1、剑桥商务英语中级-9 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BREADING/B(总题数：1，分数：7.00)PART ONE Look at the statements below and the information about newspaper stories. Which story (A, B, C or D) does each statement refer to? For each sentence17, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet. You will need to use
2、some of the letters more than once.AChief Michael Omisade, a lawyer, has been appointed chairman of the National Bank of Nigena. He succeeds Mr. C S. O. Akande, who relinquished the post at the end of his three-year term. The Board of Directors of the Bank has also been reconstituted with the appoin
3、tment of five new persons: Mr. M A. AdAeniran, Mr. G. L. Oyawola, Chief Femi Oyebanjo, Mr. Tunde Oyefodunnn, Mr. ,J. O. Turki, Mr. S. O. Banjo (the managing director) and Mr. J. A. Ogunbiyi.BUnion officials from Australia, Barbados, Britain, Canada, India, Sierra Leone and Tanzania have been named a
4、s the steering committee of the newly-formed Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC) . Dennis McDermott, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, was appointed chairman of the council, whose chief aim is promoting the interests of trade unions and some 25m workers in the Commonwealth, specially th
5、ose in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Mr. Len Murray, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, said he hoped the new organization, officially formed on March 1, could help further the dialogue between the nations of the industrialized North and the develop
6、ing South.CThe Sokoto Match Factory, opened in 1978, has been closed down due to acute shortage of spare pans, lack of raw materials and cash flow problems. The general manager of the company? Mr. Nasir Mikhali, regretted the closure because he had thought the project was viable. The factory was a j
7、oint venture of the Sokoto State Government, Messrs Alawa A/C factory, and PAPCO (Nigeda) Ltd. It had 50 employees and was producing about 27,000 canons of good quality matches a year. The workers went on strike.DThe meeting of the international Tin Council in London earlier this month decided to ra
8、ise the price range of the buffer stock by ten percent. This lifted the “floor“ from 1,500 ringgit (Malaysian dollars) per picul (133 1/31bs) to M 1,650 per picul and the “ceiling“ from M 1,950 to M 2,145. At last weeks exchange rates that would make the floor a bit under 6,000 a tonne and the ceili
9、ng over 7,250 a tonne, with the middle belt, where the buffer stock manager may neither buy nor sell without special permisson, from about 6,150 a tonne just over 6,700 a tonne.（分数：7.00）(1).The company has been out of business.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Tins price was raised.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Bank appoin
10、ts chief Michael Omisade to the chairman of a branch bank.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Trade union is formed.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The organization aims to further the dialogue between the developed countries and developing countries.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).It produces about 27,000 canons of matches a year.（分数：1.0
11、0）填空项 1:_(7).He beat his competitor and gained the appointment.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_二、BPART TWO/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00) Read the article about finance. Choose the best sentence to fill each of the gaps. For each gap 812 mark one letter (AG) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once. There is an
12、 example at the beginning.BThe Dollar in World Markets/BAccording to a leading German banker, the U.S. dollar is “the most frequently discussed economic phenomenon of our times“. He adds, “.the dollars exchange rate is at present the most important price in the world economy.“ . Because the dollar a
13、cts as a world currency its value affects many nations The central banks of many countries hold huge reserves of dollars, and over half of all world trade is priced in terms of dollars. Any shift in the dollars exchange rate will benefit some and hurt others. Some people suggest, therefore,U (8) /U.
