1、BEC商务英语（高级）听力模拟试卷 114及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 You will hear a recording that a training manager has made for his assistant, describing plans for a training day that he will be running with his colleague, Julia. As you listen, for questions 1-12, complete the notes using up to three words or a number. Af
2、ter you have listened once, replay the recording. TRAINING DAY FOR STANDFORDS THINGSTO DO Ring Swan Hotel, request【 L1】 _(in addition to other equipment booked). Cancel【 L2】 _ Remind participants to bring the【 L3】 _theyve received to the training day. Tell Standfords that the title of the talk by th
3、e guest speaker is now【 L4】 _. PROGRAMME Morning 9.15: Talk on: The value of【 L5】 _in business 10.00: Workshop: 【 L6】 _ 11.15: Discussion: 【 L7】 _ 12.00: Role play: 【 L8】 _ 1.00: Lunch Afternoon 2.00: Session: 【 L9】 _ 3.15: Either Presentation: 【 L10】 _ or Workshop: 【 L11】 _ 4.00: 【 L12】 _ 5.00: Fin
4、ish 1 【 L1】 2 【 L2】 3 【 L3】 4 【 L4】 5 【 L5】 6 【 L6】 7 【 L7】 8 【 L8】 9 【 L9】 10 【 L10】 11 【 L11】 12 【 L12】 二、 PART TWO 12 You will hear five people talking about the businesses they set up, and about what caused problems in the first year. For each extract there are two tasks. For Task One, decide wh
5、ich reason each speaker gives for setting up their own business from the list A-H. For Task Two, decide what caused problems in the first year from the list A-H. After you have listened once, replay the recording. Task One - Reason for setting up own business For questions 13-17, match the extracts
6、with the reason for setting up a business, listed A-H. For each extract, choose the reason that the speaker gives. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the extract. A I had been unsuccessful in previous work. B I was inspired during a temporary posting. C I followed a family tradition. D I w
7、ished to manufacture my own invention. E I wanted to make good use of what I had studied at college. F I was approached by a potential backer. G I identified a significant gap in the market. H I found that suitable premises were available. 13 Speaker 1_ 14 Speaker2_ 15 Speaker3_ 16 Speaker4_ 17 Spea
8、ker5_ 17 Task Two - What caused problems in the first year For questions 18-22, match the extracts with the problems, listed A-H. For each extract, decide what caused problems in the first year. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the extract. A labour relations difficulties B inappropriate
9、 choice of software C health and safety issues D inadequate training of workforce E breakdown of equipment F unexpected competition G bad recruitment decisions H inefficient data management 18 Speaker 1_ 19 Speaker2_ 20 Speaker3_ 21 Speaker4_ 22 Speaker 5_ 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear Mark Finch,
10、a well-known business consultant, speaking to a group of business people at a seminar. For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording. 23 Mark says its important when starting up a business to （ A） have enough capital
11、 for the first two years. （ B） employ properly qualified staff. （ C） carry out effective research in the area. 24 What warning does Mark give? （ A） New businesses always take a long time to become successful. （ B） Trends in service industries often change very rapidly. （ C） People starting businesse
12、s must limit the hours they work. 25 What problem did the energy company have with its complaints system? （ A） Customers were critical of the computer system. （ B） Staff had not received sufficient computer training. （ C） The computers frequently broke down. 26 From his experience at the energy comp
13、any, Mark says managers need to have （ A） effective communication with workers. （ B） more advice when choosing computer systems. （ C） experience of dealing with complaints directly. 27 In the car repair company, workers most wanted （ A） recognition of their work. （ B） a monthly newsletter. （ C） info
14、rmation about company aims. 28 What main benefit does Mark say came from reducing staff turnover? （ A） The company could stop providing training courses. （ B） Each mechanic carried out more work. （ C） There was less need for company advertising. 29 What is Marks advice to the kitchen equipment compa
15、ny about its new product? （ A） Increase the profit margin. （ B） Reduce delivery costs. （ C） Improve sales skills. 30 What does Mark say about stress? （ A） Effective time management prevents stress. （ B） Stress can improve personal performance. （ C） Stress is on the increase in business. BEC商务英语（高级）听
16、力模拟试卷 114答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 【听力原文】 Part One. Questions 1 to 12. You will hear a recording that a training manager has made for his assistant, describing plans for a training day that he will be running with his colleague, Julia. As you listen, for questions 1 to 12, complete the notes, using up to
