1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 129及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 Look at the form below. You will hear a woman calling Bloomberg Archive with an order.1 【 L1】 2 【 L2】 3 【 L3】 4 【 L4】 4 Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman discussing production problems with her boss. Meeting Notes Costs of【 L5】 _have increased.
2、Some of our【 L6】 _have signed exclusive contracts with suppliers. No time discuss problems at【 L7】 _meeting. Product quality problems due to the use of【 L8】 _. 5 【 L5】 6 【 L6】 7 【 L7】 8 【 L8】 8 Look at the note below. You will hear the manager of a production company phoning a customers office. Fant
3、astic Four Machine & Tools Message from: Silver Storm of Cosmic Objects To: Reed Richards Department: 【 L9】 _ Subject: A new【 L10】 _machine installed in April Reason for call: Products are being【 L11】 _due to fault in box assembly mechanism. Action: We are sending【 L12】 _tomorrow morning. 9 【 L9】 10
4、 【 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 any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings. A a founder of d
5、igital museum B digital revolution C the fall of an European Dream D administrative secretary E antitrust: here we go again F charity, the nature way G an environmentalists fight H Europes new power structure 13 _ 14 _ 15 _ 16 _ 17 _ 17 You will hear another five recordings. For each recording, deci
6、de 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 big boom raising health issue B medicine going digital C slow and pain comeback of consumer spending D kindle
7、versus iPhone E being hired next year F reinventing the book G preparing for the worst H the future of waste management 18 _ 19 _ 20 _ 21 _ 22 _ 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear an interview with Dr. Aishwarya Rai. For each question(23-30), mark one letter(A, B or C)for the correct answer. After you h
8、ave listened once, replay the recording. 23 Medical tourism （ A） is another term for globalization of health care. （ B） becomes less common nowadays. （ C） does not include plastic surgery or hip replacement. 24 What stirred Aishwarya Rais interest in medical tourism? （ A） The first-rate but expensiv
9、e healthcare services. （ B） The medial professionals in India. （ C） Her college classmates. 25 Which of the following about health care is TRUE? （ A） Uncertainty causes fears in people seeking medical treatments in foreign countries. （ B） People are indifferent about it. （ C） High cost of living in
10、India contributes its affordable health care. 26 One of the biggest challenges for India to promote its medial tourism is （ A） alluring the best doctors from Europe and U.S. （ B） spending millions on advertising. （ C） reducing the psychological fear. 27 India IS NOT known globally for its talents in
11、 （ A） outsourcing. （ B） IT. （ C） fashion design. 28 What DOES NOT contribute to Indias unique competitive advantage in medical tourism? （ A） Huge population. （ B） Its government invested a lot in advanced education decades ago. （ C） India frequently makes the news for stem cell therapies. 29 Accordi
12、ng to Aishwarya Rai, China （ A） does not allow stem cell therapies. （ B） excels in stem cell therapies. （ C） has some unique features that India does not posses. 30 From a strategic point of view, （ A） the output is the doctor and the input is the patient. （ B） it might be more efficient to move the
13、 patients to where the doctors are. （ C） developing countries used to outsource doctors from the developed countries. BEC商务英语（中级 ）听力模拟试卷 129答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 【听力原文】 Look at the form below. You will hear a woman calling Bloomberg Archive with an order. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes.
