银符考试题库-在线练习-剑桥商务英语中级分类模拟7

剑桥商务英语中级分类模拟7

READING

PART ONE
·Read these sentences and the following texts.
·Which text does each sentence (1-7) describe?
·For each sentence mark one letter (A, B, C or D).

A.
We are a world market leading multinational company in food presentation and onboard services for travel industry. More than 350 airline customers trust our organization. If you are energetic, creative and look for an excellent career opportunity, join us in the position. Interested persons please submit via letter or e-mail a detailed resume with recent photograph, stating present and expected remuneration before 9/20/2004.
B.
STMicroelectronics Ltd. is one of the world's leading independent semiconductor company with US $ 6. 32 billion in global sales revenue for 2002. Asia Pacific accounts for 44% of our worldwide sales. With staff strength of over 40,000, STMicroelectronics offers a fully integrated range of services including manufacturing, designing, development, sales and marketing. In view of our business expansion, we invite high caliber talents to join our team in China.
C.
Alfa Laval develops, manufactures and sells special products and world-class technical solutions that help our customers optimize the performance of their processes.
Our equipment and systems create solutions for heating, cooling, separating and fluid handling of products such as oil, chemicals, water, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals.
Alfa Laval Flow Equipment (Kunshan) Co. , Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary in China. With expanding commitments we currently have opportunities available in Kunshan Jiangsu. The shuttle bus is provided from Shanghai to Kunshan every day. For qualified applicants please e-mail your resume (in attachment) to us.
D.
Polyplastics is a world leader specialized in high-performance engineering plastics industry. Polyplastics' parent company, a Japan-U. S. joint venture, bases in Tokyo, Japan. Since Polyplastics' first presence in China in 1996, its business in China market has expanded dramatically. To meet with Polyplastics' rapid development in China market, we are now inviting high caliber personnel to fill in the following position. We will offer competitive compensation package to the successful candidates. For more information, please visit Polyplastics web site.

1. The company joined the China market in 1996.

2. The company is located in Jiangsu Province.

3. The company has a deadline of collecting resumes.

4. The company mentions its past revenue in the paragraph.

5. The company provides shuttle bus.

6. The company is a subsidiary of a Japan-U. S. joint venture.

7. The company requires the candidates to send the resume with a recent photo.

PART TWO
·Read the following text.
·Choose the best sentence from the list A-H to fill each of the blanks.
·For each blank (8-12) mark one letter (A-H) on your answer sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.

In a country plagued by skyrocketing sick-leave costs, a new survey presented Friday found that 40% of Sweden’s population believes 1 .
The survey, by the National Social Insurance Board, also found that 65% of the 1,002 people interviewed think a stressful work situation is also a valid reason for calling in sick and collecting pay under Sweden' s liberal social programs.
The survey shows "a deep lack of knowledge about what the health insurance is meant to cover," board director Anna Hedborg said of Sweden's 9 million residents.
Alf Eckerhall, a social insurance expert with the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, went a step further: 2 .
"The insurance laws clearly state that inability to work because of illness" is the only valid reason to stay home, Eckerhall said." 3 ."
The survey, conducted June 17-24, did not have a margin of error.
Sweden' s extensive cradle-to-grave welfare system includes generous programs covering sick leave, parental leave and unemployment benefits. But paying for workers on long-term sick leave and disability has become one of the government's biggest expenditures. 4 .
In Sweden, the employer pays for the first three weeks' sick leave, and workers can call in sick for seven days before needing a doctor's certificate or medical proof.
People who call in sick do not receive any compensation for the first day they are absent. But Eckerhall said many people get around that by leaving work a little early, and then calling in sick for that day. That counts as one sick day, 5 . "That means your day without compensation was 15 minutes long," Eckerhall said. Hedborg said the board will launch a massive nationwide campaign to inform people that illness is the only valid reason to stay home from work.
"To many, this message may seem hard and even insensitive," she wrote. "The truth is, that if we don't defend our common insurance today, we won't be able to afford keeping it.
A. many Swedes deliberately abuse the system
B. as the survey believed that the system is out of order
C. the key word is 'inability to work'-not illness
D. which lets them start receiving sick pay the next day
E. parental leave compensation doubled from $ 2 billion to $ 4 billion
F. these Swedes just don't want to work
G. sick leave compensation tripled from $ 2 billion in 1997 to $ 6 billion in 2002
H. it is acceptable to skip work because they feel tired or have trouble getting along with colleagues

PART THREE
·Look at the following text and questions over the page.
·Each question has four suggested answers or ways of finishing the sentence, A, B, C and D.
·Mark one letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet, for the answer you choose.

