1、BEC商务英语（中级）阅读模拟试卷 31及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 Look at the statements below and the advertisements on the opposite page. Which advertisement does each statement 1-7 refer to7 For each sentence 1-7, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet. You will need to use some of the letters more than onc
2、e. A ILT Consultants 19,000 + benefits Heres an exciting opportunity to combine your presentation skills and organisational abilities, working for a team of systems analysts. You will need to have a good eye for detail as the role involves large amounts of proof reading and checking. The job also in
3、volves client liaison at all levels, as well as an element of research. B John Guild Son 17,500 + benefits City finance house seeks a mature person to work for the Secretariat. The post involves: looking after customers financial assets such as property and possessions; database work; accounting; an
4、d organisational responsibilities. The bulk of the workload is highly confidential. A good level and range of PC experience will secure you an interview. C Hoopers 17,000 Join this household name and play a key part in supporting their Regional Operations Director and Marketing team. This is a newly
5、-created position within a well-established firm and there is plenty of opportunity for you to develop your role. You will need to be self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, Some Windows experience essential. D ITC Investment Consultants 18,000 + This is an opening for a bright, part-qualifie
6、d assistant to work in an investment companys busy personnel department. You will need to have one years experience of interviewing job applicants, and the confidence to handle appraisals and disciplinary actions. Further training will be offered for the right candidate. Keyboard skills are desirabl
7、e as you will manage all personal correspondence. 1 This job involves working for a well-known company, 2 You will meet a wide variety of customers in this job. 3 This post involves responsibility for recruitment. 4 Your work should not be discussed outside the office. 5 In this job you will deal wi
8、th peoples investments. 6 This post has recently been established. 7 Your job description will require you to read some documents very carefully. 二、 PART TWO 7 Read the article below about telecommunications. Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap 8-12
9、, mark one letter (A-G) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once. THE CUSTOMER MAY NOT RING TWICE Companies spend large sums of money on their telephone systems, but then use them to create the wrong image, according to Ben Lambert, International Performance Manager at a company ca
10、lled Octopus. He claims that many companies have an average response time of 17 seconds Some can take as long as 24 seconds to answer the phone. At one time you had to dial the number and wait for the exchange or an operator to connect you. You were aware that it was probably going to take time and
11、if no-one picked up the phone you would probably hang on for 20 rings, he says. Now you bang in the numbers and the phone rings at the other end almost before you have finished. (8) Unless it is vital to get through, you are rarely prepared to wait as long as 24 seconds. In fact, the average respons
12、e time should be five to ten seconds. Telephonists are one of the main interfaces with the public and customers. They give the first impression of the company and by definition you get only one chance to make a first impression. The facilities manager should know the fastest response time to the tel
13、ephone, the slowest response time and the average response time. Mr Lambert points to a television advertisement by a leading bank that promised an answer within four rings. (9) Banks are trying to promote themselves as service providers and this advertisement gave a very powerful message, says Mr L
14、ambert. Octopus estimates that telecommunications is the most expensive support service in offices, costing on average 1,000 per employee each year. (10) Given the changes over the past ten years, the cost of communicating is likely to continue to rise. In 1986, the typical office worker had just a
15、simple push-button, or even dialling, handset. Now the traditional desk-based telephone also has voice mail and direct dialling and the staff member relies increasingly on email, paging, video- conferencing, on-line business seduces and mobile phones. Mr Lambert says, Such is the importance of all t
16、his to regions and economies generally that cities are increasingly looking on communications as the key infrastructure issue. (11) They are becoming as important, if not more so, than physical communications. Telephony can sometimes get too sophisticated, though. Some American companies, for exampl
17、e, are refusing to install automatic answering systems that tell callers to dial extension numbers. (12) This gives the opposite impression to the one that companies would like to project. A This was a very simple strategy that created a new performance measure. B Considering the cost of facilities,
18、 better systems are out of the question. C You expect an equally quick response. D Atlanta, for example, used the Olympic games as an opportunity to become one of the best places in the world for multimedia communications. E In many cases these are left on all day and the caller is passed automatica
19、lly from one office to another. F It is second only to wages within the average company budget. G He claims that many companies have an average response time of 17 seconds for incoming calls. 三、 PART THREE 12 Read the article below about British companies and their performance in the American market
20、, and the questions on the opposite page. For each question (13-18), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet. BRITISH COMPANIES CROSS THE ATLANTIC Next month a large group of British business people are going to America on a venture which may generate export earnings for their companies
21、shareholders in years to come. A long list of sponsors will support the initiative, which will involve a they are fed up with the banal, middle-of-the-road taste that America does so well. They are now looking for the small, the precious, the real thing, and this is precisely what many of the compan
