2023年BEC中级真题第二辑答案及听力原文.doc

《2023年BEC中级真题第二辑答案及听力原文.doc》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《2023年BEC中级真题第二辑答案及听力原文.doc（25页珍藏版）》请在淘文阁 - 分享文档赚钱的网站上搜索。

1、BEC中级真题（第二辑）答案及听力原文Test 1ReadingWriting -Part 1 To:P. JonesFrom:Luisa GambonDate:21 November 2023Subject:LatenessMr Jones,I have noticed that you often arrive late for work, especially on Monday mornings. As your colleagues are starting to complain about that, you understand that unless this habit c

2、hanges, I will take disciplinary action against you. Come and see me tomorrow at 9 a.m. in my office. Thank youBand 5All content points are covered, using natural sounding language and a consistently appropriate tone.Part 2 -Report on customer complaintsINTRODUCTIONThis report has the purpose of pre

3、senting the reasons for customer complaints in 2023.FIELDINGSThe customer complaints received in 2023 were 300 in January. Then they increased to 540 in February because of the computer systems breakdown.In March they fell to 230 because an improved order system was introduced.The reasons for compla

4、ints from January to March were analysed:l firstly the companv received complaints for incorrect orders delivered. These errors were fewer in March.l secondly the time taken to deliver is too high. but the company has planned to recruit new agents.l Finally customers complain for the poor product qu

5、ality. In order to solve this problem more quality controls are making.CONCLUSIONSAt the moment all customers arent satisfied but many measures have been taken to improve their satisfaction.Band 4There is a satisfactory range of structures, with some errors, but these do not impede understanding. Th

6、e content points are adequately covered, and the register is appropriate. The information is generally well organised, using headings and other discourse markers.Listening Test 1Conversation One.Questions 1 to 4. Woman: Personnel . . .Man: Hello, its Tim here, from Finance.Woman: Hi, Tim.Man: Ive ha

7、d a letter from the tax office about a student who worked here last summer I wonder if you could look him up in your records.Woman: Sure, whats the name? Man: The surnames Jaye. First name Stephen. Woman: How does he spell his surname? Man: J-A-Y-E. Got that? Woman: Oh yes, here we are . . . lives a

8、t a hundred and eighty-three School Road,Barnfield . . . Man: Yes, thats the one. Woman: And you say he was working in Finance?Man: Uhm, Customer Services, actually. Woman: Aah - they had lots of students working for them last summer. Man: Well, the tax people want to know his exact job title - Im n

9、ot sure why.Woman: Mm, let me see . . . He was an office assistant. Man: Right, got that. They also want to know about his monthly earnings. Woman: Lets have a look . . . five hundred and thirty-eight pounds seventy a month . . . Oh, sorry, he was a scale one, so thats four hundred and fifty-seven p

10、ounds sixty. Anything else? Man: Thats fine, thanks. Ill send them the information today . . .Now listen to the recording again.Conversation Two. Questions 5 to 8.Woman: Hello, Blackwell Printers. Julie Davidson speaking. How may I help you?Man: Hello. This is Mark Jones from Europe Holidays. I was

11、hoping to speak to Steven Kirby about the stationery youre printing for us.Woman: Im afraid Stevens away until Friday.Man: Oh - you see Im not very happy with the business cards and I wanted to see if I could make a couple of changes to the paper too.Woman: Would you like me to pass on a message?Man

12、: Yes, please. The thing is, Ive just received your proofs - the cards themselves are fine, but you seem to have misunderstood the quantities. Im sure I asked for five hundred for each of the marketing executives and seven hundred and fifty for me but youve put everyone down for seven hundred and fi

13、fty.Woman: Right, Ive made a note of that. Is there anything else?Man: Yes, well this is my mistake really. Could you ask Steven to move the company logo further to the left? Its too close to the address at the moment. I think thats all for now. Thanks.Conversation Three. Questions 9 -12Woman: Geoff

14、?Man: Yes?Woman: I just want to finalise the preparations for the delegation next week.Man: Certainly. Its Thursday, isnt it?Woman: Yes. Now, can you make sure that each of them gets a name badge and an information pack. The badges are done, but youll need to prepare the packs with all the relevant

