剑桥商务英语高级-35及答案解析.doc

1、剑桥商务英语高级-35 及答案解析(总分：70.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BREADING/B(总题数：6，分数：52.00)BPART ONE/BB Look at the sentences below and following texts. Which text does each sentence refer to? For each sentence 1-8, mark one letter A, B, C, D or E. You will need to use some of the letters more than once./BBA. Cablevision Ex

2、tends $ 90 Triple-Service Promotion/BPersuaded by popular demand, Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC) is extending a promotional offer that combines cable TV, Internet and phone service for $ 90 a month. First launched in mid-June, the offer was originally slated to end July 31 but was pushed out to mid

3、-August. Now it seems the company wants hold on to the offer still longer. The Bethpage, N. Y., company hasnt specified when the promotion will end. During a quarterly conference call last week, Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge said simply that the company was continuing to advertise the offer b

4、ased on its early success. Rutledge also said promotional offers “will continue to play a key role in both building new customer relationships and expanding existing ones.“BB. McDonald s CEO has new surgery/BThe chief executive of McDonalds Corp. is recuperating after another surgery, the worlds lar

5、gest fast-food company said Saturday. Charlie Bell underwent a procedure Friday to correct a blockage caused by scar tissue build-up from colorectal surgery he had in May, the company said. “I am delighted to report that The procedure was a complete success and that Charlie is resting comfortably,“

6、said Andrew McKenna, chairman of Chicago area-based McDonalds. “During Charlies brief recuperation period. there is absolutely no change in the leadership of the company,“ McKenna said in a statement. Bell, previously chief operating officer of the global fast-food giant, became CEO after the unexpe

7、cted death in April of former CEO Jim Cantalupo at a meeting in Florida.BC. Google governance flawed/BGoogle Inc. ranks lower in corporate governance than any company in the Standard Poors 500 stock index, according to influential proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services, said a newspaper re

8、port published Monday. ISS, which advises shareholders on how to vote, found 21 weaknesses in the governance practices of Mountain View, Calif.- based Google, which is expected to join the SP 500, said the Financial Times. These flaws, it said, include a dual-class capital structure that gives effec

9、tive control to insiders, too few outside directors and a lack of stock ownership guidelines for executives and independent directors. The adviser also found problematic of the companys compensation plan that lets Google reprice stock options if the stock price falls, as well as loans to company ins

10、iders.BD. US Airways talks with pilots collapse/BNegotiations between US Airways and its pilots union over a new round of steep concessions collapsed on Monday, heightening pressure on the carrier as it tries to avert insolvency. Jack Stephan, a spokesman for the companys chapter of the Air Line Pil

11、ots Association, said more than a week of discussions between the two sides at the airlines Arlington, Va. , headquarters yielded little progress. “Since the beginning of these talks, we have witnessed a disturbing trend by the company to seemingly dismiss several significant proposals from our pilo

12、t negotiators,“ Stephan said. “Instead, management has responded by piling on additional demands to their counterproposals.“BE. Mylan wins OK for generic Zoloft/BShares of Mylan Laboratories Inc. rose Monday after U. S. regulators gave tentative marketing approval to the companys generic forms of po

13、pular depression and allergy drugs sold by Pfizer Inc. Mylan said the Food and Drug Administration had granted tentative approval to its forms of Pfizers Zoloft, or sertraline, anti-depressant, and Zyrtec, or cetirizine, allergy pill. But Mylan will not be allowed to sell the copycats for several ye

14、ars until Pfizers patents on the medicines expire. Zoloft and Zyrtec are among Pfizers biggest products, with global 2003 sales of $ 3.12 billion for Zoloft, and $1.34 billion, for Zyrtec.（分数：8.00）(1).The company is benefiting from its promotion.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).The company will be allowed to sel

15、l some kind of pills in a few years.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The company is considered to be weak in management.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The company is giving preferential prices to its customers.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The company has witnessed the death or illness of its directors recently.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).T

