1、剑桥商务英语中级-29 (1)及答案解析(总分：60.00，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 (1-7) describe?For each sentence mark one letter (A, B or C)./BB A./BAs HSBC Data Processing (Shanghai) Limited continues to grow, we invite pe
2、ople who excel in a challenging and dynamic work environment to join our fast expanding team. You will support international banking and financial services transactions taking place in areas such as the UK, Hong Kong and other Asia Pacific countries. This is an opportunity for you to use and develop
3、 your professional and English language skills while making great strides towards achieving your career objectives.B B./BWal-Mart Global Procurement (WMGP) is an important division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The mission of WMGP is to carry out merchandising functions to support purchasing activities o
4、f Wal-Mart U. S. A, Sam s Club. and Wal-Mart International through its many branch offices covering various regions of the world. WMGPs overseas Home Office is located in Shenzhen PRC. Our annual purchases from China exceed US $ 4 billion and cover a wide range of product categories including electr
5、onics, toys, seasonal products, housewares, shoes, home textile and apparel products.Shanghai is another full function office in China. We are seeking high quality applicants who are enthusiastic of their work and willing to develop their career in an outstanding company. Interested applicants pleas
6、e send resume in Chinese and English with the position applying for, expected salary, address, telephone number via e-mail to us.B C./BLincoln Industrial Corporation, an American based company, is the world leader in the manufacture and supply of premier automated centralized lubrication systems and
7、 related equipment. Our highly engineered products are applicable to almost all sectors of the industrial market.To support our growing business operations in China, our Shanghai office is seeking a mature, dynamic and result-oriented individual for the Posts.Interested candidates are invited to sub
8、mit (via email or fax) a detailed resume, stating present and expected salaries, in Chinese and English to us.（分数：7.00）(1).The company has established an office in Shenzhen.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).The company focuses on the industrial field.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The company purchases a large number of hou
9、sehold products.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The company backs up banking business.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The company doesnt mention how to apply for the position.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).The company requires the candidates to inform the present salaries.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).The company can accept resumes by fax.（分数：
10、1.00）填空项 1:_BPART TWO/BB Read the following text.Choose the best sentence from the list A-H to fill each of the blanks.For each blank (8-12) mark one letter (A-H) on your answer sheet.Do not mark any letter twice./BEveryone wants to make a good first impression, but how important are snap judgments
11、in the long run?Very, say communications researchers Artemio Ramirez and Mike Sunnafrank, who found that U(8) /U.They randomly paired 164 college freshmen in a communications class, let them chat for three, six or 10 minutes and then asked them to predict the sort of relationship they would have, ra
12、nging from casual acquaintance to close friend.At the end of the nine-week course, U(9) /U.Their findings, published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships: Students who reported a positive impression after the initial meeting were significantly more likely to have developed a friendly
13、relationship after nine weeks, even if U(10) /U.“In as quick as three minutes, people are solidifying original impressions in their heads, and nine weeks down the road its having an effect,“ says Ramirez, an assistant professor of communications at Ohio State University.Ramirez and Sunnafrank used t
14、he Predicted Outcome Value Theory as a basis for their experiment. The theory, developed by Sunnafrank in 1986, says that U(11) /U and try the hardest to develop relationships that they expect to be the most rewarding.“Its a reward-cost analysis that people go through, and they probably do it on a v
15、ery subconscious level,“ says Sunnafrank, a communications professor at the University of Minnesota in Duluth.Students predictions were better indicators of how close they would actually be after nine weeks than how similar the students were or even how much they said they liked each other.This was
