1、剑桥商务英语高级-31 及答案解析(总分：70.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BREADING/B(总题数：6，分数：52.00)BPART ONE/BB Look at the sentences below and following texts.Which text does each sentence refer to?For each sentence 1-8, mark one letter A, B, C, D or E.You will need to use some of the letters more than once./BBA. The United States
2、 Telecom Association/BThe United States Telecom Association is the nations oldest and most influential trade association of its kind. For more than a century, USTA has represented the interests of service providers in the dynamic telecommunications industry. From its inception, USTA has personified
3、the entrepreneurial spirit of the telecom industry. The evolution of USTA as an industry force parallels the evolution of the telephone industry itself. With the new century, USTA completed an ambitious restructuring with a business plan that unites a diverse industry to deliver influence in Washing
4、ton. USTA remains committed to representing its members before the Congress, federal and state regulators, the courts and the media, working to deliver significant victories for the telecommunications industry.BB. LookSmart/BLookSmart is a leader in commercial search services and a developer of inno
5、vative web search solutions. Combining award-winning technology, editorial expertise, and community-based initiatives, LookSmart provides users with highly relevant search results, while delivering targeted sales leads to online businesses. LookSmart results reach Internet users worldwide through to
6、p portals, ISPs, and search services including Lycos, InfoSpace, CNET, and LookSmart. com. LookSmart is based in San Francisco.BC. Nation Media Group/BThe Nation Media Group (NMG) founded by His Highness the Aga Khan, is the largest independent media group in East Africa. It has been quoted on the N
7、airobi Stock Exchange since October 1973. Greater participation in the shareholding by East African nationals has increased following NMGs regional expansion. The Nation Media has its home base at the Nation Centre on Kimathi Street in Nairobi, Kenya, but has bureaux in the major towns across the co
8、untry. It also has offices in the capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Kampala, Uganda, for its East African operations. As the leading multimedia house in the East African region, it has a strong presence in both print and electronic media as well as the Internet, attracting a regular aud
9、ience unparalleled in the region. The Groups performance over the years has been outstanding even in the leaner economic times of recent years and shows continuous growth and profits for the company as well as the shareholders.BD. Dice Inc./BDice Inc. is the leading provider of online recruiting ser
10、vices for technology professionals. Dice Inc. provides services to hire, train and retrain technology professionals through its two operating companies, Dice. com, the No. 1 technology-focused job board, and MeasureUp, a leading provider of assessment and preparation products for professional techno
11、logy certifications. It has built its leadership position over a decade, and both customers and job seekers recognize Dice. com as the No. 1 technology-focused job board.BE. C. alpine Corporation/BCalpine Corporation is one of North Americas leading power companies-innovative, fully integrated and c
12、ommitted to fulfilling the continuing need for clean, efficient, reliable electricity in an environmentally responsible manner. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Calpine has 89 energy centers in 21 states in the U. S., as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. The centers serve a variety of end
13、users, including electric utilities, municipalities, industrial companies and government institutions. These plants have a capacity of more than 22,000 megawatts. The company increased its generating capacity by more than 70 percent in 2002 and, with over 10 projects under construction, expects a ca
14、pacity of more than 29,000 megawatts by the end of 2005.（分数：8.00）(1).The company attaches importance to environmental protection.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).The company enjoys reputation among technology professionals.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The company can provide services something like Googles.（分数：1.00）填空项 1
15、:_(4).The company is the representative in its line.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The company is located in the third-world countries.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).The company has developed in line with the industry it belongs to.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).The company is enhancing its productivity.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).The comp
16、any has two operation firms.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_BPART TWO/BB Read the following text.Choose the best sentence from A-H to fill in each of the gaps.For each gap 9-14, mark one letter A-H.Do not use any letter more than once./BYoure busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let
17、s assume U(9) /U. Isnt it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? U(10) /UMore and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value d
18、egrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, U(11) /U Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. Then, U(12) /U, most c
19、olleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League School calls them “impostors“; another refers to them as “special cases“. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by “no such people“.To avoid outright lies, s
20、ome job-seekers claim that they “attended“ or “were associated with“ a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending“ means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with“ a college means that U(13) /U. One school that ke
21、eps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century-thats when they began keeping records, anyhow.U (14) /U. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price b
22、egins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University“. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue“. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.A.
