1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 128及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 Look at the notes below. You will hear someone in the Production Department of a company calling a colleague in the Human Resource Department. Notes Re: Production Departments Requirement Production need to【 L1】 _until October. Work at weekends will be【 L2】_
2、paid. Application forms should be handed to【 L3】 _by the 21st of August. Staff should decide which【 L4】 _they would like to choose. 1 【 L1】 2 【 L2】 3 【 L3】 4 【 L4】 4 Look at the form below. You will hear a man calling a hotel to make a reservation. Reservation Form Reservation made by: 【 L5】 _ Compa
3、ny: General Oriental Investment Type of room: meeting room for 30 people Date: 【 L6】 _from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Purpose: 【 L7】 _ Extra Services required: 【 L8】 _and a complimentary phone line 5 【 L5】 6 【 L6】 7 【 L7】 8 【 L8】 8 Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman phoning for a job application f
4、orm. Job Application Requests Job: 【 L9】 _ Reference Number: 【 L10】 _ Advertised in: 【 L11】 _newspaper Name: Lindsay Lohan On request: the application form and【 L12】 _ 9 【 L9】 10 【 L10】 11 【 L11】 12 【 L12】 二、 PART TWO 12 You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speake
5、r is giving. 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 motherhood and business B living in an urban planet C the missing link of urban transportation D the investment strategy in time of unce
6、rtainty E mens wear in unusual materials F fashion marketing and merchandising G food and mood H life lessons from mom 13 _ 14 _ 15 _ 16 _ 17 _ 17 You will hear another five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is trying to do. Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the
7、recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings. A Watch Auctions to Measure the Market B the rise and the fall of auction houses C the future of e-commerce D the advantages of e-commerce E old employees against discrimination F a tough environmen
8、t for biodiesel industry G environmental issues with biodiesel H luxury brands turn to China for protection in crisis 18 _ 19 _ 20 _ 21 _ 22 _ 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear an interview with Tom Edison about U.S. technology formation. For each question(23-30), mark one letter(A, B or C)for the corr
9、ect answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording. 23 What sparked Edisons interest in the research? （ A） Commercialisation of a wireless telecom technology. （ B） Silicon Valley. （ C） The contribution made by the foreign-born scientist and business people. 24 Tom Edison used a special n
10、ame-matching technique to （ A） find out where the inventors come from. （ B） determine the right candidates for a Korean conglomerate. （ C） find out the inventors addresses in Silicon Valley. 25 The most remarkable trend of Edisons finding is （ A） the importance of European-born scientists for U.S. t
11、echnology formation. （ B） Indian share of inventors in Silicon Valley working in semiconductors. （ C） the strong growth in Chinese contributions to U.S. innovation. 26 Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the immigrants in the U.S.? （ A） Some of them are Nobel Prize Winners. （ B） They are a stro
12、ng force for U.S. technology development. （ C） They account for nearly 50 percent of overall workforce. 27 Immigrants patents are focused on （ A） mechanical field. （ B） high-tech field. （ C） agricultural field. 28 Edison believes that （ A） investors have a huge impact on the U.S. economy. （ B） immig
13、rants impact on technology fields are stronger than agricultural ones. （ C） U.S. colleges should grant less advanced degrees to immigrants. 29 The declining in Chinese and Indian contribution to the U.S. after 2000 is due to （ A） more investor-friendly immigration policy in the U.S. （ B） smaller imm
14、igrant return rate. （ C） declines in H1-B visa issuance. 30 Which of the following is NOT TRUE? （ A） To maintain U.S.s lead in technology, drawing and keeping Chinese and Indian researchers is crucial. （ B） The U.S. should be very concerned about the high returning rates of its foreign-born scientis
15、ts and researchers. （ C） The recent trend in taking over the leadership in technology is positive for the U.S. BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 128答 案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 【听力原文】 Look at the notes below. You will hear someone in the Production Department of a company calling a colleague in the Human Resource Departmen
16、t. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Pause Woman: Human Resource. Holly Golightly speaking. Man: Holly, this is Paul Varjak from Production. Woman: Hi. What can I do for you? Man: I need all the people I can get to do overtime. Weve just got an
