1、BEC商务英语（高级）听力模拟试卷 15及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 You will hear the chairperson of the Technological Society making an announcement at the end of a meeting. As you listen, fill in the information for question 1 - 12, complete the notes using up to three words or a number. After you have listened once, replay
2、 the recording. The Technological Society International Department Course dates, fees and other expenses Location: 1_ Brimston Square Fee includes: 2 _ Extra costs: 3 _ 4 _ Overseas participants many incur extra costs For 5. _ Industrial 6. _course Management Today Course Cost: 7. _Cost: 8. _ Length
3、 of courses: 9. _ 10. _Officers course Cost: 1,160 for Society members 860 for 11. _ Length of course 12. _ 二、 PART TWO 13 You will hear five short extracts in which various people are talking about school. For questions 13-17, match the extracts as you hear them with the people, listed A H For ques
4、tions 18-22, match the extracts as you hear them with the topics, listed A H. After you have listened once, replay the recording 13 Task One people A the caretaker B a neighbour C a teacher D an inspector E the head teacher F a pupil G a parent H a former pupil 18 Task Two Topics A the efficiency of
5、 the heating system B the amount of homework given C the behaviour of children D the condition of chairs E the standard of teaching F the relationship between parents and teachers G the lack of job satisfaction H the motivation of pupils 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear part of a conversation between
6、an interviewer and Andrew Grove, the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Intel. For each question 23 30, mark one letter A, B or C for the correct answer. You will hear the recording twice. 23 Before Andrew Grove arrived in the U.S. in 1956, where did he live? （ A） Hungary （ B） Britain （ C） Portugal 24
7、Why are the tight-rope-walkers mentioned in Andrew Grovels answer? （ A） It shows that their task may be much better even though they are afraid of height. （ B） It shows that they can finish their jobs well because they are not afraid. （ C） If you are not afraid, you can do your job well. 25 What doe
8、s Andrew Grove think people can do to alleviate the scariness of change? （ A） Although the scariness of change is healthy, we should eliminate some of it. （ B） People should alleviate some of the scariness of change. （ C） He thinks there is no need to eliminate the fear of change. 26 What does it me
9、an that pain is healthy? （ A） If you feel physical pain, it means that your body is healthy. （ B） Its aim is to say that there is something wrong with your body. （ C） Extinguishing pain can not solve the problem. 27 Which is one of the biggest contributions that Andrew Grove has made? （ A） Put the I
10、ntel Inside in a computer. （ B） Making the public aware of that Intel Inside campaign is inside a computer. （ C） He makes the Intel Inside in the campaign. 28 When did people describe their computer by the number? （ A） Late 1980s （ B） Late 1970s （ C） Early 1980 29 What is not the fundamental charact
11、eristic of a computer? （ A） Chip （ B） Microprocessor （ C） Software 30 In Andrew Grovels opinion, which is more important, marketing or technology? （ A） Marketing is more important than technology. （ B） Technology is more important than marketing. （ C） Marketing is as important as technology. BEC商务英语
12、（高级）听力模拟试卷 15答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 【听力原文】 I know that many of you have trains to catch and in a couple of cases flights to catch so I wont keep you very much longer. However, yon are aware that the sheet listing course dates, fees and other information which was sent out prior to this meeting was inco
13、mplete. Im afraid not all the details had been confirmed by the time we went to press and there are a number of omissions. However, Im now in s position to give you the rest of this information so you can add it to your copy. Weve been fortunate in obtaining the same hotel as last year thats the Sta
14、tion for the people on attachment so the residential periods will be spent at the Station Hotel in Brimston Square. The overall fee will now include laundry charges. I know that there were disagreements last year as it was felt that costs of personal laundry while away from home should not be borne
15、by participants. However, you will still need funds to cover your daily travel costs from the hotel to the training centre and although the hotel will provide breakfast and evening meal you will need to meet both transport as Ive just mentioned and, er, lunch each day out of your own pocket. You may
16、 remember, however, that subsidized lunches are available at the training centre so they won t be too expensive. For those of you travelling from abroad I should also point out that the Society is not in a position to help with any charges for excess baggage. The standard allowance as you know is tw
17、enty kilos and if you have bought books, gifts or whatever to take home with you, any additional costs are your responsibility. You will be pleased to learn that the fees for the Industrial Relations course have stayed the same as last year-so thats. Unfortunately, though, the fees for the Managemen
18、t Today course have not yet been finalized; they will vary from last year but you might like to know that they will be approximately somewhere in the region of 500. Im sure it wont have escaped your attention that we failed to print the length of each course. The Industrial Relations course is a twe
19、lve-week course as is Management Today-both three months as usual. The two charges listed under the Training Officers course apply to members of the Society and these who axe eligible for awards or scholarships. The lower figure applies to overseas applicants who would be anable to attend our course
20、s without these grants as its important that we continue to attract participants from abroad. And finally, the Training Officers course lasts only ten weeks this year as it has been reduced in response to last years suggestions for a slightly shorter courser Thank you, I do hope that. 1 【正确答案】 Stati
21、on Hotel 2 【正确答案】 laundry charges 3 【正确答案】 daily travel 4 【正确答案】 lunch 5 【正确答案】 excess luggage 6 【正确答案】 Relations 7 【正确答案】 943 8 【正确答案】 500 9 【正确答案】 12 weeks/3 months 10 【正确答案】 Training 11 【正 确答案】 overseas applicants 12 【正确答案】 10 Weeks 二、 PART TWO 13 【听力原文】 Man: Well, it was very different when I wa
22、s at school. Oh yes, Where I went, we were always taught to keep ourselves neat and tidy, not like these youngsters nowadays. I mean, you should see the riffraff who live in our street walking past each day. Long greasy hair, shirts hedging out, kicking tin cans along the pavement Oh dear, oh dear.
