1、剑桥商务英语中级-1 及答案解析(总分：70.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BREADING/B(总题数：5，分数：45.00)BPART ONE/BB Read these sentences and the following texts.Which text does each sentence (17) describe?For each sentence mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E)./BB A. Consultant/B1. Major in Management or similar fields.2. Master Degree.3. C
2、omputer literacy.4. Fluency in both written and spoken English.5. High motivation and initiative.6. High degree of professional integrity and personal drive.7. Excellent communicational and organizational skills.8. Ability to work as part of a team.9. Willingness to travel.B B. Intern/B1. Solid tele
3、communication and computer background.2. Solid knowledge about C/C+.3. Good communication skills and fast learning capacity.4. Prefer: Basic knowledge about Linux and WINCE.5. Prefer. Master student or undergraduate of CS or EE.B C. Project Assistant/B1. Bachelor Degree or above.2. Above CET-6, good
4、 at spoken and written English.3. Quick understanding, good at communication and writing.4. Honest, Earnest, Responsible and Ambitious.5. Frequent user of MS office system.6. Knowledge or experience of programming, website construction or art design preferred.B D. Human Resources Officer/B1. Univers
5、ity degree.2. At least two to three years hands-on working experience in recruiting for a sizable multinational company.3. Familiarity with local recruitment channels, practices, and a proven successful record in past recruitment work.4. Good communication and interpersonal skills, team spirit, abil
6、ity to work under pressure, independent and mature.5. Proficiency in both written and spoken English.6. Good computer skill in Microsoft Office, i. e. Word, Excel, Powerpoint.B E. Trade Operations Assistant/B1. More than one years working experience preferred but fresh graduates with good attitude w
7、ould be considered too.2. Good typing skills.3. Basic PC skills and English language skills.4. Vocational school graduates preferred.5. Basic knowledge of Imp/Exp, trade services, banking, finance or accounting.6. Willingness to work eight-hour shift averaging 40 hours per week.（分数：7.00）(1).Master d
8、egree is a must.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).The applicants are expected to pass CET-6.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The applicants are required to know several computer languages.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The applicants must have good understanding of the process of recruiting.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The applicants dont necess
9、arily have university degree.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).The job involves designing web pages.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).The applicants should accept frequent business tour.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_BPART TWO/BB Read the following text.Choose the best sentence from the list AH to fill each of the blanks.For each blank (812)
10、 mark one letter (AH) on your answer sheet.Do not mark any letter twice./BThe former chief executive officer of Computer Associates was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York Wednesday for allegedly participating in a massive fraud conspiracy and an elaborate cover up of a scheme that cost inv
11、estors hundreds of millions of dollars.Meanwhile the company, under new management, reached an agreement with the Security and Exchange Commission to pay $225 million in compensation to shareholders victimized by the criminal conduct.U (8) /U.U(9) /U.A third executive, former senior vice president a
12、nd general counsel Stephen Woghin, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Wednesday for his role in the fraud scheme.Prosecutors said the long-running accounting fraud scheme featured what came to be known by Computer Associates employees as a “35-day month“U (10) /U.“The defendants cooked the books by simply k
13、eeping them open beyond the end of a fiscal quarter for however long it took to meet the analysts earning estimates,“ said Deputy Attorney General James Comey. Comey said by the time the “house of cards“ collapsed, about $2.2 billion in revenue was booked prematurely.Comey was joined by top FBI and
14、SEC officials for announcement of the charges and settlement at a Justice Department news conference.U (11) /U.Comey noted that for the first time in a major corporate fraud case, prosecutors decided to defer prosecution against the corporation itself.U (12) /Uif the new management team met a series
15、 of strict requirements for corporate reform.“I view this as sort of a model,“ Comey told reporters.“We have no interest in swinging at a wrong door and knocking down thousands of innocent employees,“ he said. The deputy attorney general said if the company demonstrates it has a culture “that can be
