1、剑桥商务英语高级-9 及答案解析(总分：96.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BREADING/B(总题数：1，分数：8.00)BPART ONE/BLook at the statements below and at the summaries of five business books on the opposite page about recruitment Which book summary(A，B，C，D or E)does each statement 1-8 refer to? For each statement 1-8，mark one letter(A，B，C，D
2、or E)on your Answer Sheet You wilI need to use some 0f these letters more than once A Hire With Your Head Lou Adler，president of the Power Hiring consulting and training company，provides a systematic approach for finding，interviewing and hiring the best candidate for a jobHe emphasizes making an obj
3、ective assessment and，to this end，he provides techniques for overcoming first impressionsThe book includes charts and checklists that highlight important pointsThis well-organ-lzed guide to effective hiring is hig hly recommended to company owners，human resource per-sonnel and managers involved in t
4、he hiring processAlert job seekers may also find it useful to learn what a good interview will demand BHiring the Best Any manager with hiring authority knows that selecting therightcandidate for any position is a nervewracking taskAuthor Martin YateS basic book can help inexperienced managers hire
5、effectively，although this useful primer on interviewing and hiring is a little wordyYates provides great detail about key steps，such as when to schedule a phone interview，what to ask and how to conduct an interviewHe even provides numerous sample questions for each major job category，from entry leve
6、l to management CAsk the Right Questions，Hire the Best People This book boasts of a list of questions designed to make your interviews effective in weeding out the pretenders and uncovering that dream hireThe books real value is in its list of interview questions，with accompanying comments on what a
7、nswers you should be looking forIt seems impossible that you could read this book and not stumble over one question that makes you smile and tuck it away to spring later on some unsuspecting intervieweeThis book will prove useful for human resource professionals or any manager charged with hiring DH
8、iring and Keeping the Best People This book covers a huge amount of valuable information about hiring and retaining a great workforceIf more companies followed its fivestep hiring process，not only would talented employees face greater competition for their services，companies would get better staffer
9、s and the fit of workers to their jobs would improveThe book demonstrates an awareness of the realities of diversity in the modern workplace and the expectations employees have about worklife balance. This handy guide is clear and concise，and is highly recommended to anyone involved in the hiring an
10、d retention process EHow to Hire a Champion David Snyder，a business consultant with a psychology graduate degree from Harvard，believes that managers must be able to evaluate applicantspersonality traits to hire the right peopleHis assertions are hard to disputeHis book is Ioaded with good advice，alt
11、hough the writing can get choppy and repetitiveStill，it is strongly believed Snyder provides solid，practical and useful informationWhen you think how hard it is to live withor discard-an incorrect hire，youll want to be sure you take on the right people （分数：8.00）(1).The author of the book is a gradua
12、te from a famous university（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).The book can also be helpful for job applicants（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).People newly involved in recruitment may find this book particularly useful（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).You may make use of the questions in the book to eliminate candidates who are not serious（分
13、数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Companies would benefit a lot by acting on the advice given in the book（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).Interview questions for various jobs and posts are offered in the book（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).The book is very informative，for it deals with questions more than hiring（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).A good j
14、udgement of candidatespersonality is important in recruiting（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_二、BPART TWO/B(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Read the text below about some of Americas newspapers，which are facing extinction，unle volve Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps For each gap 9-14，mark one let
15、ter(A-H)on your Answer Sheet Do not use any letter more than once B On the brink /BThe New York Times was once the best example of all that was great about American newspapersNow it symbolizes the difficult situation the whole industry is fecde with.The Grey Ladys circulation is tumbling down anothe
