1、BEC商务英语（高级）听力模拟试卷 83及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 You will hear a presentation about an introduction of a racket goods sporting company. As you listen, for questions 1 12, complete the notes, using up to three words or a number. You will hear the recording twice. INTRODUCTION OF PRINCE NOTES Range of Product
2、s 1. Prince is a major_ company. Location of the Company 2. The company has an office in_ Organization of the Company: 3 columns 3. one column, Rollerblade, is the_ 4. another column, Nordica, which is the_ 5. the third column is_ Three Major Dimensional Changes 6. the first change was_. 7. the seco
3、nd change was_ 8. the third change was_ Major Benefits of the Third Change 9. more_ 10. more_ more spin 11. more_ 12. more_ 二、 PART TWO 12 You will hear five different business people talking about partnerships, one form of business. For each extract there are two tasks. For Task One, choose the adv
4、antage of partnerships described from the list A H. For Task Two, choose the disadvantage of partnerships from the list A H. You will hear the recording twice. TASK ONE-ADVANTAGE For questions 13 17, match the extracts with the advantages, listed A H. For each extract, choose the advantage stated. W
5、rite one letter(A H)next to the number of the extract. A Incentive for key employees B Ease of organization C Direct control of business D More specialized management E Tax advantages F Ease of closing G Greater source of capital H Share strength of other owners 13 _ 14 _ 15 _ 16 _ 17 _ 17 TASK TWO
6、-DISADVANTAGE For questions 18 22, match the extracts with the disadvantages, listed A H. For each extract, choose the disadvantage stated. Write one letter(A H)next to the number of the extract. A Unlimited liability B Short length of life C Limited source of funds D Difficulties in withdrawing E U
7、nfair profit-sharing for new partners F Limited management G Limited employee skills H Owner conflict 18 _ 19 _ 20 _ 21 _ 22 _ 三、 PART THREE 22 You will hear part of a conversation among an interviewer, John Chambers and Carly Fiorina, CEOs of two companies. For each question 23 30, mark one letter
8、A, B or C for the correct answer. You will hear the recording twice. 23 Whats the real meaning of “Ill take the second shot at it“? （ A） I will be fired after you. （ B） You answer these questions first and I will give my answers after you. （ C） I will be the second person who will be shot. 24 What a
9、re their answers to the question that “Do people tend to blame the CEOs in the same way that they may credit the CEOs when things go well?“ （ A） They will blame the CEOs, but they expect them to get it back up and still support them. （ B） People will blame the CEOs and wont support them any longer.
10、（ C） People will always support the CEOs however things go. 25 Which of the following opinions is correct? （ A） The CEOs can always do things very well, especially when they solve the very difficult problems. （ B） When things go well, the CEOs can behave better than any other person in the company.
11、（ C） The CEOs are never as good as people say they are and they are never as bad as people say they are. 26 Which is not the possible percent age of the e-mails and voice mails that are very supportive of the CEOs when the CEOs are meeting with very difficult problems? （ A） 70 （ B） 96 （ C） 97 27 Doe
12、s it help their individual company or themselves if their employees and shareholders support them? （ A） It is just external and cannot help in any aspects. （ B） It will help solve all the difficulties. （ C） It will help in the sense. 28 Which of the following statements is not what investors, employ
13、ees and customers focus on? （ A） Does the company still treat them with respect and empathy in the tough times as well as the good times? （ B） Can they still get the same salary in the tough times as well as the good times? （ C） Are the basic strategies and the basic ways of operating changing? 29 A
14、fter Chambers was named CEO, has his public persona changed? （ A） That has changed a lot in the past years. （ B） There is no change at all. （ C） There is a little change, but not very much. 30 Which of the following statements is correct according to Chambers opinion? （ A） You can make the image of
15、the company through huge amount of advertising and it is real effective. （ B） Personal image cannot represent the image of the company. （ C） The personal images should be consistent with the image of the company. BEC商务英语（高级）听力模拟 试卷 83答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 【听力原文】 You will hear a presentation about an i
16、ntroduction of a racket goods sporting company. As you listen, for questions 1 12, complete the notes, using up to three words or a number. You will hear the recording twice. (10 seconds pause) Prince is a major racket goods sporting company. We make tennis, squash, badminton rackets, apparel and fo
