1、BEC商务英语（高级）听力模拟试卷 46及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 You will hear an introduction of insurance. As you listen, for questions 1-12, complete the notes, using up to three words or a number. You will hear the recording twice. INSURANCE NOTES Automobile Insurance: 1. Drivers must be financially responsible for any
2、 damage done by their _ 2. Because this can be very costly, drivers_ 3. You can buy different types of automobile insurance including liability insurance and_ Homeowners Insurance: 4. They carry insurance to cover the value of the home_ 5. A homeowners policy may include protection against any or al
3、l of the following: fire, lighting, windstorms, explosions_ Health Insurance: 6. Health insurance will pay for medical bills in the event of an_ 7. There are three basic categories of_ 8. Major medical-expense coverage is designed to protect against large _ Life Insurance: 9. Term insurance insures
4、the life of the policyholder for a specific _ 10. It provides both_ 11. With most of the_ 12. The primary purpose of this type is to build up savings for some future purpose such as supplementary_ 二、 PART TWO 13 You will hear five business people discussing how to become a true leader. For each extr
5、act there are two tasks. For Task One, choose a relatively suitable titles of each opinion from the list A H. For Task Two, choose the speakers opinion towards leadership from the list A H. You will hear the recording twice. 13 TASK ONE TITLE For questions 13 17, match the extracts with the titles,
6、listed A H. For each extract, choose the title given. Write one letter (A H) next to the number of the extract. A Dont be a monarch. B Be open to new ways of doing things. C Real leadership means leading yourself. D Establish a genuine sense of commitment. E Show genuine appreciation. F Finish the j
7、ob. G Know that leadership skills come from learning, too. H Remember that white males are fast becoming a minority. 18 TASK TWO OPINION For questions 18 22, match the extracts with the statements, listed A H. For each extract, choose the speakers opinion stated. Write one letter (A H) next to the n
8、umber of the extract. A A true leader should know what their employees need B A real leader always takes action rather C A real leader can finish what they say originally. D Different typos of leaders have different attitudes towards doing things. E A far-sighted leader should praise his employees w
9、ork with tangible things to motivate his employees. F Motivating a leader himself is as important as motivating his employees. G A real leader should know how to motivate their employees. H Its important to a leader to plan before take action. 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear part of a conversation be
10、tween an interviewer and Andrew Grove, the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Intel. For each question 23 30, mark one letter A, B or C for the correct answer. You will hear the recording twice. 23 Before Andrew Grove arrived in the U.S. in 1956, where did he live? （ A） Hungary （ B） Britain （ C） Portug
11、al 24 Why are the tight-rope-walkers mentioned in Andrew Grovels answer? （ A） It shows that their task may be much better even though they are afraid of height. （ B） It shows that they can finish their jobs well because they are not afraid. （ C） If you are not afraid, you can do your job well. 25 Wh
12、at does Andrew Grove think people can do to alleviate the scariness of change? （ A） Although the scariness of change is healthy, we should eliminate some of it. （ B） People should alleviate some of the scariness of change. （ C） He thinks there is no need to eliminate the fear of change. 26 What does
13、 it mean that pain is healthy? （ A） If you feel physical pain, it means that your body is healthy. （ B） Its aim is to say that there is something wrong with your body. （ C） Extinguishing pain can not solve the problem. 27 Which is one of the biggest contributions that Andrew Grove has made? （ A） Put
14、 the Intel Inside in a computer. （ B） Making the public aware of that Intel Inside campaign is inside a computer. （ C） He makes the Intel Inside in the campaign. 28 When did people describe their computer by the number? （ A） Late 1980s （ B） Late 1970s （ C） Early 1980 29 What is not the fundamental c
15、haracteristic of a computer? （ A） Chip （ B） Microprocessor （ C） Software 30 In Andrew Grovels opinion, which is more important, marketing or technology? （ A） Marketing is more important than technology. （ B） Technology is more important than marketing. （ C） Marketing is as important as technology. B