16、he company is trying to make profits.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).The company saw the rise of its stocks.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).The company is in conflict with its employees.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_BPART TWO/BB Read the following text. Choose the best sentence from A-H to fill in each of the gaps. For each gap 9-14, ma

17、rk one letter A-H. Do not use any letter more than once./BAll RD executives have two major responsibilities: (1) they must ensure that the company is supplied with technically successful projects, and (2) they must select the most promising schemes and ideas for the expenditure of RD resources. This

18、 work is complicated by numerous uncertainties,U (9) /U.If RD management can provide a regular flow of new and updated products, the company will benefit in a number of ways. First of all, it will be able to make full use of expensive departmental resources, development engineering and available mar

19、keting capacity. In addition to that, a flow of new market winners will provide the business with steady growth income and profits. This can also be important psychologically, forU (10) /U. The RD departments job is made more difficult because of the length of time required to complete its research.

20、 In the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, for example,U (11) /Uand a further six to eight years before it reaches full commercial potential.To achieve results,U (12) /U. For this reason, the R “We paid a lot of money to have the house moved here. And someone gets a home. So it worksU (34) /Uev

21、erybody.“The idea quickly caught on. A tax break for well-to-do home builders and a nearly free home for a needy family, add up to good businessU (35) /Ureal estate agents. Christina Luiz is a real estate agent in Silicon Valley. “I personally own two homes that could be used. I talked to one of my

22、other builders, and they said, they too, would be willing to donate the homes in perfect condition. And I said, how could I do this, and East Palo Alto told me, were getting calls from people who want to donate for tax reasons.“U (36) /Uno time, the city of East Palo Alto found itself with eight don

23、ated houses.Mayor Sharifa Wilson says of the situation, “One of the dilemmas that East Palo Alto has is that we dont own any property.U (37) /Uthe dilemma is what we doU (38) /Uthe houses that people offer us?“Over the past few decades, East Palo Alto has been an island of difficulty in a world of a

24、ffluence. Poverty, drugs and drive-by shootings earned it the title “murder capital“ a few years back. Now its benefitingU (39) /Ua trickle down effect from its wealthy neighbors. Once it figures out how to handle the windfall and share the wealth.Mayor Sharifa Wilson says, “I can imagine at some po

25、int everybody will be screaming, give me the house, give me the house. This kind of thing. Thats the only thing Im a little bit leery about.“For East Palo Alto, its an embarrassment of riches. More houses than they knowU (40) /Uto do with.（分数：10.00）(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:_填空项

26、 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_BPART SIX/BB In most lines of the following text, there is one unnecessary word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text. For each numbered line 41-52, find the unnecessary word. Some lines are correct. If a line is correct,

27、write CORRECT./BIf you watch the news, you hear at all the time about the Dow Jones (41) _Industrial Average and other averages that like the SP 500 or the (42) _Russel 2000. These are “market averages“ designed to tell you howcompanies are traded on the stock market are doing in general. (43) _The

28、Dow Jones Industrial Average is simply the average value of 30large, and industrial stocks. Big companies like General Motors, (44) _Goodyear, IBM and Exxon are the kinds of companies that make upthis index. See this page for details on how that the average is (45) _calculated. See this page for a l

29、ist of the companies in the average.The thing to understand is that the Dow Jones Industrial Average isnothing magic-which someone has chosen 30 companies and (46) _he averaged their values together by following a specific formula. (47) _Thats all what it is. (48) _There are all sorts of averages ou

30、t there. The SP 500 is the averagevalue of 500 different large companies. But the Russel 2000 tracks (49) _the average of 2,000 smaller companies. And there are others.What these averages tell you is the general health of stock prices as (50) _a whole. If the economy is “doing well“, then the prices

31、 of stocks as a (51) _group tend to rise. If it is “doing poorly“, prices as a group tend to fall.The averages show you these tendencies in the market as a whole. Ifa specific stock is going down but while the market as a whole is going (52) _up, that tells you something. Or if a stock is rising, bu