16、because the predictions took into account not only students opinions of their partners but also U(12) /U.“It surprised us that after nine weeks we were still finding some pretty powerful effects, suggesting that theres a lasting importance in what happens in the first few minutes,“ Ramirez says.Thou
17、gh it is impossible to get to know everyone well, Sunnafrank says, results suggest that some people who make unfavorable first impressions will suffer.“Perhaps we need to learn a little better to give people the opportunity to overcome first impressions, because I think we are making snap judgments
18、based on such limited impressions that we are cutting off most of the people we meet.“A. the students were asked to assess how their predictions had held upB. they had had only three minutes to make an assessmentC. people judge people only at first sightD. how much they thought the partner liked the
19、mE. assessments made in the first few minutes of meeting someone strongly influence the course the relationship will takeF. they asked the students how their relationship had beenG. when people first meet they predict the probable outcome of the relationshipH. they wonder why their partners didnt li
20、ke them（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 four 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
21、./BAnyone who lives in the eastern part of the United States or Canada and gazed skyward on Tuesday evening may have noticed something strange in their west-northwest sky.At around 9 p.m. ET, a small, bright, silvery circular cloud of light suddenly appeared. Over the next 25 minutes, the cloud appe
22、ared to gradually expand and fade, finally becoming invisible to the unaided eye. Those who saw it, wondered exactly what it might have been.John Bottle, a well-known amateur astronomer with over four-decades of experience of sky observing first caught sight of the cloud at 9:03 p. m. from his home
23、in Stormville, New York. Initially, he thought the cloud was as bright as zero or first magnitude and upon examining it carefully with binoculars, thought that it “. resembled the petals of a day lily.“ By 9:30 p. m. , he reported that the cloud had faded completely from his view.From the North Fork
24、 of Long Island, Bill Bogardus and his wife were out observing when they took note of the cloud “. about the size of the moon“ in the northwest sky. “It was a roundish, yet not all that round, object drifting towards our location very slowly, slower than most satellites because it took at least twen
25、ty minutes to move from where we first saw it to pretty much our zenith.“After studying it for a while through an 8-inch telescope, Bogardus noticed two points of light, “. like a satellite would appear, in line and above a jet of gas that seemed to come from them.“Observing from Ithaca, New York, J
26、oseph Storch used 750 binoculars on the cloud and reported a star-like point or nucleus and four butterfly shaped petals radiating outward. Other reports, received as far west as Toronto, tell of people who initially thought that what they were seeing was the moon behind a cloud. Typical was the com
27、ment: “For a second I thought it was the moon, then I realized the moon was in the east.“What was it?Quite a few people who saw this strange, expanding cloud thought that it might have been an atmospheric experiment sent aloft by a sounding rocket. Over the years, those living along the East Coast h
28、ave been accustomed to occasionally seeing unusual brightly colored clouds caused when exotic chemicals such as barium and trimethylaluminum were released into the Earths ionosphere by rockets launched from NASAs Wallops Island, Virginia site.NASA was indeed responsible for the unusual cloud formati
29、on on Tuesday night, but it was not part of a planned experiment.It was, in reality, a fuel dump of the Centaur stage involved in the NRO-1 satellite launch from Cape Canaveral late Tuesday afternoon. Dumping excess fuel is the usual practice for all Centaur-booster assisted launches. It happens aft
30、er spacecraft separation; the fuel bleeding off from a Centaur upper rocket stage on its second orbit after launch. Being just after nightfall, the cloud of fuel was still sunlit at that altitude.And those who were fortuitously outside when the dump occurred, were the ones who saw this very unusual
31、sight!（分数：6.00）(1).According to the passage, people in _ places are reported to have seen the unusual sight.（分数：1.00）A.6B.5C.4D.3(2).The unusual sight lasted _.（分数：1.00）A.about ten minutesB.about half an hourC.about half a dayD.about a whole day(3).Which of the following sentence is not true?（分数：1.0