22、ies participating in the initiative do best. 13 The main reason that the British business people are going to America is to （ A） encourage American consumers to buy their products. （ B） analyse how American companies attract media coverage. （ C） look for financial backing from American investors and
23、 banks. （ D） investigate how British and American companies could form partnerships. 14 In the writers opinion, the proposed venture will be different to previous ones because （ A） fewer British business leaders will be making the trip. （ B） less well-known companies will be better represented. （ C）
24、 the larger companies have decided they will not be participating. （ D） it involves research into how British companies market themselves. 15 The writer states that Carringtons was wrong to （ A） be cautious about trading in America. （ B） borrow money from its European investors. （ C） assume it was s
25、uperior to American rivals. （ D） ignore the advice of its American managers. 16 According to the writer, Polly Browns mistake occurred when it （ A） continued to trade despite making a loss. （ B） attempted to attract a different type of customer. （ C） tried to break into too many markets at the same
26、time. （ D） expected American consumers to pay British prices for goods. 17 Sarah Scott states that British companies hoping to succeed in America should （ A） focus on a gap in the market. （ B） be less concerned with their image. （ C） concentrate on selling products in the mid-price range. （ D） carry
27、 out research into the pricing policies of American companies. 18 The writer suggests that success in America depends upon （ A） adopting a more American approach to marketing. （ B） persuading the mid-range consumer to pay for quality. （ C） copying the strategies of American companies. （ D） building
28、a reputation as a supplier of unique goods. 四、 PART FOUR 18 Read the extract below from a company chairmans annual report to shareholders. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the opposite page. For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet. Cha
29、irmans Report I am pleased to report that, although we had been expecting poor results for this half year because of slow growth in the world economy, the company has performed very satisfactorily. Operating profits for this first half are in fact very much (19) with those for the corresponding (20)
30、 last year. Profits reached 115 million before tax, compared with 116.3 million last year. Much of our success in the last six months can be (21) to the fact. that all our major construction projects remained on schedule. Particularly pleasing was the early (22) of a major building contract in Canad
31、a. The company has made good progress with the initiatives announced at the Annual General Meeting. The majority of shareholders (23) the Boards decision to sell the companys loss-making engineering (24) It was the Boards belief that the company would (25) most benefit by (26) its resources on the e
32、xpansion of its construction activities. Negotiations with a potential buyer began in February and are now at a critical (27) However, we feel that we are not as yet in a (28) to comment on what the outcome is likely to be. In June, we made a successful (29) for the Renishaw Construction Company of
33、Hong Kong SAR, in order to give us greater (30) to markets in South East Asia. We still have sufficient resources to pursue our growth (31) and are at present (32) several other business opportunities which, like Renishaw Construction, would (33) new markets to us. （ A） in order （ B） on track （ C） i
34、n line （ D） on target （ A） session （ B） term （ C） season （ D） period （ A） attributed （ B） referred （ C） assigned （ D） designated （ A） termination （ B） ending （ C） completion （ D） finalising （ A） confirmed （ B） maintained （ C） agreed （ D） supported （ A） portion （ B） component （ C） sector （ D） divisio
35、n （ A） have （ B） gain （ C） find （ D） earn （ A） focusing （ B） directing （ C） pointing （ D） strengthening （ A） height （ B） step （ C） edge （ D） stage （ A） condition （ B） point （ C） position （ D） capacity （ A） request （ B） price （ C） demand （ D） bid （ A） access （ B） approach （ C） admission （ D） entrance
36、 （ A） strategy （ B） process （ C） promotion （ D） system （ A） inquiring （ B） deliberating （ C） exploring （ D） searching （ A） send （ B） open （ C） provide （ D） give 五、 PART FIVE 33 Read the text below about the advantages of learning to keyboard quickly. In most of the lines (34-45) there is one extra w
37、ord. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some 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. Get better at ke
38、yboarding! There is a simple way to work more efficiently: improve your keyboard skills by learning to touch keyboard them. If you are one of the vast majority 34 of some people who keyboard with two or four fingers, you may believe that 35 you are reasonably efficient. But the average person seldom
39、 achieves more 36 than twelve words by a minute when using this method, while touch keyboarding 37 can achieve up to 120 words, if enabling you to work almost as quickly 38 as you can think. Whatever position you hold in your company, you are 39 probably given responsible for answering emails or gen
40、erating documents, and it 40 is quite likely that you spend too much time doing this. Stop and consider how 41 far much more you could do in a day as a result of touch keyboarding. You would 42 be able to create such a document faster than you can write and as 43 quickly as you can think and free up
41、 time to be more than creative. Moreover, 44 you would save up the cost of a full-time secretary, and no longer have to 45 wait for your documents to be created and either then have to return them for correction. BEC商务英语（中级）阅读模拟试卷 31答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【正确答案】 C 2 【正确答案】 A 3 【正确答案】 D 4 【正确答案】 B 5 【正确
42、答案】 B 6 【正确答案】 C 7 【正确答案】 A 二、 PART TWO 8 【正确答案】 C 9 【正确答案】 A 10 【正确答案】 F 11 【正确答案】 D 12 【正确答案】 E 三、 PART THREE 13 【正确答案】 A 14 【正确答案】 B 15 【正确答案】 C 16 【正确答案】 B 17 【正确答案】 A 18 【正确答案】 D 四、 PART FOUR 19 【正确答案】 C 20 【正确答案】 D 21 【正确答案】 A 22 【正确答案】 C 23 【正确答案】 D 24 【正确答案】 D 25 【正确答案】 B 26 【正确答案】 A 27 【正确答案】 D 28 【正确答案】 C 29 【正确答案】 D 30 【正确答案】 A 31 【正确答案】 A 32 【正确答案】 C 33 【正确答案】 B 五、 PART FIVE 34 【正确答案】 SOME 35 【正确答案】 CORRECT 36 【正确答案】 BY 37 【正确答案】 IF 38 【正确答案】 CORRECT 39 【正确答案】 GIVEN 40 【正确答案】 CORRECT 41 【正确答案】 FAR 42 【正确答案】 SUCH 43 【正确答案】 THAN 44 【正确答案】 UP 45 【正确答案】 EITHER