17、three words or a number. After you have listened once, replay the recording. You now have 45 seconds to read through the notes. pause Now listen, and complete the notes. pause I hope you dont mind me leaving a recording, but something has cropped up and Julia and I have had to go off to head office,
18、 so we cant speak to you in person. Weve finalised our plans for the management training day were putting on for Standfords on the seventeenth of next month, so could you take the necessary action, please. The most urgent thing is to contact the venue, thats the Swan Hotel, and get them to provide a
19、 camcorder as well as the video recorder and TV weve already booked, as ours isnt working and I dont think we can get it fixed in time. And at the same time, because weve rethought how to run the first workshop, we wont be needing the OHPs after all, so you might as well cancel those. Oh, and when y
20、ou send the programme to the participants, could you point out that the case study weve already circulated to them is for the discussion slot: otherwise Im sure half of them will forget to take it with them. Then youd better ring Standfords, and tell them that the guest speaker has agreed to change
21、her topic to Benefits from coaching: we managed to persuade her that Financial instruments would be too heavy for the end of the day! Right, now weve finalised the programme, so could you get it typed up? Heres the running order. Its a nine oclock start and naturally, well introduce ourselves and ou
22、tline the programme. Itll be a good idea for us to make everybody really alert as a priority, so at nine fifteen were starting with my talk on physical fitness, which is about its importance at work. The payoff is that Julia can take over at ten and do her session on team motivation - thatll be a wo
23、rkshop format. Now thatll take us to a mid-morning break at ten forty-five. I dont think they should have too long, as we dont want to lose momentum. The obvious thing to follow the break is the discussion session, which were calling Performance Improvement, because its an extension and application
24、of what Julia will have been talking about before the coffee break, and should provide food for thought. By the time thats over, at twelve oclock, some of them will be beginning to lose concentration before lunch, and we should end the morning with a role play. This went so well last time. Itll be f
25、ocusing on negotiating strategies. It should make an interesting session. I think thatll leave them in a positive frame of mind for lunch at about one. Julia will start the afternoon at two with her session on troubleshooting. Im sure participants will come up with plenty of questions about that. Th
26、en at three fifteen, weve got the two parallel sessions. They can choose the presentation Management Models, which will be aimed mostly at the less experienced participants, but therell be a workshop at the same time on Succession Planning, which might appeal mostly to more senior managers. Its some
27、thing that too few companies think about until its too late. Then at four oclock, well bring everyone together for the keynote speech. We thought of setting aside a time for questions and answers, but quite honestly theyve got most of the day for that, so we wont bother. OK, thats all, so if you cou
28、ld deal with that today or tomorrow, Id be most grateful. 1 【正确答案】 (A) CAMCORDER / VIDEO CAMERA 2 【正确答案】 (THE) OHP(S) 3 【正确答案】 CASE STUDIES / CASE STUDY (MATERIALS / PAPERS / DOCUMENTS 4 【正确答案】 BENEFITS FROM / OF COACHING 5 【正确答案】 PHYSICAL FITNESS 6 【正确答案】 TEAM MOTIVATION 7 【正确答案】 PERFORMANCE IMPROV
29、EMENT 8 【正确答案】 NEGOTIATING / NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES 9 【正确答案】 TROUBLE(-)SHOOTING 10 【正确答案】 MANAGEMENT MODELS 11 【正确答案】 SUCCESSION PLANNING 12 【正确答案】 (THE / A) KEYNOTE SPEECH 二、 PART TWO 12 【听力原文】 Part Two. Questions 13 to 22. You will hear five people talking about the businesses they set up. For eac
30、h extract there are two tasks. Look at Task One. For each question, 13-17, decide which reason each speaker gives for setting up their own business, from the list A-H. Now look at Task Two. For each question, 18-22, decide what caused problems in the first year, from the list A-H. After you have lis
31、tened once, replay the recording. You now have 30 seconds to read the two lists. pause Now listen, and do the two tasks. pause Speaker One Woman: I set up about five years ago. Id just finished my degree in business administration. It was very enjoyable, if rather lacking on the practical side. I wa
32、s wondering whether Id made the right choice of career, and was about to approach my uncle for advice on import-export when I was struck by the fact that there were not enough businesses to meet the demand for good quality food packaging, so I took the plunge. In the first few months, everything mov
33、ed along nicely -I got together a reasonable team of workers and had some healthy sales figures, and then I came up against something I hadnt bargained for - someone else had come up with something which was virtually identical, and set up just down the road from me. I panicked at first and then rea