16、EC商务英语（高级）听力模拟试卷 46答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】 There are several different kinds of insurance and many people purchase insurance for various purposes. Insurance provides protection against risks. But not all people know a lot about insurance. So Ill introduce four most common insurance today. They ar
17、e: automobile insurance, homeowners insurance, health insurance, and life insurance. Automobile insurance: drivers must be financially responsible for any damage done by their vehicles. This means that if you are involved in an accident in which someone is injured or there is significant property da
18、mage, you must be able to pay for the damages. You can buy different types of automobile insurance including liability insurance and collision insurance. Because this can be very costly, drivers purchase automobile insurance. Homeowners insurance: because most homeowners could not afford to replace
19、their home if it were destroyed, they carry insurance to cover. the value of the home and its contents. A homeowners policy may include protection against any or all of the following: fire, lighting, windstorms, explosions, theft, and flood. Health insurance: health insurance will pay for medical bi
20、lls in the event of an accident causing injury. There are three basic categories of health-care coverage. Major medical-expense coverage is designed to protect against large unpredictable medical expenses. Disability income insurance provides cash benefits to the policyholder for living expenses if
21、the policyholder is unable to work. Life insurance: life insurance is purchased to protect dependents of the policyholder in the event of his or her death. There are four basic types of life insurance. Term insurance insures the lite of the policyholder for a specific period of time, usually one to
22、five years. Whole life insurance builds up a cash value over the years. Endowment life insurance provides both protection and savings, with most of the emphasis on savings. The primary purpose of this type is to build up savings for some future purpose such as supplementary income during retirement.
23、 1 【正确答案】 VEHICLES 2 【正确答案】 PURCHASE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE 3 【正确答案】 COLLISION INSURANCE 4 【正确答案】 AND ITS CONTENTS 5 【正确答案】 THEF AND FLOOD 6 【正确答案】 ACCIDENT CASUSING INJURY 7 【正确答案】 HEALTH-CARE COVERAGE 8 【正确答案】 UNPREDICTABLE MEDICAL EXPENSE 9 【正确答案】 PERIOD OF TIME 10 【正确答案】 PROTECTION AND SAVINGS 11
24、【正确答案】 EMPHASIS ON SAVINGS 12 【正确答案】 INCOME DURING RETIREMENT 二、 PART TWO 13 【听力原文】 M: Passing out orders is as easy as passing out business cards. But a prudent leader also knows how to lead himself or herself not merely to provide a genuine example to others, but to become a working element of the
25、 overall machinery of your business. “Its important that leaders have the ability to focus and motivate themselves as they motivate others,“ says an author and consultant who teaches executive education at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. F: One potential land mine of a prosperous
26、 operation is to repeat anything that proves successful. Its hard to argue against that, but an inadvertent leader will put far too much stock in sticking with what always works. By contrast, thoughtful leadership acknowledges success but also recognizes there are always ways to de things better. M:
27、 I must admit this is a personal sore point with me. Ive seen too many company slogans and catch phrases whose import is no deeper than the paper theyre written on. Want to be “committed to superior service“? More power to you, but a genuine leader will see that as words and little else. Instead, pu
28、t some meat on those benes establish how to quantify excellence, design a cogent plan to achieve, it and set a reasonable but real timetable for its completion. F: Many business leaders yak about their complete game, but how many actually finish what they say theyre going to start? A thoughtless lea
29、der who never genuinely finishes anything loses the confidence of clients and customers. That lack of follow-through isnt going to be lost on his or her employees, either. Instead, set goals and establish pragmatic, accountable measures to actually finish what you start. “The ability to complete thi
30、ngs is critical, Segil says. “Nothings useful unless you actually complete it.“ M: Thoughtless leaders must have forearms like Popeyes, what with all the back-slapping they do. Thats fine, but good performance requires a more substantive response. Leaders with an eye to the future hand out praise bu
