[外语类试卷]BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷126及答案与解析.doc

1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 126及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 Look at the form below. You will hear a woman calling about some problems with an order. Customer Services/Order Amendment Form Customer: Troy Shipping/Kate Hagel Order No.: 【 L1】 _ Problems HP Laser Toner Cartridge: ordered【 L2】 _of them in all. Envelop: or

2、dered【 L3】 _style Comments Correct items send out by the【 L4】 _ 1 【 L1】 2 【 L2】 3 【 L3】 4 【 L4】 4 Look at the notes below. You will hear a man requiring about training courses. J. T. Marlin Training Messages Time: 9.45 a.m. Seth Davis called from【 L5】 _about training. Recommended by someone from【 L6

3、】 _ A four-week course on【 L7】 _ One-to-one courses in【 L8】 _ 5 【 L5】 6 【 L6】 7 【 L7】 8 【 L8】 8 Look at the note below. You will hear an answering phone message from a woman about a meeting. Message To: Jackson Lee From: Kate, New York office Re: Planning Meeting next week Meeting room: 【 L9】 _ The

4、host is: 【 L10】 _ Send【 L11】 _to Kates mail box Pay attention to【 L12】 _in the report 9 【 L9】 10 【 L10】 11 【 L11】 12 【 L12】 二、 PART TWO 12 You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is giving. Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording. Do not use

5、any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings. A selling luxury to everyone B luxury market feeling the pinch C file sharing not killing record sales D queen of the crisis E investing for rebound F risks of file sharing G the power of public risk management H instant

6、 debt relief 13 _ 14 _ 15 _ 16 _ 17 _ 17 You will hear another five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is trying to give. 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. A

7、the transformation of manufacturing B building friendship and alliance C choosing the right backer D more clarity, more transformation, more creativity E womens career development F more choice, less choice G CEOs first job H angling for your angel 18 _ 19 _ 20 _ 21 _ 22 _ 三、 PART THREE 22 You will

8、hear an interview with Joe Nocera. 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 Which of the following is TRUE? （ A） Steve Jobs was angry at shareholders questions at the meeting. （ B） The arrogant culture at Apple

9、 will have negative effects on its popular products. （ C） Bob Nardelli still has to deal with angry shareholders at Chrysler. 24 Which of the following is NOT TURE? （ A） Steve Jobs has a firm grip on Apple. （ B） Joe distastes Steve Jobs self-importance. （ C） Joe hates Steve Jobs for committing crime

10、s. 25 Junk bonds nowadays （ A） still stir controversies every now and then. （ B） are common in home financing. （ C） are one of the great corporate financing tools. 26 Whats Joes view on Boone Pickens? （ A） Joe disagrees with Pickens politically. （ B） Joe disagrees with Pickens on environmental issue

11、s. （ C） Joe disagrees with Pickens on Apples back-dated options. 27 Boone Pickens （ A） is a big supporter of John Kerry. （ B） invests heavily on junk bonds. （ C） doesnt want to overly depend on oil. 28 The recent financial crisis is worse than the Interest Bubble few years back （ A） because many com

12、panies lost their triple A ratings. （ B） due to the collapse of both stock and housing markets. （ C） because of high fuel price. 29 The melting of Wall Street and Main Street means （ A） junk bonds are now available to both the individual investors and investment banks. （ B） the average investors hav

13、e the same access to the complex financial vehicles as the sophisticated, high networth investors. （ C） the merger of two sectors. 30 Whats Joes advice on coping with the recession? （ A） Wait until the economy recovers. （ B） Invest in real estate. （ C） Invest in junk bonds and real estate. BEC商务英语（中

14、级）听力模拟试卷 126答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 【听力原文】 Look at the form below. You will hear a woman calling about some problems with an order. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Pause Man: Good afternoon, Office Depot, Customer Service. Can I help you? Woman: H

15、ello. This is Kate Hagel from Troy Shipping. Im calling about the order we received this morning. We got a few wrong items in our order. Man: Im sorry to hear that. Your order number, please. Woman: The number is A-35941-KJ. Man: Please tell me whats wrong so we can send you the right items straight