Back-to-school shopping lists are constantly evolving to keep up with technological advancements, many even including cell phones, laptops, Blackberrys and iPods, But one clear staple remains-the pencil.
As 5-year-old children opt to play computer learning games instead of using traditional learning toys, and middle schoolers would not even think to research a school project with a physical encyclopedia, the staying power of the little wooden pencil-like the ones George Washington used-seems remarkable.
Not only are pencils still used in classes like art and math, the good old No. 2 pencil is the key to the multiple-choice, computer-graded tests that open doors to the nation's universities and graduate programs.
Tom Ewing, spokesman for the Educational Testing Service, which administers tests like the SAT, GRE and GMAT, said that while the number of people taking them on computers is increasing, the paper and pencil versions still predominate.
Ewing said that in fiscal 2004 the number of people who took the tests on computers was only a fraction of those using pencils--only about 1. 6 million people on computers, compared with about 23. 7 million using paper and pencil.
Ewing cited several reasons for this difference: "Wider use of computers is hampered somewhat by availability--where can you find computers for 25 million people? Sometimes it is security, the need to have a proctor, and sometimes it is cost."
He said ETS would like to increase the number of computer tests, though a major shift is far down the road. "For the foreseeable future paper and pencils remains the reliable workhorse of educational measurement," Ewing said.
Lack of access to computers is one of the major reasons computer testing is still far behind traditional pencil tests, said Tim Loomer, president of testing and assessment and Scantron Corp. Scantron provides many of the multiple-choice tests in K-12 education.
Though there is a trend toward online testing, there has not been a real drop-off in paper and pencil testing, Loomer said. "Not everyone has a computer, but I guarantee you can get everyone a pencil," Loomer said.
Technological initiatives, such as Duke University's plan to hand out free iPods to incoming freshman, have not reduced demand for pencils. The university is giving out the small electronic devices to allow students to listen to lectures, browse course bulletins or practise pronunciation for language classes.
Mike Finn, spokesman for PaperMate, which says it is the biggest producer of pencils in the United States, said pencils are still popular and necessary. Demand for pencils is strong, he said, but children are interested in more modern pencil options, not just the simple yellow wooden pencil. An increasing number of children are opting for mechanical pencils or color pencils, but PaperMate's general sales of pencils have not waned as technology increasingly enters classrooms and children's homes, he said.
Musgrave Pencil Co. in Shelbyville, Tenn. , has seen an increase in preference for fancy pencils in recent years. Lynn Hulan of Musgrave said the pencils preferred today tend to have bright colors and often include slogans such as "I Love to Read" and "Honor Roll". At Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda. Md. , No. 2 pencils are always on the school supplies list, Principal Helen Chaset said. In Judy Shapiro's math classes at Burning Tree, pens are not allowed, and she does not know of many teachers who allow pens in math. "Kids that try to use pens tend to not want to check to see if they have made an error" because they know they have to cross out a mistake and then it can be seen, she said. As for calculators, Shapiro said they may be used to check over work, but most work is done with paper and pencil. If students rely only on calculators, they will not be able to do basic tasks like adding and subtracting, she said, leaving them unable to "do simple things like balancing a checkbook."

1. Which of the following item is not mentioned in the passage, which will be bought at the beginning of a semester?

A.Pencils.
B.Mobile phones.
C.Computers.
D.Suitcases.

A B C D

2. Pencils remain popular in many ways except ______.

A.playing computer games
B.having art and math lessons
C.taking exams
D.solving math problems

A B C D

3. Nowadays traditional pencil tests are still more popular than computer tests because ______.

A.the former are easier
B.the charges of the former are smaller
C.the computer is difficult to access
D.there are more types of exams in the form of pencil tests

A B C D

4. Which of the following sentence is not true?

A.Exams like SAT, GRE and GMAT belong to ETS.
B.PaperMate is the largest pencil manufacturer in the U．S．A．
C.Mechanical pencils are out of date.
D.Children who use pencils in math are likely to be more careful.

A B C D

5. Why does the author mention George Washington?

A.He used pencils when receiving education.
B.Pencils which have a long history are still popular.
C.He liked wooden pencils.
D.Pencil is a remarkable invention.

A B C D

6. What is the topic of this passage?

A.The popularity of pencils at present.
B.The back-to-school shopping lists.
C.Pencils used in ETS tests.
D.The future of pencils.

A B C D

PART FOUR
·Read the following text.
·Choose the best word to fill each gap.
·For each question (19--33) mark one letter (A, B, C, D) on your answer sheet.

