[外语类试卷]BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷80及答案与解析.doc

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1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 80及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 Look at the notes below. You will hear a telephone conversation. Message To: Alice (1) Time: 14:30 From: Cathy (2) Date: 16 March Re: (3) sent in for repair. You asked her to phone back on (4) before 7 p. m. 4 Look at the notes below. You will hear a conversa

2、tion between two friends about a job vacancy. Job with MATSU as (5) . Responsible for (6) . Must have knowledge of (7) . Apply by (8) . 8 Look at the notes below. You will hear a telephone conversation about arranging a meeting. Need to discuss (9) . Aim to produce new (10). Check that the Sales Coo

3、rdinator and the (11) can come. Arrange for a (12)to be available. 二、 PART TWO 12 You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide what stage of agreement each speaker is talking about. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. A

4、fter you have listened once, replay the recording. Stages A revising B clarifying a detail C reviewing D setting up a signing date E signing F discussing G implementing H canceling 13 14 15 16 17 17 You will hear another five recordings. For each recording, decide where the speaker is. Write one let

5、ter (A-H) next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings. A at the airport B at the hotel C in the house D over the telephone E in the office F at the restaurant G in the clothing shop H at the conference room 18 19 20 2

6、1 22 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear a report presented by a journalist from Tokyo. He talks about the difficult situations met by Japanese chemical groups. He gives some important figures of four biggest chemical groups in Japan. For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct

7、 answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording. 23 The crisis met by Japanese chemical groups is caused by （ A） over capacity. （ B） high prices. （ C） high cost. 24 The productions manufactured by Asahi Chemical, Japans largest polystyrene manufacturer take upof the market. （ A） 12% （ B）

8、 25% （ C） 26.6% 25 is Japans biggest plastics group. （ A） Mitsubishi Kasei （ B） Mitsubishi Petrochemical （ C） Mitsui Petrochemical Industries 26 On Oct. 1st, Mitsubishi Petrochemical is going to merge with （ A） Kawasaki Plant. （ B） Mitsui Petrochemical. （ C） Mitsubishi Kasei. 27 The dividend ofremai

9、ns the same as in last year. （ A） Mitsubishi Petrochemical （ B） Mitsui Petrochemical Industries and Shin-Etsu （ C） Sumitomo Chemical 28 Chemical group is not explained in detail in this report. （ A） Shin-Etsu （ B） Mitsubishi Kasei （ C） Mitsui Petrochemical 29 Chemical group has the highest per share

10、 according to this report. （ A） Mitsubishi Petrochemical （ B） . Shin-Etsu （ C） Mitsubishi Petrochemical Industries 30 Which is going to open a new plant? （ A） Shin-Etsu （ B） Mitsui Petrochemical （ C） Mitsubishi Petrochemical BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 80答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 【听力原文】 Part One. Questions 1 to 12.

11、 You will hear three telephone conversations or messages. Write one or two -words or a number in the numbered spaces on the notes or forms below. After you have listened once , replay each recording. pause Conversation One. Questions 1 to 4. Look at the notes below. You will hear a telephone convers

12、ation. You have fifteen seconds to read through the notes. pause Now listen , and fill in the spaces. pause Man: Hello, Instant Repair Company. This is Tom speaking. Woman: Its Cathy Brown. Can I speak to Alice Smith? Man: Oh, Im sorry. She is out. Can I take a message? Woman: Thank you. I want to k

13、now whether my car has been repaired. You know I sent it in last Friday. Its already Tuesday. Man: Oh, sorry, I dont know. Woman: Alice told me to phone about it. Could you please ask her to call me back before 7 p. m. today? Man: Sure. Woman: Thanks. Bye. Man: Bye. pause Now listen to the recording

