2016年商務(wù)英語(yǔ)考試BEC中級(jí)每日練習(xí)試題

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1. Problems at Southford Plant
    
Dear MR Ballard,
      You asked for a brief report concerning the recent events at the Southford Plant.
      We have consulted the files and spoken to relevant members of the higher management and thus are able to provide an explanation for the breakdown reported in the press on 17 May of this year.
      ____1____ The handling equipment used to deliver the components to the assembly line has been known to be in need of an overhaul for the past six months. The plant has been working to full capacity to finish the American orders according to schedule.
      As you know, we had commissioned a study by Industrial Research Consultants. ____2____ In it they warned that there was not enough space available to store sufficient components ____3____
      We had decided to install fully automated robot system. However, at the same time it was clear to our production director that given the present maintenance staff, we would not have sufficient staff available if big problems were to arise____4____But we were still only working a two-shift system so the machines were not getting the necessary cover. 
      We all agree that the breakdown was extremely unfortunate and yet we must admit that, under the circumstance, it was not entirely unexpected.
      We now believe that we have managed to sort out the major problems which we had been having with the conveyor equipment ____5____ Added to this is the fact that personnel department has been successful in recruiting some highly qualified maintenance staff who makes us confident that a repetition of the 16 May now seems entirely unlikely.
    A. They also recommended expanding the present two-shift system to a three-shift one.
    B. And also when the new robots are installed in September, we feel certain that such problems will become a thing of the past.
    C. Unfortunately, as you know, there has been a major problem with recognizing the maintenance schedule.
    D. The wide range of machine we operate is not fully supervised at all times.
    E. The cause of the breakdown was very simple.
    F. They submitted their report on April 5.
    G. There have been a number of delays and breakdowns in production recently which have been reported in the press.
    H. The firm has been advertising for maintenance engineers for some weeks.
    I. All the facilities in the plant will be coordinated to enable the workers to step up production of the new range of machines.
    2、
    Questions 8-12
    ·Read the text below about career planning.
    ·Choose the best sentence from the list on the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.
    ·For each gap 8-12, mark one letter (A-I) on your Answer sheet.
    ·Do not use any letter more than once.
    Career Planning
    For many employees, automatic promotion up the ranks of a company is becoming increasingly rare. A new study suggests that, in response, employers need to consider how they can help staff develop their careers.
    Employers need to rethink their approach to career management completely, according to the latest research by the Institute of Employment Studies. The new study finds that in fact there is little opportunity for individual career development in many large organisations. (example)____.The Institute of Employment Studies makes it clear that it is not good practice for companies to hand over career development to individual employees and then simply leave them to get on with it. (8) ____.
    So how should employers help their staff develop a career? Most employees have come to accept that career development is not always the same thing as upward promotion and a higher salary. (9) ____.They must also ensure that these opportunities are extended to all their staff and not just to selected individuals.
    Nick Bridges, who is Director of Human Resources Policy at the Bank of Eastern England, believes there is more talk than action in this area. (10) ____. One way, he believes, for companies to show how serious they are about individual learning is to make it an official part of company practice, as the Bank of Eastern England has done. (11)____. This document, he points out, has made the role of managers clear, and the company has also invested huge amounts of money educating managers so that they can then train their staff.
