1、BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 6及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 In this part of the Listening Test you listen to eight short conversations or monologues and choose the best answer to eight questions. Before you listen, read each question and the three possible answers. Note all possible answers as you listen for the first
2、time. Do not make an immediate decision. Do not worry if you do not know the answers. You will hear the recording a second time. Listen for overall meaning. Do not choose an answer just because you hear the same words in the recording as in the question. Decide on your final answer only after you ha
3、ve listened for the second time. 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 When is Helen starting her new job? （ A） June （ B） July （ C） August 2 What is Sam doing on Monda
4、y? （ A） visiting clients （ B） going on a course （ C） attending a meeting 3 Which pie chart shows the market share of Sontec and its competitors?4 Where does the visitor come from? （ A） Germany （ B） Italy （ C） the Netherlands 5 Which machine do they decide to order? （ A） a photocopier （ B） acomputer
5、（ C） a printer 6 Which graph is the speaker describing? 7 Which is the quickest way for the visitor to reach the city centre? （ A） by bus （ B） by tram （ C） by train 8 What does Susan most dislike about her job? （ A） irregular hours （ B） unpleasant colleagues （ C） lack of career development 二、 PART T
6、WO 8 Look at the passage below. Some information is missing. You will hear a woman talking about personal experience. For each question 9-15, fill in the missing information in the numbered space using a word, numbers or letters. After you have listened once, replay the recording. Specialized subjec
7、t in the uniuersity: (9) . and (10) . The year of graduation: (11) . The first job: (12) . How many years she stayed in her first job: (13) . The business she run is about: (14) . How many people work for her: (15) . 三、 PART THREE 15 How to approach Listening Test Part Three In this part of the List
8、ening Test you listen to a monologue, e.g. a presentation. Before you listen, read the notes. Think about the presentation you will hear. Note all possible answers as you listen for the first time. Do not make an immediate decision. Do not worry if you do not know the answers. You will hear the reco
9、rding a second time. Listen for overall meaning. Do not choose an answer just because you hear the same words in the recording as in the question. Decide on your final answer only after you have listened for the second time. Check that you have used no more than two words in each numbered space Look
10、 at the notes about an airline. Some information is missing. You will hear a presentation by the Chief Executive of an airline. For each question 16-22, fill in the missing information in the numbered space using one or two words. You will hear the presentation twice. Airspeed - Notes on Presentatio
11、n by Chief Executive Results Last Year Reasons for loss of 18.2 million Reduction in companies (16) Huge increase in (17) Bad (18) Increased competition following launch of (19) Company announcements Cancel order for (20) Winner of Best Airline Award (21) ( category) Introduce more (22) (key destina
12、tions only) 四、 PART FOUR 23 How to approach Listening Test Part Four In this part of the Listening Test you listen to a long conversation or interview and answer eight questions, Before you listen, read the questions. Think about what the recording will be about. Note all possible answers as you lis
13、ten for the first time. Do not make an immediate decision. Do not worry if you do not know the answers. You will hear the recording a second time. Listen for overall meaning, Do not choose an answer just because you hear the same words in the recording as in the question. Decide on your final answer
14、 only after you have listened for the second time. You will hear a production manager talking to visitors to a food factory. For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. You will hear the interview twice. 23 Which figure represents Lifestyle Foods marl （ A） 15% （ B） 5
15、0% （ C） 65% 24 Why is Lifestyle Foods currently doing building work? （ A） Its factory was damaged in a fire. （ B） It is taking action to meet demand. （ C） The warehouse is very old-fashioned. 25 Lifestyle Foods decided to launch the new bread, lavash, because （ A） it is so popular in other European
16、countries. （ B） the company wanted a totally new product. （ C） customers are interested in eating healthily. 26 Why have there been difficulties with the machinery for the new product? （ A） It has been necessary to meet regulations. （ B） It is difficult to find suitable equipment. （ C） It keeps brea
17、king down. 27 What new products is Lifestyle Foods planning? （ A） different kinds of snacks （ B） additional bread-based foods （ C） food to go with its breads 28 Lifestyle Foods sells most of its breads under （ A） supermarkets own labels. （ B） Lifestyle Foods own name. （ C） a different brand name. 29
