1、BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 31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 Which room did the man take finally? 2 Which is the earliest day the check can be cashed
2、? 3 What did they order? （ A） office equipment （ B） stationery （ C） furniture 4 Which train will the man take? 5 Why is Mr Mo unable to meet Mr Brown? （ A） He has to attend an important meeting. （ B） He has to go to the airport to pick up someone. （ C） He has to wait for an important phone call. 6 W
3、hich is the correct map?7 Where is the new office? （ A） Hillstale Road （ B） Michigan Avenue （ C） Maple Drive 8 Which is the correct graph?二、 PART TWO 8 Look at the notes below. Some information is missing. You will hear a man complaining. For each question 9-15, fill in the missing information in th
4、e numbered space using a word, numbers or letters. You will hear the conversation twice. Customer Relations Customers Complaints ITEM COMPLAINED: (9) _ drive MODEL: (10) Dimension _ TIME OF PURCHASE: (11) _ May PRICE: (12) _ REFERENCE NUMBER: (13) _ CUSTOMERS NAME: (14) _ Philip CONTACT NUMBER: (15)
5、 517 _ 三、 PART THREE 15 Look at the notes about qualities of great managers. Some information is missing. You will hear part of a presentation by a professor of management. For each question 16-22, fill in the missing information in the numbered space using one or two words. You will hear the presen
6、tation twice. Qualities of Great Managers Great managers accept (16) _ know how to give (17) _ properly criticize (18) poor _ find out (19) customers _ see (20) _ learn (21) _ look out for (22) higher-level _ 四、 PART FOUR 23 You will hear an interview with Sutor about Web services. For each question
7、 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. You will hear the interview twice. 23 A lot of managers are anxious about Web services because （ A） they think there is an IT revolution. （ B） they feel theyll get left behind. （ C） they know nothing about Web services. 24 A Web service app
8、lication will （ A） enable you to do things in different ways. （ B） make it easier for people to communicate under one system. （ C） make different systems communicate more easily. 25 Berkins uses Web services to （ A） create job opportunities for agents. （ B） allow agents to choose tasks. （ C） pay its
9、 customers. 26 With Web services, the shipment volume of Berkins is expected to increase to （ A） as much as $75 million annually. （ B） as much as $65 million annually. （ C） as much as $78 million annually. 27 Mr Sutor compares Web services with （ A） building houses. （ B） designing houses. （ C） plumb
10、ing. 28 What is the function of software of Web services? （ A） It is less interesting than Web service itself. （ B） It is the most important part of Web service. （ C） It is more like standardized pipes. 29 Which kind of security is more complicated? （ A） security used to send credit card data （ B） s
11、ecurity used in Webs （ C） security used within the company 30 Mr Sutor believes that （ A） we are in the wild frontier of Web service development. （ B） we are still in the point of early adoption. （ C） we are in the early mainstream of Web services. BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 31答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】 M: I
12、s No. 2 meeting room available this afternoon? F: Let me see. Mm. No, the Production Department will have a discussion at 2:30. M: Then what about No. 5 meeting room? How big is it? F: It can only hold 15 people. M: Oh, thats a bit too small. We have about 30 people. F: I think No. 3 meeting room wi
13、ll be available at 3 this afternoon. Is that OK? M: No problem. Thank you. 1 【正确答案】 C 2 【听力原文】 M: Can I help you? F: Yes, I want to cash my check here. M: OK, but this is already Friday today, and it usually takes three or four working days to confirm a check. So your check can be cashed by next Wed
14、nesday or Thursday. F: Oh, my goodness, I really need some cash on Monday. What can I do. ? 2 【正确答案】 A 3 【听力原文】 M: Kelly, do you think its time we should order something for our office? F: Yes, actually I am listing the things we want to order. We need some computer disks, some tapes and pens. M: I
15、think we have run out of copying paper and wed better order 10 packs this time. F: All right. Shall we ask for delivery? M: Sure. 3 【正确答案】 B 4 【听力原文】 F: Good morning, Information Office. How can I help you? M: Yes, Id like some information about the trains to Philadelphia. You see, I have to be ther
