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剑桥商务英语中级-161
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[单项选择]Burger House offers its staff( ).
A. training in a range of skills.
B. financial incentives to take training courses.
C. a specified time allowance for training.
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[单项选择]Ricky Bland criticises UK employers for( ).
A. the total amount of money spent on training.
B. the way they allocate budgets.
C. the quality of the training provided.
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GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT
Leaving work on time may not sound like much of a (0).... However, in an experiment by glass manufacturers Dartington Crystal, it (19) ... surprisingly difficult. Four managers, who all worked very long hours, took (20) ... in a simple experiment: they agreed to (21) ... to their set hours for a week, with no coming in early, leaving late or taking work home. The aim of the exercise was to (22) ... the balance between the managers’ work and home lives. It was a way to get everyone thinking about their working hours and how to (23) ... them,
Robin Ritchie, the company’s managing director, was very aware that his company was (24) ,.. on the experiment at its busiest time of the year. They were also just days away from a big product (25) .... So not surprisingly, perhaps, it soon became clear that it wasn’t going to be easy: even on the first day, director of design Simon Moore took home a design
A. displayed
B. showed
C. proved
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[填空题]A offering a job
B replying to a letter
C writing a memo
D making a telephone call
E taking some minutes
F producing a report
G setting up a database
H checking some figures
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[简答题]
· You are responsible for planning the magazine advertising of your company’s new product, which is polish for cars. You have just received the letter below from the magazine that you are going to advertise with. You have also received a memo from your Marketing Manager about the advertising campaign.
· Write a letter to Mr Ellwood at the magazine, telling him about the changes to the advertisement booking, and asking him or any other information that you require.
· Write 120~140 words.
· Do not include addresses.
· Write on the separate answer paper provided.
Dear Ms Beddington,
Thank you for your advertisement booking, the details of which I confirm below.
Name of Company: Autocar Products
Name of Product: Supergloss
Details of Advert: 1/2 page black and white
Advert will Appear in: June, July and August issues of the magazine
Cost of Advert:
$ 350 per issue (3 issues = $ 1050)
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[单项选择]Ricky Bland expects that the government will soon( ).
A. give every worker a fixed amount of training.
B. look at the qualifications that currently exist.
C. provide grants for certain types of training.
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[单项选择]According to Ricky Bland, why is it necessary to improve training in the UK( ).
A. to equal the quality of training in other countries
B. to satisfy the demand from workers
C. to raise productivity levels
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[填空题]A on the plane
B at the bank
C at the airport
D at the office
E at the theatre
F at the hotel
G at the customs
H on the bus
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[单项选择]What point does Ricky Bland make about the fast-food industry( ).
A. Its attitude to staff development is often misunderstood.
B. It has difficulty recruiting suitable staff.
C. It invests more in technology than in staff.
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THE DIFFICULTIES OF MANAGING A SMALL BUSINESS
‘The organizational weaknesses that entrepreneurs have to deal with every day would cause the managers of a mature company to panic,’ Andrew Bidden wrote recently in Boston Business Review. This seems to suggest that the leaders of entrepreneurial or small businesses must be unlike other manages, or the problems faced by such leaders must be the subject of a specialized body of wisdom, or possibly both. Unfortunately, neither is true. Not much worth reading about managing the entrepreneurial or small business has been written, and the leaders of such businesses are made of flesh and blood, like the rest of us.
Furthermore, little has been done to address the aspects of entrepreneurial or small businesses that are so difficult to deal with and so different from the challenges faced by management in big business. In part this is because those involved in gathering expertise about b
A. It is wrong to assume that they are different from other managers.
B. The problems they have to cope with are specific to small businesses.
C. They find it difficult to attract staffs with sufficient expertise.
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[简答题]Questions:
(1) How to spell your full name
(2) Please list the advantages living in your hometown.
(3) Do you think it is worth keeping if a hobby takes too much time or energy
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[填空题]IT Department Messages Time: 10.30am
Tom,
Dave Proctor (9) Dept) called - he has someone who might be suitable for the (10) job.
Can you go over there and take a departmental (11) with you
Candidate will wait for up to (12) .
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{$mediaurl}
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[填空题]What a Great Gift
Comedian David Brenner came from a poor but close family. When he graduated from his school, however, he was given an unforgettable
(34) gift. "Some of my friends got new clothes and about a
(35) few rich kids even got new cars," he remembered, "When my father
(36) reached out into his pants pocket and took something out. I extended
(37) my hand, palm up, and he let my present drop into it—a nickel!"
(38) "Dad said to me, ’Buy a newspaper with that. Read every word of
(39) it. Then turn to the classified section and get yourself to a job. Get
(40) into the world. It’s all yours now. ’" "I always thought that as was
(41) a great joke my father had played on me until a few years later when
(42) I was in the Army, upon sitting in a foxhole, and thinking about
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[简答题]Discussion—about 5 minutes
In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic.
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[填空题] Stangrave & Hoxton College
Faculty of Business
Course details
Name: Sylvia Carlyle
Course accepted for: (1) ..........................
Module A: (2) ..........................
Module B: (3) ..........................
Subject area of term paper: (4) ..........................
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[简答题]E-mail
From:
TO:
Date:
Subject:
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[单项选择]Ricky Bland believes that the government should( ).
A. give companies additional financial benefits for providing training.
B. set up bodies to organise sector-wide training schemes.
C. introduce new qualifications for Iow-skilled staff.
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[填空题]A
ILT Consultants £19,000 + benefits
Here’s an exciting opportunity to combine your presentation skills and organisational abilities, working for a team of systems analysts. You will need to have a good eye for detail as the role involves large amounts of proof reading and checking. The job also involves client liaison at all levels, as well as an element of research.
B
John Guild & Son £17,500 + benefits
City finance house seeks a mature person to work for the Secretariat. The post involves: looking after customers’ financial assets such as property and possessions; database work; accounting; and organisational responsibilities. The bulk of the workload is highly confidential. A good level and range of PC experience will secure you an interview.
C
Hooper’s £17,000
Join this household name and play a key part in supporting their Regional Operations Director and Marketing team. This is a newly-created position within a well-estab
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[填空题]lssues in the recruitment world
In the competitive world of investment banking, good senior executives are not easy to find. So what should the industry’s hard-pressed directors do when they need to find senior staff Increasingly, they decide to call in the headhunters. These are busy and profitable times for the recruitment agencies that dominate the world of executive search and selection.
They needed new people to revitalise their operations, and the result has been a boom in the recruitment market. Pinnacle, a leading recruitment agency, has helped various UK investment banks to rebuild their entire senior management teams. It is hard to overstate the significance of this. (8)
But now everything has changed, and Pinnacle is not the only major player in the field. Some analysts believe that rival recruitment specialists ALT Associates has a larger share of the market. However, there is little doubt that
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[单项选择]Ricky Bland claims that fast-food restaurants differ from expensive ones with regard to( )
A. the degree of job satisfaction.
B. the quality of the staff.
C. the opportunities for promotion.
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[单项选择]Ricky Bland expects that pressure for improved training in fast-food restaurants will come from( )
A. job applicants.
B. managers.
C. customers.