23、the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekendB. Ox that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?C. you have never been enrolled by a universityD. if it turns out that an applicant is lyingE. you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or e
24、ven that you completed your degreeF. if you dont want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diplomaG. though the applicant is telling truth about his education backgroundH. but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a w
25、ell- known university（分数：6.00）(1).（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_BPART THREE/BB Read the following text.Each question has four suggested answers or ways of finishing the sentence, A, B, C and D.Mark one letter A, B, C or D for the answer you choose./BWhat makes a leader? Thats th
26、e question star headhunter Thomas J. Neff and James M.Citrin try to answer in their recent book, “Lessons from the Top: The Search for Americas Best Business Leaders“.The six principles shared by top business leaders and discussed in the book are: Living with integrity, developing a winning strategy
27、 or “big idea“, building a great management team, inspiring employees to greatness, creating a flexible and responsible organization and using reinforcing management systems.Citrin and Neff elaborated on the six principles in a recent Business Week interview. The most important one for business lead
28、ers is passion about what they are doing. “The leaders we interviewed for the book loved to talk about their jobs.“Also, the high-level jobs today are so enormously demanding that successful executives must have a high energy level. They work an average of 65 hours per week. When the passion and dri
29、ve ebb, thats when you know its time for that person to move on,“ said Neff.Top leaders are clear thinkers. They are focused, know where they are heading, and are able to communicate with a wide audience.Todays successful leaders know more about the team approach than did their predecessors. “It was
30、nt too many fears ago that the dictatorial approach, the command-and-control management style, was accepted. Today, its more about Working through people, being more of a leader and empowering other executives on the team to carry out the mission,“ said Neff.Citrin and Neff are not pretending to be
31、sociologists, but it is clear that the dynamics of the labor market have given more power to talented employees. People in an organization often have the exact same information at about the same time as a person at the top. So no more can one take for granted that information is power.People often s
32、ay it is difficult to create a good balance between work and family. Some feel you can be successful in work or with your family, but not both. But the reality seems to be that a strong family life and success on the home front actually contribute to professional success. Many of the CEOs interviewe
33、d by Citrin talk about the role their spouses play in their success. Of the 50 interviewed in the work, 42 are still married to their original spousea sharp contrast with the national divorce rate in the United States.（分数：6.00）(1).Which best describes the meaning of “headhunter“ in line t, Para 1?（分
34、数：1.00）A.psychologistB.expert on human resource managementC.successful business leaderD.person paid to recruit staff at a senior level(2).Which aspect isnt mentioned in the 6 principles?（分数：1.00）A.CharacterB.PhysiologyC.Capability of managementD.Capability of encouragement(3).Neff Citrin get the pri
35、nciples _ to write the book.（分数：1.00）A.which are summarized by themselvesB.which have been discussed by other peopleC.which are shared by those top business leadersD.which they have experienced themselves(4).When the passion and drive ebb, _.（分数：1.00）A.its time to show the importance of ones full en
36、ergyB.its hard to move on againC.its time to test ones work abilityD.its likely that high-level person wont give up(5).Whats Neffs attitude towards the command-and-control management style?（分数：1.00）A.Indifferent.B.Positive,C.Negative.D.Supportive.(6).Which is not true?（分数：1.00）A.Information is no lo
37、nger power as everyone in the organization can share the same information at the same time.B.Its difficult to create a good balance between work and family unless you have a good spouse.C.You can be successful both in work and family.D.Only a few of the interviewed CEOs may have some problem in fami
38、ly life.BPART FOUR/BB Read the following text.Choose the best word to fill each gap.For each question 21-30, mark one letter A, B, C or D./BHarrington Wilsons selling technique was U(21) /U itself. It was nothing more than aU (22) /U manipulation of human vanity. He was aware that there were a numbe
39、r of people who professed to know a great deal about antiques, and even more who would rather not confess that they did not and who accordingly practised little tricks and subterfuges to U(23) /U their ignorance from their neighbors.The women-they were mainly women-jostling round his stall, picking
40、over his shoddy wares, would sometimes run a finger round the rim of a cup or hold it knowingly up to the light as if to test its luster, and plates were U(24) /U turned upside down in search of china marks. To such a customer, Harrington would lean forward, benevolent and confidential, and in a con
41、spiratorial whisper would murmur: “No, madam. Im afraid its not genuine (Wedgwood, Sevres-whatever it might be) but it is a superb copy-no one U(25) /U ever suspect that it was not real, unless, of course, you told them. I can let you have it forI could sell it for much more, but it would be unethic
42、al of me to try to pass it off as genuine.“The customer, overwhelmed by such honesty and privately determined not to be quite so honest about the article to heir friends, would then willingly pay 2 for something that U(26) /U Harrington a few pence. The profit U(27) /U on these transactions was obvi
43、ously so great that he was soon able to U(28) /U another stall and then a shop and yet another and so on. He enlarged his specialties, dealing U(29) /U spurious Victoriana, Georgian silver, trinkets and bric-a-brac, eventually branching out into reproduction furniture and paintings. Without any deli
44、berate intention of doing so, he acquired an U(30) /U knowledge of the antique business and as time went on, was accounted one of the greatest experts of his time.（分数：10.00）A.simpleB.simplicationC.simplicityD.simplyA.smallB.subtleC.slimD.fineA.concealB.hideC.exposeD.avoidA.variedB.variablyC.invaried
45、D.invariablyA.wouldB.couldC.shouldD.mightA.costB.have costC.had costD.would costA.marginB.moneyC.costD.benefitA.set toB.set offC.set upD.set downA.withB.inC.toD.againstA.extendedB.extensiveC.expandedD.enlargedBPART FIVE/BB Read the following text.For each question 3140 write one word./BU (31) /Ua do
46、ubt there are countries that offer interesting advantages for entrepreneurs, self employed and business owners. U(32) /U most people dont know about them. That is U(33) /U we have build up this web site. It shall guide you through the different types of companies and jurisdictions. Below we want to
47、describe which advantages and benefits an incorporation can mean U(34) /U you. There are many reasons to incorporate your business:a corporation has a professional outlook U(35) /U a sole proprietorseparate clearly U(36) /U private and businessprotect different business activities individuallyreduce your personal liability U(37) /U case of bankruptcyachieve tax benefitsavoid heritage claimsgain investors by selling company sharesbuild up new creditexpand globally and attract international customersU (38) /U you choose Whitherspoon, Seymour Robinson Corp. y
