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1、書(shū)山有路勤為徑，學(xué)海無(wú)涯苦作舟。祝愿天下莘莘學(xué)子：學(xué)業(yè)有成，金榜題名！語(yǔ)言類(lèi)考試復(fù)習(xí)資料大全劍橋商務(wù)英語(yǔ)中級(jí)模擬7劍橋商務(wù)英語(yǔ)中級(jí)模擬7READINGPART ONE Look at the statements below and a passage about the need for good managers on the opposite page. Which section (A, B, C, or D) does each statement 17, refer to? For each statement 17, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D)

2、 on your Answer Sheet. You will need to use some of these letters more than once. A The need for good managers is not going away. It is intensifying. With flatter organizations and self-directed teams becoming common; with personal computers and networks making information available to more people m

3、ore quickly; the raw number of managers needed is decreasing. However, the need for good managers, people who can manage themselves and others in a high stress environment, is increasing. B I believe anyone can be a good manager. It is as much trainable skill as it is inherent ability; as much scien

4、ce as art. You have confidence in yourself and your abilities. You are happy with who you are, but you are still learning and getting better. You are something of an extrovert. You dont have to be the life of the party, but you cant be a wallflower. Management is a people skillits not the job for so

5、meone who doesnt enjoy people. C You are honest and straight forward. Your success depends heavily on the trust of others. You are an includer not an excluder. You bring others into what you do. You dont exclude other because they lack certain attributes. You have a presence. Managers must lead. Eff

6、ective leaders have a quality about them that makes people notice when they enter a room. D You are consistent, but not rigid; dependable, but can change your mind. You make decisions, but easily accept input from others. You are a little hit crazy. You think out-of-the box. You try new things and i

7、f they fail, you admit the mistake, but dont apologize for having tried. You are not afraid to do the math. You make plans and schedules and work toward them. 1. The need for good managers is increasing.答案:A2. The raw number of managers needed is decreasing.答案:A3. Being a good manager must enjoy peo

8、ple.答案:B4. An effective leader has a quality that makes him/her easily noticed.答案:C5. Anyone can be a good manager.答案:B6. A good manager must let others trust him/her.答案:C7. A good manager dares to take some risks.答案:DPART TWO Read the article below about employees. Choose the best sentence from the

9、 opposite page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap 812, mark one letter (AG) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once. 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 Re

10、sources professionals focus their attention on the steps in this process in hopes of making an impact on the companys bottom line. That is a good thing for them to do. Their goat is to reduce the companys cost per employee hired. Employees are one of a companys largest expenses these days Unlike oth

11、er 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 m

12、ost important. It is important to hire the best people you can find. 1 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 hard part begins. You h

13、ave to inspire them to perform to their capabilities. 2 That is where you will get their best effort and their creativity that will help your organization excel. Admire: Once you have hired the best employees and have challenged and motivated them, you can not relax. 3 The same attention you paid to

14、 their work assignments, to their satisfaction levels, to their sense of being part of a great team needs to continue for as long as they are in your group. As soon as you start to slack off, their satisfaction and motivation decreases. If you dont do something, they will become disenchanted and wil

15、l leave. They will become part of the employee turnover statistic you were trying to avoid. Retire. This is when you know you have been successful. When employees see your company as the employer of choice, they will join you. 4 As long as you continue to inspire, motivate, and challenge them, they

16、will continue to contribute at the high levels you need in order to beat your competition. They will be long-term employees; even staying with you and your company until they retire. 5 You will attract and retain second and even third generation employees. A This is not a time to be cheap. B When th

17、ey recognize you as a good boss and a real leader, they will stay around. C To the extent that you can be a good boss, you can keep employees, keep them happy, and reduce the costs associated with employee turnover. D Their goat is to reduce the companys cost per employee hired. E The biggest mistak

18、e a manager can make is to ignore employees. F You have to challenge and motivate them. G They will refer other quality employees to your company, including their relatives. 1.答案:A2.答案:F3.答案:E4.答案:B5.答案:GPART THREE Read the article below about advertisement, and the questions on the opposite page. F

19、or each question 1318, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose. 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 hom

20、e 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

21、 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

22、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 promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleadi

23、ng advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value. Adver

24、tising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of. There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing ex

25、cessively fine distinctions. Of course advertising seeks to persuade. If its message were confined merely to informationand that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasiveadvertising would be so boring

26、that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants. 1. By the first sentence of the passage the author means that _.A.he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertisingB.everybody knows well that advertising is money consumingC.advertising costs

27、 money like everything elseD.it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising答案:B2. The phrase live up to in Line 4, Paragraph 2 can be replaced by _.A.surviveB.complementC.agree withD.carry on答案:C3. In the passage, which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of advertising?A.Securing gre

28、ater fame.B.Providing more jobs.C.Enhancing living standards.D.Reducing newspaper cost.答案:A4. The author deems that the well-known TV personality is _.A.very precise in passing his judgment on advertisingB.interested in nothing but the buyers attentionC.correct in telling the difference between pers

29、uasion and informationD.obviously partial in his views on advertising答案:D5. In the authors opinion _.A.advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing informationB.advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them overC.there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuad

30、ing the buyerD.the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement答案:C6. The passage most probably is _.A.an official documentB.a news storyC.an advertisementD.a comment答案:DPART FOUR Read the advertisement below. Choose the best word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, G, or D

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36、A.solutionB.wayC.keyD.method答案:A5.A.functionB.workC.enterD.operate答案:B6.A.includesB.concludesC.containsD.takes答案:C7.A.similarityB.differenceC.resemblanceD.disagreement答案:B8.A.takesB.costsC.spendsD.shares答案:A9.A.separatelyB.differentlyC.partlyD.annually答案:D10.A.handfulB.severalC.littleD.score答案:A11.A

37、.throughB.overC.inD.out答案:B12.A.requestsB.requirementsC.standardsD.needs答案:C13.A.testsB.needsC.claimsD.proclaims答案:A14.A.reservesB.keepsC.maintainD.preserves答案:D15.A.careB.concernC.interestD.firm答案:BPART FIVE Read the text below about making money. In most of the lines 3445 there is one extra word.