14、 Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Man: Thank you for calling Bloomberg Archive. Please state your enquiry, giving the name of the publication, the date of issue and title or a description of the preprint you require. Woman: I need two articles from Bloomberg Market, one is in the seventh of
15、 July issue, titled “Earning Briefing“, the other in the 11th of September issue with the title: “Stock Market Trends.“ Next, I want something from Wealth, published on the third of February. Its an article called “Real Estate Investing“. The third publication is Global Markets, and I want a piece c
16、alled “Chinas Olympics Dream“ from the issue dated the eighth of August. Global Markets also ran a piece called “Brave New world“. I dont know the exact date, but it was included in an issue about BRICs. And other thing I need is the Web2.0 the new edition should be out by now. If it is, please put
17、it in with the rest, otherwise send it out later. Thank you. 1 【正确答案】 Stock Market Trends 2 【正确答案】 Wealth 3 【正确答案】 Brave New world 4 【正确答案】 Web2.0 4 【听力原文】 Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman discussing production problems with her boss. You have 15 seconds to read through the notes. Paus
18、e Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Man: Katie, can you tell me the production situation? Weve had a few problems, havent we? Woman: Yes, Mr. Cruise. We had technical problems on the assembly line, on top of that, prices of the fabric have rocketed, and were about to increase the prices of our Opr
19、ah couch line, which wont please our customers. Man: Surely we arent alone, are we? Woman: Yes, everyones affected but we should have made agreements with our suppliers to sell only to us, like many our competitors do. We missed out there. Man: Why was that? Woman: I suggested it at the weekly team
20、meeting, but they thought there was no rush. I tried bringing it up at the focus meeting, but we didnt get round to it. Man: Well, its time we did. What else? Woman: We had to recall all products made last month because of poisonous colourings. We bought the materials from Scientology Group, which i
21、s now under government investigation on its cancer causing paints. 5 【正确答案】 the fabric 6 【正确答案】 competitors 7 【正确答案】 the focus 8 【正确答案】 colorings 8 【听力原文】 Look at the note below. You will hear the manager of a production company phoning a customers office. You have 15 seconds to read through the not
22、e. Pause Now listen, and fill in the spaces. Woman: Fantastic Four Machines & Tools. How can I help you? Man: This is Silver Storm of Cosmic Objects. Can I speak to Reed Richards? Woman: Which department, sir? Man: Im not sure. Assembly, perhaps. Woman: No.erm.here he is, Machine Services Unit.Im so
23、rry, hes on voice mail. Would you like to leave a message? Man: Certainly. Your company has installed computerized cutting tools and packing machines in our dispatch department. The last one, a packing machine, was installed in April, and it has recently developed a fault. Woman: Do you have other p
24、roblems to our system? Man: Yes, the measurements and materials for the boxes are fine, but theres some sort of problems with the box assembly mechanism. The boxes are weak, and goods get damaged. Woman: Im sorry to hear that. Ill ask the Customer Service Manager if he can look at the situation this
25、 evening. Well sent an engineer out to you tomorrow morning. Man: Thank you. 9 【正确答案】 Machine Services Unit 10 【正确答案】 packing 11 【正确答案】 damaged 12 【正确答案】 an engineer 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
26、)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: The Nature Conservancy in Maine was tackling some of
27、 the most pressing threats of our time: destroyed wetlands, polluted waterways, fragmented forests, a rapidly changing climate and depleted ocean fisheries. I was busy growing Toms of Maine at that time, so I had little free time. But I wanted to know more. I soon discovered that the St. John River
28、Forest was the lead part of one gutsy project which sought to raise $50 million, twice as much as the Conservancy had ever risen for a single project. The goal was to purchase riverfront and forest from pulp and paper mills. I had to get involved. The Conservancys values were very much aligned with
29、my own. After all, protecting the diversity of all life was my goal, too. Pause Fourteen Woman: Brewster Kahle is an unpretentious millionaire who does not “wear his money on clothes“, as one acquaintance graciously puts it. But behind his disheveled demeanor is a skilled technologist, an ardent act
30、ivist and a successful serial entrepreneur. Having founded and sold technology companies to American On Line(AOL)and Amazon, he has now devoted himself to building a non-profit digital archive of free materials books, films, concerts and so on to rival the legendary Alexandrian library of antiquity.