Brazilian fixed 1 operator Brasil Telecom is betting that its newly 2 Brt GSM mobile arm will obtain a high degree of customer 3 and maintain a chum rate of less than 12%, half the industry average, company executives told press on Tuesday. Brasil Telecom GSM is launching a 4 strategy, known as Pula-Pula, which 5 every other month of service free until 2010 to the first 400,000 customers.
"The 6 approach of Pula Pula will 7 us to customer loyalty," Brt GSM general director Ricardo Sacramento said.
The company 8 500,000 users by year-end 2004, which is higher than the company's 9 estimate of 400,000, and 1.7 million users by year-end 2005.
"We have two 10 in Brasilia and Rio Grande do Sul, but other states in the mid-west will give good results. We have 11 expectations," Sacramento said.
The company invested US $ 350mn in its mobile 12 in 2004 but has not yet 13 the amount of expected investment during 2005.
"Considering that we will have 82% 14 of our service area by year-end 2004, the investment will be minimal and will be based on how the market 15 ," Brasil Telecom president Carla Cico told reporters.
Brasil Telecom expects a 2%-2.5% reduction of Ebidta margin in the first 12 months of launching their mobile service but expects the mobile unit to post positive Ebitda within 18-20 months of start-up.

A.phone
B.telephone
C.line
D.telephony

A B C D

A.launched
B.used
C.applied
D.released

A B C D

A.satisfaction
B.loyalty
C.happiness
D.appreciation

A B C D

A.marketing
B.selling
C.sale
D.production

A B C D

A.gives
B.supplies
C.offers
D.provides

A B C D

A.necessary
B.essential
C.creative
D.innovative

A B C D

A.bring
B.guide
C.lead
D.take

A B C D

A.needs
B.expects
C.wishes
D.demands

A B C D

A.original
B.first
C.initial
D.ordinary

A B C D

10.

A.problems
B.bottlenecks
C.barriers
D.wonders

A B C D

11.

A.big
B.large
C.high
D.bright

A B C D

12.

A.operations
B.departments
C.branches
D.investment

A B C D

13.

A.known
B.calculated
C.investigated
D.researched

A B C D

14.

A.usage
B.overcharge
C.coverage
D.population

A B C D

15.

A.develops
B.evolves
C.involves
D.explodes

A B C D

PART FIVE
·Read the following text.
·In most of the lines 34--45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense 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 LETYERS on your answer sheet.

Walt Disney Co. 's president said Wednesday of a deal between it and  1 ______
Pixar Animation Studios which isn't likely, and the Burbank-based 2 ______
company has been approached to buy U.K. media assets, Reuters reports. 3 ______
Robert Iger, Disney's president, who made the announcement to a 4 ______
London audience at the Royal Television Society's conference.
Pixar/Disney feature films include "Finding Nemo", "Toy Story", and "Monsters Inc".
Media giant Walt Disney Co. operates Walt Disney Parks & Resorts; then  5 ______
owns ABC television network, with 10 broadcast stations and more 6 ______
than 60 radio stations; and produces films through by Walt Disney Studios. 7 ______
Iger also said the company at one time it had been approached to buy 8 ______
ITV, a U.K. television channel as along with some assets of the BBC, 9 ______
the report stated.
Steve Jobs, .the head of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. , who said in June  10 ______
he would consider of a new distribution deal with Disney. At the time, 11 ______
no talks were under way.
Disney and Pixar, who have released five films together, called off for  12 ______
previous talks in January to renew their distribution deal.
The companies' last film together, "The Cars", is slated for release in 2005.

which

correct

who

then

with

10.

who

11.

12.

for

WRITING

1. Part one
You have just joined a company as the new Computer Skills trainer. You are organizing a meeting on Monday 2nd June to introduce yourself to the staff:
·Write a memo of 40-50 words to the staff:
·Saying where and when the meeting will be.
·Asking all staff to attend.
·Write on your answer sheet.

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2. Part two
You are the Personnel Manager of a foodstuff manufacturer. One of your employees was injured on the job. There have been conflicting accounts of what happened. So you are writing a note to your Chief Safety Officer entrusting him to look into the case and report back to you.
·Write to Mr. Down Smith, the Chief Safety Officer, to look into the case.
·State the situation with the accounts.
·Make an appointment with Mr. Smith.
·Write 120-140 words on the separate answer paper provided.

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SPEAKING

1. Your company is sending a small group of employees away together for three days to encourage them to work as a team. You have been asked to help plan the program.
Discuss the situation together, and decide.
what practical arrangements the company needs to make before the trip
what work and leisure activities would be suitable for the group

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READING

PART ONE

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PART TWO

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PART THREE

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PART FOUR

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PART FIVE

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