1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 41及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 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 notes below. You will hear a man changing the arra
2、ngements for a meeting. Phone Message: Date: April 11th. 20- Name of caller: Jack Hanks from HBC (1)_ Message: Cant attend meeting tomorrow. Sending Alex (2)_ instead. Hes their new (3)_ Manager. Going to talk about (4)_ 5 Look at the form below. You will hear a man placing an order for some office
3、stationery. ORDER FORM Order No: 10242 Date: Oct. 16th Type of Goods: (5)_ Quantity: (6)_ Deliver to: Peter Crusoe in (7)_ When required: (8)_ 9 Look at the form below. You will hear a man telephoning a garage. Automobile Repairs Customer: Mr. (9)_ Make of ear: Ford Year of manufacture: (10)_ Parts
4、needing repair: (11)_ Note: pick car up on Wednesday from (12)_ 二、 PART TWO 13 You will hear five short pieces. For each piece decide which type of business each speaker is talking about. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the piece. You will hear the tire pieces twice. A. A market researc
5、h agency B. An office design service C. A translation service D. A delivery service E. An IT consultancy F. A commercial property agency G. A recruitment agency H. An advertising agency 18 You will hear another five short pieces. Each speaker is talking about the effects of a new development in the
6、workplace. Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the piece. Do not use any letter more than once. You will hear the five pieces twice. A. Creating a new post B. Introducing a new computer system C. Changing management D. Moving to new premises E. Increasing salary F. Losing a contract G. Intr
7、oducing a social program H. Changing internal budgets 三、 PART THREE 23 You will hear a radio interview with Brian Rice, president of EBS University, the training and educational body set up by the electronics company, Torntec. For each question (1-8), mark one letter (A, B or C) tot the correct answ
8、er. You will hear the recording twice. 23 EBSs total sales in 1996 were （ A） 5 billion dollars. （ B） 11 billion dollars. （ C） 27 billion dollars. 24 Over the next five years EBS intends to expand in （ A） Southeast Asia （ B） South Africa （ C） East Asia. 25 EBSs sales in China reached $3 billion （ A）
9、in the previous year. （ B） a few years ago. （ C） eight years ago. 26 Who is EBS University intended for? （ A） New members of staff only. （ B） All company staff. （ C） Managers and superviors only. 27 All EBS University trainees take course in （ A） faster production ways. （ B） personal finance. （ C） l
10、anguages. 28 What is the minimum amount of training an employee receives? （ A） Three days every month. （ B） Three days every seven month. （ C） Three days every year. 29 Brain Rice says that investment in staff by EBS （ A） has reached tile right level. （ B） should be increased. （ C） should equal the
11、amount put into machinery. 30 EBS started experimenting with education and training （ A） when the University started operating. （ B） when the company was founded. （ C） in the late 1970s. BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 41答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】 F: purchasing Department, Mary speaking, how can I help you? M: He
12、llo, could I speak to Peter Lira Please? F: Im afraid hes in a meeting at the moment. M: Could I leave a message then? F: Certainly. M: This is Jack Hanks. F: Oh, yes. Of HBC International, you are coming to see us tomorrow I believe. M: Yes, well, thats why I am calling. Unfortunately, I wont be ab
13、le to make it. And rather than rescheduling the meeting, I thought it best to send someone else along, Solon in fact. F: OK. I will just make a note of that. Could you just spell his surname for me? M: Sure. Its S-O-L-O-N. Hes been with us for a couple of years now and hes very experienced. Actually
14、 hes just been made a manager of our Product Development section. F: Is he familiar with our business? M: Oh, yes. Hes been working on your file for a few weeks now. And hell be able to discuss the contract with you tomorrow. If everyones happy, perhaps you can go ahead and sign. F: OK. Ill pass a m
15、essage on to Peter and well look forward to seeing Mr. Solon tomorrow. 1 【正确答案】 INTERNATIONAL 2 【正确答案】 SOLON 3 【正确答案】 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 4 【正确答案】 (THE)CONTRACT 5 【听力原文】 F: Good morning, Stationery Department. M: Hello, is that Jane? F: No, Janes on holiday, Im afraid. This is Linda. Can I help you?
