试卷详情
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BEC剑桥商务英语(中级)13
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[简答题]The interview — about 3 minutes
In this part the interlocutor asks questions to each of the candidates in turn. You have to give information about yourself and express personal opinions.
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[单项选择]A. a dentist
B. a customer
C. a policeman
D. a mechanic
E. a salesman
F. a plumber
G. a doctor
H. a manager
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[填空题]According to Dr. Collins, how to prevent those patents
A. A.To stop clinical lab from doing diagnostic testing
B.To order government labs to make every new gene discovery public knowledge
C.To pass laws prohibiting private ownership of genome patents.
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[填空题]Why could the quality of the software products be hurt
A. A.Because Microsoft is affiliating out its product line of software applications by buying Visio
B.Because the Microsoft brain trust is split in two
C.Because Microsoft’s top executives would own stocks of only one of the two companies.
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[单项选择]A CONDENSED EMPLOYEE LIFE CYCLE
An employee life cycle is the steps the employees go through from the time they enter a company until they leave. Often Human Resources professionals focus their attention on the steps in this process in hopes of making an impact on the company’’s bottom line. That is a good thing for them to do. (0) Employees are one of a company’’s largest expenses these days Unlike other major capital costs (buildings, machinery, technology, etc.) human capital is highly volatile. You, as a manager, are in a key position to reduce that volatility using the condensed employee life cycle of HIAR (pronounced hire)—Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire.
Hire: This first step is probably the most important. It is important to hire the best people you can find. (8). The cost of replacing a bad hire far exceeds the marginal additional cost of hiring the best person in the first place. Inspire: Once you have recruited the best employees to come to work on your team, the har
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[多项选择] You are Head of Sales Department for Fox Electrical Co. You are organizing your schedule for a meeting with one of your existing clients next month.
Write an e-mail to John Driscoll, your client:
Proposing a time for the meeting
Explaining what will be discussed in the meeting
Asking them to suggest an alternative if necessary
Write 40—50 words on a separate sheet.
To:
From:
Date:
Subject:
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[单项选择]A
Where do you buy your clothes Well, most of us shop at traditional retailers with increasingly frequent trios to discount stores and Internet. And most of the superrich and trendy buy directly from designers like Gucci, Armani and Chanel. But lately their shopping habits and ours have been converging. Bonita Carol reports that many of the fashion elite are coming out of the closet and going straight to K Mart. Take a peek inside fashion editor Christy Ferrel’’s closet, and you’’ll find couture side by side with K Mart.
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Fashion reporter Jerry Agins calls the trend "cheapskate chic": the regent fashionable wearing Sears shoes, Wal-Mart pants and Target sweaters, proudly pairing them with designer labels. The whole trend of "cheapskate chic" is a lot of affluent people are now shopping differently, and they’’re just like everybody, they’’re decorating their homes, they’’re spending a lot of time in stores like K Mart and Wal-Mart. And you’’re in there once or twice a wee
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[填空题]What can you find in such a book
A. A.Gene rush
B.Human genome
C.Human DNA.
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[多项选择]Discuss with your partner about how to write successful memos
Headings and single topic
Conversational tone
Graphic highlighting
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[填空题]What are the supposed benefits of breaking up Microsoft into two smaller companies
A. A.Consumers will enjoy more choices and lower prices for software products
B.A separate group of companies is able to provide their customers with a lot of services in a bundle
C.The breakup gives consumers instant entry into the rapid growing broadband market for interactive services.
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[填空题]What are the positive impact that the breakup could have on software products
A. A.More software companies would join in the competition to provide more and better products
B.Internet communications companies are gearing up for a blast into the wireless cyber world
C.The breakup could be a boon for consumers: making cable set-top boxes as easy to buy as Motorala cell phones.
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[填空题]Why are private companies trying to discover the human genomes before the government genome project does
A. A.Because there’s a bit of a gold rush going on at it
B.Because they want to stake claims on their discoveries and make huge profits
C.Because they want to patent the genome and transform medicine in ways.
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[填空题]How could the breakup potentially hurt the interest of consumers
A. A.The breakup led to a setback: Windows 2000 won’t be shipped to consumers until February, two years behind schedule
B.The pay-per-minute model of the cell phone industry will meld with the free culture of the Internet
C.The breakup could increase the operating costs and thus make their products more expensive.
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[填空题]What did Ohio and Illinois, the two dissenting states, ask the government to do about Microsoft
A. A.To sell off about half it assets to create two companies
B.To leave Microsoft untouched but to order it to change its anti-competitive behavior
C.To allow Microsoft control most of Microsoft software, including Word, Excel and Internet.
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[简答题]Conversation
Look at the note below.
