Question 19 is based on the passage you have just heard.

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    My name is Brandon Leonard, and I’m an author, magazine writer, filmmaker and public speaker. (19) I’m self-employed, which means I work for myself and I do what I love. We have a popular saying in America which goes, “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” (20) But I’m here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.

    In my line of work, you’ll hear a lot about talent, which is an idea we mostly invented to give ourselves an excuse to be lazy. Here’s why: if you see someone doing something really well, you would say it’s because they are talented. You think they are somehow special. You discount the tremendous amount of work they’ve done to get to where they are.

    (21) Research has shown that talent is nothing without hard work. I choose to believe in hard work, but not so much in talent. There are no special people, just people who put in enough hard work until something special happens. I can promise you one thing: whatever you choose to do for a career, if you work hard at it, eventually special things will happen. They may not happen as quickly as you’d like them to, and they may turn out to be completely different from the special things you imagined at the beginning, but they will happen.

19. What do we learn about the speaker?

解析：A。根据录音开头，讲话者自我介绍时提及自己是自由职业者，A项的self-employed是原词复现，故为正确答案。录音中讲话人虽然给出了一些建议，但并不能说他是一个职业顾问，B项属于过度推断，故错误。录音中只是提及讲话人工作中会经常提到天赋这个词，无法凭此确定天赋是讲话人的研究内容，故C选项错误。讲话人只是提到自己是杂志作者，并不是拥有一家杂志公司，故D选项错误。