17、otwear. We also sell the accessories to those products which include strings, grips and sport bags, and other accessory products as well. Prince is headquartered in Bordentown, New Jersey, which is just a little bit south of Trenton, New Jersey, and just a little bit north of Philadelphia. We also h
18、ave offices in Europe, in Treviso, Italy. We have an office in Singapore which coordinates the Asian theater for us. And then we have distributors scattered throughout the world. In 1989 we were acquired by the Benetton Sports System. Benetton Sports System is comprised of a number of different comp
19、anies but an easy illustration would be to think of an umbrella and the umbrella would be the Benetton Sports System. Underneath the umbrella would be three columns: one column would be Rollerblade, which is the in-line skating company; another column would be Nordica, which is the winter sport grou
20、ps and the third column would be Prince Sports Group, which is our company, which deals with the summer sporting goods. And then they are all connected across the bottom by Benetton Sports System Active that is responsible for the apparel for all three of those groups. Well, tennis equipment has cha
21、nged considerably in the last twenty years. If we go back to before 1976, really most players were playing with wooden rackets. And you notice the wood rackets very small head sizes. Howard Head came along and not only innovated the ski industry with the first metal ski, but innovated the tennis ind
22、ustry with the first dimensional change in tennis rackets. And that, essentially, means he invented the oversized head. If you compare it to a wooden racket, you can see quite clearly youve got a much larger head on the oversize racket. That happened in the mid-seventies. Then the next major innovat
23、ion occurred with another dimensional change in the rackets which was the wide body. Wide bodies allowed for greater stiffness in rackets therefore producing much more power. And today the next biggest innovation is also dimensional and that is length. Here is our new Mach 1000. The Prince Long Body
24、 racket gives you five major benefits. They are: more power, more control, more spin, more reach and more comfort. Well, I think this is the last dimensional change in a racket that can occur. Again, just to repeat, you had the first dimensional change which was head size larger head size; the secon
25、d dimensional change was cross-section and now were looking at the third and final area that you can change in terms of a rackets geometry, which is length. So I think what youll see over the next several years is who can make the best longer rackets. (10 seconds pause) 1 【正确答案】 RACKET GOODS SPORTIN
26、G 2 【正确答案】 EUROPE 3 【正确答案】 IN-LINE SKATING COMPANY 4 【正确答案】 WINTER SPORT GROUP 5 【正确答案】 PRINCE SPORTS GROUP 6 【正确答案】 HEAD SIZE 7 【正确答案】 CROSS-SECTION 8 【正确答案】 GEOMETRY(LENGTH) 9 【正确答案】 POWER 10 【正确答案】 CONTROL 11 【正确答案】 REACH 12 【正确答案】 COMFORT 二、 PART TWO 12 【听力原文】 Questions 13 22 You will hear five
27、different business people talking about partnerships, one form of business. For each extract there are two tasks. For Task One, choose the advantage of partnerships described from the list A H. For Task Two, choose the disadvantage of partnerships from the list A H. You will hear the recording twice
28、. (10 seconds pause) M: Starting a partnership in the United States requires little more than drawing up articles of partnership. No legal charters have to be granted, but the name of the business should be registered with state. However, unlike a proprietorship, a partnership is not easy to dismant
29、le. Selling a partnership interest creates the same effect as the death or withdrawal of a partner. Moreover, it is difficult to place a value on a partners share of the partnership. No public value is placed on the partnership as there is on publicly owned corporations. When a partner insists on wi
30、thdrawing, the result may be a forced sale at a price less than the value of the business. F: Partnerships can provide diverse skills because partners are able to specialize in their areas of expertise. Two or three people can bring different but complementary skills to an association. For service-o
31、riented partnerships in such fields as law, financial planning, and accounting, this diversity may attract customers because clients may think that the service offered by a diverse team is of higher quality than that provided by one person. While, partners must cooperate to run a business effectivel
32、y. Often, disagreements over decisions, rewards, and business practices create tension between partners. These conflicts can threaten not only the profits but even the existence of the business. Unfortunately, partners sometimes dissolve their successful business because of these conflicts. M: Partn
33、ers have the advantage of combined capital resources. The partnership can draw upon the savings of all partners, and their combined personal wealth makes borrowing easier. Partnerships tend to be larger than sole proprietorships and therefore have greater earning power and better credit ratings. In