    Another company, British Chemicals, has contracted an independent organisation to help staff with confidential career advice. According to John Yates, the head of Individual Learning and Development at British Chemicals, there is an important role for outside agencies to play in the career management process. He adds that it is company policy for managers to give all staff ‘roadmaps’ which show possible career routes within the company structure. (12)____. This has worked especially well, he says, for staff who are used to depending on their line managers for guidance.
    Many large organisations now recognise that career development cannot be regarded in isolation, and must be part of an overall business strategy. Human Resources has a real role to play in building a strong workforce which meets a company’s long-term business needs and makes it more competitive.
    A Its policy statement says that by 2006, eighty per cent of its staff will have a professional qualification.
    B His recommendations go even further than that, and he has called for a national debate on the issue of what should be regarded as a career in the future.
    C This change of attitude means employers need to place more emphasis on giving staff the chance to develop a range of skills through horizontal job moves.
    D It points out that employees need to know what the overall company vision is in order to achieve many of these.
    E The problem that often arises is that, while they are increasingly encouraged to manage their own careers, they are not provided with the knowledge and training to do this.
    F They are able to see that, contrary to expectations, jobs in different fields are similar, and they can also see how it is possible to cross over to other areas.
    G Its employees are no longer motivated by these factors alone, and the problem today is matching a person’s motivation with the right job.
    H He argues that while Human Resources managers are saying the way forward is through self-managed learning and self-development, they are still failing to provide adequate learning resources.
    I The main reasons for this, it concludes, are the recent cuts in the number of middle-management posts, and the changes that have taken place in the responsibilities of personnel departments.
    3、Questions 8 – 12
    ·Read the following text.
    ·Choose the best sentence from the list on page 52 to fill each of the gaps.
    ·For each gap 8 – 12 mark one letter A – I on your Answer Sheet.
    ·Do not mark any letter twice.
    The Cash-free Society
    Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is electronic, as in bank-card Systems. Currency and coin are abandoned.
    ____ example ____ . Theft of cash would become impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur ____ ( 8 ) ____ . Purse snatchings would become a thing of the past. Urban streets would become safer ____ ( 9 ) ____ . Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighbourhoods would improve.
    Drug traffickers and their clients, burglars and receives of stolen property, arsonists for hire, and bribe-takers would no longer have the advantage of using untraceable currency. ____ ( 10 ) ____ These prosecutions, in turn, would inhibit further crimes.
    In a society devoid of physical money, a change from cash to recorded electronic money would be accompanied by a flow of previously unpaid income-tax revenues running in the tens of billions of dollars. ____ (11) ____
    Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. ____ (12)____ Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the country’s 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach.
    Example: H.
    A. A national electronic-money system would operate as a debit-card system.
    B. Retail shops in once dangerous areas could operate in safety. 
    C. As a result, income tax rates could be lowered or the national debt reduced.
    D. The use of cash has diminished substantially since World War II.
    E. Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers would all end.
    F. The emergence of electronic funds-transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil.
    G. Almost every present-day cash transaction can be duplicated electronically.
    H. The immediate benefits would be profound and fundamental.
    I. Electronic “money” would leave incriminating trails of data, resulting in more arrests and convictions. 
    4、
    
