1、BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 30及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings. For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. You will hear the eight recordings twice. 1 How many people are coming for dinner? 2 Which of the pie charts is correct? 3 Which of
2、the following has a problem? （ A） computer （ B） ink （ C） printer 4 Where is the Marketing Department now? （ A） on the fifth floor （ B） on the top floor （ C） on the second floor 5 What is the price of the house now? 6 When is the mans meeting? 7 Which class is the man going to take? （ A） Accounting （
3、 B） Marketing （ C） both 8 Where is the woman going? 二、 PART TWO 8 Look at the table below.Some information is missing.You will hear a woman talking about share prices.For each question 9-15, fill in the missing information in the numbered space using a word, numbers or letters.After you have listene
4、d once, replay the recording. 三、 PART THREE 15 Look at the notes about online booking of Australian Airlines. Some information is missing. You will hear part of a presentation by the officer from Australian Airlines. For each question 16-22, fill in the missing information in the numbered space usin
5、g one or two words. You will hear the presentation twice. Online Booking E-tickets available with (16) airlines or _ bring (17) _ enable customers to go to (18) many _ decrease chances of (19) _ enable travelers to book in the (20) airlines _ book competitive (21) _ offer many (22) _ 四、 PART FOUR 23
6、 You will hear an interview with Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe. For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. You will hear the interview twice. 23 What qualities did John Warnock and Chuck Geschek appreciate in Bruce Chizen? （ A） He was from the eastern part of US. （ B）
7、He is willing to try new ideas. （ C） He is good at experiment. 24 When Jack and Chuck officially retired （ A） Bruce had been meeting with influential investors. （ B） Bruce had been giving most of the presentations to analysts. （ C） Bruce was already involved in the management of the company. 25 What
8、 were the critics to Bruce from employees? （ A） He didnt have a good technical background. （ B） He didnt have a MBA （ C） He didnt have any experience as a CEO. 26 Obviously, it was Bruces hope that his employees will （ A） work under him. （ B） cooperate with him to run the company. （ C） understand wh
9、at he has been doing. 27 What does Bruce hope to achieve in the next few years? （ A） to become a $5 billion company （ B） to become a $6 billion company （ C） to become a $8 billion company 28 Being a CEO involves （ A） working by oneself. （ B） talking with the board. （ C） working with other CEOs. 29 B
10、ruce admitted that at the beginning he was （ A） too agreeable. （ B） too strict. （ C） too kind. 30 Bruce believed that it is important （ A） to cope with ex-CEO. （ B） to be always honest and open in managing the company. （ C） to make every employee happy. BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 30答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】
11、 F: Star Restaurant. What can I do for you? M: I want to book a table for 8 on Friday evening. F: I am sorry, the tables for 8 are ail reserved. But we have two tables for 10 left. M: OK, no problem. F: Can I have your name, please? M: Anderson. F: OK, Mr Anderson. Your table is No. 14. But you must
12、 be here before 6: 30. 1 【正确答案】 A 2 【听力原文】 M: Now, ladies and gentlemen, look at this chart. In the last six months, Canon took up a quarter of the digital camera market. However, Kodak did much better than we expected. They occupied one third of the market. 2 【正确答案】 B 3 【听力原文】 F: Hello, this is Har
13、ris Training Center. We bought two printers from you last week but now one of them does not print anything out. We have changed the ink, but it still doesnt work. M: Did you check if the computer works properly? F: Well, the computer works perfectly. M: Dont worry. Well send a serviceman to look at
14、that. Is tomorrow afternoon OK? F: OK. 3 【正确答案】 C 4 【听力原文】 M: Do you know where the Production Department is? I remember it was on the fifth floor. F: Yes, it was, but now its moved to the second floor. M: I thought the Marketing Department was there. F: Well, the Marketing Department has moved to t
15、he top floor where Finance Department used to be. M: Then where is the Finance Department now? F: Next to the Marketing Department. M: Oh, I got totally confused. 4 【正确答案】 B 5 【听力原文】 F: Did you see the house for sale at the comer of our street? M: Yes, it has been for sale for a couple of months. At
16、 first it was $170,000. F: Really? But now it is $160,000. M: I know the owner bought it at a much higher price, $ 200,000. F: Then why did he sell it at a lower price? M: I was told that the owner wanted to move to another state. 5 【正确答案】 C 6 【听力原文】 M: Rowena, when are we going to have press confer
17、ence with S&K? F: Mr White from S&K told me that their representatives would arrive at 8:30, so the conference will start at 9 oclock. M: Can we finish before 10 oclock? I have a meeting at 10: 15. F: Yes, I think you can make that. M: Thank you. See you later. 6 【正确答案】 C 7 【听力原文】 M: Hello, Id like
18、to know what new courses you are going to offer. F: Yes, we are going to start one Marketing class and one Accounting class next week. M: What about the fee? F: Well, its $150 for accounting class and $200 for marketing class. Both of the classes are three-month programs. M: Er, I think Id better re
19、gister for the Accounting class. 7 【正确答案】 A 8 【听力原文】 F: Excuse me, when does the Flight 194 from Boston arrive in Guangzhou? M: Its supposed to arrive at 3:30, but today the flight is one hour delayed because of the weather there. F: Oh, my goodness, then we cant catch the five oclock train to Hong
20、Kong. M: Yes, I think you have to have the ticket cancelled. 8 【正确答案】 B 二、 PART TWO 8 【听力原文】 M: OK, Mrs Wentworth, how is our share portfolio today? W: Generally healthy. Nitro Chemicals have gone up 14p to 200 pence. Forsythe Bank have gone down 2p to 301 pence-but we only have 500 of those shares.