16、e before lunch time tomorrow. F: Well, the earliest train leaves at 6 oclock and arrives at 11 oclock, but there are many stops along the way. The next one starts at 8:30 and arrives at 11:40. Its a non-stop train. M: I think the 8:30 will be my best bet. 4 【正确答案】 C 5 【听力原文】 M: Mr Brown, I am Mark C
17、hen, Mr Mos secretary. Ive just come from him with a message that he wont be able to see you this afternoon as he promised. Hes just been called away to an important business negotiation. He sends his apologies and will call you personally as soon as he is free. 5 【正确答案】 A 6 【听力原文】 F: Hello, we are
18、from the Paris branch. We have just arrived at your city because our plane was late. Can you tell us how we get to your company? M: Its close to the airport. When you go out of the airport, walk across the street and turn round at the corner on Churchhill Road, walk one block east, take a right at P
19、arlor Street. Its right in the middle of Parlor Street. 6 【正确答案】 B 7 【听力原文】 F: Hello, this is Springfield Stationery. We are going to deliver the ten boxes of ink you ordered yesterday. Is your office still in Maple Drive? M: No, we moved our office last month, so you have to drive another two block
20、s further to Michigan Avenue and turn at Hillstale. Our door number is 230. F: OK, thank you. 7 【正确答案】 A 8 【听力原文】 F: In general, this years sales situation is not as good as expected compared with last years. Our sales leveled off at 25,000 units during the first half of the year and then rose stead
21、ily for some time. However, it suddenly dropped to 20,000 units at the last three months of the year because of decreasing demand in the market. 8 【正确答案】 C 二、 PART TWO 8 【听力原文】 F: Good morning, Customer Relations, Jennifer Miller speaking. How can I help you? M: Yes, I am calling about the computer
22、I bought from you last month. There are some problems with it now. The disk drive does not work properly. Last Sunday, it failed to work from time to time. I called your Service Department last week and they had it repaired. But today, it stopped working completely. Whats worse, it damaged one of my
23、 favorite disks. I just have no idea what to do with it. F: OK. I think I need some information before we find out what the problem is. What model do you have? M: Its Dimension 4600. F: Can I have you name and telephone number please? M: Sure, its Arnold Philip, thats A -R -N -O -L -D. My number is
24、517 -637 -9876. F: OK. And do you still keep the invoice? M: Yeah, I do. F: Whats the reference number? M: 3-2-4-1-N. F: And the date of purchase? M: 27th of May. F: And how much did you pay for that? M: It was 620 originally, but it was on sale then. So I got it at 570. F: OK. What we are going to
25、do now is to transfer you to the Service Department and see if they can have a second look at it. M: I dont think I have time for that. I have an appointment. F: Then would you like them to call you back? M: OK. How about late tonight? F: No problem. Ill do that for you. M: Thanks. F: You are welcom
26、e. 9 【正确答案】 DISK 10 【正确答案】 4600 11 【正确答案】 27 12 【正确答案】 570 13 【正确答案】 3241N 14 【正确答案】 ARNOLD 15 【正确答案】 6379876 三、 PART THREE 15 【听力原文】 Many people today ask how they can become a great manager. My lecture today will discuss some essential qualities of a great and effective manager. Generally, a good
27、and effective manager should be very good at the following essential tasks. First, great managers accept blame. When someone from head office visits and expresses displeasure, the great manager immediately accepts full responsibility. In everyday working life, the best managers are constantly aware
28、that they selected their people and should have developed them. Errors made by team members axe in very real sense their responsibility. Second, great managers give praise. Praise is probably the most under-used management tool. Great managers are forever trying to catch their people doing something
29、 right, and congratulating them on it. And when praise comes from outside, they are swift not merely to make the fact known, but to make clear who has earned it. Managers who regularly give praise are in a much stronger position to criticize or reprimand poor performance. Then, great managers make b
30、lue sky. Very few people are comfortable with the idea that they will be doing exactly what they are doing today in 10 years time. Great managers anticipate peoples dissatisfactions. Moreover, great managers put themselves about. Most managers now accept the need to find out not merely what their te