32、0）A.The unusual cloud appeared all of a sudden.B.The sight was fairly spectacular.C.The unusual cloud moved rather slowly.D.The unusual cloud appeared in the east.(4).As a matter of fact, the unusual cloud was _.（分数：1.00）A.a fuel dumpB.UFOC.extraterrestrialD.a rocket(5).According to the passage, we
33、can infer those who saw the unusual sight _.（分数：1.00）A.inside their housesB.outside their housesC.inside NASAs siteD.outside NASAs site(6).What is the most suitable title of this passage?（分数：1.00）A.Rocket Launch.B.Viewers of the Unusual Sight.C.An unusual Sight.D.An Accident.BPART FOUR/BB Read the f
34、ollowing text.Choose the best word to flu each gap.For each question (19-33) mark one letter (A, B, C, D) on your answer sheet./BThe percentage of U(19) /U hired for tenured positions at Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences has declined U(20) /U year since 2000, prompting a group of prof
35、essors to complain that the Ivy League schools leadership isnt doing U(21) /U.The proportion of women receiving tenured job U(22) /U went from a height of 36 percent during the 2000-2001 U(23) /U year to 26 percent in 2001-2002 and then to 19 percent in 2002-2003. Last year, just 4 of 32 tenured U(2
36、4) /U were offered to women.The numbers all U(25) /U to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest U(26) /U of the university which U(27) /U both the undergraduate school and the graduate school of arts and sciences.The U(28) /U has prompted 26 professors to U(29) /U a letter to President Lawrenc
37、e H. Summers, who has U(30) /U over every year of the decline. Summers has agreed to meet next month with the professors.“Theres no U(31) /U that hiring as many extraordinary women members of the faculty as we can has to be a crucial priority for the university,“ Summers, who took over as president
38、in 2001, told The Boston Globe in Wednesdays U(32) /U.The letter suggests that Summers may have inadvertently caused the decline by failing to U(33) /U the issue, by concentrating new hires in disciplines with fewer women, and by seeking out “rising young stars“, who are more likely to be at an age
39、when women pause in their careers to have children.Summers said that some of the responsibility lies with Harvards academic departments. Departments nominate and review candidates for senior jobs, though all must ultimately be approved by him.Overall, women currently make up 18 percent of Harvards s
40、enior faculty and 34 percent of the junior faculty, proportions similar to those of peer institutions.（分数：15.00）A.menB.womenC.peopleD.employeesA.eachB.everyC.oneD.anotherA.wellB.goodC.enoughD.plentyA.chancesB.opportunityC.offersD.offeringsA.academicB.schoolC.semesterD.universityA.employeesB.worksC.p
41、ositionsD.spotsA.replyB.applyC.supplyD.monopolyA.partB.portionC.componentD.compositionA.encompassesB.encouragesC.enclosesD.enchantsA.dropB.fallC.decreaseD.declineA.giveB.signC.noteD.sendA.controlledB.tookC.presidedD.commandedA.wonderB.doubtC.problemD.questionA.newspaperB.editionsC.versionD.editorsA.
42、highlightB.noticeC.solveD.concentrateBPART FIVE/BB Read the following text.In most of the lines 34-45 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
43、.If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your answer sheet./BWhile proclaiming it a great day in Washington, Mayor Tony Williams (34) _confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Major League Baseball isreturning to Washington.Williams, who made the announcement duri
44、ng a news conference atthe City Museum, he received a phone call Wednesday from baseball (35) _commissioner Bud Sileg who saying the Montreal Expos would move (36) _in time for from opening day in April 2005. (37) _Therefore the decision came almost 33 years to the day after the (38) _Washington Sen
45、ators played with their last game in D. C., on Sept. 30, 1971. (39) _The District signed for formal papers agreeing to live up to its part of (40) _the bargain, including the construction of a $ 440 million stadiumon the Anacostia River in time for the 2008 season. Between now and (41) _then, when t
46、he Expos will play at RFK Stadium, where renovations (42) _also will be paid by the city.Major League Baseball will now auction off the Expos to the highest (43) _bidder. Local business leaders that formed the Washington BaseballClub and who lobbied hard to get the team are expected to be among the
47、bidders. (44) _Baseballs relocation committee chose the District over NorthernVirginia, they as well as bids from Norfolk, Las Vegas, Portland, Ore. , (45) _and Monterrey, Mexico.Montreal is last in the National League East this season, with a 65-93record and four games remaining.（分数：12.00）(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:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_二、BWRITI