18、 What is Lifestyle Foods doing regarding exports? （ A） It is not currently very interested in exports. （ B） It has just gained its first export contract. （ C） It is working hard to increase exports. 30 According to the Production Manager, what is the main reason for the success of Lifestyle Foods? （
19、 A） regular investment （ B） the excellent staff （ C） its product range BEC商务英语（初级）听力模拟试卷 6答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】 M Congratulations on your new job, Helen. F Thanks. M When do you start? F2 They suggested June - but I have to give three months notice here. M So does that mean youll be going in Au
20、gust? F2 Its got to be then. Its a shame really as Ic booked a holiday for late July - but I guess Ill have to cancel that. M Well, good luck. 1 【正确答案】 C 2 【听力原文】 F Hi Sam. Are you going to the team-building session on Monday? M I signed up for it, but Ive now got to go and see some customers so I w
21、ont be able to make it. F Thats a shame. Were all meeting up for c drink afterwards. Why dont you join us? M Thanks, I will. 2 【正确答案】 A 3 【听力原文】 As you can see, Sontecs market share is approaching that of the market leader thanks to recent advertising. Capablanca used to be il top position until LMH
22、 overtook them last year But Sontecs sales may soon reach a similar level. 3 【正确答案】 B 4 【听力原文】 F I hear youre from the Netherlands. Thats one of my favourite countries. M Well, actually, my wife is. I wasnt bom there. I only left Italy a few years ago. F So, bows your Dutch? M Well, I learned German
23、 when I was a student-so that helps a bit. But it could be better 4 【正确答案】 B 5 【听力原文】 M This photocopiers so slow! F I know-but there isnt enough money in the budget for a replacement. Remember, we were talking about buying a good printer M You,re right. Sallys also been asking for a new computer. F
24、 Well, lets just stay with our original decision. In fact, could you place an order on Monday? Then we can think about a machine for Sally, 5 【正确答案】 C 6 【听力原文】 F Is it true that the number of people visiting our website rose steadily at first but then interest declined? M Well, the number of visitor
25、s did drop - but only for a few months. After July more people started to show interest. F Hm. So, did numbers reach the same level as the beginning of the year? M Yes, they did, but only just. 6 【正确答案】 C 7 【听力原文】 M Excuse me. Could you tell me how to get to the city centre, please? F Well, theres a
26、 local bus. M How long does that take? F About halfan hour. You could go by train - but it would take double that time. Or you could always take a tram. The stops just over there. Itll take you about three- quarters of an hour, though. M Thank you. 7 【正确答案】 A 8 【听力原文】 M So, are you really thinking o
27、f leaving, Susan? F I dont know. Ive had enough. M Oh, I know. You work so hard here - and theres no promotion. F Thats true. But what I hate more than anything is being asked to change shifts at short notice. M Me too, but weve got some nice colleagues, havent we? F Yes, we have. Thats something, I
28、 suppose! 8 【正确答案】 A 二、 PART TWO 8 【听力原文】 When I left school I went to university here in Nairobi. I studied electronics and communications. I finished studying in 1992 and then I got my first job. That was with Siemens. I stayed there for five years. With the growth of the Internet, I decided that
29、I wanted to have my own business as a consultant to people wanting to set up websites. I went to the bank and they loaned me some money. Two months after I got this, I left Siemens and took a management course at Kenya College of Communications Technology. This was a short course which taught me how
30、 to run my own communications business. My business is now doing very well, and I have five people working for me. 9 【正确答案】 electronics 10 【正确答案】 communications 11 【正确答案】 1992 12 【正确答案】 Siemens 13 【正确答案】 5 14 【正确答案】 communications 15 【正确答案】 5 三、 PART THREE 15 【听力原文】 Good morning. Im here today to sa
31、y a few words about Airspeeds disapppointing results last year and to tell you about our plans for the future. So why did we make a loss of 18.2 million last year? There are various reasons. Firstly, although it seems that certain large companies arent too worried about cutting costs, we know that t
32、he amount of money being spent by all firms on their travel budgets has generally fallen. This is an area where companies can often make immediate savings. A second reason for the loss is that fuel costs rose enormously last year. Although we were able to cut many of our general expenses, this incre
33、ase was out of our control. Thirdly, all airlines, including Airspeed, were affected by the poor weather last year. As you know, planes were frequently unable to take off or land. In addition to that, were now facing greater competition, particularly now that a brand-new company, Star Airways, has s
34、tarted to operate on a number of our key routes. So what are we going to do now? Last year we decided to spend 400 million to finance the acquisition of new planes. Youll understand that we now cant afford this investment - though of course, well still need to spend heavily on new safety equipment.