38、It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet. If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet. Am I Making Any Money

39、? Most people and most businesses are in business to make a profit. At the simplest level, profit means making more money than you spend on. Many 34 confuse profit with income. As a result, they cant grasp it why all their income 35 isnt getting them ahead; why no one wants to invest in their high-s

40、ales 36 company; why the bank wont extend to their line of credit. Most people are very 37 good at tracking their income. When someone pays for you, that is income. 38 Income is usually related to production levels, but is not tied to it directly. You 39 may produce more or less than you sell. For i

41、nstance, if you have already 100 40 widgets in the warehouse when you receive an order for 150, you only have to 41 produce out 50 additional widgets. If you make widgets for skis, you may make 42 20 widgets every month during the summer even though you dont sell any, just 43 so that you have enough

42、 in the warehouse when winter arrives. So income is 44 something when you actually get paid, not when you make the product you are 45 going to sell. Total income is just the total of all your payments received during the year. 1.答案:it2.答案:correct3.答案:to4.答案:for5.答案:correct6.答案:already7.答案:CORRECT8.答

43、案:out9.答案:correct10.答案:that11.答案:something12.答案:CORRECTWRITINGPART ONE You have received a fax from a customer who in the fax complained that he had received 100 green colour bicycles instead of 50 green and 50 blue colour bicycles. In order to solve the problem and find out the facts, you write a s

44、hort note to the warehouse. Write a short note to Mr. Randy Simon, who is in charge of delivering goods from warehouse. Tell him about the claim. Mention the date of delivery. Ask for the duplicate invoice. Write 3040 words on your Answer Sheet. 問(wèn)題:1. NOTE Dear Mr. Simon, 答案:Dear Mr. Simon, A custom

45、er complained that he had received 100 green colour bicycles instead of 50 green and 50 blue colour bicycles, which had been shipped on 11th May. Could you please send me the immediate invoice under contract No. TXI 2-1 in duplicate? PART TWO The diagram below shows the average hours of unpaid work

46、per week done by people in different categories. (Unpaid work refers to childcare, housework, etc.) Describe the information presented below, comparing results for men and women in the categories shown. Write 120140 words on a separate sheet. 問(wèn)題:1.答案:This chart shows the weekly hours of unpaid labor

47、 for married men and women with and without children. Married women with no children work almost twice as many unpaid hours at home than do their husbands do. According to the chart, this disproportion only increases with the number of children a married couple has. Married women with one to two chi

48、ldren work almost three times more unpaid hours per week than their husbands do, while married women with three or more children work five times more unpaid hours of work per week than their husbands do. As seen here and in most societies, women contribute tremendously towards the running of their h

49、ouseholds, all in the absence of monetary benefit. LISTENINGPART ONE You will hear three telephone conversations or messages. Write one or two words or a number in the numbered spaces on the notes or forms below. You will hear each recording twice. Conversation One Look at the note below. You will h

50、ear a woman making a call about her bosss schedule. Telephone Message To: Mr. 1 From Lucy Date: 21st May Time: 10:00 1. Mr. Martin will arrive in Tokyo around 2:30 Tokyo time on 2 afternoon by Flight Pan-Am 3 2. Mr. Martin has moustache, tall, dark, 4 hair, wears glasses, sweaters. (如需獲取本MP3聽(tīng)力錄音請(qǐng)搜索標(biāo)

51、題名) 1.答案:Jackson解析 1-4Woman A: Hello. Could I speak to Mr. Jacksons secretary please?Woman B: Yes, its Mr. Jacksons secretary speaking. What can I do for you?Woman A: Oh hello, Im Lucy, Mr. Martins secretary. I want to check that you know Mr. Martin changed the flight and will arrive in Tokyo around

52、 2:30 Tokyo time on Tuesday afternoon.Woman B: I already know about it. Is it Pan-Am H1287?Woman A: Yes.Woman B: Mr. Jackson himself is going to meet Mr. Martin at the Airport himself. Could you tell me what he looks like?Woman A: Well, Mr. Martin has a moustache with dark, curly hair.Woman B: Does

53、he wear glasses?Woman A: Oh, yes, he does. And Mr. Martin is also tall. I remember he wears sweaters when he was aboard.Woman B: Thank you for your help.Woman A: Youre welcome.2.答案:Tuesday3.答案:H12874.答案:curlyConversation Two Look at the note below. You will hear a man making a call about orders. Pho

54、ne Message Pad To: Henry Stewart From: Cathy Date: 23rd March Time: 10:20 1. When you were out of town Bruce 1 called. He was from Quick 2 Supply Company. 2. He wanted to place 3 orders with us. You can ring him on 4 except Wednesday morning. (如需獲取本MP3聽(tīng)力錄音請(qǐng)搜索標(biāo)題名) 1.答案:Sommersby解析 5-8Woman: Hello. Mount Wood Company.Man: May I speak to Mr. Harry Stewart, please?Woman: Im sorry, but Mr. Stewart is out of town u