1、剑桥商务英语中级-31 (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 or D)./BB A. Modeler/B1. Two years of work experience with a top management consulting
2、 firm and Masters degree from top university in quantitative disciplines, such as engineering, operations research, statistics, econometrics, applied math, or physics.2. English fluency, written and oral.3. Ability and desire to learn quickly.4. Drive, entrepreneurial spirit.B B. Intern/B1. Major in
3、 Art, IT, Marketing, Human resources management.2. Master/bachelor.3. Mature in major.4. Fluent-English oral and written, CET-6. and above.5. Out-going, good team player with excellent interpersonal skill.6. Leader in campus activities a plus.B C. Assistant Manager/B1. Deep knowledge of Chinese equi
4、ties markets, and client network, plus knowledge of transactions technologies.2. Proficient in both Chinese (Mandarin, reading and speaking) and English.3. Fast behaviors.4. 35 years experience at either information vendor/trading systems vendor, or at financial markets firm/organization.5. Good com
5、munication, analytical, interpersonal and project management skills.6. Good knowledge of marketing strategy and market research, and ability to apply practically to support decision-making and execution.B D. China Content Specialist/B1. Deep knowledge of China equities and equities-related content i
6、s a must.2. Proficient in both Chinese (Mandarin, reading and speaking) and English.3. Fast behaviors.4. 3 years experience at either information vendor, or at financial markets firm/organization.5. Good analytical, interpersonal, project management and communication skills.6. Degree holder in Marke
7、ting, Financial Management or related disciplines.（分数：7.00）(1).The applicants need to have worked in a consulting company.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).The applicants must be able to back up and carry out decisions.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The applicants need to have got the degree in marketing and related field.（
8、分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The applicants majoring in ART can apply for the job.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The applicants are required to have CET-6 certificate.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).The applicants must be a master degree holder.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).The applicants who are leaders in the Students Union are preferred.（
9、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) mark one letter (AH) on your answer sheet.Do not mark any letter twice./BAn assistant store manager at Costco Wholesale Corp. filed a federal civil rights law
10、suit against the retail chain Tuesday, alleging that she was passed over for a promotionU (8) /U.The suit, U(9) /U, claims that females rarely get high-level management jobs.The lead attorney in the case, Brad Seligman, executive director of the nonprofit Impact Fund, is also suing Wal-Mart Stores I
11、nc. , alleging that the Arkansas-based retailer pays women lower wages and promotes them less than their male counterparts. U(10) /U.But it is stalled in an appeals court, and the merits have not been litigated.The Costco case concerns Shirley “Rae“ Ellis of Aurora, Colo. , who was hired six years a
12、go amid what she says were promises of a promotion within a year from her assistant manager post to an in-store manager at one of the chains 320 U. S.-based outlets. U(11) /U. “I would put my management ability against any manager,“ she said.Issaquah, Wash. -based Costco, which employs about 103,000
13、 people worldwide, did not immediately return calls for comment.The suit, which focuses on in-store assistant manager and manager positions, claims that 50 percent of the chains employees are female, but the management “is virtually all male. “The suit says only 12 percent of Costcos store managers
14、and two of 30 upper-level executives are women.Ellis is seeking unspecified damages, including lost wages, and wants the company to post its managerial positions to its employees.No hearing has been set for a judge to determine whether the lawsuit will represent all current and former female employe
15、esU (12) /U.Assistant managers receive about $65,000 or more, and managers get more than $100,000 plus bonuses, according to Seligman. He said the suit was about “changing the way Costco does business. “Costco shares rose 39 cents to $41.21 Tuesday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.A. who might have been w
16、rongly passed over for a promotion to assistant manager or managerB. that case, which was granted class-action status, represents as many as 1.6 million current and former female Wal-Mart employeesC. because the companys policies discriminate against women in upper managementD. she said the retailer