16、 M: Id like to order some. F: Just a minute, Ill get an order form. Right, yes. Sorry, youd like to order.? M: Yes, some photocopying paper please. Were about to run out and weve got a lot of work coming up. F: It will take a couple of days. Weve run out as well. Jane forgot to order some before she
17、 went on holiday. M: Oh dear! Thats a nuisance! F: How many packets shall I order for you? M: Lets see. Ten. No, wait, better make it fifteen. That should keep us going for a couple of months. F: OK. Can I have your name please? M: Yes, its Peter Crusoe. F: Oh, I know, youre in Accounts, arent you?
18、M: Yes, thats right. F: OK. Ill put the order through. When do you want it by? M: Well, do you think you could have it by Tuesday? F: Well do our best. M: Thanks. 5 【正确答案】 PIIOTOCOPYING PAPER 6 【正确答案】 FIFTEEN(15) 7 【正确答案】 ACCOUNTS 8 【正确答案】 TUESDAY 9 【听力原文】 F: Jackie Automobile Repairs. M: Hello, Ive
19、 got a problem with my ear. I wonder if you could look at it? F: Certainly Sir. Can I take your name please? M: Yes, its Mr. Samsonie. F: Could you spell it for me please? M: Yes, its S-A-M-S-O-N-I-E. F: OK. You say you have a problem. Whats the make of the car please, sir? M: Its a FORD. F: And how
20、 old is it? M: Its a 1990 model. I bought it second-hand a couple of years ago. F: Right. And what seems to be the problem? M: Well, Ive brought the car in last week for a service. And since then I have had a problem with the brakes. They make strange noise when I slow down and the whole car shakes.
21、 F: We can have a look at the brakes for you. When would you like us to do the work.? M: Wednesday will be the best for me. Can you collect the car? F: That should be OK. Where will it be? M: Well, Ill be in a meeting all day at the Grand Hotel. So if you can pick up the car from there, that would b
22、e very helpful. F: Right sir. See you on Wednesday. 9 【正确答案】 SAMSONIE 10 【正确答案】 1990 11 【正确答案】 BRAKES 12 【正确答案】 GRAND HOTEL 二、 PART TWO 13 【听力原文】 M: First of all we look at the target market, then wed like to collect some information about the products before deciding on the best approach for the pr
23、omotion. Our marketing and design teams are very experienced and theyll be happy to discuss their ideas with you. Wed also give you any estimates free of charge before you decide which media to go for. 13 【正确答案】 H 14 【听力原文】 F: We need to get some details done first. You need to fill in a standard ap
24、plication form and then we can register you. Most companies will want computer experience, so youd better put down the equipment and software youre familiar with. If you have any languages to offer, that would be a great help, and then well match you with some of the companies registered with us and
25、 you should get a phone call by the end of the week. 14 【正确答案】 G 15 【听力原文】 M: Would you like me to send you a brochure? It gives stone information on our service. We can advise you on how to use your premises to their maximum potential. Youll also be able to look at our range of furniture, desks, co
26、mputer worker stations and furniture for reception areas and you can choose from the many layouts available. 15 【正确答案】 B 16 【听力原文】 F: Were experienced in various document types but specialized in commercial and technical ones. We work in all major European languages and well consider most deadlines.