16、away. Woman: Great. Well, first of all, you sent us only 14 HP laser toner cartridges instead of 40. Man: Im sorry. The invoice said you ordered 14 HP laser toner cartridges. If you want us to send you the remaining 26 cartridges, the difference will be 2,500. Is this all right with you? Woman: That

17、s fine. Also, the envelopes you sent are not the style we ordered. We want booklet style, not the catalogue one, in “6 x 9“. Man: Right. So that booklet style is in six by nine, not catalogue. Anything else we can do for you? Woman: Wed like the right items to be received by tomorrow noon. Man: Cert

18、ainly. We will send the order by the overnight service and should be there around nine tomorrow morning. Woman: And the mailing cost? Man: Dont worry about it. Well take care of it. Just ask the delivery person at DHL to pick the wrong items up. Woman: Thank you. Goodbye. Man: Goodbye. 1 【正确答案】 A-35

19、941-KJ 2 【正确答案】 40 3 【正确答案】 booklet 4 【正确答案】 overnight service 4 【听力原文】 Look at the notes below. You will hear a man requiring about training courses. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Pause Woman: J.T. Martin Training. How can I help you? Man:

20、Hello, this is Seth Davis calling from Gekko Financial. Gekko spells G-E-K-K-O. A friend of mine from Blue Star refers me to your stock broker exam course. Woman: Yes. We offer four-week course on the exam. Man: Good. In addition to that, we have some other staff who need some individual training, b

21、ut that will be in commodities. Woman: Oh, yes, we do offer the one-to-one courses in commodities. The courses usually run for six weeks. 5 【正确答案】 Gekko Financial 6 【正确答案】 Blue Star 7 【正确答案】 stock broker 8 【正确答案】 commodities 8 【听力原文】 Look at the note below. You will hear an answering machine message

22、 from a woman about a meeting. You have 15 seconds to read through the note. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Pause Woman: This is a message for Mr. Lee. Its Kate speaking in the New York office. Please tell him some crucial information about our meeting next week. Firstly, the meeting plac

23、e has been changed. I wrote “The meeting room is 309 in the east building“ on the email this morning, but the room is 305 in the west building now. And the host will be James, since we couldnt contact Bill currently. Fortunately, James is experienced at this sort of things. By the way, once contacte

24、d with Bill, call me directly. Whats more, we need your PPT now, please email it to me as soon as possible. To guarantee the quality of the presentation, we should review it ahead of time! Please name the file as “Jacksons part“. I believe you know my email address. What else, there still some mista

25、kes in your report. Please notice the charts where you should improve the content, and email it to me as well! 9 【正确答案】 35 10 【正确答案】 James 11 【正确答案】 PPT 12 【正确答案】 the charts 二、 PART TWO 12 【听力原文】 You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is giving. Write one le

26、tter(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 15 seconds to read the list A-H. Pause Now listen, and decide what the speaker is giving. Pause Thirteen Man: It should remind us that private financial i

27、nstitutions and markets cannot always be counted upon to manage risk optimally on their own. Almost everyone now recognises that the government has a critical role to play as the lender, insurer, and spender of last resort in times of crisis. But effective public risk management is also needed in no

28、rmal times to protect consumers and investors and to help prevent it from starting in the first place. Pause Fourteen Woman: Internet music piracy not only doesnt hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by H

29、arvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee. The paper caused a ruckus in the music industry not been seen since the British invasion of the Beatles. Many recording executives were convinced that illegal downloading and file sharing have robbed them of billions of dollars after four consec

30、utive years of falling record sale. Pause Fifteen Man: Consumers know it and retailers are reaping the bounty. Those goods are at a changing space and things are kicking along vigorously. Rory Tahari, wife of designer Elie Tahari, said she saw a clear trend toward higher expectations from consumers

31、in the fashion industry. “The consumer really wants highly designed garments at an affordable price,“ she said. Tyler Morse, president of Bliss, said that even in a recession consumers will splurge on those items. Pause Sixteen Woman: The mortgage crisis, the deficit, the mass layoffs and the home f

32、oreclosures sweeping the U.S. are all signs that the economy is in a ruin, but for personal-finance guru Suze Orman, things could hardly be better. She spends her days fielding calls from people who are in financial peril-drowning in credit-card debt or facing adjustable-rate mortgages that threaten