You will hear a woman calling about house renting.
Phone Message Pad
Hiring Registration
Date: 5th Jan. Time: 9:30
Name of the customer: Mary 【1】
Contact No: 【2】
Service Details:
1. An apartment near 【3】 street , with air-conditioner and heating system
2. Rent: on more than 【4】 a month , including water and gas.
3. Renting Period: about 1.5 years from February.
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[单项选择] Robots at Work
The newspaper production process has come a (0) way from the old days when the paper was written, edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the journalists working on the upper floors and the printing (19) going on the ground floor. These days the editors, sub-editors and journalists who put the paper together are (20) to find themselves in a totally different building or maybe even in a different city. This is the (21) which now prevails in Sydney. The daily paper is complied at the editorial headquarters, known as the pre-press centre, in the heart of the city but printed far away in the suburbs at the printing centre. Her human beings are in the (22) as much of the work is done by automated machines controlled by computers.
(23) the finished newspaper has been created for the next morning’’s edition, all the pages are (24) electronically from pre-press centre to the printing centre. The system of transmission
A. presses
B. sessions
C. plans
D. schedules
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[填空题] Denying Claims
0. Customers occasionally want something they are not entitled to or that you CORRECT
00. can’’t grant. They may misunderstand their warranties or make unreasonable THEIR
34. demands. Because these customers are often unhappy with a product or
35. service, they are emotionally involved in. Letters that say no to emotionally
36. involved receivers will probably be your much most difficult communication
37. task. As if publisher Malcolm Forbes has pointed out, "To be agreeable while
38. be disagreeing—that’’s an art." Fortunately, the reasons-before-refusal plan
39. enables you to be empathic and artful in handling with bad news. Obviously, in
40. denial letters you will need to adopt the proper tone. Don’’t blame on customers
41. or suggest that the customer does not read or understand what the contract or
42. relative policies, even if they are at fault. Avoid use "you" statements that
43. sound preachy. Instead, the safest
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[单项选择]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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[填空题]What was the court ruling as to Microsoft’s business practice
A. A.Microsoft used computer systems to win competition
B.Microsoft was broken up earlier this month because of the rapid growing broadband market
C.Microsoft broke anti-trust law by using its monopoly in the market.
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[单项选择] ON ADVERTISEMENT
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost percent more.
And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promot
A. he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising
B. everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming
C. advertising costs money like everything else
D. it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising
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[填空题]Why would other software companies still feel threatened even after the Microsoft breakup
A. A.Because Microsoft would still be the Number One and Number Two software companies in the world
B.Because Microsoft would bring down the important stock market indexes, such as Dow Jones Industrial Average
C.Microsoft competitors know that the company has a referee staring directly over the shoulder.
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[多项选择]A. WHAT IS INVESTOR CONCERN ABOUT INVESTMENT CONTROL
CONTROL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MANY COMPANIES WHO ARE RELUCTANT TO TRANSFER CERTAIN VITAL RESOURCES TO ANOTHER DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN ORGANIZATION ...
OPERATING COSTS MAY DECREASE AND THE SPEED OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER MAY INCREASE WHEN CONTROL IS RETAINED FOR SEVERAL REASONS.
B. WHAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN MOTIVATING STAFF
FINANCIAL BENEFITS
CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
C. WHAT MAKES A GOOD SECRETARY
BE PRUDENT AND CAREFUL
HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER COLLEAGUES
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[填空题]What are the arguments for the private ownership of genome patents
A. A.The ownership encourages innovation
B.The ownership has long been part of European Way
C.The ownership may mark the discovery of the DNA double helix.
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[填空题]How did Craig Venter defend his company’s behavior
A. A.He was collecting information to sell to scientists
B.The pace of genetic research became very slow because of competition
C.The information collected by him would be given to government free of charge.
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[填空题]What are the argument against the private ownership of genome patents
A. A.Doctors are not permitted to do gene tests without buying patents
B.The ownership may slow down the research progress
C.The codes for height and intelligence will be revealed.
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[填空题]Who predict the release of our instruction book
A. A.Chief of the genome project
B.Correspondent
C.Craig Venter.
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[单项选择]A claiming
B regretting
C washing
D watching
E drinking
F playing
G depositing
H toasting
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[填空题]What are the scientist doing last in order to piece together the instruction book for human biology
A. A.They draw the genetic maps
B.They grow pure human DNA
C.They let a computer read its chemical sequence.
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[填空题]How did Bill Gates respond to the court ruling
A. A.He said the result would be an exciting and innovative set of new products
B.He promised that his company is ready for a long court fight and would at last win the legal battle
C.He asked the Federal judge to impose immediate restrictions on the company’s property.