Japanese McDonald’s

    If you always thought of McDonald’s as an all-American company it, may surprise you to learn that the king of McDonald’s franchises is named Fujita and that he doesn’t eat hamburgers. ____1____ By ignoring many of the customs of both his native and his parent company, Fujita has made McDonald’s the top fast-food business in Japan and has changed the face of franchising.
    McDonald’s came to Japan in 1970 searching for a Japanese partner with whom to create a Japanese McDonald’s. Fujita was far from the richest potential candidate interviewed, but he was an eager entrepreneur who seemed willing to devote his energies to the new venture. ____2____ 
    Almost immediately, however, Fujita began going his own way. The parent company recommended opening the first Japanese McDonald’s in the suburbs, where most American fast-food stores are located. Fujita had his own ideas. ____3____ He got his way, opened the first Japanese McDonald’s in a department store in Tokyo, didn’t spend anything on advertising. ____4____ 
    McDonald’s learned its lesson from Fujita and has since opened inner-city restaurant around the world. ____5____ While the Japanese seem fascinated with western styles and tastes, they often don’t think of themselves as consumers of American products. So Fujita’s McDonald’s franchises play down their American origins, to the point where, according to Fujita, some Japanese who visit the United States are surprised to find that we have ‘Makudonarudo’, as the Japanese say it, in America too.
    A. In fact, Fujita is unusual in many respects, and his uniqueness has made him very rich.
    B. McDonald’s took a chance and chose him.
    C. Fujita and McDonald’s continue to benefit from each other.
    D. Other companies might learn from the way Fujita marketed McDonald’s in Japan.
    E. Fujita likes to take credit for a rise in the average weight of his people.
    F. And within a year he had broken McDonald’s world record for one-day sales: $14,000.
    G. He thought the young pedestrians of Japan’s cities were more likely to give up Japan fish-and –rice diet for a hamburger than were the more traditional suburban dwellers.
    H. But Fujita himself prefers noodles to Big Macs.
    I. And the Tokyo McDonald’s that once caused an argument is now one of 500 that Fujita owns in Japan. 
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    PART FOUR
    Questions 21-35
    •Read the text below about job prospects at the Provincial Bank.
    •Choose the correct word A, B, C, or, D on the opposite page to fill each gap.
    •For each question 21-35, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.
    Employment Opportunities for Graduates with the Provincial BankThe Provincial Bank is one of the biggest (example) ____________ institutions in the U.K. With its 1,900 branches and 58,000 employees, it has (21) ____________ a household name. Almost 4,000 of these employees (22) ____________ managerial or executive positions. The bank has an outstanding (23) ____________ of profitability, which has been achieved by introducing innovations at the same time as maintaining leadership of the (24) ____________. The bank's comprehensive training programme concentrates on (25) ____________ the most important skills that graduates need in order to (26) ____________ early management responsibility. Trainees take responsibility for their own continuous self-development through visiting other branches and departments, and by (27)____________ courses in management skills. They also receive training in order to increase their knowledge of the bank's (28) ___________. The bank supports (29)____________ of staff who wish to take professional examinations, and its Graduate Training Scheme is (30)_____________ to the nationally recognized Diploma in Management.Obviously the quality of its mangers is of (31)____________ importance to the bank's performance. It welcomes good graduates in any subject area, (32)____________ they can demonstrate the ability to influence events, and have the potential to (33)____________ both as leaders and as part of a team. Most graduate trainees join the Retail Banking division initially. Those starting on this programme will soon have the (34)____________ to work in other parts of the bank and can (35)____________ a varied and flexible working life.
    Example: A budgetary B fiscal C financial D economic
    21 A opened B entered C turned D become 
    22 A hold B do C keep D own
    23 A career B catalogue C record D experience 
    24 A area B trade C record D market
    25 A making B reaching C developing D heightening
    26 A present B treat C deal D handle 
    27 A observing B attending C involving D staying 
    28 A services B goods C creations D abilities 
    29 A colleague B members C people D persons 
    30 A qualified B combined C fastened D linked
    31 A main B vital C necessary D superior 
    32 A therefore B thus C provided D only 
    33 A succeed B realize C gain D overcome 
    34 A choice B chance C likelihood D probability
    35 A forecast B believe C suppose D expect
    簡(jiǎn)答題
    6、Part One
    You are the training manager of a company which has won a large export order. You have been asked to organize foreign language training for some of your staff.
    Write a memo of 30-40 words to staff:
    Explaining why the courses are necessary;
    Saying which members of staff should attend;
    Announcing when the courses will start;
    Write on your answer sheet.
    Part Two
    Your company exports to a number of countries around the world. The company is looking for new agents for international freight.
    Read the two advertisements below, on which you have made some notes.
    Then using the notes, write a short report for the Export Sales Manager, covering all your points and saying which agent you recommend.
    Write 100-120 words.
    Write on your answer sheet. 
    7、Part One
    You are Head of Research for an international car manufacturer. You have to make an urgent trip tomorrow to visit Pierre Blanco, a colleague who works for a subsidiary.
    Write a memo of 30-40 words to your secretary.
    Telling her who you are going to see and when;
    Asking her to book flight tickets and accommodation;
    Telling her what work you would like her to do in your absence;
    Write on your answer sheet.
    Part Two
    You are the manager of a TV and radio repair workshop. One of your employees has received the letter below about a faulty cassette player which he inspected. He has written his comments on the customer’s letter and asked you to write a reply.
    Write a letter of 100-120 words to the customer, using the employee’s comments and explaining why your company cannot repair the cassette player.
    Do not include addresses.
    Write on your answer sheet. 
    8、• Read the article below about the winner of a business award .
    • In most of the lines 34-45 there is one extra word . It is either grammatically incorrect or 
    doesn’t fit in the meaning of the text . Some lines, however, are correct .
    • If a line is correct , write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet .
    • If there is a extra word in the line , write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTER on your Answer Sheet.
    • The exercises begins with two examples , (0) and (00) .
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FOOD   TECHNOLOGISTS   REQUIRED
    