31、 This has brought him into conflict with Google, the giant Internet company which is pursuing a similar goal, but in a rather different and more commercially oriented way. Pause Fifteen Man: For years leaders in continental Europe have been told by the American, the British and even the newspaper th
32、at their economies are too state-dominated, and that to prosper in true Anglo-Saxon style they need a dose of free market reform. But the global economic meltdown has affirmed their important role in the States economy. At the April G20 Summit in London, Frances Nicolas Sarkozy and Germanys Angela M
33、erkel stood shoulder-to-shoulder to insist pointedly that this recession was not their responsibility. Gordon Brown is ushering in new financial rules and higher taxes, and Barack Obama is suggesting that America could copy some things from France. Indeed, a new European pecking order has emerged, w
34、ith France on top. Pause Sixteen Woman: Imagine you are the research director of a high-tech colossus, given the task of transforming your company by devising some game-changing new products, then where in the world would you locate a skunk work to foster the radical thinking needed? In short, where
35、 are the most productive centres of innovation? The simplest way to measure a regions potential for innovation is to look at the number of patents granted to its residents. Over the past decade, a great deal of progress has been made in harmonizing the rules of patenting in different jurisdictions,
36、making it easier to compare one country with another. Pause Seventeen Woman: The computer industry makes more antitrust headlines than others, and seems unlikely to shake off these problems. Technology heavyweights are often dominant in their respective markets. Ask any of the bosses of these firms
37、why they are so dominant, and they will probably respond that it is a result of billions spent on research and development. But they also operate in markets that allow a winner to take all or most. Mainframes and operating systems benefit from strong network effects: the more applications run on the
38、m, for instance, the more users they attract, which encourage programmers to write more applications for them. With microprocessors, ever-increasing capital requirements mean only the biggest firms can afford to build their own factories. The markets for search and online advertising exhibit similar
39、 effects: the bigger a firms market share, the greater its ability to attract advertisers, thus bringing in the money to build ever bigger data centres. In each case it is difficult for an upstart to break in. 13 【正确答案】 F 14 【正确答案】 A 15 【正确答案】 H 16 【正确答案】 D 17 【正确答案】 E 17 【听力原文】 You will hear anothe
40、r five 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. You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H. Pause Now listen, and decid
41、e what the speaker is trying to give. Pause Eighteen Man: Medicine is likely to be transformed by the introduction of electronic health records that can be turned into searchable medical databases. Developing countries have already used mobile phones to put a doctor into patients pockets. Devices an
42、d diagnostics are also going digital. A recent report from MIT says that physical science has already been changed by their adoption of information technology, advanced materials, imaging nanotechnology and sophisticated modeling and simulation. Philip Sharp, a Nobel Prize Winner at that university,
43、 believes that those tools are about to be brought to bear on biology, too. The convergence of biology and engineering is turning health care into an information industry. That will be disruptive but hugely beneficial to patients. Pause Nineteen Woman: One shift comes from the companies attempts to
44、reconcile their desire to cut costs now with their need for talent later. One solution, popular in many industries, is to offer deferred start dates to new hirers, giving them six months or a year to travel or do public service. This approach has been embraced by consulting firms, law firms and bank
45、s. Some, like Credit Suisse, offer around six months salary to new employees who agree to start a year later. Others, including several consulting firms, offer the option without any pay incentive. New hirers may be reluctant to accept such an offer, however, in case the economy sinks further and ne
46、w lay-offs are announced while they are on the beach. Pause Twenty Man: Waste also presents an opportunity in a grander sense: as a potential resource. Much of it has already been burned to generate energy. Clever new technologies to turn it into fertilizer or chemicals or fuel are being developed a
47、ll the time. Visionaries see a future in which things like household rubbish and pig slurry will provide the fuel for cars and homes, instead of dirty fossil fuels. Others imagine a world without waste, with rubbish being routinely recycled. Pause Twenty-one Woman: Funny thing about A. The book indu
48、stry is more than 500 years old. Yet by adding a dash of technology and a little hustle, A founder Jeff Bezos has found a way to turn dead tree media into a spry online business. Through unveiling the kindle DX, Amazon will sell for $489 and will ship sometime over the summer. Bezos also announced p
49、artnerships with struggling newspaper publishers to put their content on the Kindle DXs 9.7-inch display. Some observers are more cautious in their assessment of the role of the new device. Its an important in-between step in delivering books digitally to a mass marketplace, even if it is a black and white device in a colour world. Pause Twenty-two Man: Whether it is for affordable homes or cheap goods, A