17、 does not post job offerings for its managerial postsE. who seeks higher position over the past few years but failedF. obviously the managers dont promote female employeesG. she was supported by most of the female employees in the companyH. which seeks class-action status to represent what the plain
18、tiffs lawyers say could be 650 women（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 she
19、et, for the answer you choose./BOrange farmers call one of their earliest-ripening varieties Pineapples. But, in the days after Hurricane Charley tore through Floridas inland orange county, the fruit on the ground looks more like green racquetballs. Small. Hard. Useless.Charley was a ruthlessly effi
20、cient harvesterthe hurricane arrived a couple of months before an orange is supposed to be dislodged from its branch. The storm stripped oranges and grapefruits from countless trees at orange groves. In some of the worst-hit fields, two or three oranges dangle from each tree and thousands lie on the
21、 ground. In other places, trees are split down the middle, lying on piles of soon-to-be-rotting citrus.The devastation in the groves strikes at one of the states signature industries, the ubiquitous “Florida orange juice“ behemoth that is recognizable worldwide.Florida produces more oranges and grap
22、efruits than any other state; the industry has an economic impact on Florida of $9 billion a year, including $1 billion in tax revenue.Great chunks of that economic juggernaut could be imperiled, though the damage is still being assessed.The storm last week shredded swaths of seven of Floridas bigge
23、st citrus-producing counties, responsible for one out of three oranges and grapefruits raised in the state.Charley arrived at a jumpy time for citrus growers here, who were already rattled by recent battles with inexpensive imports andmore importanta huge dip in sales attributed to the popularity of
24、 low-carbohydrate diets, which discourage drinking orange juice. Some growers worry that the devastation will force many out of the citrus business.Frances Causey, 92, has watched Floridas best-known crop get its color all her life, a life of frost and drought and economic catastrophes.“Weve had ups
25、 and downs, but weve never had this,“ she said Monday.Causeyalone in the rock-solid clapboard house her father built nearly a century agowatched as Charley ran roughshod through her groves. The house sits up on a bluff, overlooking Wauchula, one of the dozens of small towns in Floridas interior rake
26、d by the storms winds.These little townplaces that dont show up on many maps, with such names as Zolfo Springs, Brownville, Fort Ogden and Moffittare dozens of miles from the coastal towns of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, which have gotten the most attention in the aftermath of Charley. Far from m
27、ajor media markets, the tiny rural communities have slogged along in a kind of grim, solitary survival march. The vast tracts of soggy land around the towns look like “old Florida“swamps filled with cabbage palms, meadows shaded by oak trees and miles of citrus groves. Pickup trucks steered by men i
28、n sweat-stained fertilizer-company hats skid and bump down narrow, rutted country lanes, where barely solid land seems to be losing the battle against the overwhelming wetness.These are places that grow thingsoranges and grapefruit and cattleand make things. They arent places people go on vacation.
29、This is the other Florida, the one that feels like the Deep South. And some, the people who call this other Florida home, feel forgotten in the storm.“We were listening to the radio and the television and they never talked about us,“ said Mary Stombaugh, who lives on a country road outside Arcadia,
30、about 50 miles from Sarasota. “It really upset me. “Stombaugh and her husband, Jerry, never thought a storm that started in an ocean could find them in the country-road heaven they fell in love with two decades ago.They hosted 11 relatives and friends in their house, each fleeing cities closer to th
31、e coast, or to the north, that were supposed to take direct hits but went largely unscathed. The orange groves across from Stombaughs house are ruined. Just up the road from Stombaughs home, with a bright-blue tarp now serving as a roof, tractor-trailers hauled fat tanks into a crumpled orange juice
32、 processing plant so huge that it resembles an oil refinery. Jason Cloud drove out to gaze at the sagging plant, calculating the impact on a region where agriculture is king.“You drive around and it almost makes you cry,“ said Cloud, who works as an orange grove harvesting coordinator.The citrus bus