21、 M: OK. W: Our thousand shares in Web Communications have-stayed level at 160 and the one and a half thousand shares in Bespoke Tailoring have risen to 431 pence a share. M: Well, thats good news. W: Yes, and weve got 2,000 shares each in Rose Computers and Pharmedico Drugs and they have both risen
22、slightly. Rose has gone up 5p to 154, and Pharmedico is now selling at 423 pence a share. 9 【正确答案】 chemicals 10 【正确答案】 500 11 【正确答案】 1000 12 【正确答案】 1500 13 【正确答案】 431 14 【正确答案】 Computers 15 【正确答案】 423 三、 PART THREE 15 【听力原文】 Traveling with Australian Airlines just got easier with the expansion of E-
23、ticketing and online booking. Australian Airlines Chief Executive Andrea Staines believed that easy access to flight schedules, bookings and ticketing was important to customers. Customers will be issued with E-tickets rather than traditional paper tickets when booking directly with the airline or w
24、ith their local travel agent for travel to and from all Australian Airlines ports, except Singapore. E-tickets give customers the convenience of making a booking over the phone, through their travel agent or online with no paper ticket to collect. It saves customers a lot of time and trouble. Custom
25、ers can just walk into almost any travel agent in Australia and be issued with an E-ticket for Australian Airlines flights to some big cities like Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Cairns, Darwin, Osaka, Hong Kong or Bali. It also makes life easier for travel agents - a majority of whom use the Ama
26、deus, Galileo, Apollo, Sabre or Abacus reservation systems - who can now issue E-tickets for Australian Airlines flights or a combination of Australian Airlines and Qantas destinations where E-ticketing is available. Chances of making errors decrease to a large extent. The second major enhancement i
27、s the ability to book online for flights between Australian cities in the airlines network. Travelers can travel by plane from one place to another without worrying about their tickets. Its essential these days for the clever traveler to have the ability to book competitive domestic fares, and inter
28、national fares, online via Australian airlines, com at any time of the day or night. It offers travelers a great variety of options to choose airlines, departure and arrival time. Travelers may also have the options of flying with Australian Airlines between Sydney and Cairns, Melbourne and Sydney,
29、the Gold Coast and Cairns and, from May 2004, Darwin and Cairns. All these flights depart from the international terminal. 16 【正确答案】 TRAVEL AGENT(S) 17 【正确答案】 CONVENIENCE 18 【正确答案】 (BIG) CITTES/PLACES 19 【正确答案】 MAKING ERRORS/MISTAKES 20 【正确答案】 NETWORK 21 【正确答案】 (DOMESTIC)FARES 22 【正确答案】 OPTIONS 四、 P
30、ART FOUR 23 【听力原文】 Bruce Chizen is CEO of Adobe. He is offering some advice on following the founders footsteps. Youve said you had an unusual rise to the top at Adobe. How so? I was not an engineer. I didnt have a technical background. I had a funny east accent. Also I didnt have an MBA, but I thin
31、k what John Warnock and Chuck Geschke did appreciate in me was my willingness to experiment, to try new ideas in the marketplace in the ways that they might not have. When you were named CEO, there was some anxiety about the new boss. How did you bring around Wall Street and the employees? Wall Stre
32、et was easier than the employees because of my relationship with the financial community. Between 1998 and 2000, I had been doing most of the presentations to analysts, though John was certainly present. I had been meeting with key investors and visiting customers and employees. So when John and Chu
33、ck officially retired, Wall Street knew that I was already running the company in many ways. But I knew some of the employees had some anxiety about it. The critics were concerned that I didnt have John and Chucks technical background. Who would drive the companys technical vision, considering that
34、I wasnt a technologist and that Adobe had built its foundation on technological differentiation? So at the first employee meeting I held as CEO, I made it very clear to the employees that I couldnt fill John and Chucks shoes alone. I imagined a picture of myself in front of two very large shoes, and
35、 I told the employees that I would fill one shoe, but they had to fill the other one. I was counting on them. How are you doing things differently from John and Chuck? Adobe is going through a transformation. We are no longer a little company. Were a $1.2 billion company with a market cap of somewhe
36、re between $6 billion and $8 billion. And I think we can become a $5 billion company over the next several years. That requires a whole different way of doing business. Any notable missteps along the way? Any lessons from what has happened? John told me, when he was handing over the title, that the
37、CEOs job is very lonely. While you have the board to speak to, the board is also your boss, and you really dont have any peers within the company. I think I was too slow to reach out and engage with other CEOs to find a peer group to learn from. Over the past year and a half, Ive joined a CEO group.
38、 We meet quarterly under non-disclosure agreement. The other thing I would do differently is to confront the hard organizational and people issue quickly, especially around my executive staff. Because I was promoted from within, I was sometimes too “nice“ at the beginning. I didnt want to disrupt th
39、e comfortable work environment. I allowed the present situation to persist longer than? should have. I knew that I needed to reorganize and eliminate those people who werent fight for the positions. Whats your advice to executives who are to take over as CEO? Be honest, open, and direct, and recogni
40、ze that for every employee who might like what you are doing, there could be another who doesnt and you are not going to make everyone happy. Most important, make sure, if your ex-CEO is still going to be on the board, to have an agreement going in so that they are going to let you do the job. 23 【正确答案】 B 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】 A 29 【正确答案】 C 30 【正确答案】 A