27、 In the case of longer documents, we can always get more than one person working on it if necessary. Everything is treated with confidential and we have our own courier service to guarantee safe delivery. 16 【正确答案】 C 17 【听力原文】 M: Would you like me to make an appointment for one of our staff to visit
28、 you? Hell be able to advise you on the best type of equipment and software packages to suit your particular business. He can also talk to you about installation and hell take note of any restrictions in the office space and as part of our promotional campaign, the installation service is free of ch
29、arge. 17 【正确答案】 E 18 【听力原文】 F: I think things are going to be different from now on. Im not sure that theyll be any better but at least we should know whats going on. Uh, look at the schedule hes given us for next month: two meetings a week at least, the daily update on department activity on the ne
30、twork. I like Mr. Renalds, but you must admit he wasnt very good at office communications. 18 【正确答案】 C 19 【听力原文】 M: It would have made a great difference to next years budget. We would be able to afford a significant increase in the wage bill, even create some new positions, but now things arent loo
31、king so good. Its hard to believe they decided to caned. They were so keen on our products initially. 19 【正确答案】 F 20 【听力原文】 F: Im looking forward to it. I know we see each other everyday and theyll be the same old faces but I think its a good opportunity to get to know each other better. I understan
32、d they decide to do something different every two or three months, which I think is excellent. Its surprising that nobody thought of this before, you know. 20 【正确答案】 G 21 【听力原文】 M: Its made a big difference already. I used to spend ages looking things up in menus. Now its all there right in front of
33、 me. I can get things done in half the time now, and that leaves us plenty of time to do all the other administrative work we never used to have time for. In fact, I dont know why I objected so strongly to having it in the first place. 21 【正确答案】 B 22 【 听力原文】 F: The big news this year without doubt h
34、as been the reallocation of resources with the company. Some departments now have much less to spend and it has lost a considerable number of staff but others are expanding at great speed and are recruiting new people almost every week. As you can imagine its caused a lot of unhappiness in some depa
35、rtments. 22 【正确答案】 H 三、 PART THREE 23 【听力原文】 F: Mr. Rice, I know weve asked you here to talk about EBS University, but before we begin, lets talk about the company. EBS Electronics seems to be enjoying a boom at the moment. Can you put some figures on that? M: Yes . well . in 1990, EBSs total sales
36、were $11 billion. But in 1996, our sales grew by more than 5 billion and the sales total for the year was $27 billion. So . while we used to think that 15% growth was good, for some time we were reckoning on achieving 20 to 50% . though recent developments have changed that. F: And what about intern
37、ational expansion? Where are your big growth markets? M: Over the next five years, well be hiring 100,000 new employees. in Asia alone, itll be 60,000. The real development during this period will be concentrated in East Asiamostly in China, India and Vietnam. Were hoping that one day the market the
38、re will be as big as Europe. Over a longer period, were also planning to expand into the Middle East and into Southern Africa. All this development is very important for the company. For example, the plans for China will bring investment up to $100 billion. A few years ago, Id never have dreamed tha
39、t wed be selling $3 billion dollars worth of products there, which we did last year. Its hard to believe that only seven years ago we sold nothing there at all. F: Can we talk about EBS University itself? Can you explain simply how it works, and who its for? M: I suppose its really similar to a comm
40、unity-based education system a bit like a village school except, of course, this is a global village. Basically, its designed to provide education and training for every single member of staff, from the Managing Director to the newest recruit. F: And what kind of education and training is actually o
41、n offer? M: Well, we have core courses that everyone is required to attend. They focus on things like reducing manufacturing time as well as quality issues both for people and services. We also offer a range of options, everything from personnel, finance to languages. We run courses, for example, in
42、 French, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin. F: Can we turn now to the question of motivation and how you go about keeping people interested in their work? M: We never underestimate training. Its a challenge, for example, keeping someone aged 20 skilled until theyre aged 60. So we do what we can. While s
43、ome employees get as much as three days training a month, the minimum is fixed at three days a year. We also have a feedback system in the form of a questionnaire that employees answer every six months, and in this way we can keep up-to-date with employees opinions. F: So you really do believe in in
44、vesting in your employees? M: Thats right. We allow an amount equivalent to about 4% of an employees salary for his or her training to maintain them, if you like, because we think theyre important. A piece of machinery, however, gets as much as 10%-12% of its purchase price spent oil maintenance now
45、, I believe that people are more important than machines, so we still have a long way to go. F: It would seem, though, that EBS is more broad-minded than many firms in its approach to educating and training its employees. M: Well, EBS has been in a state of constant renewal since it was founded in 1
46、938, but it wasnt until the late seventies onwards that the company started trying out new methods of training and education. EBS University was the result of those experiments and has been operating very successfully for the last fifteen years. I suppose overall what distinguishes EBS from other multinationals is that we educate all our employees and not just management. F: Thank you, Mr. Rice, and I hope that EBS University continues to do well in its educational role. 23 【正确答案】 C 24 【正确答案】 C 25 【正确答案】 A 26 【正确答案】 B 27 【正确答案】 A 28 【正确答案】 C 29 【正确答案】 B 30 【正确答案】 C