16、 saved and contribute to society“ there was no reason to further punish the corporation.A. Comey said the government wouldnt have known the schemesB. it also agreed to institute corporate reforms and to cooperate with ongoing federal investigationsC. the government promised to drop charges against C
17、A after 18 monthsD. because company books were hidden until revenues exceeded the estimatesE. because company books were routinely kept open until revenues exceeded projected goalsF. when CA refused to corporate with ongoing federal investigationsG. former CEO and chairman of the board Sanjay Kumar
18、was indicted in Brooklyn along with his former head of worldwide sales, Stephen RichardsH. Comey heads the Bush Administrations Corporate Fraud Task Force（分数：5.00）(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:_BPART THREE/BB Look at the following text and questions over the page.Each question has f
19、our suggested answers or ways of finishing the sentence, A, B, C and D.Mark one letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet, for the answer you choose./BAmericans passion for living large is growing, even if their incomes arent, a Census survey released Thursday indicates.Since the beginning of the dec
20、ade, their homes have gotten substantially bigger and more expensive. Almost half of all homes, about 46%, have six or more rooms. More than 15% have eight rooms or more.Almost one in five families have three or more cars. And more workers are opting out of carpools and mass transit to drive to work
21、 alone.But this lifestyle comes at a cost when incomes are stagnating and housing prices are soaring.In a separate report on poverty and income, the Census Bureau reported that median household income, when adjusted for inflation, remained flat last year.But the survey of how Americans live finds th
22、at more than 22% of homeowners spent at least 35% of their income on housing in 2003, up from 19% in 2000. And 38% of renters spent as much, up from 33% in 2000.“Our wages stopped growing, but our wants kept going,“ says Robert Lang, a demographer who heads the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tec
23、h.“People will just suffer a little and pay a bigger mortgage to hold on to their dreams,“ he says.The latest snapshot of American life comes from the Census Bureaus American Community Survey. The annual survey of 800,000 households asks the same questions as the Census that is taken every 10 years.
24、 The 2003 numbers offer a look at how the nation has changed in the wake of recession and terrorist attacks, and they hint at social trends shaping the decade.“Even though the economy took a dive, the initial shock of 911 has worn off,“ says William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution i
25、n Washington. “People are buying bigger homes, more cars. “Riding record-low interest rates, housing prices have skyrocketed. The percentage of homeowners who live in houses valued at more than $500,000 doubled since 2000, to more than 6%.And one in eight homeowners live in homes valued at $300,000
26、to $499,999.About half still live in homes that cost less than $150,000, the typical price range for working-class families and young couples buying their first homes. But that number has dropped sharply from almost 64% in 2000.Even in North Dakota, which has the lowest housing value in the nation,
27、prices rose. The median value of a house there went up 10% to $81,796 since 2000. Nationally, the median value rose 22% to $147,275.The survey reflects other changes:The percentage of homes without telephone service rose to 3.8%, from 3% in 2000, which reflects the increased dependence on cellular p
28、hones.“A lot of dorms have no phone service now,“ Lang says. “Kids go to college, and not one of them has a real phone. Theyre all cells. “The educational level is on the rise. More than a quarter of the population has a bachelors degree or higher. And the percentage of high school graduates continu
29、es to climb, up 2 percentage points to 83.6%.The ratio of college grads to high school dropouts has increased. There are 1.62 college grads for every dropout, up from 1.35 in 2000.This “brains-to-brawn“ ratio reflects the shift from a blue-collar to a knowledge economy, Frey says.Americans are spend
30、ing about the same 24 minutes commuting to work, but almost 78% are driving alone, up from 76.3% in 2000. The exception is so-called “exurban“ counties across the USA, such as Pasco County, north of Tampa, and McHenry and Kane counties outside Chicago. They experienced significant increases in commu
31、ting times.Use of other forms of transportation, from walking to riding a bus, dropped. But the percentage of people working from home increased slightly.All racial groups are growing, except for whites who are not Hispanic. Whites make up 76.1% of the population, down from 77.3% in 2000. Theyre exp
