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1、 剑桥商务英语中级真题集听力原文 目 录 BEC中级真题集听力原文(2010版)TEST 1 Part One.Questions 1 to 12 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.After you have listened once,replay each recording.Conversation One.Questions 1 to 4

2、 Look at the form below.You will hear a man asking a colleague for information about a former employee.You have 15 seconds to read through the form.Pause Now listen,and fill in the spaces.Woman:Personnel Man:Hello,its Tim here,from Finance.Woman:Hi,Tim.Man:Ive had a letter from the tax office about

3、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 at a hundred and eighty-three School Road,Barnfield Man:Y

4、es,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 not sure why.Woman:Mm,let me see.He was an office assistant.Man:Right,got that.

5、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 pounds sixty.Anything else?Man:Thats fine,thanks.Ill send them the information today.Pause Now listen to the

6、 recording again.Pause Conversation Two.Questions 5 to 8.Look at the note below.You will hear a man describing a problem with an order.You have 15 seconds to read through the note.Pause Now listen,and fill in the spaces.Woman:Hello,Blackwell Printers.Julie Davidson speaking.How may I help you?Man:He

7、llo.This is Mark Jones from Europe Holidays.I was 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.Wom

8、an:Would you like me to pass on a message?Man: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 e

9、veryone down for seven hundred and fifty.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.Pause Now listen to

10、 the recording again.Pause Conversation Three.Questions 9 to 12.Look at the notes below.You will hear a woman making the arrangements for a delegation who are going to visit her company.You have 15 seconds to read through the notes.Pause Now listen,and fill in the spaces.Woman:Geoff?Man:Yes?Woman:I

11、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 information.Man:Ok,that sho

12、uldnt 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 disappointing last time.Man:Ill get onto that.Woman:Now,th

13、eyll 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,I want them to see those first.Man:OK.Woman:Let me know when its

14、 all finalised.Bye.Pause Now listen to the recording again.Pause That is the end of Part One.You now have 20 seconds to check your answers.Pause Part Two.Questions 13 to 22.Section One.Questions 13 to 17.You will hear five short recordings.For each recording,decide which type of document the speaker

15、 is talking about.Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording.Do not use any letter more than once.After you have listened once,replay the recordings.You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H.Pause Now listen,and decide which type of document each speaker is talking about.Pause Thirteen

16、Woman: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 better issue another one straight away to pay Mrs Burton,because itll be another three weeks if we wait for the next cycle of payme

17、nts.Her expenses on that sales trip were pretty high,and it wouldnt be fair to keep her waiting much longer.Pause Fourteen Man:Some of the suppliers are already asking about 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

18、 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,though,before it goes to the printers?Pause Fifteen Woman:Weve just received the paperwork from you about cleaning our premises,and I hav

19、e 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 specifies 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 m

20、e a revised one?Pause Sixteen Man: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 into account regular outgoings on loans and leasing equipment,which are included in the final totals.And even more significantly,unpaid or

21、ders 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 companys overall position is still strong.Pause Seventeen Woman:Ive just asked the Arden Conference Centre about availability for our next trainin

22、g 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 duplicate!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 awa

23、y so we stay in their good books?Pause Now listen to the recordings again.Pause Section Two.Questions 18 to 22.You will bear another five recordings.For each recording,decide what the speakers purpose is.Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording.Do not use any letter more than once.Af

24、ter you have listened once,replay the recordings.You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H.Pause Now listen,and decide what each speakers purpose is.Pause Eighteen Man:Hello.This is Guy Cooper from Centron Electronics here.I believe you rang for some advice about your alarm system,which isnt function

25、ing 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 problem is,and Ill see what I can do.Pause Nineteen Woman:Well,as

26、 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 agreed that I should look at some alternatives.Future Worlds range

27、is fine for us,and one of their customers who I spoke to recommended them highly,so thats why weve changed to using them.Pause Twenty Woman:The competitions getting tougher,and you know were facing serious problems.We need to see more benefit from the undeniably hard work were putting in,and this me

28、ans 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 the income we need in order to ensure our future.Pause Twenty-one

29、Man: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.I still think the projects got potential,but there are significant add

30、itional costs which we hadnt taken into account.So could you get back to me as soon as you can,please?Pause Twenty-two Woman:Hello,Sally here,from Pagwell Paints,returning your call.Im very sorry you arent happy with the latest consignment youve had from us.Its rather strange,because following your

31、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 require,but perhaps your recommendation wasnt exactly whats needed.Paus

32、e Now listen to the recordings again.Pause That is the end of Part Two.Pause Part Three.Questions 23 to 30.You will hear the chairman of a business institute making a speech about new business awards that his institute has sponsored.For each question 23-30,mark one letter(A,B or C)for the correct an

33、swer.After you have listened once,replay the recording.You have 45 seconds to read through the questions.Pause Now listen,and mark A,B or C.Pause Man:Who are the managers of the best innovation developments in British industry?That was the question which the first Business Today Innovation Awards se

34、t out to answer.This project is all about rewarding 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 developmen

35、t process itself.Over three hundred and 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

36、 of four chief executives from leading 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 supe

37、rmarket chain to a printer inside an automatic cash dispenser.Initially 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 b;all manufacturers.Interestingly,the finalist

38、s broke down into two distinct 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

39、 new product is combined 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

40、less emphasis on 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

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

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

43、 of speciality breads.They had looked at styles of home cooking in different countries,a: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 of t

44、he 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 forward.Links with suppliers were also seen

45、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 disappointing fault

46、s 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 skill.Pause Now listen to the recording again.Pause That is the end of Part Three.You now have ten minu

47、tes to transfer your answers to your Answer Sheet.Note:Teacher,stop the recording here and time ten minutes.Remind students when there is one minute remaining.Pause That is the end of the test.TEST 2 Part One.Questions 1 to 12.You will hear three telephone conversations or messages.Write one or two

48、words or a number in the numbered spaces on the notes or forms below.After you have listened once,replay each recording.Conversation One.Questions 1 to 4.Look at the form below.You will hear a woman calling about training courses.You have 15 seconds to read through the form.Pause Now listen,and fill

49、 in the spaces.Man:Good morning,Oakleaf Business Training.How can I help you?Woman:Hello,my names Enid Stevens,of Appleyard Smith.Ive booked two one-day courses,but now I need to change one of them.Man:Let me get your details up on the screen.Right,youve booked Report Writing next month.Woman:Yes,th

50、at ones OK.Its Taking Minutes that I cant manage,on the eighth of July.Do you know when its running again?Man:Let me see.Not until the eighteenth of September,Im afraid.Woman:That sounds fine.Oh,I think Ill be abroad then.Man:Then theres the first and the thirteenth of October.Woman:Id like the late