15、information.Man: Ok, that shouldnt take too long. What about catering?Woman: Coffees organised for eleven and three, but lunch - its at one - we need to reserve it for twelve people . . . The office restaurant is closed next week . . . can you ring the Park Hotel? The Grand Hotel was a bit disappoin

16、ting last time.Man: Ill get onto that.Woman: Now, theyll be coming straight from the station, and their taxi will bring them to the front gate, so make sure youre there to greet them. Thatll be about ten.Man: Ten. And then . . .Woman: Into Reception, I think. Make sure the new designs are on display

17、, I want them to see those first.Man: OK.Woman: Let me know when its all finalised. Bye.Part Two. Questions 13 to 22.ThirteenWoman: Well no wonder the banks returned it unpaid. Look, the figures dont match the amount in words. I expect someone was filling it in in too much of a hurry. Lets see, wed

18、better issue another one straight away to pay Mrs Burton, because itll be another three weeks if we wait for the next cycle of payments. Her expenses on that sales trip were pretty high, and it wouldnt be fair to keep her waiting much longer.fourteenMan: Some of the suppliers are already asking abou

19、t the increases. Ill check, but I seem to remember from last weeks meeting that in the end we agreed on three per cent. So what Ill do is go down each column and calculate the new amounts, and then it can be printed in time to be inserted into the new brochures. Can you check the figures for me, tho

20、ugh, before it goes to the printers? fifteenWoman: Weve just received the paperwork from you about cleaning our premises, and I have to say that it doesnt reflect what we agreed in our conversation last week. For one thing, it says that we have to supply our security code, and for another it specifi

21、es monthly payment in advance, and I told you both of those were out of the question. Im afraid I really cant sign this. Could you send me a revised one? SixteenMan: Of course, this only gives a very general picture. But as you can see, cash is a particularly healthy area. Thats even when we take in

22、to account regular outgoings on loans and leasing equipment, which are included in the final totals. And even more significantly, unpaid orders are actually excluded from the final calculation. These represent a sum of approximately thirty thousand pounds. With that in mind, we can say that the comp

23、anys overall position is still strong. SeventeenWoman: Ive just asked the Arden Conference Centre about availability for our next training seminar, and they said they still havent been paid for the one before last, which should have been dealt with six months ago. Ive had to ask them to send a dupli

24、cate! We really must be careful. Arden give us very favourable prices, but we havent got a contract with them - Can you deal with it straight away so we stay in their good books?Section Two. Questions 18 to 22.EighteenMan: Hello. This is Guy Cooper from Centron Electronics here. I believe you rang f

25、or some advice about your alarm system, which isnt functioning properly. The message I got said you werent sure if you needed someone to come and sort it out, or if we could advise you over the phone. Well perhaps youd like to get back to me as soon as its convenient and tell me exactly what the pro

26、blem is, and Ill see what I can do. NineteenWoman: Well, as you say, Redlon has been supplying us for years but, quite honestly, two-thirds of the complaints we receive about our products are actually due to faults in components weve had from Redlon. So I talked to the Production Manager and he agre

27、ed that I should look at some alternatives. Future Worlds range is fine for us, and one of their customers who I spoke to recommended them highly, so thats why weve changed to using them. TwentyWoman: The competitions getting tougher, and you know were facing serious problems. We need to see more be

28、nefit from the undeniably hard work were putting in, and this means saying no to jobs which arent profitable. It would be much more beneficial to put all our efforts into winning higher-margin contracts. So the way I feel you can help most is by identifying the types of contacts which will bring in

29、the income we need in order to ensure our future. Twenty-oneMan: John Woods here, phoning about the project we discussed earlier. Could you give me a ring so that we can talk about it a bit more? Ive done a few calculations and Im beginning to wonder whether its really a practical proposition. 1 sti

30、ll think the projects got potential, but there are significant additional costs which we hadnt taken into account. So could you get back to me as soon as you can, please? Twenty-twoWoman: Hello, Sally here, from Pagwell Paints, returning your call. Im very sorry you arent happy with the latest consi