34、lised that I had the edge when it came to hi-tech machinery. Speaker Two Man: Id always thought that running my own business would suit me, but I was hanging around for quite a long time waiting for inspiration as to what to move into. I was actually beginning to give up hope when a friend of my par
35、ents contacted me - he had a bit of redundancy money which he wanted to invest, he knew something of my background and felt I could make a go of running a small computer software outlet. I jumped at the chance, of course. And that was five years ago. I feel Ive done a good job, although in the early
36、 days I made the mistake of taking on some over-qualified staff who werent suited to the work. I learnt from that though. Speaker Three Woman: Ive been in business for almost four years now, making corrugated packaging for mail-order companies. This wasnt an area of great expertise for me . prior to
37、 starting up on my own. When I left college, I worked in developing chemical dyes. Then I inherited a bit of money -I was about to use it for a deposit on a house when I heard that a workshop unit in a nearby industrial park was becoming vacant, with very reasonably-priced corrugating machinery as p
38、art of the job lot. I did my homework and decided to go for it. I only needed to take on a couple of staff, but it was surprising how many mistakes I made when it came to things such as on-site noise containment and ventilation for us all. I eventually had to fork out on a specialist consultant to s
39、ort everything out. Speaker Four Man: Ive been running my own business for ten years now and although I had quite a tough start, on the whole I havent regretted a day of it. Basically, Id been working on an idea of a disposable protective cover for oven interiors and managed to secure a patent. But
40、could I get a business to take me seriously? So I thought Id go it alone. I managed to persuade people to invest enough for me to set up the workshop and I topped up with bank loans. I initially took on a couple of technicians Id known from my previous place of work - good people with a lot of commi
41、tment to enterprise - but where I went awry was not giving them proper tuition and guidance in precisely what I wanted. Thank goodness they stuck with it though, and we came through our difficult first few months together. Speaker Five Woman: Although my grandparents and uncles ran a shop for many y
42、ears, I really didnt have much contact with the business world. I started my working life in nursing which I enjoyed a great deal, and then I had what I felt was a life-changing experience. In my late twenties, I applied to go on secondment overseas to work for four months in a remote rural hospital
43、. It was there that I saw some marvellous work being done in setting up small-scale businesses run by local people - mainly in the production of handicrafts for catalogue sales. I saw a lot that I felt could be applied in my own home environment. Anyway thats how I got started. I had a few hiccups a
44、t the beginning, mainly in trying to co-ordinate the huge amounts of customer information, but now were well established. 13 【正确答案】 G 14 【正确答案】 F 15 【正确答案】 H 16 【正确答案】 D 17 【正确答案】 B 18 【正确答案】 F 19 【正确答案】 G 20 【正确答案】 C 21 【正确答案】 D 22 【正确答案】 H 三、 PART THREE 22 【听力原文】 Part Three. Questions 23 to 30. Yo
45、u will hear Mark Finch, a well-known business consultant, speaking to a group of business people at a seminar. For each question, 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording. You now have 45 seconds to read through the questions. paus
46、e Now listen, and mark A, B or C. pause Woman: Im very glad to introduce Mark Finch. Im sure youve all been looking forward to meeting such a well-respected consultant. Before we take some other questions, could I begin by asking you what general advice you would give to people planning to start a n
47、ew business? Mark: Business is about three things. The first thing is people. You need to make sure that youre going to work with people whove got the right attitude. Commitment outweighs paper qualifications. The second thing is money. You can read a lot of books about exactly how much capital you
48、need to get you through the first couple of years, and so on, but how much that matters depends on which particular kind of business youre going into. The third thing is time. Nothing is more vital than taking time to plan properly. Check out your idea with friends and contacts, look at your local c
49、ompetitors, study costs and prices. Thats the most useful thing you can do. Woman: I see. Now, a lot of people worry about the dangers of business. Mark: Business is not a safe world: its full of risks. Its always going to be a gamble. You must be prepared to work long hours and to keep doing that until the business becomes successful, however long that might happen to take. Even
