[外语类试卷]BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷107及答案与解析.doc

1、BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 107及答案与解析 一、 PART THREE 1 The department that I worked in【 B1】 _department 1 Elizabeth Elting Name of Her Business: 【 B1】 _ Revenues of the Business: 【 B2】 _million Degree: 【 B3】 Bachelor of_ Co-founder: 【 B4】 _ Time the Company Was Found: 【 B5】 the year_ Languages Spoken: 【 B6】 _

2、Award Received: 【 B7】 _times 2 【 B1】 3 【 B2】 4 【 B3】 5 【 B4】 6 【 B5】 7 【 B6】 8 【 B7】 8 Electronic Noses Name of the Leading Company in the Field: 【 B1】 _ Manager of the Company: 【 B2】 _ Launching Time: 【 B3】 _ Rival Companies: 【 B4】 _ Industries Applied to: 【 B5】 _ Price: 【 B6】 _each Research Partne

3、r: 【 B7】 _Hospital 9 【 B1】 10 【 B2】 11 【 B3】 12 【 B4】 13 【 B5】 14 【 B6】 15 【 B7】 15 Bill Gates Business Career Time of Becoming Interested in Computer: 【 B1】 At the age of_ The Technology Promising a Bright Future of his Business is: 【 B2】 _ Time of Starting Microsoft: 【 B3】 _ Platform of High Speed

4、 Processors: 【 B4】 _ Storage Capacity: Data and【 B5】 _ Most Exciting Pursuit in the Field: 【 B6】 _ Other Interesting Area in the Field: 【 B7】 _ 16 【 B1】 17 【 B2】 18 【 B3】 19 【 B4】 20 【 B5】 21 【 B6】 22 【 B7】 BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 107答案与解析 一、 PART THREE 1 【听力原文】 I have worked in the Public Relations depar

5、tment of P&R company for the past three years. I planed advertising campaigns and was responsible for designing some leaflets and brochures. Sometimes I had to do the work of a specialist when theres something urgent. 1 【正确答案】 PUBLIC RELATIONS 【试题解析】 题干提示点：本题考查的是说话人的工作部门，注意不要与其公司名称混淆。 1 【听力原文】 Man:

6、Im going to talk today about Elizabeth Elting, the co-CEO of the TransPerfect, one of the five largest language service companies in the world with estimated revenues around $225 million. Together with the spinoff business translations. com, Lizs company employs 250 full-time staffers and 4,000 subc

7、ontractors, with 31 offices worldwide offering round-the-clock translation service. Despite the success of her business, TransPerfect had humble beginnings. Having once worked for a translation company after getting her Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, Liz knew that the t

8、ranslation industry was composed of various small outfits offering inconsistent quality. She was then studying MBA at the New York Universitys Stern School of Business when together with classmate Phil Shawe, she saw that huge opportunities await them in the translation business. The partners starte

9、d TransPerfect from their dorm rooms in 1992. Her road to success was not easy, as the early days of TransPerfect were run with a shoestring budget. After years of toiling, Liz has achieved her goal of transforming the translation business and becoming one of the premier companies in the industry. T

10、he translation business suited Liz perfectly, as it blended together her passion for languages, culture and business having studied in Spain, lived in Portugal, and worked in Venezuela. She speaks French and Spanish. Today, Liz has received a number of awards and recognitions for her outstanding ent

11、repre-neurship, including Working Woman Magazines Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for Customer Service, the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Inc. 500 Award, and the Deloit-te &Touche Fast 50 Award four times. 2 【正确答案】 TRANSPERFECT 3 【正确答案】 ABOUT $255 4 【正确答案】 ARTS 5 【正确答案】 PHIL S

12、HAWE 6 【正确答案】 1992 7 【正确答案】 FRENCH, SPANISH 8 【正确答案】 SEVEN 8 【听力原文】 Man: Good morning, everyone. Im Louise Pile from AromaScan. Today Ill talk about the latest product in our field electronic noses. The human senses are all being automated. We have electronic eyes and ears, and robots having a rudim

13、entary sense of touch. Now the electronic nose is here, with my company as the world leader in this technology launching the first electronic nose in 1999. Indeed, a rival nose has emerged within the past year from Newtech, and a third is due out next year by Sensors. As you may guess, the noses sha

14、re the same basic design as the human version, that is, they have an array of sensors to detect molecules in the air which are linked to an electronic brain to make sense of the signals. The electronic noses cannot yet match the sensitivity of human smell any more than computerised voice recognition

15、 can compete with our ears. But for industrial purposes they have other advantages which are drawing potential users from the food and fragrance industries. A mass market beckons, right? But consumer applications lie several years in the future, because the noses cost about 25, 000 each. Now we are

16、developing applications in a quite different area with our research partner. Trails at Red Star Hospital in Manchester have shown that one type of the instrument can detect wound infections at a very early stage. We are discussing possible licensing deals and joint ventures with international electr

17、onics and instrumentation companies, which would bring in more development funds. 9 【正确答案】 AROMASCAN 10 【正确答案】 LOUISE PILE 11 【正确答案】 1999 12 【正确答案】 NEWTECH,SENSORS 13 【正确答案】 FOOD,FRAGRANCE 14 【正确答案】 25000 15 【正确答案】 RED STAR 15 【听力原文】 Man: Its great to be here and have a chance to share some of my ex

18、citement with you. I got involved with computers at 18, and the computer was a very limited teletype that had to be connected through a phone line up to a mainframelike computer but my friends and I became fascinated with understanding what the computer can do, what was the future, and how would it

19、be used. When we found out about chip technology, and the miracle of being able to improve the power of the chip exponentially, we realised that computers had a very bright future. The personal computer revolution got started in 1975, thats when I left college and started Microsoft. These last 22 ye

20、ars have really been amazing, every prediction weve made about improvements have all come true. As we look ahead, the pace of innovation is not slowing down, in fact if anything its speeding up. Very high speed processors like 300 MHz Pentiums, or new 64-bit processors that were already developing W

21、indows NT for: incredible storage capacity, which well let us store, not just data, but also digital video as well. Here we have an example where the word processor is looking at an English sentence, and suggesting that the grammar is not correct, and showing exactly how the grammar might be fixed.

22、That pursuit of artificial intelligence is the most exciting thing in computer science. Another interesting thing that I think people arent expecting is computer vision. The actual digital cameras that allow you to have an image and scan that image are going down in cost. 16 【正确答案】 18 17 【正确答案】 CHIP TECHNOLOGY 18 【正确答案】 1975 19 【正确答案】 WINDOWS NT 20 【正确答案】 DIGITAL VIDEO 21 【正确答案】 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 22 【正确答案】 COMPUTER VISION