1、BEC商务英语（初级）阅读模拟试卷 122及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 To. All New Staff Cc. Manager Subject: Christmas Party All the staff could attend and seat yourself with any you like despite which department you serve for. Some colleagues will show their talents that night. P. S. : Everyone is allowed to bring only one fr
2、iend there. Friday night S&D Entertainment Bar Staff are able to （ A） attend this party with their colleagues. （ B） attend this party with their parents. （ C） sit beside their colleagues according to the pre-arranged order. 2 When You May Use the Service If you create an account to use the service,
3、you may start using the service as soon as you have finished the sign-up process. As indicated during the setup process, some parts of the service may not be available right away while we configure them for your use. Users are not entitled to （ A） use his new account immediately for any purposes. （
4、B） open an account with completing the sign-up process. （ C） use some specific services in the setup process. 3 Standard room of Municipal Hotel is of 50% deduction with breakfast if you book 10 days in advance in June. Click （ A） Discounts are offered only to the established customers. （ B） Regular
5、 booking entitles customers to enjoy half price in the fourth quarter. （ C） Customers could enjoy the service with half price provided that they preserve. 4 You should never need to provide bank account details or any other financial information, or make any form of payment, when applying for a job.
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8、ries. On the website, applicants will （ A） communicate with the past colleagues. （ B） download their application form. （ C） get in touch with their future colleagues. 二、 PART TWO 5 Look at the advertisement below. It shows a list of software that could be downloaded on a website. For questions 6-10,
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14、RT THREE 10 Look at the chart below. It shows three funds performances on the London Stock Market during 10 years. 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.Unit: ten thous
15、and pounds 11 There was a drop in both Erix Funds and Bernix Funds on the previous year, while Gotheix Funds remained almost the same. 12 This year Erix Funds has improved more than Bernix Funds and Gotheix Funds did, but both of the latter two funds have experienced an increase on the previous year
16、. 13 There was an increase in both Erix Funds and Gotheix Funds on the previous year, although Bernix Funds decreased a little. 14 Both Erix Funds and Bernix Funds has performed worse than the previous year, while Erix Funds has not experienced the lowest point in the 10 years. 15 Bernix Funds incre
17、ased a little on the previous year, and Erix Funds fell almost at similar degree, which made their performance look similar. Gotheix Funds performance was the best of the three. 四、 PART FOUR 15 Read the article below about a successful banker. Are sentences 16-22 on the opposite page Right or Wrong
18、? If there is not enough information to answer Right or Wrong, choose Doesnt Say. For each sentence (16-22), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered Sporting a Swatch watch and with the donnish air of a professor, Peter Sands is an unlikel
19、y banker. A fully-paid up member of the frequent flyers club, the 48-year-old chief executive of Standard Chartered is one of the few bankers to have made it through the crisis with his reputation intact. Unlike rivals who were pilloried for recklessly driving their banks into the hands of the taxpa
20、yers, Sands is at the helm of a London-based emerging markets bank, which has enjoyed seven consecutive years of record profits. With his mop of white hair and Alistair Darling-style black eyebrows, he also helped stave off the collapse of the UKs high street banks in October 2008 by devising a sche
21、me that led to the injection of taxpayer funds into Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds. Some of the secret meetings during the frantic weeks in the autumn 2008 took place in the City offices of Standard Chartered. Sands was also a co-host at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year and specu
22、lation in the City is that he is on track for a bigger office at the Bank of England or as a regulator. But as he sits back on the sofa in his bright corner room, Sands mind is on Standard Chartered, as he admits another crisis could be on the way. 16 Peter Sands is the CEO of a school board. （ A） R
23、ight （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 17 After the economic crisis, a lot of banks have been in bankruptcy, but the bankers still enjoyed popularity. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 18 Peter Sands rivals were struggling to their feet with drawing money from the taxpayers. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C）
24、Doesnt say 19 Standard Chartered has been profitable for seven years in a steady manner. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 20 As a senior officer at the Bank of England, Sands will chair independently the World Economic Forum in Davos next year. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 21 Sands has
25、 plotted for a higher rank in the Loyal Bank of England. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 22 Sands predicts another economic crisis is coming. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Doesnt say 五、 PART FIVE 22 Read the following article about the computer industry. For each question (23-28) on the opposite
26、page, choose the correct answer. Mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. COMPUTER INDUSTRY The amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years. Moores law, which the computer industry now takes for granted, says that the processing power and storage capacity of computer ch
27、ips double or their prices halve roughly every 18 months. The software programmes are getting better too. Edward Felton, a computer scientist at Princeton University, reckons that the improvements in the algorithms driving computer applications have played as important a part as Moores law for decad
28、es. A vast amount of that information is available to all. By 2013 the amount of traffic flowing over the Internet annually will reach 667 Exabytes, according to Cisco, a maker of communications gear. And the quantity of data continues to grow faster than the ability of the network to carry it all.
29、People have long complained that they were swamped by information. Back in 1917 the manager of a Connecticut manufacturing firm complained about the effects of the telephone: “Time is lost, confusion results and money is spent.“ Yet what is happening now goes way beyond incremental growth. The quant
30、itative change has begun to make a qualitative difference. This shift from information scarcity to excess has broad effects. “What we are seeing is the ability to have economies form around the data and that to me is the big change at a societal and even macroeco-nomic level,“ says Craig Mundie, hea
31、d of research and strategy at Microsoft. Data are becoming the new raw material of business: an economic input almost on a par with capital and labour. “Every day I wake up and ask, how can I flow data better, manage data better, analyse data better?“ says Rollin Ford, the CIO of Wal-Mart. 23 The am
32、ount of digital information increases （ A） according to laws. （ B） too slowly. （ C） very fast. 24 According to the Moores law, the computer chips capacity doubles in （ A） more than a year. （ B） half of the year. （ C） only one year. 25 A vast amount of that information （ A） is provided by the nation.
