English, as is tested on the TOEFL, for example.
不是普通英语，也不是像托福考试那样的学术英语。
It's really about general and business English, or English used in the workplace. Why do people take it?
它主要讲的是一般商务英语，也就是工作场合使用的英语。为什么要参加托业考试？
Well, as I mentioned before, people take the TOEIC exam for several reasons. They take it first of all to get a job,
就像我之前提到的，参加托业考试的原因有几点。首先是为了获得一份工作，
because many employers do request the results of the TOEIC exam from job applicants.
因为很多公司确实要求应聘者提交托业考试成绩。
Many people also take this exam in order to get a promotion, for example. And some others take it to get a visa.
很多人参加这个考试也是为了升职。其他一些人是为了获得签证。
For example, I believe now in the UK that spouses of people who have applied,
例如，我认为现在在英国，已经提交申请的人
may submit their TOEIC scores as a way to get a visa, okay?
可以提交他们的托业成绩来获得签证。
Where is it popular? Well, originally the TOEIC was most popular in Japan and Korea.
在哪些国家受欢迎？托业起初是在日本和韩国作为流行。
Now the popularity of the TOEIC has really spread to other places around the world, including India where it has taken off quite well,
现在托业的普及度蔓延到了全球其他国家，包括印度
as well as in North America, in South America, really more in South America, and also parts of Europe.
北美、南美，其实在南美参加的人更多，还有欧洲部分地区。
So in most places today you can take this exam. Now how many kinds are there?
所在如今在很多国家都可以参加这个考试。那么要考多少门呢？
Well, when we talk about the TOEIC exam, originally the TOEIC exam was a relatively short two-hour exam,
说起托业考试，原本托业考试时间相对较短，只有两小时，
and it tested only listening and reading skills, all right?
并且只考听力和阅读能力。
So it was quite different from exams like the IELTS or exams like the TOEFL, which tested all four skills.
所以它和雅思托福等考试非常不同，这些考试需要考四项技能。
When it started in the '70s, and until quite recently, it only was a test of listening and reading.
从70年代到近期，它仍是一种只考听力和阅读的考试。
However since then, many employers said that that's not really enough. It's not enough to know about only listening and reading skills.
但自从那时起，很多公司表示，这样还不够，只了解参试者的听力和阅读能力还不够。
They also wanted to know about speaking and writing skills.
他们还想了解口语和写作能力。
So ETS, the organization that created this exam, created a second version, a second section of this exam,
所以创建这个考试的机构——美国教育考试服务中心（ETS）创建了第二个版本，该考试的第二个部分，
which is a separate exam of speaking and writing skills. So today there are two exams that are considered part of the TOEIC.
口语和写作能力部分。所以今天这两门考试被认为是托业考试的一部分。
One is the original Listening and Reading exam, and the second one is the Speaking and Writing exam, which is relatively newer,
一个是原来的听力和阅读考试，第二个是口语和写作考试，这个相对更新，
and they are separate exams. They are not taken at one time. They are taken separately and sometimes even on separate dates, all right?
并且两部分考试单独进行，不在同一时间考。两项考试在不同的时间单独进行。
When I come back in a moment I'm going to tell you a little bit more about each of those exams.
稍后回来，跟大家讲讲两项考试的细节。
