1、BEC商务英语（初级）阅读模拟试卷 121及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 To claim benefits for your illness or injury, you must file a claim form within thirty days of the first day of your disability. Employees are entitled to （ A） request more bonus if he/she has worked thirty days a month. （ B） require benefits for their disea
2、se by filling in a claim form. （ C） hand in the claim form less than thirty days since it is written. 2 New Four Seasons Alumni Community is launched! If you are a former Four Seasons employee, we welcome you to join our Alumni group and reconnect with old friends and colleagues. Visit the Alumni Co
3、mmunity page for latest news and updates. The community is launched for （ A） the employees who are working for the company. （ B） all the former employers who have served for the company. （ C） the employees who had worked in the Four Seasons. 3 Lady House We are a professional hairdo saloon. Our hair
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6、er you want access to all the days news fast, breaking analysis of the events, a considered view of trends, expert commentary and analysis or aggregation of world class press sources, youll find them all on Economy News. On Economy News, readers could （ A） decide where to go for their trip. （ B） fin
7、d what they want to know about the future. （ C） get in touch with all the news from different aspects. 二、 PART TWO 5 Look at the tasklist below. It shows some tasks needed to be handled. For questions 6-10, decide which one would be relevant with each assignment (A-H). For each question, mark one le
8、tter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once. TASKS IN THIS WEEK A To find one sport event for the company to grant sponsorship and advertise B To find a professional PR agency to arrange anniversary celebration C To select one sport news for the company weekly newspaper D T
9、o invite a successful manager to deliver one speech for the newly employed E To convince the Board to invest and increase productivity in sports wear in the next season during the Board Meeting F To book local hotel accommodations for the delegates from headquarter G To find agency to provide inform
10、ation about the partners the company first cooperate with H To hold a ball game with the memberships made by the company staff 6 Francis Levine has worked in a four-star hotel with good fame, and he is good at arranging games to improve the relationships between the staff. 7 Tom Smith has worked in
11、school paper and is also a fun of football games. He knows well what kind of sports event would receive most attention. 8 Rebecca Ryan, professional consultant in invest department, finds an institute from one website who promises to take away the worry by providing clients business credit reports.
12、9 Chris Pane, a former coach, has some connection with an association who organizes tennis tournament for British teenagers. 10 Carole Lohan has just written a report on clothes industry, providing additional market survey results to help them persuade the shareholders. 三、 PART THREE 10 Look at the
13、charts below. They show Laptop sales compared to Mobile phone sales offered by eight different towns during a three-year period. Which chart does each sentence (11-15) on the opposite page describe? For each sentence, mark one letter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once.
14、11 Although Laptop sales started higher than Mobile phones sales, it lost that leading position when both dipped in the middle of the period. 12 Mobile phones sales and Laptop sales reached their peak in the middle of the period, but Laptop sales declined more sharply at the end. 13 While both Mobil
15、e phones and Laptop sales rose throughout the period, Mobile phones sales saw their greater increase in the middle year. 14 Both Laptop and Mobile phones sales dipped in the middle of the period, with the Laptop always achieving fewer sales than the Mobile phones. 15 Mobile phones sales fell from th
16、eir early high point to equal Laptop sales, and both then remained level at the end of the period. 四、 PART FOUR 15 Read the comments below for the co-CEO model. Are sentences 16-22 on the opposite page Right or Wrong ? If there is not enough information to answer Right or Wrong, choose Doesnt Say. F
17、or each sentence (16-22), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. Do Two CEOs Work Better Than One? SAP and MySpace are the latest companies to appoint two executives to work together as joint chief executives. Wipro has also been run by joint CEOs for more than a year. Is this a wise opti
18、on for a company to take? Is it a development that only technology companies should consider? Or could sharing the leadership responsibility lead to confusion at the top? THE ADVICE The CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe The co-CEO model has served SAP very well in our history, so it certain
19、ly made our appointment that much easier to get under way and gain traction quickly. In the current scenario, we share responsibilities, with one of us focused on innovation, developing products for market, and the other complementing that with a focus on customers. Our relationship is built upon hi
20、gh trust and communication-absolute requirements for co-CEO success. We believe that the model could be leveraged by companies in any industry, not just technology companies, and could certainly help “extend“ leadership in companies that are operating globally. This is a model where you not only get
21、 100 percent of a CEOs attention, and you are actually getting 200 percent. (The writers are joint CEOs of SAP, the technology company. ) The Academic Andrew Campbell There is wisdom in the phrase “two heads are better than one“. Many of the great successes in business are stories of two or three pe