33、iness, like any agricultural endeavor, has its own calculus of supply and demand. The misfortune of growers slapped around by Charley will likely produce higher prices for the farmers whose groves went unscathed.“Theyll benefit from our loss,“ said John Causey, the nephew of Frances Causey. “Maybe f
34、ive years from now, well benefit from their loss. “（分数：6.00）(1)._ have been paid most attention to after Hurricane Charley.（分数：1.00）A.inland townsB.coastal townsC.rural areasD.little towns(2).The tax revenue of the citrus business in Florida represents _ out of the overall incomes of the citrus busi
35、ness.（分数：1.00）A.23 percentB.17 percentC.11 percentD.9 percent(3).Hurricane Charley caused _ to the citrus business in Florida.（分数：1.00）A.not mentionedB.$9 billionC.under estimationD.$1 billion(4).Which of the following sentence is true?（分数：1.00）A.All the orange groves in Florida have been destroyed
36、by Hurricane Charley.B.The victims may recover from the loss soon.C.The government will give relief to these victims.D.Some orange growers may benefit from the disaster.(5).We can infer from the passage, _（分数：1.00）A.The inland areas in Florida are often visited by storms.B.The rural communities in F
37、lorida have changed a lot in the past 20 years.C.People in rural communities in Florida have difficulty making contact with outside world.D.Coastal areas meet with storms more often than inland areas in Florida.(6).Which is the topic of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Citrus business damaged by hurricane.B.C
38、itrus business in Florida.C.Worldwide hometown of oranges.D.Hurricane Charley.BPART FOUR/BB Read the following text.Choose the best word to fill each gap.For each question (1933) mark one letter (A, B, C, D) on your answer sheet./BNineteen California pharmacies filed a state lawsuit Thursday accusin
39、g the worlds largestU (19) /Ucompanies of conspiring toU (20) /UU. S. drug prices.The pharmacies accuse the 15 drugU (21) /Uof illegally conspiring to charge inflated prices in the United States while barring pharmacies from buying the makers drugs atU (22) /Uprices outside the country.“We are being
40、 charged higher prices than foreigners are being charged,“ said Joseph Alioto, representing the pharmacies. “If we are selling the same drug we want to pay the same prices asU (23) /Uelse. “The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County court in Oakland, U(24) /Uthe pharmaceutical companies haveU (25) /Uthe p
41、harmacies bottom lines byU (26) /UCalifornias antitrust and unfair business practices laws.The lawsuit comes at a time when pharmaceutical companies are under increasedU (27) /Uover drug costs and their marketingU (28) /U. Many of the same drugs sold in the United States are available in Canada and
42、elsewhere forU (29) /Uof the U.S. retail prices.The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedlyU (30) /Urequests to import drugs from Canada, where the government controls prices. The state of Vermont has filed a lawsuit against the federal agency over theU (31) /U.Many of the drug companies either
43、declinedU (32) /Uor didnt return telephone calls Thursday. The drug industry has in the past defended its U. S. prices as a way toU (33) /Uresearch and development costs.（分数：15.00）A.chemicalB.pharmaceuticalC.medicalD.medicineA.increaseB.decreaseC.inflateD.deflateA.makersB.dealersC.storesD.factoriesA
44、.sameB.lowerC.higherD.cheaperA.someoneB.anyoneC.everyoneD.othersA.arguesB.allegesC.confirmsD.assertsA.hitB.hurtC.touchedD.reachedA.violatingB.abidingC.betrayingD.abandoningA.checkB.examinationC.scuffD.scrutinyA.practicesB.movementsC.actionsD.activitiesA.partsB.portionsC.fractionsD.factionsA.refusedB
45、.acceptedC.receivedD.deniedA.itemB.problemC.issueD.lawA.commentB.interviewC.reportD.talkA.payB.compensateC.restartD.recoupBPART 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
46、lines, however, are correct.If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your answer sheet.If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your answer sheet./B“Today, California took off a giant step toward a brighter future for the (34) _frail elderly patients who receiv
47、e care in skilled nursing of facilities,“ (35) _said Jim Gomez, President and CEO of the California Association ofHealth Facilities. “At a time when legislators, regulators, residents andfamilies are rightfully demanding for the best care possible, California (36) _now has a funding system which wil
48、l actually pay for the cost of (37) _providing care and take into consideration the level of care which each (38) _patient needs,“ continued Gomez.“Governor Schwarzeneggers support of AB 1629 (Frommer-D, Glendale)is consistent with the expectation when he laid out last January. He (39) _said that in t