14、The dollars exchange rate has been too volatile and unpredictable. Several years ago the dollar was rapidly declining in value. This made itU (9) /UThe rise in the price of foreign goods made it possible for U. S. businesses to raise the price of competing goods produced here, thus worsening inflati
15、on. Foreigners who dealt in dollars or who held dollars as reserves were hurt. People in the United States who had borrowed foreign currencies found that they had to pay back more than they borrowedU (10) /UThe United States lost face in the eyes of the rest of the world.The dollar went soaring upwa
16、rd, and the situation was reversed. United States exporters found it hard to sell abroad because foreigners would have to pay more for U.S. dollars. People in the United States now bought the relatively cheaper foreign goods, and U.S. manufacturers complained that they could not compete. Job losses
17、were often blamed on the “overvalued“ dollar. Poor nationsU (11) /Ufound it difficult to repay both the loans and the interest because they had to use more and more of their own currencies to obtain dollars. The solution to this problem is to end the system of floating exchange rates and return to f
18、ixed rates. We might even return to the gold standard.Fixed exchange rates did not work in the past. Currency values should be determined by market conditions. A drop in the exchange value of a nations currency means thatU (12) /Uthat it is too inefficient to compete in world markets, that it is per
19、mitting a high rate of inflation which makes its goods too expensive, that it is going too deeply in debt, or that others have lost confidence in the nations stability. A nation should bring its exchange rate back up by addressing these problems, not by interfering with the money market.A that had b
20、orrowed dollarsB that the dollars value should be more tightly controlledC because the declining dollar would buy fewer units of the foreign moneyD its value affects many nationsE difficult for Americans to purchase foreign goods and servicesF that have a lot of U. S. dollarsG it is importing too mu
21、ch（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:_三、BPART THREE/B(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Read the article below about research and development in industry and the questions on the opposite page.For each question 1318, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.BRes
22、earch and Development in Industry/BIt is only through innovation that large companies will be able to survive, according to Mark Peter, vice-chair- man of UK-owned industrial giant 5P. However, says Peter, it remains difficult to run a truly innovative company. Innovation involves speculation, unpro
23、ven technologies and unpredictable costs. It takes a lot of managing, because managers really have to be on top of whats happening. In addition, innovation does not fit easily into the orderly kind of organization that company accountants like. Despite this, Peter claims it is an essential policy to
24、 pursue.The 5P groups record of growth aid profitability indicates that it manages the orderly part of the business pretty well. The statistics are big: operations in more than 60 countries, sales in more than 200. around 60, 000 products and 70, 000 employees. But what makes 5P different is its inn
25、ovative approach to innovation itself. Although it is a massive multi-national with a turnover of $ 15 billion, the whole company is bro- ken down into tiny groups which work together and help each other and are then encouraged to consult internally with the other groups. This positively encourages
26、individual and collaborative research.A further encouragement is that all research staff world-wide are expected to work on 5P projects for only 85% of their times for the remaining 15% of time they are free to pursue ideas of their own, using company facilities. In this time they can work on their
27、own or in a group. One hugely successful project that has come out of this 15% rule is the Post-it note. The idea came from an individual inventor and then. using the business skills of a large organization, was rapidly developed into a major product. The success of the Post-it note proves how profi
28、table the innovative 15% rule can be.Mark Peter says innovation is at the heart of 5P. In 1996. more that 30% of sales were generated by products less than four years old. He says: “We almost always get into new markets through innovation. Were very good at adapting these innovations to lots of diff
29、erent markets so we have a high success rate. We take an idea and see how many applications its got. Then we try to establish market dominance. We have a tremendous variety of technologies so we can adapt anything but we still need the original ideas to develop.“ In the past year 5P has introduced a
30、 group-wide program called Pacing Plus. This means that they are still actively seeking new ideas, but with the difference that they hope many of them will eventually lead to the establishment of completely new business. In this way, 5P will be able to invest in a wide range of markets and even crea
31、te some new ones.This emphasis on innovation creates unusual stresses and strains and makes a company like 5P a difficult business To manage. Technical people at 5P are given a large degree of intellectual freedom, and the company appears to specifically try to recruit people who think for themselve