22、ople working together. No one person is likely to possess the combination of skills needed. When our brains lead us to bad judgments, the best defence is a colleague with a different brain whose agreement is needed. But if the individuals dont get on, the result is worse than one head. Joint CEOs ca
23、n be a sensible choice where two people want to make their “marriage“ public. The risk is that the structure may outlive the relationship. While we have good processes for dissolving real marriages, we have no set ways of managing a divorce between joint CEOs. (The writer is the director of Ashridge
24、 Business School. ) 16 Wipro is the first company to be run by joint CEOs. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 17 Availability of the top responsibility to one must lead to confusion. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 18 SAP has been managed not bad by two executives. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C
25、） Doesnt say 19 The perfect requirements for co-CEO success are responsibility and communication. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 20 No good executive has a combination of all kinds of skills. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 21 According to the Academic, the co-CEO model always works wel
26、l. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 22 It is easy to separate the two executives as a divorce. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 五、 PART FIVE 22 Read the following advertisement of a job. For each question (23-28) on the opposite page, choose the correct answer. Mark one letter (A, B or C)
27、on your Answer Sheet. In Praise of Short-termism For economies in free fall, managers still need up-to-date information about what is happening to their businesses, so that they can change course rapidly if necessary. Cisco, an American network-equipment giant, has invested over many years in the te
28、chnology needed to generate such data. Frank Cal-deroni, the firms CFO, says that every day its senior executives can track exactly what orders are coming in from sales teams around the world, and identify emerging trends in each region and market segment. And at the end of each month, the firm can
29、get reliable financial results within four hours of closing its books. Most firms have to wait days or even weeks for such certainty. Admittedly, Ciscos financial results have not made happy reading recently because, in common with many other large technology companies, it has seen demand for its pr
30、oducts falter in the downturn. In early February it announced that its fiscal second-quarter revenues of $9. 1 billion were 7. 5% lower than the same period in 2008 and that its profit had fallen by 27%, to $1.5 billion. In response to hard times, Cisco plans to cut $1 billion of costs this year by,
31、 among other things, harnessing its own video-conferencing and other communications technologies to reduce the amount its executives travel. It is also using these facilities to relay information from employees on the ground to its senior managers, and to get instructions from Ciscos leaders back ou
32、t to its 67,000 staff. A rapid exchange of information and instructions is especially valuable if the company wants to alter course in stormy times. If everybody in a company can rapidly grasp what they have to do and how it is changing, they are more likely to get the job done. But some firms are r
33、eluctant to share their goals with the wider world. Unilever, a big Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods group, has decided against issuing a 2009 financial forecast to investors, arguing that it is difficult to predict what is going to happen, given the parlous state of the world economy. “Were not just goin
34、g to provide numbers for the sake of it,“ explains James Allison, the companys head of investor relations. Other companies that have decided not to provide annual earnings estimates for 2009 include Costco, a big American retailer, and Union Pacific, an American railway company. Some firms, such as
35、Intel, seem to have chosen to take things quarter by quarter. The giant chip maker said in January that it would not issue an official forecast for the first quarter of 2009 after its fourth-quarter 2008 profit plunged by 90%. Several retail chains have also stopped providing monthly sales estimates
36、 because they cannot see what the future holds. Retailers, chip makers and firms in many other industries may have a long wait before the economic fog finally lifts? 23 According to what do the managers modify companies operation? （ A） new office equipment （ B） latest news about the economic policy
37、（ C） latest news about the current situation of their companies 24 Why are the senior executives of Cisco much more effective than those of other firms? （ A） Because they can get to know what happened on their sales around the world accurately. （ B） Because they can acknowledge exactly how much mone
38、y has been earned for the exports. （ C） Because they can be informed about their competitors performances. 25 Recent poor performance of Cisco results from （ A） regional downturn especially in the East. （ B） the financial problems and the wrong business strategies. （ C） global depression. 26 Making
39、use of its own video-conferencing and other communications technologies helps Cisco （ A） to cut down their expenditure on business trips. （ B） to reduce their budget so as to avoid debts. （ C） improve their working effectiveness. 27 Unilever refused issuing a 2009 financial forecast to investors, du
40、e to （ A） the jeopardised situation of the company. （ B） the uncertainty of the global economy. （ C） the new change in the company. 28 In response to the current financial situation, some firms choose to （ A） decrease ads campaign and marketing activities. （ B） issue an official forecast per season.
