1、BEC商务英语（中级）听力模拟试卷 57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 note below. You will hear a man making a call abou
2、t a visit. Telephone Message Visiting City: Barcelona Main Features: 1. The Old City: old buildings 2. (1) _: beautiful, magnificent 3. several (2) _ restaurants food is cheap(3) _ 4. Staying Hotel (4): _ Hotel 5 Look at the note below. You will hear a woman calling about house renting. Phone Messag
3、e Pad Hiring Registration Date: 5th Jan. Time: 9:30 Name of the customer : Mary (5) _ Contact No: (6) _ Service Details : 1. An apartment near (7) _ street, with an air-conditioner and heating system 2. Rent: on more than (8) _ a month, including water and gas. 3. Renting Period: about 1.5 years fro
4、m February. 9 Look at the note below. You will hear a man calling to his secretary. Message Date: 1st Apr. Time: 9:45 Item: buying (9) _ Purpose: 10 for meeting room, (10)_ for the office Total money: (11)_ Deadline for purchasing: before (12)_ April 二、 PART TWO 13 You will hear five short recording
5、s. 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. You will hear the five recordings twice. A to send a telex B to check a car C to run a store D to scan the ads E to drive a car F to read
6、a magazine G to take a vacation H to buy clothes 18 You will hear another five recordings. For each recording, decide what the 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 recordings twice. A cloth
7、B vitamins C medicine D picture E dress F speech G silk H voice 三、 PART THREE 23 You will hear a talk given by, a spokesman of the U. S. International Communication Department. He talks about a number of privately owned telephone discounter attacking the cartel of national telephone monopolies that
8、keeps the price of international calls high. For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. You will hear the recording twice. 23 The price of international calls into America is _. （ A） higher than that of the calls out of America （ B） far lower than that of the calls
9、out of America （ C） is the same as that of the calls out of America as it is decided by the cartel 24 If you want to ring back, you have to _. （ A） redial the telephone （ B） know the free telephone number to a computerized switch in another country （ C） find another person to call you back 25 Third-
10、country calling refers to _. （ A） calling via another country （ B） finding a person in the third country to call （ C） calling through three countries 26 International Discount Telecommunications uses _. （ A） ring-back technique （ B） discounting technique （ C） third-country calling technique 27 Accor
11、ding to the spokesman, a band of these tiny American discounters will be _. （ A） prosperous （ B） limited to an extent （ C） short-lived 28 AT shirts, etc. We call it the Cloth of Kings. 18 【正确答案】 G 19 【听力原文】 Man: I think I can pick up some of these items on this Prescription List without your help. L
12、et me see, two bottles of aspirin, a roll of adhesive tape, and a box of Contac. 19 【正确答案】 C 20 【听力原文】 Woman: Black might look too serious for young people of your age. Why dont you try this violet colour in large. You can use the dressing room over there to try it on, if you like. This style suits
13、you. 20 【正确答案】 E 21 【听力原文】 Woman: Vitamin C is certainly one of the most important substances our bodies need. But its not the only one we need. If you really need to supplement your regular diet, I suggest you try one of these multivitamins. 21 【正确答案】 B 22 【听力原文】 Man: Only man has the power of spee
14、ch, and all men have it. The power of speech is one of the most important possessions of the human race. It makes possible the exchange of ideas between men possible as well as the transmission of ideas from father to son. 22 【正确答案】 F 三、 PART THREE 23 【听力原文】 For decades the worlds telephone companie
15、s, nearly all state-owned monopolies, have jointly set the rates for international calls. Now a handful of nimble, privately owned telephone discounters are using loopholes in regulations written to protect national telephone monopolies to undercut the cartels high prices. Eventually, that could lea
16、d to the break-up of the cartel itself. The small firms leading the trend are interesting for the way they do business rather than for the amount of business they do. But because their activities expose monopoly overpricing so dramatically, they could help to bring about changes that are vastly out
17、of proportion to their size. The American market for international calls is more open to competition than those of most other countries, so calls out of America are usually far cheaper than the calls into it. The discounters exploit this difference by routing calls from foreign subscribers to comput
18、erized switches in America, undercutting normal rates by a third or more. One technique, known as ring-back, involves giving a customer in, say, Paris a free telephone number to a computerized switch in America. When the customer calls, the switch automatically calls him back and puts him through to
19、 his American destination. Since the call technically originates with the switch, France Telecoms monopoly on outgoing calls remains unbroken but the caller in Paris is charged American rates. A second technique, called third-country calling, involves routing international calls via America to take
20、advantage of cheap American rates on the second leg of the journey. On intercontinental calls the saving is usually so great that it more than makes up for the extra distance traveled. One of the best-known discounters, 2(1/2)years old International Discount Telecommunications (IDT), uses third-coun
21、try calling to provides calls between countries whose own telephone companies are not on speaking terms, such as Syria and Israel , and Iraq and Kuwait. Todays small discounters may be short-lived. But if the small discounters do go out of business, it will be because they have launched a trend. Thi
22、s year, American established international carriers have started touting for business from overseas customers themselves. In April American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) launched a third-country calling service of its own. Dubbed World Connect, the service lets customers use a personal identification
23、 number to call from 45 different countries of the world via switches in America. Customers pay call charges in dollars, along with their normal domestic bills. In June AT&Ts biggest rival, MCI, launched a similar service, called World Reach. Both products supplement the firms long-establishes call-
24、home services, which make it easier for traveling Americans to call home. Though AT&T and MCI both hotly deny selling international calls to foreigners explicitly, some foreign carriers certainly fear this. Neither AT&T nor MCI has been allowed to offer its new services in Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina or Mexico. The small discounters have run into similar problems. 23 【正确答案】 A 24 【正确答案】 B 25 【正确答案】 A 26 【正确答案】 C 27 【正确答案】 C 28 【正确答案】 C 29 【正确答案】 B 30 【正确答案】 B