33、 （ B） belongs to ones own. （ C） is shared by all. 26 The speed of the digital information is faster than （ A） the processing capacity of the computer system. （ B） the production of the computer. （ C） the performance of the Internet. 27 The large amount of changes accordingly influence （ A） some inno
34、vations. （ B） the human society or social relations. （ C） the awareness of changing the system. 28 What does Rollin Ford mean? （ A） Data decide the business. （ B） Data are the new form of competition. （ C） Managers need data to manage their companies better. 六、 PART SIX 28 Read the article below abo
35、ut one comment. 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. Your Loss Is Your Gain The tax-code alchemy conjured【 C1】 _by Congress and the Treasury Department extended what is【 C2】 _as the
36、NOL carryback period, 【 C3】 _it from two years to five for corporate losses【 C4】 _in 2008 and 2009. That means that corporate losses reported in those two years can be used to offset taxable income already reported during the【 C5】 _five years. In practical terms, that means the companies can【 C6】 _f
37、or a cash refund from Uncle Sam for taxes theyve already paid. And they can now do so【 C7】 _years that saw the highest corporate【 C8】 _in the nations history 2005 and 2006when an aggregate $3. 4 trillion in corporate profits was reported. But weighing the benefits of the immediate cash infusion【 C9】
38、 _the irreversible decision to forgo other potential tax benefits and credits is no simple matter. Although its too early to tell how many companies will take advantage of the new NOL provision, Congresss Joint Committee 【 C10】 _Taxation estimates that the【 C11】_will accelerate some 33 billion 【 C12
39、】 _of corporate tax refunds. 29 【 C1】 （ A） up （ B） in （ C） on （ D） above 30 【 C2】 （ A） knowing （ B） known （ C） knew （ D） to know 31 【 C3】 （ A） stretch （ B） be stretched （ C） stretching （ D） stretched 32 【 C4】 （ A） incur （ B） incurred （ C） incurring （ D） to be incurred 33 【 C5】 （ A） superior （ B） sup
40、er （ C） prior （ D） prime 34 【 C6】 （ A） inquire （ B） ask （ C） require （ D） file 35 【 C7】 （ A） for （ B） in （ C） to （ D） up 36 【 C8】 （ A） allowance （ B） profits （ C） grants （ D） benefits 37 【 C9】 （ A） against （ B） for （ C） up （ D） down 38 【 C10】 （ A） in （ B） up （ C） on （ D） to 39 【 C11】 （ A） expansion
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46、targets on: 【 K5】 _. 41 【 K1】 42 【 K2】 43 【 K3】 44 【 K4】 45 【 K5】 BEC商务英语（初级）阅读模拟试卷 122答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 题干考查 “员工能够做什么 ”，选项 A“和他们的同事一起出席聚会。 ”与原文内容相符。选项 B意为： “与他们的父母一起参加聚会。 ”这是一个迷惑项；根据原文内容：每人限带一位朋友入席，故选项 B错 误；选项 C“根据先前排好的顺序和同事坐在一起。 ”与原文不符，应该排除。 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 题干考查 “用户不能做什么 ”，选项 C
47、“在建立过程中只能使用某一些服务。 ”与原文一致。选项 A意为： “因各种目的立刻使用新账户。 ”选项 A中的any purposes与文中 someparts of the service的意义不一致；选项 B“完成签字申请过程后会有个新账户。 ”与文中所涉及的一致：而选项 C“在建立账户过程中使用某些服务。 ”表述也与原文一致。 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 选项 C“只要预订，顾客就可以享受半价服务。 ”与原文内容大体相同。选项 A意为： “只有老客户才能享有打折优惠。 ”这里与原文不一致，原文中没有限定享受打折的对象；选项 B“在第四季度提前预订的客户可以享有半价优惠。 ”与原文
48、不符。这里需要考生非常小心，原文中 June是第二季度。 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 选项 B“在申请个过程中，应聘者不需要提交账户详情。 ”符合原文内容，原文 neverneed与 not required一致。选项 A意为： “提交细节信息的申请者会得到肯定答复。 ”这不能从原文推导出来； 选项 C“在申请过程中，应聘者提交账户详情是会受到保护的。 ”考生可能从邮箱名中误读信息，在这里要注意避免选错。 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 题干考查 “在网站上，申请者可以做什么 ”，选项 C“与未来的同事接触。 ”与原文内容相符。根据原文，有 20， 000多个工作在不同领域的 14
49、个国家的同事在线。选项 A意为： “与过去的同事交流。 ”这里网站的对象群是想要应聘的人，并没有实际参加工作；选项 B“下载应聘表格 ”原文中没有涉及这一项。题干的句子比较复杂，考生可以把句子划分开，查看信息单位。 二、 PART TWO 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项 D“在办公室外管理邮箱的邮件 ”符合原文，所以选此项。题中的 confidential可能会给考生选择时带来误导而选择选项 B，这里一定要分清主要信息。 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 选项 A“不再错过任何约会 ”符合原文，所以选此项。题中的 warn一词和选项 A中的 reminder表意一致。提醒用闹铃可能会使考生选择 C，这里要小心选项 C中的 at specified times与 Frank的要求不符。 8 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 选项 F“帮助你处理你所需的一切 ”符合原文，所以选此项。商务人士每日要处理的文