31、t augment it with real rewards: promotions, raises, bonuses and other tangible tokens of appreciation. That motivates your people, not only to apply themselves with enthusiasm, but to stick around your company longer than they might otherwise. 13 【正确答案】 C 14 【正确答案】 B 15 【正确答案】 D 16 【正确答案】 F 17 【正确答案
32、】 E 18 【正确答案】 F 19 【正确答案】 D 20 【正确答案】 B 21 【正确答案】 C 22 【正确答案】 E 三、 PART THREE 22 【听力原文】 F: Our guru on management is a 63 years old Hungarian immigrate who arrived in the U. S. in 1956 with neither a word of English, nor a dime in his pocket. Today he runs the company that makes the semiconductor ch
33、ips that power 90% of the worlds personal computers. He is Andrew Grove, chairman, CEO and cofounder of Intel, the San Jose based giant in semiconductor chip manufacturing. Obviously, Intel has managed change dramatically well. Thats what Intel is about. Yet change really intimidates people and its
34、very frightening. What do you think people can do, managers, just regular folks, can do to alleviate some of the scariness of change? M: Im not sure you want to eliminate scariness. I really wonder if the tight-rope-walkers can do their job because they are not afraid of heights or whether they can
35、do their jobs because they are afraid of heights and theyve just learned how to do their task that much better because they know what its like, or they have a pretty good idea what its like to fall. I think fear is your “ally in here, because it is fear that gets you out of comfortable equilibrium,
36、gets you to do difficult tasks“. You know, managing in general is not an easy job, so I dont think I wanna eliminate fear. I dont eliminate fear of change, I dont wanna eliminate fear of whats wanna happen if you dont move. Its healthy, its kind of like, you know, pain is healthy, physical pain, it
37、warns your body that something is wrong and just extinguishing pain doesnt make the problem going away. It just makes your sense that there is a problem going away. So it makes it worse. F: One of the biggest contributions that youve made down to making the public aware of whats inside a computer is
38、 the Intel Inside campaign, which is a very big marketing campaign designed to make the consumer, the end user, allow them to make their choice based on Intel being inside the box. When did you first think that this was important? There are obviously risks to this strategy, there are obviously rewar
39、ds. How did you analyse the risk-reward in this? M: Well, you know, it was kind of obvious in a way, if you listened to the language people used to describe their computer at the time youre talking late 80s. Most of the time, people would refer to their computer by the number, the number of the micr
40、oprocessor that they had in it. Im gonna take my trusty old 386 and look it up, or do something on it. They didnt use the name of the manufacturer. They used the model number of the microprocessor, which actually is kind of right, because the fundamental characteristic of that computer is the microp
41、rocessor. That defines what software its gonna run, its gunna define how fast it runs it, and if it defines how fast it runs it, it defines what you can do with it. So the user experience, what the user can do and how well he can do it, more than anything else depends on the microprocessor, the chip
42、. So we kind of sensed that we really had that identity but we didnt know exactly how to go about it. We wanted to market the product name, but the problem with the product name was we couldnt copyright it, I mean, couldnt trademark the numbers. We had a legal battle on it and we lost. So how do you
43、 tell our story, given that the microprocessor gives the characteristic of their computer to, not completely, but more than anything else, to the user. And we started merchandising Intel, the Computer Inside. Not on the devices but in our own commercials. And that kind of worked, we had good results
44、, good focus group results, people understood, yeah, the Intel stuff is the computer F: So how much now do you think of your success is marketing, and how much of it is technology? M: Andrew Grove: You know, for a long time Ive thought about this and had to answer the questions internally a lot. And
45、 the best I can say is describing Intel as a three legged stool, and the three legs are design, technology and manufacturing, and marketing and sales. And if one of those legs is shorter than the other, the stool is gonna tip over 23 【正确答案】 A 24 【正确答案】 A 25 【正确答案】 C 26 【正确答案】 B 27 【正确答案】 B 28 【正确答案】 A 29 【正确答案】 C 30 【正确答案】 C