32、ected to make up half of the population within 50 years.The foreign-born population continues to grow but so does the share of immigrants becoming citizens. 41.4%, up almost 1 percentage point since 2000.Because naturalized citizens can vote, there has been a push to encourage naturalization before
33、the upcoming presidential election.Veterans, who have taken center stage in the race for the White House, make up a relatively large share of several battleground states such as Maine, New Mexico, Florida, Nevada and Arizona.Although still in the minority at 48.9%, men make up a growing share of the
34、 population. Frey attributes the change to male-dominated immigration flows from Latin America.（分数：6.00）(1).The income spent on housing has increased by _ since 2000, while the income spent on renting houses has increased to _ in the same period.（分数：1.00）A.19%, 33%B.16%, 38%C.19%, 38%D.16%, 33%(2).A
35、ccording to the survey, the effects of 911 on Americans have _ .（分数：1.00）A.increasedB.remained the sameC.decreasedD.disappeared(3).Newly-married couples prefer houses at the price of _ .（分数：1.00）A.less than $150,000B.from $150,000 to $300,000C.from $300,000 to $499,999D.more than $500,000(4).Which o
36、f the following sentence is true?（分数：1.00）A.More workers in America would rather share a car.B.The American economy has reached its highest point in history.C.Americans use fewer telephones because of the coming of computers.D.Knowledge-based economy is beginning to affect America.(5).The word “comm
37、ute“ is equal to _ .（分数：1.00）A.go and comeB.back and forthC.to and froD.off and on(6).What is the most suitable title of this passage?（分数：1.00）A.The Life in AmericaB.A Survey of American LifeC.Housing and Education in AmericaD.Changes in Life WayBPART FOUR/BB Read the following text.Choose the best
38、word to fill each gap.For each question (1933) mark one letter (A, B, C, D) on your answer sheet./BA federal appeals court cleared former baseball star Steve Garvey ofU (19) /UforU (20) /Ua weight-loss product that makersU (21) /Uwould work even if dieters continued to eat fatty food.The Ninth Circu
39、it Court of Appeals did reinstate the Federal Trade Commissions lawsuit againstU (22) /Uof the televisionU (23) /UGarvey appeared in toU (24) /Uthe two products, known as Fat Trapper and Exercise in a Bottle.Fat Trapper is made out of seafood shells and allegedly “surrounds the fat in the food you e
40、at andU (25) /Uit,“ according to the court.The FTCU (26) /Uthat the production company Modern Interactive Technology, Inc. madeU (27) /Uadvertising claims when itU (28) /Uinfomercials 48,000 times from December 1998 to May 2000.“I love this,“ the courtU (29) /UGarvey as saying in one of the spots.“S
41、o, you can enjoy all theseU (30) /Ufoods like fried chicken, pizza, cheeseburgers, even butter and sour cream and stop worrying about weight. “The dietary supplements marketer, Enforma Natural Products Inc., had settled aU (31) /Ulawsuit with the FTC for $10 million in 2000.In 2002, the judgeU (32)
42、/UGarvey of any wrongdoing and the FTC appealed. The court ruled that Garvey didnt know of any misrepresentations nor did he purposelyU (33) /Uduring the infomercials.Garvey, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, was the National Leagues Most Valuable Player in 1974. He ea
43、rned $1.1 million for appearing in the infomercials.（分数：15.00）A.mistakeB.cheatingC.wrongdoingD.wrongA.hawkingB.sellingC.hookingD.producingA.remarkedB.confirmedC.claimedD.declaredA.factoryB.producersC.sellersD.manufacturersA.informationB.programsC.commercialsD.infomercialsA.recommendB.endorseC.advert
44、iseD.propagateA.capturesB.trapsC.catchesD.entrapsA.allegesB.claimsC.declaresD.saysA.fakeB.wrongC.falseD.cheatA.airedB.transmittedC.broadcastD.promotedA.citesB.recommendsC.findsD.quotesA.fattyB.junkC.deliciousD.healthyA.similarB.relatedC.latestD.sameA.clearedB.cleanedC.declaredD.claimedA.cheatB.decei
45、veC.lieD.defraudBPART FIVE/BB Read the following text.In most of the lines 3445 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your answer sheet.If there is an extra
46、word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your answer sheet./BDallas-based media conglomerate Belo Corp. (NYSE. BLC) saidWednesday that it would cut off 250 jobs, mostly at its flagship (34) _newspaper The Dallas Morning News.The company also announced that an investigation of cir
47、culationof practices at The Morning News found no evidence of improper activity (35) _on the part of the current senior executives of The Dallas Morning (36) _News or on the part of Belo Corp. executives.Belo said flat revenue since 2001 in the Dallas=Fort Worth area which (37) _made changes in the
48、expense structures of The Morning News and (38) _WFAA-TV, with Belos ABC affiliate in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, (39) _necessary. The cuts are expected to take place by Nov. 1.Belo disclosed Aug. 5 that The Morning News had overstated with (40) _newspaper circulation by 5 percent on Sundays and 1