14、 again. pause 1 【正确答案】 Smith 【试题解析】 此题是针对人名的提问，在听音中要注意自我介绍或者是称呼等信息。听力原文是： Its Cathy Brown Can I speak to Alice Smith?表明说话者为Cathy Brown,说话对象是 Alice Smith。因此，此处填写对象 Smith。 2 【正确答案】 Brown 【试题解析】 此题是针对人名的提问，在听音中要注意自我介绍或者是称呼等信息。听力原文是： Its Cathy Brown Can I speak to Alice Smith?表明说话者为Cathy Brown，说话对象是 Ali

15、ce Smith。因此，此处填写说话者 Brown。 3 【正确答 案】 car 【试题解析】 此题是针对核心话题的提问，在听音中要注意对整体事件的把握。整个事件是围绕送修车辆展开的，故此处填写 car。 4 【正确答案】 Tuesday 【试题解析】 听力原文中， please ask her to call me back before 7 P m. today，以及前文中 Its already Tuesday故填写 Tuesday。 4 【听力原文】 Conversation Two. Questions 5 to 8. Look at the notes below. You wil

16、l hear a conversation between two friends about a job vacancy. You have fifteen seconds to read through the form. pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. pause Woman: Hello, Mike. Its Jenny here. Ive just been reading the paper and the job there with MATSU, the Office Furniture. I think it will be

17、 perfect for you. Man: Oh, whats the job? Woman: They want a sales manager. Isnt that the kind of thing youre looking for? Man: Yes. Does it say what the job involves? Woman: Theres a quite a big job description, but the main thing seems to be that youll be in charge of sales promotion. Sounds quite

18、 interesting. Man: Well, it will be better, than the administration work Im doing at the moment. What sort of qualifications are they looking for? I suppose they want the applicant to have an MBA. Woman: No, theres nothing here about that. But it does say that theyre looking for someone who call spe

19、ak foreign languages. Well, thats OK for you because youve lived abroad and you speak German, dont you? Man: Yes, and Spanish, too. When do the applications have to be in? Woman: Whats it today? The 9th of June. So youve plenty of time. The 4th of July is the closing date. Do you want me to fax you

20、the advertisement so you can see yourself. Man: Yes. Thatll be great. Thanks. Woman: OK. Ill do it now. pause Now listen to the recording again. pause 5 【正确答案】 sales manager 【试题解析】 此题是针对职位名称的提问，听音时需要注意此方面的词汇。原文中男声问什么样的工作时，女声回答的第一句即是答案所在： Sales Manager。 6 【正确答案】 sales promotion 【试题解析】 此题是针对工作描述的提问，听音

21、时需要注意 job description及其后的信息，因此，在听力原文中出现 “job description”时，需要特别留意相关内容。原文是 be in charge of sales promotion。 7 【正确答案】 foreign languages 【试题解析】 此题是针对技能要求的提问，听音时要注意女声在这方面的描述。听力原文中出现两点： MBA以及 foreign languages。前者容易造成混淆答案，大家要把听音重点放在女声上，她才是正在描述的主角，男声认为 MBA的要求，只是一种猜测，在后文中被否定了的。 8 【正确答案】 July 4th 【试题解析】 本题是对

22、时间的提问，意思是最后的截止日期，也可以是对方式方法的提问。在听音时要注意原文中提到的是哪方面。听力原 文中没有涉及方式方法，但是提到了 The 4th of July is the closing date(7月 4日是最后截止日期 )。因此，这里答案是 July 4th。 8 【听力原文】 Conversation Three. Questions 9 to 12. Look at the notes below. You will hear a telephone conversation about arranging a meeting. You have fifteen secon

23、ds to read through the notes. pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. pause Man: Hello! Peter here. Woman: Hi, Peter. Its Angela. Man: Oh. Hi. Woman: Look, Peter. Im phoning because Im quite worried about last months figures. Man: They dont make pretty reading, do they? Woman: No, they dont. I thi

24、nk we need to have a meeting to talk about the increasing costs. Man: Sounds like a good idea. When were you thinking of? Woman: As soon as possible. I think we should try to put together new department budgets. Each department will then have set limits for their spending. Man: Yes. Im sure that wil

