1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 24及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 There are thirty questions on this question paper. Instructions are given on the tape. You can write on this Question Paper. At the end of the test, you will be given 10 minutes to copy your answers onto the Answer Sheet. You must write all your answers in pe
2、ncil. PART ONE You will hear three telephone conversations or messages. Write one or two words or a number in the numbered spaces on the notes or forms below. You will hear each recording twice. Conversation One Look at the form below. You will hear a man calling to ask about the delay of a check. J
3、onathan Cleaning Company Telephone Message To: Mr Taylor Time: 2:30 pm, 29th July, 2005 Message: Simon from (1) _ called about (2) _. Send another one for (3) _ of June the number is 00137562. Call back when receive it. 5 Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman phoning to check the production
4、 of some photocopiers. Production Department Note Date: 12th, Feb. 2006 Purchaser: Smith & Black Shipping Company Product: (5) _ Model: W2750 Quantity: 2 Reason of delay: Due to shortcut of (6) _ Promised deadline: (7) _ Contact: (8) _ (assistant) tomorrow 9 Look at the form below. You will hear a m
5、an phoning about some repairs. Service Department Booking Form Date: 18/04/06 Callers name: Gregory Egger Name of Company: (9) _ Address: 321,High Street Tel: 952 7626 Machine to be repaired: (10) _ Machine fault: one doesnt have (11) _ and another (12) _ Date of service: 19th, 4 pm 二、 PART TWO 13 Y
6、ou will hear five people selling products. For each recording, decide what the speaker is selling. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the reconding. Do not use any letter more than once. You will hear the five recordings twice. A drug for external use B mobile phone C skin care products D
7、computer E car F gloves G baby cereals H camera 18 You will hear five people talking about documents. For each recording, decide which document each speaker is talking about. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. You will hear the five reco
8、rdings twice. A an invoice B a driving license C a passport D instruction manual E an agenda F a bank statement G a tourist guide H a guarantee 三、 PART THREE 23 You will hear an interview with John F. Fielder, Chairman and CEO of BorgWarner Inc. For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) f
9、or the correct answer. You will hear the recording twice. 23 Mr Fielder （ A） still likes cars even though he is 63. （ B） has liked cars for 40 years. （ C） liked his daddys car at the age of 16. 24 In this downturn, people tend to （ A） delay car purchase. （ B） spend less money on car purchase. （ C） b
10、uy a car as planned. 25 The success of BorgWarner lies in （ A） its prompt information. （ B） its good e-business. （ C） up-to-date inventories. 26 BorgWarner will invest in Asia （ A） the rest of this decade. （ B） in the next thirty or forty years. （ C） in the next ten years. 27 Japanese are setting up
11、 more and more factories in the U.S. in spite of （ A） the high cost and low profit. （ B） devaluation of their currency. （ C） slow turnover of funds. 28 The “world car“ （ A） sells extremely well in Europe. （ B） is not accepted by people around the world. （ C） doesnt adapt to the situation in each cou
12、ntry. 29 What strategy does BorgWarner take in order to make profit? （ A） Being honest. （ B） Reducing costs. （ C） Price reduction. 30 Mr Fielder found that his favorite car is （ A） as good as his memory of it. （ B） even better than his memory of it. （ C） worse than his memory of it. BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试
13、卷 24答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】 F: This is Jonathan Cleaning Company. I am sorry to say that we are ail in a meeting at the moment and are unable to take your call. If you wish to leave a message, please speak after the tone. Be sure to state clearly the date and time of your call. Thank you. M: Hi,
14、this is a message for Mr Taylor. Its Simon from Rodney Design. The time is 2:30 in the afternoon, the twenty-ninth. Please tell Mr Taylor that we are sorry for the delay of the check for the cleaning service of June and July. We sent out one last Friday, but one of our new staffs wrote your old addr