16、r 3.9%according to the latest data from Americas Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)U (9) /U. Pick almost any American newspaper company and you can tell a similar storyThe ABC reported that for the 530 biggest daily newspapers，average circulation in the past six months was 3.6%lower than in the same
17、 period a year earlierAs for Sunday papersit was 4.6%lowerAd revenues are plunging across the board：by 22.3%at Media General，for exampleIn 2007 total newspaper revenues fell to$42.2 billionU (10) /U. Much of this decline is being blamed on the rise of the internet，which offers free，round-the-clock c
18、overageWhats more，Internet has provided a new，better home for classified advertising，which was once the source of most newspapersrevenueU (11) /UThe number one cause is the troublesome housing market，which contributes a large slice of classified advedising Industry experts such as Lucas Rich Fine of
19、 Kent State University do not think that the Times is responding forcefully enoughU (12) /UMr.Fine also points out that although all newspapers are being affected by the internet，their ability to respond will probably depend on whether their audiences are national，metropolitan or localThe first cate
20、gory can afford to invest in distinctive international or business coverage，while the last can prosper by becomingmore intensely localBut he fears that the big metropolitan newspapers may find themselves trapped in the middle Not all is lost，howeverU (13) /UFor instance，a number of newspapers are be
21、cominginformation and connection utilities，through such offerings as local internet forumsThe Pocono Record has renamed reporterscontent managers，since they oversee all the coverage of their beat，both in print and online，and get a bonus for higher web traffic The hero for industry optimists is Brian
22、 Tierney，a former publicrelations executiveLast year，he led a group of investors that borrowed heavily to buy Philadelphias two main dailiesU (14) /UHe is also finding new ways to drum up advertising，such as introducing a business column sponsored by a local bankACertainly，it was not something to be
23、 sniffed at，but much less than the peak of$48.7 billion in 2000 BHowever，some of the fall in revenues is actual-ly due to the economic slowdown in America CIts advertising revenues are down，too，12.5% lower in March than a year earlier DHe has since revived them with a vigorous marketing drive ENever
24、theless，as a major newspaper，it still boasts a welleducated readership FPlenty of innovation is taking place，particularly at local papem GNow is the time to beef up its business section，he says HNow it symbolizes the difficult situation the whole industry is faced with（分数：6.00）(1).（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_填空
25、项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、BPART THREE/B(总题数：1，分数：6.00) Read the following article about career development and the questions on the opposite page For each question 15-20，mark one letter(A，B，C or D)on your Answer Sheet for the answer you chooseB How to get to the top/BMarketing used to be th
26、e route to the chief executives chair，but the world has changedNow，says Monika Hamoriprofessor of human resources at Instituto de Empresa in Madrid，it is finance chiefs who are most likely to get the top job，though experience in opera-tions-running parts of the companyis also essentialCFO Magazine f
27、ound in 2005 that onefifth of chief ex-ecutives in America were former chief financiaI officers，almost double the share of a decade earlierThe importance of quarterly financial reporting，and closer scrutiny since the imposition of the Sarbanesoxley corporategovernance act，have put CFOs in the limeli
28、ghtand given them the chance to shine Another factor in reaching the top is whether you stay with the company you joined as a youngsterMsHamoris research looked at companies in the S&P 500 and the FTSEurofirst 300She finds thatlifersget to the top in 22 years in America and 24 years in Europe：Hopper
29、swho jump between four or more companies，by contrast，take at least 26 years on average to become chief executivesInsiders get promotions that reflect their potential，because their bosses have enough information to be reasonably confident about their abilityWhen executives switch from one company to
30、another，however，they tend to move less far up the hierarchy，the researchers found The time taken to reach the top is fallingThe average time from first job to chief executive fell from 28 years in 1980 to 24 in 2001Successful executives are spending less time than they used to in each intermediate j
31、oban average of four yearsand they fill five posts on the way updown from sixOne reason for this acceleration is that company hierarchies are flatter than they used to beAnother important shift is the advent of female chief executives 1n 2001 women accounted for 11%of bosses at leading American comp
32、aniesac-cording to the Hamori/Cappelli survey；in the early 1980s there were none America is usually regarded as the home of raw capitalismwith youthful managers hopping from firm to firm and pushing their way to the topBut the HamorL/Cappelli study and another by Booz & Company，a consultancy，show th