23、More discipline at home and school, thats what they need. Woman: I tell you, its a dogs life. Up and down to the holler room, turning the heating on and off. I wish theyd make their minds up! And then its time to move a few hundred chairs for some exam or other. Youd think those young rascals could
24、move the odd chair themselves, wouldnt you? And do I get a word of thanks? Not likely! Ah well, no rest for the wicked. I suppose. Just off to replace a broken window. The little. Man: Itd be all right if we didnt have so much extra work. I mean, the lessons are quite interesting. Sometimes. Well, n
25、ot every boring anyway. But the assignments and projects just go on and on. You never seem to get to the end of them. I think its seriously affecting my football. Woman: You see, it ell boils down to one thing. These days, pupils have a choice. All my staff do their best in the classroom and I have
26、every confidence in them, but at the end of the day its up to the individual pupil to decide whether he or she is going to do the homework, or revise for the exam, or learn anything at all We cant force them. It simply doesnt work. No, what we have to do is much more difficult. We have to make them
27、want to learn. No easy task, believe you me! Man: I just hope theyre going to push her enough. You know what I mean, at that age theyre in a dream half the time, thinking about make-up or boys or something. At her last school they said she needed to spend more time on her homework. Whats more, her r
28、eport didnt look all that good to me. Ill have to speak to her from teacher about it next time I see him-I dont get the impression hes particularly concerned. 13 【正确答案】 B 14 【正确答案】 A 15 【正确答案】 F 16 【正确答案】 E 17 【正确答案】 G 18 【正确答案】 C 19 【正确答案】 G 20 【正确答案】 B 21 【正确答案】 H 22 【正确答案】 E 三、 PART THREE 22 【听力原
29、文】 F: Our guru on management is a 63 years old Hungarian immigrate who arrived in the U. S. in 1956 with neither a word of English, nor a dime in his pocket. Today he runs the company that makes the semiconductor chips that power 90% of the worlds personal computers. He is Andrew Grove, chairman, CE
30、O and cofounder of Intel, the San Jose based giant in semiconductor chip manufacturing. Obviously, Intel has managed change dramatically well. Thats what Intel is about. Yet change really intimidates people and its very frightening. What do you think people can do, managers, just regular folks, can
31、do to alleviate some of the scariness of change? M: Im not sure you want to eliminate scariness. I really wonder if the tight-rope-walkers can do their job because they are not afraid of heights or whether they can do their jobs because they are afraid of heights and theyve just learned how to do th
32、eir task that much better because they know what its like, or they have a pretty good idea what its like to fall. I think fear is your “ally in here, because it is fear that gets you out of comfortable equilibrium, gets you to do difficult tasks“. You know, managing in general is not an easy job, so
33、 I dont think I wanna eliminate fear. I dont eliminate fear of change, I dont wanna eliminate fear of whats wanna happen if you dont move. Its healthy, its kind of like, you know, pain is healthy, physical pain, it warns your body that something is wrong and just extinguishing pain doesnt make the p
34、roblem going away. It just makes your sense that there is a problem going away. So it makes it worse. F: One of the biggest contributions that youve made down to making the public aware of whats inside a computer is the Intel Inside campaign, which is a very big marketing campaign designed to make t
35、he consumer, the end user, allow them to make their choice based on Intel being inside the box. When did you first think that this was important? There are obviously risks to this strategy, there are obviously rewards. How did you analyse the risk-reward in this? M: Well, you know, it was kind of ob
36、vious in a way, if you listened to the language people used to describe their computer at the time youre talking late 80s. Most of the time, people would refer to their computer by the number, the number of the microprocessor that they had in it. Im gonna take my trusty old 386 and look it up, or do
37、 something on it. They didnt use the name of the manufacturer. They used the model number of the microprocessor, which actually is kind of right, because the fundamental characteristic of that computer is the microprocessor. That defines what software its gonna run, its gonna define how fast it runs
38、 it, and if it defines how fast it runs it, it defines what you can do with it. So the user experience, what the user can do and how well he can do it, more than anything else depends on the microprocessor, the chip. So we kind of sensed that we really had that identity but we didnt know exactly how
39、 to go about it. We wanted to market the product name, but the problem with the product name was we couldnt copyright it, I mean, couldnt trademark the numbers. We had a legal battle on it and we lost. So how do you tell our story, given that the microprocessor gives the characteristic of their comp
40、uter to, not completely, but more than anything else, to the user. And we started merchandising Intel, the Computer Inside. Not on the devices but in our own commercials. And that kind of worked, we had good results, good focus group results, people understood, yeah, the Intel stuff is the computer
41、F: So how much now do you think of your success is marketing, and how much of it is technology? M: Andrew Grove: You know, for a long time Ive thought about this and had to answer the questions internally a lot. And the best I can say is describing Intel as a three legged stool, and the three legs are design, technology and manufacturing, and marketing and sales. And if one of those legs is shorter than the other, the stool is gonna tip over 23 【正确答案】 A 24 【正确答案】 A 25 【正确答案】 C 26 【正确答案】 B 27 【正确答案】 B 28 【正确答案】 A 29 【正确答案】 C 30 【正确答案】 C