31、gnment youve had from us. Its rather strange, because following your complaint about the last delivery, we did in fact take action to change the specifications in the way you suggested. So it isnt quite fair to say that we ignored your advice. I know its important to achieve the consistency that you

32、 require, but perhaps your recommendation wasnt exactly whats needed.Part Three. Questions 23 to 30.Man: Who are the managers of the best innovation developments in British industry? That was the question which the first Business Today Innovation Awards set out to answer.This project is all about re

33、warding good practice and performance. So, rather than simply recognising excellence in the design of specific products, or analysing their financial impact on profits, the awards set out to take an objective look at exactly how companies manage the development process itself.Over three hundred and

34、fifty organisations entered the competition and were initially reduced to about forty. Then, after further careful checking, a short list of just fourteen of them was arrived at. These finalists, all manufacturers, were then visited by the competition judges, a panel of four chief executives from le

35、ading companies. The panel toured the finalists facilities, received presentations on the companies and their projects, and interviewed the key development team members. The products varied enormously in their scale, function and degree of technology - from bread for a supermarket chain to a printer

36、 inside an automatic cash dispenserInitially the organisers were concerned that this range could create difficulties in the assessment process. But this fear proved baseless, as most elements in the innovation process are shared by all manufacturers.Interestingly, the finalists broke down into two d

37、istinct and equal groups: large firms with one thousand employees or more and small firms with two hundred and fifty employees or fewer. With both groups the judges decided to concentrate on two of the clearest indicators of a successful innovation process, which are: how well the new product is com

38、bined with the companys existing business, and secondly, how-well the innovation methods are recorded and understood. Small firms naturally tend to do well in the first category since they have fewer layers of management and thus much shorter communication lines. But they seem to put less emphasis o

39、n creating formal development methods which would be repeatable in future innovations.Large firms, on the other hand, have difficulty integrating the new development within their existing business for reasons of scale. But they tend to succeed in achieving well-documented and repeatable development

40、methods. This is because larger companies, with their clear emphasis on training, fixed management structure and administrative systems, require more formal, daily record-keeping from their staff.So what were the key questions the judges had in mind when assessing the finalists? One of the most impo

41、rtant areas concerned how thoroughly a company checks what is happening in other fields in order to incorporate new ideas into the development process. Many of the finalists impressed in the area. Xatura, for example, had demonstrated genuine energy in searching for new ways of producing their range

42、 of specialitv breads. They had looked at styles of home cooking in different countries, as well as the possibility of exploiting new production technologies in order to achieve equally good results but on a high-volume production line.What then occupied much of the judges thoughts was the quality o

43、f the links which the development team established with senior management, suppliers, the market and manufacturing. The best examples of the first category were found in small firms, where the individual entrepreneur at the top was clearly driving the innovation forwardLinks with suppliers were also

44、 seen as an important factor, but not all supplier experiences were positive. Occasionally serious problems had to be solved where suppliers were working hard to meet specifications, but the companies that the suppliers were using to adapt their machinery were not so efficient. This, led to disappoi

45、nting faults or fluctuations in quality.But in conclusion the awards demonstrate that innovation isnt just for high-tech internet companies. You can also be successful in mature markets with determination and Test 2 WritingPart 1 To:All StaffFrom:Managing DirectorDate:7 DecemberSubject:Staff rewardI

46、 would like to thank you for the contribution in increasing the companys profit. The profit increased due to very hard work and long working hours. Each of the staff will receive an envelope with a reward on Tuesday. The reward is a trip to Hawaii, and I hope that this will be the perfect reward. En

47、joy!Thank youBand 4-All points are adequately covered and developed. There is an adequate range of language, though with some repetition.Part 2 Introduction.The purpose of this report is to assess and recomend a taxi firm that will become our regular transporter. We will need them especially during

48、next year trade fair and conferences. There are two firms to assess.Findings:As regards to Telecars we have a good references on them. It is very experienced traditional firm and is also very reliable. They provide 24-hours service that is useful during night meetings and negotiations. StreetlightCabs is brand new company and there are no references on them. But they provide long distance routes which we usevery often and they are also cheaper. On the other hand they dont have web page and so internet booking isnt available.Conclu