33、 to bury them alive. Each week they phone to Ormans TV show for advice, which offers the hope that might save themselves from the financial hell. Orman rushed out a paperback response to the economic crisis called Suze Ormans 2009 Action Plan, which is on the New York Times best-seller list, and the

34、 ratings for her TV show are among the highest at CNBC. Pause Seventeen Man: Heres the not-so-bad news: We are nearing a bottom. House prices are falling, but not as rapidly. Consumer confidence is up. Banks are earning money. The stock market in April had its best month in nine years. Even Nouriel

35、Roubini, the New York University professor known for his terrible economic predictions, thinks we are on the recovery. Although thats not to say the recession is over. Roubini sees the road to recovery as a long and choppy one, with unemployment rising toward 12%. So dont trade in your emergency fun

36、d for a boat. But when it comes to your investing life, its time to get back into the water. “People think that things need to go from terrible to terrific before they can invest,“ says Fidelitys legendary stock picker Peter Lynch. “But things only have to get to somewhat crummy for stocks to go up.

37、“ 13 【正确答案】 G 14 【正确答案】 C 15 【正确答案】 A 16 【正确答案】 D 17 【正确答案】 E 17 【听力原文】 You will hear another five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is trying to give. Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened

38、once, replay the recordings. You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H. Pause Now listen, and decide what the speaker is trying to give. Pause Eighteen Woman: Long before they were running entire companies and making million or billion dollar decisions, all chief executive officers had to start somew

39、here. They werent mostly born into their jobs. But many of them got a very good start. They knew from the beginning that not every internship is about making copies and running out for coffee. Among top-tier executives, youd be hard pressed to find someone who settled for that kind of grunt work eve

40、n if they werent confident enough to be sure they were above it. Pause Nineteen Man: Less is increasingly more: at least in the minds of customers. However, some cite product complexity as the cause of rising real and psychological consumer “costs“ while others point to the proliferation of choice a

41、s the cause. When producers want to differentiate themselves, up to a point, the safest and quickest way is to add features or increase product complexity. Regardless of the type of complexity, whether product or choice-related, the consumer is ultimately overwhelmed. As choice increases, search cos

42、ts increase and it takes longer to make a decision. Too many choices are like having no choice, and buyers will start to feel that. Pause Twenty Woman: Women start their careers in business and other professions with the same level of intelligence, education, and commitment as men. Yet comparatively

43、 few reach to the top echelons. This gap matters not only because the glass ceiling is unfair, but also because the world has an increasing urgent need for leaders. All men and women with brains, the desire and the perseverance to lead should be encouraged to fulfill their potential and leave their

44、mark. With all these in mind, McKinsey Leadership Project set out four years ago to learn what drives and sustains successful female leaders. Pause Twenty-one Man: Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. For years manufacturers in the U.S. kept their hands firmly on the spigot of supply and

45、determined when people could get what they wanted. Choices were more limited, delivery time was measured in months, and warehouses were typically piled high with mountains of expensive inventory often comprised of too many unpopular products and too few hot sellers. Today, this scenario is ancient h

46、istory. The customer is king, trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centres on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. Pause Twenty-two Woman: Funding has not been harder to come by for decades and throngs of deserved entrepreneurs ar

47、e downright starved for it. Thats where angel investors loosely gathered groups of well heeled individuals with an eye towards the juice returns that can come from investing in early stage of companies come in. Not that you should jump at any angel willing to scratch out a cheque. Their deep pockets

48、 notwithstanding, some angels are difficult and demanding than others, even while bringing less to the table in terms of expertise and guidance. Thats why entrepreneurs should know what theyre getting into before betting their fortunes on these benefactors. 18 【正确答案】 G 19 【正确答案】 F 20 【正确答案】 E 21 【正确

49、答案】 A 22 【正确答案】 C 三、 PART THREE 22 【听力原文】 You will hear an interview with Joe Nocera. 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 have 45 seconds to read through the questions. Pause Now listen, and mark A, B or C. Pause Woman: Welcome to our programme. This week we chat with New York Times busines