1、BEC商务英语（高级）听力模拟试卷 21及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 1 You will hear the CEO of AT theres no parent company. So, 100 percent of our energy and attention is devoted to the clients. The second key attribute is value. We live to a simple mission statement: to be the worlds highest-value provider of investment servic
2、es. So, every judgment we make about a service or product is geared toward making it the best one available. Also, value is a combination of performance which is critically important in the investment business - service duality, and cost. We emphasize these three elements of value continually. And t
3、hird, were disciplined. There are a lot of things we just wont do, such as compete outside our sphere of expertise. Other companies, recognizing that this is a highly competitive marketplace, will try to co-opt your space with marketing, as opposed to substance. Our view is that well let substance d
4、efine our position in the market, instead of spending a lot of our clients money to do that. Do you focus primarily on North America? Investment management is an increasingly global business for us. Weve been in the global marketplace for about seven years, and a growing share of our cash flow is co
5、ming from international investors. Growth opportunities in the United States remain considerable for us, but were also fully committed to enlarging our footprint in the Pacific, South America, and Europe in particular. Theres no doubt that corporate governance scandals have affected the publics view
6、 of the corporate world. How much does this concern you? Im very optimistic it will improve. This has been a tough period to be a corporate executive and an investor, but I think weve seen the bottom with regard to the public image of corporate executives. And leading organizations have changed thei
7、r governance structure and their leaders when necessary. In the future I believe there will be a premium paid for reputation. There always has been one, but it will be higher for those companies that can ensure that their accounting practices and governance are superior, and that their leadership is
8、 fully committed to ethics and integrity. What advice would you offer young people whod like to follow in your footsteps? The first thing to do is to look for a value match: Whats important to an organization, and whats important to you? Value sets that match are the most important contributor to jo
9、b satisfaction which, in turn, leads to job success, in my view. I also encourage people to be adventuresome. Every experience you have interacting with clients, dealing with internal issues, working in finance, marketing, and so on, builds you as an individual as you move through your career. There
10、fore, if youre part of an organization you think very highly of and youre asked to take on an assignment, do it. A quality organization will spend a huge amount of time to make you successful. To constrain your potential by being too narrowly focused is a huge mistake, and yet its one I see people m
11、ake frequently. You seem so genuinely at ease and content with your career, even though the job must often be very stressful. How do you remain so positive and even tempered? My philosophy is that theres never a bad day. I love the minute-by-minute activity. However, leaders have to raise themselves
12、 above the minute-by-minute operations without swinging too high or too low, which would send a bad signal to the people they work with. You want passion but also poise at the top of an organization. Maybe that should be a requirement to be a CEO with some tenure. Volatility isnt an asset. We dont want volatile leaders here, and, frankly, we dont much respect volatile characters elsewhere. 23 【正确答案】 B 24 【正确答案】 C 25 【正确答案】 A 26 【正确答案】 A 27 【正确答案】 A 28 【正确答案】 B 29 【正确答案】 A 30 【正确答案】 C