17、big order, to be finished in October. Their pay rate is double on Saturdays and Sundays and one and half times on the weekdays. Woman: All right, Ill put a notice for applications. Who will the staff report to? The production manager? Man: Their line managers are better. The line managers handle que
18、stions more quickly. Woman: When do you need the names, Paul? Man: By the 21st of August. And ask them to choose their prefer shifts. We will work out the hours later. Woman: OK, Ill do that right away. Man: Thank you, Holly. 1 【正确答案】 be done overtime 2 【正确答案】 double 3 【正确答案】 line managers 4 【正确答案】
19、shifts 4 【听力原文】 Look at the form below. You will hear a man calling a hotel to make a reservation. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Pause Woman: Good afternoon, the Four Seasons Hotel. May I help you? Man: Hello, this is James Goldsmith and Im
20、calling from London. I am to book a meeting room on Thursday, the 23rd of May. Woman: Yes, Mr. Goldsmith. And the company you are with? Man: General Oriental Investment. Woman: And what size of meeting room are you interested in? Man: Well, well use the room for job interviews. Id say, a room accomm
21、odating up to 30 people will be fine. Woman: The rate for 30-people meeting room rental is $299 an hour that includes 25 percent discount on beverages. Man: We also need a phone line in the conference room. Is the service included? Woman: Yes, a complimentary phone line is offered in the package. Ma
22、n: Sounds good. Well use the room for six hours, from nine oclock in the morning till three in the afternoon. Do we get better rate because of it? Woman: Yes. The rate is $299 an hour for the first four hours and 40 percent off thereafter. Man: All right. Woman: The meeting room is booked, then. Is
23、there anything I can do for you, sir? Man: Wed also like to book five of your moderate guest rooms for two nights, the 22nd and the 23rd of May. 5 【正确答案】 James Goldsmith 6 【正确答案】 42513 7 【正确答案】 job interviews 8 【正确答案】 beverages 8 【听力原文】 Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman phoning for a jo
24、b application form. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Pause Man: This is the Personnel Department of DreamWorks. Please state the title and reference number of the job youre calling about and state where you saw the ad. Please give your name and
25、 your email address clearly. Woman: Hello. Im phoning about the publicist position at Public Relation Department. The reference number quoted in the ad is S-3-5-8-A. I saw the ad in the Sunday edition of Guardian newspaper/Please send the application form and information pack to me. My email address
26、 is . Thank you. 9 【正确答案】 publicist 10 【正确答案】 S-3-5-8-A 11 【正确答案】 Guardian 12 【正确答案】 information pack 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 letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more
27、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 Woman: Just as foam has become a cliche among cutting-edge chefs, some cutting-edge mens wear Designers are trying it in c
28、lothing. A coterie of young menswear Designers in New York are introducing jackets in materials like foam typically used as bicycle seat padding and gold foil polyurethane typically used in emergency blankets. Calvin Klein Collection mens creative Director Italo Zucchelli used foam to make trousers,
29、 a sport coat, and a puffy jacket. Since men are more reluctant than women to try new styles and fashions, unusual fabrics are “one of the few tools you can use to explore new territory,“ Mr. Zucchelli says. Pause Fourteen Man: Sugar smoothes us when were stressed or at least it calms down stressed-
30、out rats, which are good models for stress in people. But before you race to the vending machine with a license to indulge, know that a little sugar may smoothe rattled nerves, but too much will backfire, playing moody havoc with your blood sugar. We crave bread and other carbohydrates when were dow
31、n. Carbohydrates raise levels of the feel-good brain chemical substance, which lifts our spirits. Think of whole-wheat bread and other whole-grain carbohydrates, they also stabilize blood sugar levels unlike refined grains. Pause Fifteen Woman: People didnt discuss and plan industrialization until t
32、he 1880s. By the time we finish building cities for the additional 2 billion people who will become urbanites over the next 25 years, well have created a world that looks and works nothing like the cities we know. Our individual cities are already merging into hundred-mile-long agglomerations, cross
33、ing municipal, state and national borders. Soon, they will be connected completely into a mega-geography beyond our wildest mega-city imaginings, whose networks and systems shape 21st century markets and politics, as well as the flow of materials, energy and species. Pause Sixteen Man: The lingering
