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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)1TEST 11TEST 26TEST 312TEST 418TEST 523TEST 629TEST 734TEST 840TEST 945TEST 1050TEST 1155TEST 1261. z.-BEC中级真题集听力原文(2010版)TEST 1Part One. Questions 1 to 12You will hear three telephone conversations or messages.Write one or two words or a number in the numbered

2、spaces on the notes or forms below.After you have listened once, replay each recording.Conversation One.Questions 1 to 4Look 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.PauseNow listen, and fill in the

3、spaces.Woman:PersonnelMan:Hello, its Tim here, from Finance.Woman:Hi, Tim.Man:Ive had a letter from the ta* office about astudent who worked here last summer Iwonder if you could look him up in yourrecords.Woman:Sure, whats the nameMan:The surnames Jaye. First name Stephen.Woman:How does he spell hi

4、s surnameMan:J-A-Y-E. Got thatWoman:Oh yes, here we arelives at ahundred and eighty-three School Road,BarnfieldMan:Yes, thats the one.Woman:And you say he was working in FinanceMan:Uhm, Customer Services, actually.Woman:Aah - they had lots of students workingfor them last summer.Man:Well, the ta* pe

5、ople want to know his e*actjob title - Im not sure why. Woman: Mm, let me see. He was an officeassistant.Man:Right, got that. They also want to knowabout his monthly earnings. Woman: Lets have a look. five hundred andthirty-eight pounds seventy a month. Oh,sorry, he was a scale one, so thats four hu

6、ndredand fifty-seven pounds si*ty. Anything else Man: Thats fine, thanks. Ill send them theinformation today.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseConversation 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

7、 the note.PauseNow listen, and fill in the spaces.Woman:Hello, Blackwell Printers. Julie Davidson speaking. How may I help youMan:Hello. 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

8、.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 messageMan:Yes, please. The thing is, Ive just received your proofs - the cards themselves are fine, but you seem to have misunder

9、stood the quantities. Im sure I asked for five hundred for each of the marketing e*ecutives and seven hundred and fifty for me but youve put everyone down for seven hundred and fifty.Woman:Right, Ive made a note of that. Is there anything elseMan:Yes, well this is my mistake really. Could you ask St

10、even to move the pany logo further to the left Its too close to the address at the moment. I think thats all for now. Thanks.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseConversation Three.Questions 9 to 12.Look at the notes below.You will hear a woman making the arrangements for a delegation who are

11、 going to visit her pany.You have 15 seconds to read through the notes.PauseNow listen, and fill in the spaces.Woman:GeoffMan:YesWoman:I just want to finalise the preparations for the delegation ne*t week.Man:Certainly. Its Thursday, isnt itWoman:Yes. Now, can you make sure that each of them gets a

12、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 shouldnt take too long. What about cateringWoman:Coffees organised for eleven and three, but lunch - its at one - we need to reserve it for twelve people. The o

13、ffice restaurant is closed ne*t week. can you ring the Park Hotel The Grand Hotel was a bit disappointing last time.Man:Ill get onto that.Woman:Now, theyll be ing straight from the station, and their ta*i will bring them to the front gate, so make sure youre there to greet them. Thatll be about ten.

14、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 all finalised. Bye.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseThat is the end of Part One. You now have 20 seconds to check your answers.PauseP

15、art 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 is talking about.Write one letter (A-H) ne*t to the number of the recording.Do not use any letter more than once.After you have listened once,

16、replay the recordings.You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H.PauseNow listen, and decide which type of document each speaker is talking about.PauseThirteenWoman:Well no wonder the banks returned it unpaid. Look, the figures dont match the amount in words. I e*pect someone was filling it in in too

17、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 ne*t cycle of payments. Her e*penses on that sales trip were pretty high, and it wouldnt be fair to keep her waiting much longer.PauseFourteenMan:Some of th

18、e 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 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. Ca

19、n you check the figures for me, though, before it goes to the printersPauseFifteenWoman: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 secu

20、rity 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 me a revised onePauseSi*teenMan:Of course, this only gives a very general picture. But as you can see, cash is a particularly h

21、ealthy 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 orders are actually e*cluded from the final calculation. These represent a sum of appro*imately thirty thousand pounds. With

22、 that in mind, we can say that the panys overall position is still strong.PauseSeventeenWoman:Ive just asked the Arden Conference Centre about availability for our ne*t training seminar, and they said they still havent been paid for the one before last, which should have been dealt with si* months a