35、However, as you know, weve just been voted Best Airline in the law cost sector and we come second in the Best Small Airline Awards. This confidence shown in us by clients has encouraged us to schedule additional flights starting this summer Were also thinking of extending the range of our on-board s
36、ervices. Any changes will focus on flights to top destinations only. Right, thank you for taking the time to listen today. You can be sure that well do all we can to ensure that the next results will be better 16 【正确答案】 travel budget(s) 17 【正确答案】 fuel costs 18 【正确答案】 weather 19 【正确答案】 Star Airways 2
37、0 【正确答案】 (new) planes 21 【正确答案】 Iow(-)cost 22 【正确答案】 onboard/on-board services 四、 PART FOUR 23 【听力原文】 M I Before we start the factory visit, let me give you a few figures about Lifestyle Foods, about the speciality bread market and about our business in that market. Basically, the UK speciality brea
38、d markets growing at 15% a year. And our market shares half of that market. So its a great business for us to be in at the moment and this explains why weve seen a 65% rise in our sales over the last two years. About the factory. As you can see, theres some building work in progress - so do be caref
39、ul! You wouldnt believe we had a fire here a few years ago, would you? We had to rebuild immediately as everything was totally destroyed. But the building work you can see now is because the number of new customers buying our products is increasing at such a rate that we need the space. Itll give us
40、 some new factory space and also extra warehouse and packaging facilities. Although the existing warehouse is quite modem and adequate for now, it wont be for too much longer- especially with the launch of our new bread, lavash. F Lavash? Whats that? M I Its a new kind of bread for us, ?9om Iran. It
41、s Iow fat and we think that with the current trend for foods that are good for you, itll be popular, It may not be totally new to this country - but well be the first people to sell it in large quantities. M2 You say its from Iran? M I Yes, we even got the machinery for the new product from Iran to
42、ensure that it was the real thing. But thereve been a few problems. Weve had to make a lot of adjustments to meet local safety requirements since they vary so much internationally. M2Are you planning to launch any other new products? M I Yes, we are. Weve discussed extending our range. But basically
43、, we make what it says in our logo: finest speciality breads. So when people ask whether we plan to make snack foods too, like Mexican tortilla chips, well, maybe the technology wouldnt be so different but we know what we do well-and know we can sell more of it- so I think its best to keep to that a
44、rea. As for food to accompany our breads, I think its for the stores to decide what to sell with our products. F So how do you sell your products in stores? Under a different brand name? MI We use Lifestyles own label and supermarkets own brands. In fact, you sometimes see both on the same shelf- th
45、ough the former tends to be more common, M2But are your markets only in the UK2 M I Well, we do have an export market - mostly in northern Europe. And weve just won a major contract for sales to Iceland! But we dont want to be too ambitious in that area. We know the company can keep steady growth un
46、der control and weve more demand than we can satisy at home at the moment - so why focus on developing export markets? OK, shall we start the visit? What Id like to do first is go upstairs so we can look down on the whole production area. F Just one more question, if I could? Why are you so successf
47、ul compared to your competitors? M I Well, our range of breads is excellent but some competitors also sell very good food. Its our production system really that allows us to keep down costs while producing our products in large quantities. And we can do that because weve got a policy of putting mone
48、y back into the factory to provide for the future-as youll see from the new machinery. And were very lucky in our workforce too which helps us to build on these strengths. OK, shall we move on? If youd like to follow me . fade 23 【正确答案】 B 24 【正确答案】 B 25 【正确答案】 C 26 【正确答案】 A 27 【正确答案】 B 28 【正确答案】 B 29 【正确答案】 A 30 【正确答案】 A