34、 pain of 2008s market meltdown has investors understood the uneasiness about getting back into stocks. They seek the safety and yield of fixed income, but they dont want to miss a rebound in equities. Convertibles may be the answer. Usually they provide more income than stocks. As the name implies,
35、they can be, sometimes must be, exchanged into common equity. However, if the market should nose-dive again, these hybrid securities wont fall as much as the companys stock. Pause Seventeen Woman: Having children instilled not only maternal instincts, but also business instincts as well. Many of the
36、 skills needed to run a family also apply to the business world, including scheduling, budgeting, and management. Many moms are taking those skills and launching new businesses. This is especially true in Hollywood, where no one is just an actress or just a singer. And aside from the typical clothin
37、g, jewelry, and perfume lines, there are some creative ventures headed by entrepreneurial moms or mompreneurs like bedding collections, kids furniture, and even baby supply vending machines. 13 【正确答案】 E 14 【正确答案】 G 15 【正确答案】 B 16 【正确答案】 D 17 【正确答案】 A 17 【听力原文】 You will hear another five short record
38、ings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is trying to do. 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. You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H. Pause Now listen, and decide what the spea
39、ker is trying to do. Pause Eighteen Man: Starting mid-2007, price of the canola and soy oils has made biodiesel soared. With oil peaking at $147 a barrel last summer, biodiesel still made economic sense for some customers. Biodiesel didnt look bad by comparison. But then petroleum prices tanked, wid
40、ening the price gap and making the green option uneconomical even for the most diehard environmentalists. The recession has damped the demand for energy overall and made it nearly impossible for fledging clean-fuel ventures, including biodiesel makers, to get credit expanded. Pause Nineteen Woman: W
41、ith unemployment at 8.5% in March, up from 5.1% a year earlier, its difficult for anyone to land a new position. But older employees and ex-employees are up against stereotypes that paint them as undesirable: They are reluctant to learn new skills and technology: they have one foot out the door: the
42、yre overqualified: they demand higher salaries than their younger colleagues. “Were always given lip service with the idea that experience is valued, but I dont know if weve ever really seen it,“ says Laurie McCann, a senior attorney for the American Association of Retired Persons. Pause Twenty Man:
43、 Antiquorum, the worlds largest leading antique watch auction house, kicks off the Geneva auctions on the weekend of May 9th and 10th followed by Sothebys on May 10 and Christies on May 11. Watch specialist Aurel Bacs of Christies says the auction house is hoping to balance the “demanding expectatio
44、ns of buyers and sellers“ in the current economic climate by holding a smaller auction. Sothebys watch specialist Geoffroy Ader says the previously owned but relatively new watches are “just like the car market“ in that buyers might pick them up for half their price in the shops. Pause Twenty-one Wo
45、man: Almost fifteen years after the advent of e-commerce, it is interesting to take stock of how its market leaders have progressed. All the pioneers are stepping in each others toes. For instance, Amazons logical progression will inevitably lead into its much smaller DVD rental rivals territory: Am
46、azon has already squarely in eBays business. Significant acquisitions are coming and opportunities are still plenty. Pause Twenty-two Man: Many well-heeled Chinese shoppers are spending freely during the global economic crisis. High-end Designers and luxury retailers that thrive on such extravagance
47、 hope that Chinas growing luxury-seeking population will cushion them against the collapse in demand in other countries. Fueled by a three-decade-old economic boom that creates still-growing urban elite, Chinas appetite for luxury goods is surviving the sharpest global economic slump since 1930s. 18
48、 【正确答案】 F 19 【正确答案】 E 20 【正确答案】 A 21 【正确答案】 C 22 【正确答案】 H 三、 PART THREE 22 【听力原文】 You will hear an interview with Tom Edison about U.S. technology formation. 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 se
49、conds to read through the questions. Pause Now listen, and mark A, B or C. Woman: Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers have made an unexpectedly large contribution to U.S. technology formation over the last 30 years, according to a new research by Tom Edison. But that trend may be ebbing, with potentially harmful effects on future growth in American innovation. M