31、am thinks, but what the rest of the world, including their customers, need. So MBWA, i.e. management by walking about, is an excellent thing. Another important point is that great managers exploit strengths, not weaknesses in themselves and in their people. They see strengths in themselves as well a
32、s in other people, as things to be built on, and weaknesses as something to be accommodated, and if possible, eliminated. The last but not the least, great managers make themselves redundant. What great managers do is to learn new skills and acquire useful information from the outside world, and the
33、n immediately pass them on, to ensure that if they were to be run down by a bus, the team would still have the benefit of the new information. So great managers are always on the lookout for higher-level activities to occupy their time, while constantly passing on tasks that they have already master
34、ed. 16 【正确答案】 BLAME 17 【正确答案】 PRAISE 18 【正确答案】 PERFORMANCE 19 【正确答案】 NEED 20 【正确答案】 STRENGTHS 21 【正确答案】 NEW SKILLS 22 【正确答案】 ACTIVITIES 四、 PART FOUR 23 【听力原文】 Web service will quietly transform the way you do business, whether you are ready or not. In this interview, Infrastructure Software director
35、 Sutor discusses how and when Web services will change the ways companies do their work. Mr Sutor, the thought of Web services seems to make a lot of managers anxious. Why is that? There is a lot of pressure and confusion about Web services. Many business people dont really understand what they are,
36、 but they sense there is an IT revolution going on, and they are worried theyll get left behind. Actually, we are in an evolution, not a revolution. If you think about the ways that business have connected their distinct software in the past say, placing orders at one end and invoicing and shipping
37、at the other the problem has been that there have been so many different ways of doing it. A Web service application is simply a piece of software that sits between my partners and me and allows all these different systems to communicate more easily. Whats the real-world example of Web services chan
38、ging the way a company does business? Berkins is a major shipping company. One of its units specializes in delivering high-value consumer goods from retailers to homes and goods, like large-screen TVs. To do this, Berkins uses a network of 16,000 agents, who own the trucks. It built a Web-services-b
39、ased system that essentially created a kind of real marketplace in which agents could select jobs. When Berkins gets a shipping order, the company would pay via Web services simultaneously to all the agents signed for the system. The result has been increased efficiency, faster response time, less i
40、dle time for trucks and more satisfied retailers. The system is expected to increase shipping volumes and deliver increased revenue to Berkins by as much as $ 75 million annually. Many companies are developing Web services software Microsoft, IBM, and the Sun, among others. If Im a company consideri
41、ng using Web services, should I wait to see who will become the dominant player? I dont believe there will be a dominant player in the long mn. Web services are like plumbing. Houses have standardized pipes; they are all designed to connect, and there are rules about how you connect them. Web servic
42、es are like these standardized pipes. There isnt one single pipe supplier there are many, and their pipes are all compatible. However, the fixture the software that Web services technology connects is where the value is going to be. With so many quite different systems being connected through Web se
43、rvices, shouldnt companies be concerned about security? Security is a major area of Web services development, and it needs a lot more complicated work than the security you use to send credit card data over the Web. For example, imagine I have a business that keeps all employees information in-house
44、 in an ERP system. My employees can sit down at our intranet system, enter their series numbers and passwords, and get full access to their job and salary data. Security is provided in some way so that only the appropriate people can view and update HR data. Are we past the point of early adoption?
45、Web services are about three years old, so we are past the time when the earliest adopters decided to take a risk on an unproven technology. Its not at all a wild frontier out there now. Id say we are in the early mainstream period. There will be continued standardization of components that make up Web services, and that process should be complete around the end of 2005. 23 【正确答案】 B 24 【正确答案】 C 25 【正确答案】 B 26 【正确答案】 A 27 【正确答案】 C 28 【正确答案】 B 29 【正确答案】 B 30 【正确答案】 C