23、go. 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 away so we stay in their good booksPauseNow listen to the recordings again.PauseSection Two.Questions 18 to 22.You will

24、 bear another five recordings.For each recording, decide what the speakers purpose is.Write one letter (A-H) ne*t 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.PauseNow listen, and deci

25、de what each speakers purpose is.PauseEighteenMan:Hello. This is Guy Cooper from Centron Electronics here. I believe you rang for some advice about your alarm system, which isnt functioning properly. The message I got said you werent sure if you needed someone to e andsort it out, or if we could adv

26、ise you over the phone. Well perhaps youd like to get back to me as soon as its convenient and tell me e*actly what the problem is, and Ill see what I can do.PauseNineteenWoman:Well, as you say, Redlon has been supplying us for years but, quite honestly, two-thirds of the plaints we receive about ou

27、r products are actually due to faults in ponents weve had from Redlon. So I talked to the Production Manager and he agreed that I should look at some alternatives. Future Worlds range is fine for us, and one of their customers who I spoke to remended them highly, so thats why weve changed to using t

28、hem.PauseTwentyWoman:The petitions 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 means saying no to jobs which arent profitable. It would be much more beneficial to put all our efforts into winning high

29、er-margin contracts. So the way I feel you can help most is by identifying the types of contacts which will bring in the ine we need in order to ensure our future.PauseTwenty-oneMan:John Woods here, phoning about the project we discussed earlier. Could you give me a ring so that we can talk about it

30、 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 additional costs which we hadnt taken into account. So could you get back to me as soon as you can, pleasePauseTwenty-two

31、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 plaint about the last delivery, we did in fact take action to change the specifications in the way you suggested.

32、 So it isnt quite fair tosay that we ignored your advice. I know its important to achieve the consistency that you require, but perhaps your remendation wasnt e*actly whats needed.PauseNow listen to the recordings again.PauseThat is the end of Part Two.PausePart Three. Questions 23 to 30.You will he

33、ar 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 answer.After you have listened once, replay the recording.You have 45 seconds to read through the questions.PauseNow

34、 listen, and mark A, B or C.PauseMan:Who are the managers of the bestinnovation developments in British industry That was the question which the first Business Today Innovation Awards set out to answer.This project is all about rewarding good practice and performance. So, rather than simply recognis

35、ing e*cellence in the design of specific products, or analysing their financial impact on profits, the awards set out to take an objective look at e*actly how panies manage the development process itself.Over three hundred and fifty organisations entered the petition and were initially reduced to ab

36、out 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 petition judges, a panel of four chief e*ecutives from leading panies. The panel toured the finalists facilities, received presentations

37、 on the panies 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 inside an automatic cash dispenser.Initially the organisers were concerned that this

38、 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 finalists broke down into two distinct and equal groups: large firms with one thousand employees or more and small

39、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 bined with the panys e*isting business, and secondly, how well the innovation methods a

40、re 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 munication lines. But they seem to put less emphasis on creating formal development methods which would be repeatable in future innovations.Large f

41、irms, on the other hand, have difficulty integrating the new development within their e*isting business for reasons of scale. But they tend to succeed in achieving well-documented and repeatable development methods. This is because larger panies, with their clear emphasis on training, fi*ed manageme

42、nt 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 important areas concerned how thoroughly a pany checks what is happening in other fields in order to i

43、ncorporat new ideas into the development process. Many of the finalists impressed in the area. Natura, for e*ample, had demonstrated genuine energy in searching for new ways of producing their range of speciality breads. They had looked at styles of home cooking in different countries, a: well as th

44、e possibility of e*ploiting 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 the links which the development team established with senior management, suppliers, the market and m

45、anufacturing. The best e*amples 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 as an important factor, but not all supplier e*periences were positive. Occasionally serious pr

46、oblems had to be solved where suppliers were working hard to meet specifications, but the panies that the suppliers were using to adapt their machinery were not so efficient. This, led to disappointing faults or fluctuations in quality.But in conclusion the awards demonstrate that innovation isnt ju

47、st for high-tech internet panies. You can also be successful in mature markets with determination and skill.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseThat is the end of Part Three.You now have ten minutes to transfer your answers to your Answer Sheet.Note: Teacher, stop the recording here and time

48、 ten minutes. Remind students when there is one minute remaining.PauseThat is the end of the test.TEST2Part 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 onc