 0   For all the diversity of the people who work at WP  Foods , there is one
    

 00  single thing that unites to us all : a passion to create something special
    

 34  and a determination to be the best in whatever we do . We’ve been
    

 35  producing high-quality foods for over than a century , and we travel to the
    

 36  ends of all the earth to create the next generation of foods and drinks so
    

 37  as to give delight our millions of customers . And thanks to our dedicated
    

 38  staff , our much-loved brands just keep getting on better . We are now
    

 39  seeking to appoint as innovators to manage a number of new teams in
    

 40  the organization . Applicants must have qualified a research degree in
    

 41  Food Technology plus at least four years’ industrial experience . We
    

 42  need people with a high level of their team spirit who show themselves
    

 43  be capable of explaining technical concepts to non-technical people.
    

 44  Those appointed will spend significant amount of time in other countries
    

 45  for seeking new ingredients , but will also have a major influence on
    

     change throughout the business.
    


    9、• Read the article below about the winner of a business award .
    • In most of the lines 34-45 there is one extra word . It is either grammatically incorrect or 
    doesn’t fit in the meaning of the text . Some lines, however, are correct .
    • If a line is correct , write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet .
    • If there is a extra word in the line , write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTER on your Answer Sheet.
    • The exercises begins with two examples , (0) and (00) .
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PERSONAL  ASSISTANT  OF  THE  YEAR
    

0           Anne-Marie Garrard was shocked when it was announced that she had won the
    

00        Personal Assistant of the Year award . “The other candidates seemed me
    

34        to be very strong , and I have to say I found that the selection procedure really
    

35        hard.” she says. “I don’t think I had any of chance of winning. When I heard my
    

36        name , my legs were so weak I could only hardly stand up .”she laughs. So
    

37        how is “the best” personal assistant chosen from a group of so extremely good
    

38        and very different from individuals ? The final decision was reached after
    

39        day-long session of  tests , interviews and exercises . Garrard believes of
    

40        the skills she uses in her job helped her how to perform well. For instance ,although
    

41        most of her work is for her company’s Managing Director , she works for six bosses
    

42        in all , so she always tried out to be prepared for anything that might happen.
    

43        As for the future , her firm has close up for its summer break ; as soon as
    

44        they will open again , there is a pay rise waiting for her . But Garrard is
    

45        going to be relax . She says , “There’s always room for personal development.
    

You must keep trying to improve.
    


    10、• Read the article below about airport hotels .
    • In most of the lines 34-45 there is one extra word . It is either grammatically incorrect or 
    doesn’t fit in the meaning of the text . Some lines, however, are correct .
    • If a line is correct , write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet .
    • If there is a extra word in the line , write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTER on your Answer Sheet.
    • The exercises begins with two examples , (0) and (00) .
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CHECKING  IN  TO  A  WORKING  BASE
    


    0         Smart business travelers today are staying at the airport to do business. Rather than
    00  waste of time in traffic as they try to reach city center venues ,  business people
    34  are using conference facilities on the offer at airports .  Busy executives are also
    35  staying there overnight to avoid the difficulty of getting there for take an early morning
    

36  meeting . And it makes senses for our international meetings to be held at airports . It is
    

37  principally through the improvement  in  airport  hotels  that  has  enabled  this
    

38  development to take place .  Today these mini-conference centers provide services are
    

39  designed for business travelers , look like a quick check-in and round-the-clock restaurants,
    

40  so they can get to work as quickly as possible  .  They are also less expensive place
    

41  than their city center counterparts.  Not  long  years  ago,  airports  hotels  were
    

42  uncomfortable ,  unattractive and inconvenient for as far as the business traveler was
    

43  concerned .  Yet now that there is strong interest ,  as travelers become aware of the
    

44  new facilities . Demand for small meeting rooms is huge , usually for interview or one-
    

45  to-one meetings , where executives fly in and out of the same day.  The age of the
    

  airport is upon us .