15、ess by mistake. We didnt find it until this morning when the mail was returned. Now we are going to send the check again. Hope it wont be too late. The check number is 00137562 from First Bank. The total payment is 735 dollars. Im sure youll get it tomorrow morning. Give me a call as soon as possibl
16、e when you receive it. Thank you. Bye. 1 【正确答案】 RODNEY DESIGN 2 【正确答案】 CHECK 3 【正确答案】 SERVICE 4 【正确答案】 TOTAL PAYMENT 5 【听力原文】 M: Daniel Tennyson, Production Department. F: Good afternoon, Mr Tennyson. This is Debby Carneige from Smith & Black Shipping Company. Its about those two photocopiers we ord
17、ered last week. M: Yes, you ordered two W2750. F: Thats right. They were supposed to be ready on Monday. But this is already Wednesday and we have heard nothing about it. M: I am sorry, Miss Carneige. In fact, we have finished fixing most part of the machine last Friday. But the power was off on Mon
18、day because of overuse of wire. Then we had to get the wire replaced on Tuesday. But I promise that the machines will be ready by tomorrow. F: OK, I hope its no later than Thursday. You know, we are going to start a new office on Friday, so we need these photocopiers to start work. Ill call back and
19、 look into it again tomorrow morning. M: Fine. I might be out tomorrow morning. If I am not here, speak to Mr Patridge, my assistant about it. He knows everything. I am sure hell be of help. F: Is that P-A-T-R-E-D-G-E? M: No, thats P-A-T-R-I-D-G-E. Hes new here, but he is a nice guy. F: All right, D
20、aniel. Thanks a lot. M: You are welcome. Bye-bye. 5 【正确答案】 PHOTOCOPIERS 6 【正确答案】 WIRE 7 【正确答案】 THURSDAY 8 【正确答案】 MR PATRIDGE 9 【听力原文】 M: Hi, this is Gregory Egger from Evergreen Sports. We bought 4 air-conditioners from you last month. But weve got some serious problems with two of them at the momen
21、t. Its still on the guarantee. We would like it solved as soon as possible, you see, its getting so hot these days. F: Im sorry about this, but I am sure we shall handle this. By the way, I want to ask what exactly the problems are. M: One of them doesnt have cold air coming out while another one is
22、 leaking through the pipe. In fact, it doesnt work at all. F: I see. Well send someone over very soon. How about tomorrow afternoon? We have one service engineer available. M: Thats great. Do you have our address? F: I dont think so. Can you give it and your name to us, please? M: Yes, its Egger, E-
23、double G-E-R. 321, High Street. F: Could you also give me a contact phone number? M: Sure, its 952-7626 F: OK, thank you, Mr Egger. Good-bye. 9 【正确答案】 EVERGREEN SPORTS 10 【正确答案】 AIR-CONDITIONER(S) 11 【正确答案】 COLD AIR 12 【正确答案】 LEAKS 二、 PART TWO 13 【听力原文】 Establishing a good “breakfast habit“ for your
24、 baby is what a mother should do. This food is excellent for babies. It has iron added and more texture, which are needed in babys diet. I am sure your baby will enjoy it and will develop healthy eating habits. 13 【正确答案】 G 14 【听力原文】 This new product is an effective and gentle formula which revitaliz
25、es your skin. It is suitable for all skin types and can provide a source of vitamins and moisture to calm, soothe and firm the look of your skin. If you buy two now, you can get one free. 14 【正确答案】 C 15 【听力原文】 We have a range of 10 models varied in style, color and size. They are all. made of artifi
26、cial leather, but they are all hand-made ones and can keep your hands warm even in the severe winter. If you order in large quantity, we can give you a 10% discount. 15 【正确答案】 F 16 【听力原文】 Look, isnt it marvelous? This is new. It has always had a high performance engine. -Now weve got a body to match
27、. Weve dressed it up with sports alloy wheels, front skirts, side skirts and a new style foglight. Of coupe, with this model its always gone fast but helps you save money on gasoline. Now during the promotion period, it is only $2,199. 16 【正确答案】 E 17 【听力原文】 Now please look at this model first. Youll
28、 see that it has a full color screen. Besides all the functions of making and receiving calls, it can send picture images through MMS, which is extremely useful for young people. In addition, it can store 200 phone numbers and has a built-in camera. And of course, our after-sales service is always g
