1、BEC商务英语（中级）口语模拟试卷 154及答案与解析 一、 SECTION 1 INTERVIEW (ABOUT 3 MIN) 1 In this part, the interlocutor asks questions to each of the candidates in turn. You have to give information about yourself and express personal opinions. 二、 SECTION 2 MINI PRESENTATIONS (ABOUT 6 MIN) In this part of the test you ar
2、e asked to give a short talk on a business topic. You have to choose one of the topics from the three below and then talk for about 1 minute. You have 1 minute to prepare your ideas. 2 In this part of the test, you are asked to give a short talk on a business topic. You have to choose one of the top
3、ics from the three below and then talk for about one minute. You have one minute to prepare your ideas. A What is important when.? Selling art products - Win your customers trust - Illustrate the value of the works - B What is important when.? Introducing a product to customers - Specialty of the pr
4、oduct - Advantages and achievement - C What is important when.? Negotiating the price - Knowing the popular price - Reasoning well - 三、 SECTION 3 DISCUSSION (ABOUT 5 MIN) In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is
5、 below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic. 3 In this part of the test, you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about th
6、ree minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that, the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic. For two candidates Economic Crisis Your company is planning to lay off a number of old staff due to the terrible economic crisis. You have been asked to help with running th
7、e project. Discuss the situation together, and decide: - how the company is to comfort the old staff - whether there are other ways to help go through the difficulty. For three candidates Economic Crisis Your company is planning to lay off a number of old staff because of the terrible economic crisi
8、s. You have been asked to help with running the project. Discuss the situation together, and decide: - how the company is to comfort the old staff - whether there are other ways to help go through the difficulty - what can be done to help maintain the companys image. Follow-on questions - If you are
9、 the HR manager, what factors will you consider when deciding who should be laid off? - What difficulties can you expect when talking to those who are to leave? - What may be the possible outcome of redundancy? - Do you think reducing staff is a good way to deal with economic crisis?(Why? /Why not?)
10、 - What measures do you think are the most effective to go through economic crisis?(Why?) BEC商务英语（中级）口语模拟试卷 154答案与解析 一、 SECTION 1 INTERVIEW (ABOUT 3 MIN) 1 【正确答案】 (C = Candidate, E = Examiner) E: Hi, what is your name? C: My name is Rebecca. I like my name because I like the famous novel Rebecca. E:
11、 What do you do for a living? C: Im an art broker. E: Do you love art? C: Yes, I love art so much that I really want to make people know more about art works and appreciate the beauty of them. E: Are you always on a business trip? C: Yes, I have been travelling here and there to hold exhibitions and
12、 meet artists. E: Do you think your work is important and why? C: Absolutely, art is important for everyone on earth and art works need to be popularised, so the works can be appreciated by more people. Therefore, I think my job is very meaningful. 二、 SECTION 2 MINI PRESENTATIONS (ABOUT 6 MIN) In th
13、is part of the test you are asked to give a short talk on a business topic. You have to choose one of the topics from the three below and then talk for about 1 minute. You have 1 minute to prepare your ideas. 2 【正确答案】 It is my pleasure to give my opinions on what is important when introducing a prod
14、uct to customers. The first thing is stating the specialty, namely, the shining points of a product. The reasons are obvious: people choose things for their specialty and uniqueness. Secondly, telling customers the advantages and the successful sale record of the product may give them much more conf
15、idence in the products. Anyhow, group psychology plays a very amazing role in consumption. Last but not least, from my perspective, giving some comparison is a very effective way to convince the customer. If you keep talking about the strengths of your product, customers would be bored and not inter
16、ested in your selling. However, a wise comparison may give the customer a totally different feeling. 三、 SECTION 3 DISCUSSION (ABOUT 5 MIN) In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about 3 minutes
17、 to discuss the topic with your partner. After that examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic. 3 【正确答案】 (For three candidates) A: Hey, I have heard that our company is going to fire a group of people. Is it true? B: Yes, we have to do this, because you know, its really a hard time no
18、w. C: Oh, but if we just fire them, the other staff would think were cold and unsympathetic. A: That is the point. We need to carry out a plan to comfort the staff. B: In my opinion, we could give the laid-off staff three months salary and each a recommendation letter to a comparatively lower-paid p
19、osition. A: That is good, and then the staff would see our concern for them. C: Right, lets think about if there are any other methods to tackle this adversity. B: OK. I was thinking about canceling all the junket tour and cut down the training fee. A: It may be useful to some extent. C: But it is f
20、ar from enough. Maybe we can stop all the recruiting programme and ask for help from the bank which has strong relations with our company. B: Ill keep your suggestion in mind, because it is really a good way to save the image of our company. C: Yes, compared with firing the staff, the other approach
21、es are more humanistic. A: Lets get down to our work quickly and tackle with the problem together. Follow-on questions - If I were the HR manager, I would consider staffs capacity, potential, attitude and the contribution to the company. - The biggest difficulty I can think of is the employees repul
22、sion to the companys decision. How we can make them to accept it more easily is really a problem. - The most influential and direct outcome may be the affecting of the morale and the efficiency of the staff. - In my opinion, reducing staff would be the last choice to deal with economic crisis, because it can affect the staff who remained and damage the image of the company. - To go through the crisis, the most important thing to do is to find where the problem lies in and to figure out countermeasures accordingly.