25、l help. Who would you specially like to have at the meeting? Woman: Well, us, obviously. And can you make sure that the sales coordinator is available. And also the Operations Manager? Well need their input. Man: Sure. Ill get on to them. And Ill book the boardroom. Woman: Oh, can you make sure that

26、 therell be a projector available there on the day. Id like to show the figures for this year and last year. Man: No problem. Ill get back to you later to confirm the details. Woman: Fine. Thanks. pause Now listen to the recording again. pause That is the end of Part One. You novo have twenty second

27、s to check your answers. 9 【正确答案】 increasing costs 【试题 解析】 此题是对会议中心内容的考查，听音时需要把握这个事件的核心意思。听力原文中 I think we need to have a meeting to talk about the increasing costs，表明会议的核心内容是讨论 increasing costs。 10 【正确答案】 department budgets 【试题解析】 此题是对会议目的的考查，听音时需要 把握这层意思，尽量去分辨目的等词汇。听力原文中 I think we should try to p

28、ut together new department budgets，表明会议的目的是做出新的部门预算。 11 【正确答案】 Operations Manager 【试题解析】 此题是针对职位的考查，题干先有 sales Coordinator之后用 and相连，表明仍然是对与会人员的考查，故听音时应对与会者特别留意。答案为Operations Manager。 12 【正确答案】 projector 【试题解析】 此题是对会议准备的细节提问，听音时要注意男声要求女声在前期做了什么准备。根据听力原文，答案为 projector。 二、 PART TWO 12 【听力原文】 Section On

29、e. Questions 13 to 17. You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide what stage of agreement each speaker is talking about. Write one letter A-H) next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings. You have

30、 fifteen seconds to read the list A-H. pause Now listen, and decide what stage of agreement each speaker is talking about. pause Thirteen Man: Well, you see Ive looked through the contract several times and I think all the important items have been covered. I dont think my people will have any probl

31、em with it. For the time being, it seems that what we need to do is to set up a date to have it signed and then we can go about putting it into effect. As far as I am concerned, we can sign the contract in a couple of days. It shouldnt take more than three days max. pause Fourteen Woman: Im satisfie

32、d with the contract as it stands. If there are no other changes to be made, lets go ahead and sign the agreement here. Sure enough, to sign it is only the first step. Theres still a long way to go. Im sure both of us wish to gain from this cooperation, then let us strengthen our ties and see that th

33、e contract is faithfully carried out. OK, now let us take the first step. pause Fifteen Man: As far as I see it, there are two small trouble spots in this agreement. One is the wording of our companys involvement in Paragraph Four on Page Twelve. We dont want to be held fully responsible. The other

34、trouble spot is the wording of the last paragraph on Page Fourteea I would take out this phrase here and replace it with “prior to the date of delivery“. pause Sixteen Woman: Lets go over the details of the contract. Construction will begin on the 5th of February, and we should be finished by the fo

35、llowing January. The budget is set at 2. 5 million dollars which does not include staff training and recruitment costs. We have $250,000 budget set aside for that. pause Seventeen Man: I just had a glance at the contract drawn up by Ms. Lees office. It looks pretty good. So far I dont see any reason

36、 for any change. But still, I need to look through it once again. After Ive had a chance to review it, well have a talk. Say, I think Ill be ready tomorrow. pause Now listen to the recording again, pause 13 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 这段听力是关于合同的，原文中也多次出现 contract一词。核心内容是拟定签合同的日期，在原文中有 what we need to do is to s

37、etup a date to have it signed and then we can goabout putting it into effect目前需要做 的就是签署合同，并使其生效。故选 D。 14 【正确答案】 E 【试题解析】 这段听力与之前的内容类似，但是相比而言，它更强调： let us take the first step，根据上文理解，第一步即是签署合同。故选 E。 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 这段听力材料中一直提到合同内容方面有两个问题，因此这段材料是有关修改合同的。故选 A。 16 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 听力原文第一句即是： Lets go ov