41、 （ C） issue an official forecast per month. 六、 PART SIX 28 Read the article below about a report on employment. Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, B or C on the opposite page. For each question (29-40), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. A new report by the McKinsey Glob
42、al Institute【 C1】 _. that politicians focus【 C2】 _.exciting, high-tech industries will have limited results. There is certainly little【 C3】 _. that large numbers of jobs will【 C4】 _. by fostering green technology or bio-science clusters. “Many policymakers are【 C5】 _.their hopes today on innovative
43、new sectors such as clean tech as the answer to the challenges of competitiveness, growth and jobs. Yet such sectors are 【 C6】 _.small to make a difference to economy-wide growth,“ says the report. In【 C7】 _.of employment, it is the services sector that counts. It【 C8】 _. 75 percent of the economy i
44、n developed countries and in【 C9】 _. it is local services retail, hotels, restaurants, finance and insurance that account for the majority of employment. In high-income economies the service sectors accounted【 C10】 _.all the net job growth between 1995 and 2005. The odds of successful public interve
45、ntions in areas【 C11】 _.as pharmaceuticals are low, says the report. And they【 C12】 _.to be extremely expensive. 29 【 C1】 （ A） suggests （ B） advises （ C） suggesting （ D） advising 30 【 C2】 （ A） in （ B） up （ C） on （ D） towards 31 【 C3】 （ A） opportunities （ B） space （ C） reason （ D） chance 32 【 C4】 （ A
46、） creating （ B） create （ C） be created （ D） to be creat 33 【 C5】 （ A） pin （ B） to be pinned （ C） pinned （ D） pinning 34 【 C6】 （ A） very （ B） much （ C） as （ D） too 35 【 C7】 （ A） regard （ B） terms （ C） despite （ D） name 36 【 C8】 （ A） constitutes （ B） is made of （ C） includes （ D） encloses 37 【 C9】 （ A
47、） particular （ B） special （ C） additional （ D） touch 38 【 C10】 （ A） to （ B） up （ C） for （ D） on 39 【 C11】 （ A） too （ B） such （ C） very （ D） much 40 【 C12】 （ A） tends （ B） tending （ C） tend （ D） tended 七、 PART SEVEN 40 Read the email and note below. Complete the note form on the opposite page. Write
48、a word or phrase (in CAPITAL LETTERS) or a number on lines 41-45 on your Answer Sheet. From: May Lee To: Yolanda Cc: Subject: The business trip of the General Manager Our General Manager will represent the branch to attend the annual gala of our company. During his one-week absence, you are entitled
49、 to be responsible for all the business. Thanks. May Lee CEO, IAS Inc. Yolanda, Thanks for your help during my absence. There are three scheduled appointments that you have to deal with for me. Recruitment interview and stipulating the articles of association of our branch are very important. And the four orders of the steel plant. We also decide to cut down one to meet the budget. Please negotiate it with the manufacturer. I will be back next Monday Jun.24, and you could contact with me