32、t is rising fasteror slower than the market as a whole, that tells you something as well.（分数：12.00）(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:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_二、BWRITING/B(总题数：2，分数：8.00)1.B The graph below shows corporate profits of the United States over the las

33、t few years. Using information from the graph, write a short report describing. Write 126-140 words on your Answer Sheet./B 2001 2003Index of industrial production (1997=100) 111.5 111.1Employment in goods production (thousands) 23,873 21,817Capacity utilization rate-all industries 77.4 74.8Corporat

34、e profits-non-financial ($ bns) 318.8 410.0（分数：2.00）_2.B Your company wants to improve its website. You have been asked to write a report about the sites strengths and weakness and make recommendations for its further development. Write 200-250 on your Answer Sheet./B（分数：6.00）_三、BSPEAKING/B(总题数：1，分数

35、：10.00)3.If you are a director of Personnel Department, how are you going to ensure good communication within teams?（分数：10.00）_剑桥商务英语高级-35 答案解析(总分：70.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BREADING/B(总题数：6，分数：52.00)BPART ONE/BB Look at the sentences below and following texts. Which text does each sentence refer to? For ea

36、ch sentence 1-8, mark one letter A, B, C, D or E. You will need to use some of the letters more than once./BBA. Cablevision Extends $ 90 Triple-Service Promotion/BPersuaded by popular demand, Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC) is extending a promotional offer that combines cable TV, Internet and phone

37、service for $ 90 a month. First launched in mid-June, the offer was originally slated to end July 31 but was pushed out to mid-August. Now it seems the company wants hold on to the offer still longer. The Bethpage, N. Y., company hasnt specified when the promotion will end. During a quarterly confer

38、ence call last week, Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge said simply that the company was continuing to advertise the offer based on its early success. Rutledge also said promotional offers “will continue to play a key role in both building new customer relationships and expanding existing ones.“BB

39、. McDonald s CEO has new surgery/BThe chief executive of McDonalds Corp. is recuperating after another surgery, the worlds largest fast-food company said Saturday. Charlie Bell underwent a procedure Friday to correct a blockage caused by scar tissue build-up from colorectal surgery he had in May, th

40、e company said. “I am delighted to report that The procedure was a complete success and that Charlie is resting comfortably,“ said Andrew McKenna, chairman of Chicago area-based McDonalds. “During Charlies brief recuperation period. there is absolutely no change in the leadership of the company,“ Mc

41、Kenna said in a statement. Bell, previously chief operating officer of the global fast-food giant, became CEO after the unexpected death in April of former CEO Jim Cantalupo at a meeting in Florida.BC. Google governance flawed/BGoogle Inc. ranks lower in corporate governance than any company in the

42、Standard Poors 500 stock index, according to influential proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services, said a newspaper report published Monday. ISS, which advises shareholders on how to vote, found 21 weaknesses in the governance practices of Mountain View, Calif.- based Google, which is expect

43、ed to join the SP 500, said the Financial Times. These flaws, it said, include a dual-class capital structure that gives effective control to insiders, too few outside directors and a lack of stock ownership guidelines for executives and independent directors. The adviser also found problematic of t

44、he companys compensation plan that lets Google reprice stock options if the stock price falls, as well as loans to company insiders.BD. US Airways talks with pilots collapse/BNegotiations between US Airways and its pilots union over a new round of steep concessions collapsed on Monday, heightening p

45、ressure on the carrier as it tries to avert insolvency. Jack Stephan, a spokesman for the companys chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association, said more than a week of discussions between the two sides at the airlines Arlington, Va. , headquarters yielded little progress. “Since the beginning of these talks, we have witnessed a disturbing trend by the company to seemingly dismiss several significant proposals from our pilot negotiators,“ Stephan said. “Instead, management has responded by piling on additional demands to their counterproposals.“BE. Mylan wins OK for generic Zoloft/BShares of M