38、erthe details of the contract，因此，可得这段材料是关于重申细节的。故选 B。 17 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 听力原文中出现： I need to lookthrough it once again，表明这段话的中心意思是需要再次检查整个合同。故选 C。 17 【听力原文】 Section Two. Questions 18 to 22. You will hear another five recordings. For each recording, decide where the speaker is. Write one letter (A-H)

39、next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings. You have fifteen seconds to read the list A-H. pause Now listen , and decide where the speaker is. pause Eighteen Woman: About my section of the marketing report. Its unlik

40、ely I can submit it over to you by Monday. Manager Wang just kills me. I think we should just ask him for more time. pause Nineteen Man: Hello, this is Thomas Johnson. I am calling to confirm my booking at your hotel. Since this time of the year you always get quite busy, I must be assured that I ca

41、n be accommodated at your hotel from October 10th to October 13th. pause Twenty Woman: The dishes are delicious, arent they? What do you think? Should I accept this exchange program and head off to Japan for 3 months? Everyone I know is lining up to go there. My friend told me that if I gave up this

42、 chance, I would regret later. pause Twenty-one Man: I have had this new karaoke set for a week and I still dont know how to work it, even with these instructions. Can you teach me how to operate it? Come here, the karaoke set is in the living room. pause Twenty-two Woman: Although those new jeans l

43、ook smart, I dont want to try on a pair. Even my grandfather wouldnt want to wear a pair of those for fear of looking old. pause Now listen to the recording again. pause That is the end of Part Two. pause 18 【正确答案】 E 【试题解析】 根据这段听力材料的内容来看，材料说 的是叙述者希望能够推迟一天时间提交自己那部分报告。由此可得这个情景多发生在办公室。故选 E。 19 【正确答案】 D

44、 【试题解析】 通过听力原文的开头： this isI amcalling to 由此可得这段材料是电话内容。故选 D。 20 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 虽然听力的内容是关于自己工作计划的，但是在一开头提到了dishes，由此可以推断出这个情景是在餐厅里。故选 F。 21 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 听力原文的最后提到了 in the livingroom，这表明此时对话发生地点是家里。故选 C。 22 【正确答案】 G 【试题解析】 听力材料中多次提到 jeans以及 try on(试穿 )这类词语，表明这是在一家服装店。故选 G。 三、 PART THREE 22 【听力原文】

45、Part Three. Questions 23 to 30. You will hear a report presented by a journalist from Tokyo. He talks about the difficult situations met by Japanese chemical groups. He gives some important figure of four biggest chemical groups in Japan. For each question 23-30 , mark one letter (A, B or C) for the

46、 correct answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording. You have forty-five seconds to read through the questions. pause Now listen , and mark A, B or C. pause By Paul Abrahams in Tokyo Results from Japans largest petrochemicals companies for the year to March 31st reflect the crisis fa

47、cing a sector plagued by sluggish domestic demand, over capacity, plunging prices and the appreciation of the yen. News of the sectors dire trading position follows this weeks decision by Showa Denko to sell its polystyrene business. The company, a marginal manufacturer, sold its 30,000 tonnes a yea

48、r Kawasaki Plant to Asahi Chemical, Japans largest polystyrene manufacturer with capacity of about 333,000 tonnes a year, equivalent to about 25 per cent of the market The move was the latest in miles of alliances and mergers as the troubled industry restructure. Mitsubishi Petrochemical, the countr

49、ys biggest plastics group, reported a loss of Y 8. 39 bn ($ 80m) compared with pre-tax profits last year of Y8. 25 bn. The group made an operating loss of Y 13. 8 bn, the first since 1982. The poor result came despite cost-cutting measures, lower raw material prices, and Y4 bn worth of profits from equity sales. Turnover fell 12. 2 per cent from Y372 bn to Y326 bn, as prices and volumes declined. Earnings per share, which reached Y52. 5 in 1991, fell to a l