32、s and who dont necessarily solve things by the traditional routes. The management encourages people to step outside of the security that comes from working in a big, stable group, and then to handle the consequences. So far the mixture of freedom and heavy responsibility seems to work: the 25 resear
33、ch schemes now under review could generate business worth $ 6 billion a year.（分数：6.00）(1).5Ps approach to innovation is different because it allows researchers to（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Mark Peter says it can be difficult for companies to be innovative because this involves（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).When 5P ha
34、s a new idea it tries to（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The writer says that the Post-it note was invented as a result of（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The researchers at 5P need to be people who（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).5P sees the Pacing Plus program as（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BPART FOUR/B(总题数：1，分数：15.00) Read the text below about a
35、n accountant. Choose the best word to fill each gap, from A, B, C or D. For each question 19 33 mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet. There is an example at the beginning,BCharlie Has a Chance to Get Ahead/BCharlie is employed known an accountant in a small assembly plant in the Midwe
36、st. In his seven years at Astro-Technology, he has becomeU (19) /Uwith most of the 200 employees and enjoys theU (20) /Uof his office and the company attitude toward him. However, in the past three years, he has not received a promotion, and there is little chance for one in the near future. The rai
37、ses he hasU (21) /Uhave not kept up with inflation. He has discussed the situation frequently with his wife, Rita, who is. working as a personnel officer at a research firm in town.Although Rita has never told Charlie, she feels that her job has more status than hisU (22) /UCharlie earns slightly mo
38、re than income, she has more flexible hours, more holidays with pay, better company fringe benefits, and apparently more status when the two companies organizational charters areU (23) /URita enjoys her present position and the salary she receives.The two daughters are doing well in grammar school a
39、nd are active in girl scouts and the 4H Club.A month ago CharlieU (24) /Ua new position for an accountant in their home office in Dallas. He knows that his company has aU (25) /Uof promoting from within, and his supervisor feels that he would have a good chance of getting the position. It would mean
40、 an immediate 15 percentU (26) /Uin pay; more prestige, because he would have a private officer and moreU (27) /Ufor promotions. He applied for the position, but was afraid to tell his wife. When the interview wasU (28) /Uhe informed Rita that he had to go to Dallas for a seminar.Charlie wasU (29) /
41、Uwith Dallas and the possible neighbourhoods his family could select to make their home. The home office was impressive! Dark walnut and chrome were everywhere, and the personnel in the office were very friendly. After a tour of the facility he had an interview with five managers.A week later he was
42、U (30) /Uthat he was one of the three finalists. He was excited and eager to accept the position if it was offered him. That night, when he told Rita, she WasU (31) /UThe move would mean they would have to leave their lovely home that they had been remodeling over the last seven years. The girls wou
43、ld have to find new friends.Finally and mostU (32) /Ucould Rita find a job as good as the one she has? It seemed unfair to force her to move and give up a good job, just so Charlie could satisfy his ownU (33) /UIt turned into a real argument. Charlie wanted to move and Rita did not. Charlie was sayi
44、ng that he is a striver and Rita was saying she is happy with their status in life.（分数：15.00）A.knownB.acquaintedC.acquaintD.knowedA.environmentB.contextC.atmosphereD.relationA.acceptedB.getC.receiveD.receivedA.IfB.Even thoughC.HoweverD.OrA.comparedB.comparingC.contrastD.contrastedA.heard ofB.heardC.
45、listenedD.listened toA.ruleB.habitC.practiceD.practicesA.raiseB.raisingC.ariseD.arisingA.chancesB.chanceC.opportunityD.opportunitiesA.scheduleB.scheduledC.schedulingD.metA.impressiveB.impressingC.impressD.impressedA.noticingB.noticedC.informedD.informA.upsettingB.excitedC.pleasantD.upsetA.importantB
46、.unhappyC.sadD.unfortunatelyA.goalB.spiritsC.wantsD.ego五、BPART FIVE/B(总题数：1，分数：12.00) Read the text below about Ad Compaign. In most of the lines 34-45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. If
47、a line is correct, write CORRECT on you Answer Sheet. If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word on your Answer Sheet.A Memo to Some Marketing DirectorsRe: New Ad CampaignDevelopment of our next magazine advertising campaign is underway, our newadvertising firm, Marshall and Dupree,
48、 has have prepared two contrasting34. approaches for us to consider. We must ought choose between these two35. concepts at this stage so that Marshall and Dupree can continue the36. development of our choice. Development of two both approaches beyond this37. stage is prohibitively expensive. Therefore, I am enclosing two sketches w