29、uaranteed. 17 【正确答案】 B 18 【听力原文】 OK, thank you. This is the last time you can travel overseas with this old one. Its going to expire in five days. Next time, youll have to apply for a new one with a new photograph taken, otherwise you cant get the visa issued. 18 【正确答案】 C 19 【听力原文】 I am afraid that
30、our computer is not working properly and I was wondering what you could do about it. I have just read the form we were given when we bought it. It says that if the computer has any problems during the first year, youll send someone to look into it. Is that correct? 19 【正确答案】 H 20 【听力原文】 I dont think
31、 I have any wisdom to read things like this. Its a real headache for me. Its so long and complicated and full of technical terms. Why dont they make things easier and simpler for people like me? Ill have to ask someone for help, otherwise I dont even know how turn the machine on. 20 【正确答案】 D 21 【听力原
32、文】 Look, here it says this temple is one of the most significant historic sites in China. It was built in 1420 and rebuilt in 1890. It covers an area of some 270 hectares. Originally, the temple was the place where the people prayed for good harvests. Later it became a place of worship. 21 【正确答案】 G
33、22 【听力原文】 Well, Ive got four items for the meeting. And Ive received some suggestions from the other managers. They are on that piece of paper there. Well have to see how many of those can be included with the time we have available. So, firstly, Ill present the European marketing effort. 22 【正确答案】
34、E 三、 PART THREE 23 【听力原文】 At 63, John F. Fielder, Chairman and CEO of BorgWarner Inc. , has spent 40 years in the automobile industry, but he still acts like a 16-year-old who has just been given dads keys. He often tells us that he loves cars. Recently, he had a talk with our correspondent Michael
35、Arndt. Car sales held up remarkably well through this recession. And while Borg. Warners profiles fell, you still made money. Whats the trick? This is my ninth downturn, and we finally got this one right. If you go back to the mid-1980s, people were using 12% of their monthly disposable income to ma
36、ke a car payment. In 1999, that figure was 7%. In the past downturns, the first thing people did was to postpone car purchases. This time we surveyed people, and they said, “No, Im not going to cut back on a car.“ We also have a lot more real-time information. We could react faster. A lot of people
37、think the auto industry got passed by the dot-corns and e-businesses. We didnt. We put in a lot of information systems. I can pull up on my computer right now Fords inventories at all their plants, because we have data coming to us. We have less than a weeks inventory of anything in our company. For
38、 long-term growth, are you banking on Asia and Latin America? If your time frame is the rest of this decade, no, because the income isnt there yet. If your time frame is longer - several decades - those are the growth markets. But in the next decade, Europe will be our fastest growing market. What a
39、bout moving your factories to low-cost emerging markets? Whats happening in the world is counterintuitive. The yen is getting weaker and weaker, and yet the, Japanese are putting more and more plants in the U.S. What people have learned is if you dont make it in the market, you are not likely to sel
40、l it there for any length of time. I thought the trend was toward a “world car“. People around the world dont want a world car. Here is a real-life example. One of our best operations in the U.S. is one that makes gear boxes for SUVs. That technology doesnt do any good in Europe - they dont use that
41、 product. Yet European will pay about $800 more for a very fuel-efficient engine. At their prices of gasoline, they can pay that $800 off in about a year. Auto makers are notorious for squeezing suppliers. How can you take that year after year? Well, our average yearly price reduction isnt the 3% to
42、 5% you read about, Its more like 1%, and we offset that with honest-to-God cost savings. If we cant do it, we get out of the business. You drive a different car every year. What was your all-time favorite model? My favorite was 55 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. I always remembered it as a great car. Ive gone back and driven one recently and its not really a great car. My memories of it are much better than the car. 23 【正确答案】 A 24 【正确答案】 C 25 【正确答案】 A 26 【正确答案】 B 27 【正确答案】 B 28 【正确答案】 B 29 【正确答案】 B 30 【正确答案】 C