33、at Europe is a more dynamic and harsher environ-menl than America or Japan for chief executivesFor a start，European chief executives are younger，with an average age of 54compared with over 56 in AmericaThe Hamor/Cappelli study shows that 26%of American bos-ses were lifers，compared with only 18%in Eu
34、rope The Europeans also have a harder time once they get to the top.Booz Companys annual survey of chiefexecutive succession shows that 17.6%of European bosses moved on last yearcompared with 15%of Americans and 10%of JapaneseChief executivesthe survey found，last longer in America：the average tenure
35、 over the past decade was just over nine yearsBut in Europe the average tenure over the same period was less than seven years Moreovera whopping 37%of changes at the top in Europe were more or less firings，according to Booz，compared with only 27%in America and 12%in JapanBooz puts this down to the m
36、ore recent tightening of corporate governance in Europe,Another Booz finding is common to both sides of the Atlantic：looking back over recent years，board disputes and power struggles lie behind a third of chiefexecutive firingsIn short，shareholder activism is making its presence felt，putting pressur
37、e on bosses to perform （分数：6.00）(1).What is true according to the first paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.CFOshard work leads to their increasing chances of promotionB.CFOs usually have no experience in managementC.Marketing directors no longer have the chance to get a top positionD.Chief executives used to be p
38、romoted mainly from the marketing department(2).If you are alifer（分数：1.00）A.you take less time to make it to the topB.you have a long list of previous jobsC.you tend to move less far up in the companyD.you keep changing your job all your life(3).What is true according to the third paragraph?（分数：1.00
39、）A.Chief executives spend less time on their jobs than beforeB.Career progression is faster than it used to beC.Company hierarchies are barriers to career developmentD.There will be more female executives than male executives in the future(4).Compared to America，（分数：1.00）A.there is more competition
40、for chief executives in EuropeB.lifers in Europe have more chances to get to the topC.it takes lifers in Europe less time to get to the topD.executives in Europe hop less frequently from job to job(5).What is true about European chief executives?（分数：1.00）A.They are dynamic and harsh in managementB.T
41、hey will be hard on others once they get to the topC.They have less job security than their American counterpartsD.They work longer than their American counterparts(6).According to the last paragraph，（分数：1.00）A.employees are more likely to be fired as they get higher in positionB.executives in Japan
42、 are more likely to get fired than those in AmericaC.corporate governance in America and Japan is too looseD.shareholders in both America and Europe put great pressure on the management四、BPART FOUR/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00) Read the article below about how to build up and keep healthy relations with co-work
43、ers Choose the correct word or phrase to fill each gap frOm ABC or D on the opposite page For each question 21-30，mark one letter(A，B，C or D)on your Answer SheetCoworker relations：defuse tension with tactIts Monday morning，and you havent even had your coffee yet But that hasnt stopped a colleague fr
44、omtelling you all about his adventurous weekend。In fact，youve heard several stories in extreme detail，and he shows noU (21) /U of stoppingYou just want to get to work，but how do you say so withoutU (22) /Uthe other persons feelings?This situation，like many others，requires tact and diplomacyWhen you
45、work in close quarters，issues like this one are bound toU (23) /Ufrom time to time. Thankfully，speaking with a coworker about an awkward issue doesnt have to induce panicHeres how to U(24) /U the situation： First，U (25) /Uthe circumstancesBefore saying anything to your colleague，weigh the pros and c
46、ons of speaking upSecond，explain the impactIf a U(26) /Uconversation is necessary，dont confront the person in a group settingVoicing your frustration in front of others couldU (27) /Uyour colleagueInsteadexplain your concern when youre alone with your coworker and let the person know how the situati
47、onU (28) /UyouLast，reach an agreementDont end the conversation without coming to some sort of resolutionSolving the issue may require aU (29) /U.For example，If you find your coworkers music loud and annoyinghe may agree to use headphones during the mornings and afternoons if you dont mind that he uses his speakers later in the day，when things haveU (30) /Udown Remember that every situation is different and that some conversations with a coworker will be awkward regardless of your approachBut by being honest and respectful with colleagues，you