49、e, 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.PauseNow listen, and fill in the spaces.Man:Good morning, Oakleaf Business Training.How can I help youWoman:Hello, my na

50、mes Enid Stevens, ofAppleyard Smith. Ive booked two one-daycourses, but now I need to change one ofthem.Man:Let me get your details up on the screen.Right, youve booked Report Writing ne*tmonth.Woman:Yes, that ones OK. Its Taking Minutesthat I cant manage, on the eighth of July. Doyou know when its

51、running againMan:Let me see. Not until the eighteenth ofSeptember, Im afraid.Woman:That sounds fine. Oh, I think Ill beabroad then.Man:Then theres the first and the thirteenth ofOctober.Woman:Id like the later date, please.Man:Fine, Ill change your booking.Woman:Another thing; it says in your brochu

52、re,everyone attending a course gets a certificate, but I havent received one from a course I tooklast January.Man:Im sorry about that. Which course was itWoman:Something to do with dealing with thepublic Man:That must have been Customer Service.Woman:Sounds familiar.Man: OK, Ill put it in the post t

53、oday.Woman:Thank you very much. Goodbye.Man:Goodbye.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseConversation Two.Questions 5 to 8.Look at the note below.You will hear a woman ringing about problems with a new telephone system.You have 15 seconds to read through the note.PauseNow listen, and fill in

54、the spaces.Man:Hello, Swinburn Teles.Woman:Id like to speak to Tony Wilson, please.Man:Im afraid Tony isnt available. Can I take amessageWoman:Yes please. Im Sheila Dallas, fromWorldnet.Man:Right.Woman:Im ringing about the telephone systemyour firm installed here yesterday. Were nothappy with it.Man

55、:Oh dear. What seems to be the problemWoman:First of all, your engineer said that withthe number of e*tensions weve got, si* outsidelines would be enough, but we asked for eight,and anyway youve charged us for the largersystem.Man:Right, well look into that.Woman:Then, whenever we try to transfer ca

56、llsfrom one e*tension to another we lose them.Were following the instructions, but it justdoesnt work.Man:I see.Woman:And finally, could you ask Tony to checkthe invoice, please He promised us a discounton installation, which is shown, and one on theequipment, but that isnt there.Man:Right. Im sorry

57、 about all that. Ill get Tonyto contact you as soon as hes free. Woman: Thank you. Goodbye. Man: Goodbye.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseConversation Three.Questions 9 to 12.Look at the note below.You will hear a woman calling about the arrangements for a meeting.You have 15 seconds to r

58、ead through the note.PauseNow listen, and fill in the spaces.Man:Good morning. Marketing Department.Peter Menzies speaking.Woman:Hello. Could I speak to John Fitzgerald,pleaseMan:Im afraid hes not in the office at the moment.Woman:Well, this is Elizabeth Parnell calling. Iwanted to talk to John abou

59、t the meeting ne*tweek. You see, I only get back on Tuesday nightfrom a trade fair in the States.Man:So, would you like me to give him amessageWoman:Yes, could you ask him if we canpostpone Wednesdays meeting Till after lunch.That would be easier. It was originally going tobe at ten a.m.Man:OK. Ill

60、ask him to change it. Ill get back toyou with a time.Woman:Thanks. And could you also ask him to add another item for discussion at the meeting I thought we were going to talk about the revised budgets - but I cant see this on the agenda.Man:OK. Id better ask him to call you.Woman:Yes, please. Im at

61、 Head Office at the moment. Can he phone me here today - I wont be back at my own desk until tomorrow afternoon.Man:Right, Ill give him the message.Woman:Thanks.Man:Bye.Woman:Goodbye.PauseNow listen to the recording again.PauseThat is the end of Part One. You now have 20 seconds to check your answer

62、s.PausePart Two. Questions 13 to 22.Section One.Questions 13 to 17.You will hear five short recordings. Five people are talking about different business books they have read.For each recording, decide which book the speaker is talking about.Write one letter (A-H) ne*t to the number of the recording.

63、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.PauseNow listen, and decide which book each speaker is talking about.PauseThirteenWoman:Yes, it was interesting. some of it was rather obvious, of course, like dressing smartly, making sure you arrive on time, that sort of thing. but there was also quite a lot Id never really considered. like ways to interpret what the advertisement is really asking for, reading between the lines. and a section which lists some of the