34、general partnerships, general partners have unlimited liability for the debts incurred by the business. Should the business fail, each partners personal wealth maybe legally taken to fulfill the obligations of the venture. If one of the partners makes a decision that costs the company a loss, all of
35、 the partners are responsible. Such responsibility for the actions of other partners is enough to make a personthink twice before entering into a partnership agreement. F: If a partnership wishes to keep a particular employee who contributes a valuable skill, it can make that employee a partner. Man
36、y accounting and law firms operate on this principle. When employees realize that it is possible to become part-owner of the company, they have incentive to stay with the company and perform much better on the job. However, there are many situations that can dissolve a partnership. Death, withdrawal
37、, or bankruptcy will end the venture. Also, failure of a partner to fulfill contractual agreements can cancel the partnership. Of all the forms of business, partnerships average the shortest life span. When the partnership is terminated, the benefits of long-range planning are often lost. M: Partner
38、ship can provide access and exposure to target markets such as leading chefs, restaurants, writers and high-income consumers and also provide access to new markets and distribution channels. Partnership apprentice admits a partner to the partnership, but makes them ineligible for profit-sharing for
39、a fixed time. One firm fixes new partners salaries for the first three years and then begins profit-sharing in the fourth year. Each new partner is assigned or can purchase the same ownership percentage, which can be increased each year by some factors. It allows existing partners to see how new par
40、tners perform before they share in the profits. Animosity, however, may result as young partners work for three years without immediate rewards. (10 seconds pause) 13 【正确答案】 B 14 【正确答案】 D 15 【正确答案】 G 16 【正确答案】 A 17 【正确答案】 H 18 【正确答案】 D 19 【正确答案】 H 20 【正确答案】 A 21 【正确答案】 B 22 【正确答案】 E 三、 PART THREE 22
41、 【听力原文】 Questions 23-30 You will hear part of a conversation among an interviewer. John Chambers and Carly Fiorina, CEOs of two companies. For each question 23 30, mark one letter A, B or C for the correct answer. You will hear the recording twice. (10 seconds pause) M:(Interviewer): What happens to
42、 the CEOs who are praised as all-wise geniuses when the Dow and NASDAQ were rocketing upwards once the market turns the other way? What can a business leader do when his or her company still strong, still profitable gets caught in a sudden ominous climate change? Both our guests tonight will face th
43、ose questions. OK, Im wondering whether or not. either of you or both of you have the experience in recent days where the same people who regarded you as the absolute Sun King and Queen of the world are now looking at you at all differently, because theyve seen the value of the shares go down? I mea
44、n, do people tend to blame the CEO in the same way that they may credit the CEO when things go well? M:(John Chambers): Ill give you the tough questions. Carly. first. Ill take the second shot at it. F:(Carly Fiorina): Well, first of all, I remember, well, something that someone once said to me abou
45、t the media. What they said was. “Youre never as good as they say you are and youre never as bad as they say you are“, and thats true. I think leadership takes, and now Im quoting John. John says all the time and its true, “Leadership takes more than its fair share of the credit and more than its fa
46、ir share of the blame, “ but that is the price of leadership. M:(John Chambers): I would agree and I often open up after somebody says some nice comments and introducing for a speech with exactly that comment, “youre never as good as things are when things go well, nor as bad when you trip a little
47、bit. “ The press, it goes with the territory. Ive been pleasantly surprised by both how our employee base and how our shareholders, even those who have lost a lot of money, probably about 95 to 98 percent of the e-mails and voice mails have been very supportive. Now they expect us to get it back up,
48、 but are very supportive of where we are. M:(interviewer): But is it easier? Does it help in a way your individual companys or yourselves that this whatever we want to call it- -down turn. Tsunami has hit so broadly? F:(Carly Fiorina): Well, I think it certainly helps in the sense that what investor
49、s, what employees, what customers ought to be focused on in this time is: are the basic strategies changing? They shouldnt be just because times get tough if they were the right strategies. Are the basic ways of operating changing? They shouldnt be just because the times are getting tough. Of course you make different discretionary decisions, but the way you treat your employees do you still treat them with respect and empathy in the tough
