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1、書山有路勤為徑，學(xué)海無涯苦作舟。祝愿天下莘莘學(xué)子：學(xué)業(yè)有成，金榜題名！語言類考試復(fù)習(xí)資料大全劍橋商務(wù)英語中級模擬36劍橋商務(wù)英語中級模擬36READINGPART ONELook at these sentences and the four paragraphs.Which clip (A, B, C or D) does each sentence refer to?For each sentence 1-7, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.You will need to use some of the lette

2、rs more than once.A The Million Dollar Mentality Jemima Tate Writer and business expert Jemima Tate reveals how millionaires think and what drives them to be best. Her philosophy is simple: millionaires are no different from anyone else and given the desire and determination to improve the quality o

3、f their lives, virtually anyone can realise their dreams. Tate provides the vital ingredients that can lead uo financial independence and reveals the secrets of becoming seriously rich. This book will inspire anyone who wants to work towards millionaire starus.B Using the Power of Influence Meg Carb

4、ery Meg Carbery shows readers how to survive and prosper in the rapidly changing business and social environment by providing a comprehensive guide to techniques of persuasion at work which are both ethical and effective. This book is a comprehensive repertoire of professional influencing skills whi

5、ch will serve the needs of managers, leaders, professionals and sales people and those concerned with influencing the behavior of employees-who may be better qualified than themselves!C Norbert Starrs Positive Action Plan Norbert Starr Norbert Starrs Positive Action Plan is an invaluable source of i

6、nspiration, motivation and ideas. For each day of the year, a quotation from Starr-many drawn from previously unpublished material-is followed by further instruction and a detailed plan of action for putting the concepts into practice. Each month has a theme, so that progress is organised and consis

7、tent; April, for instance, is Goal Set-ting and May follows logically with Action! Starrs advice comes from many years in business, which is what makes it the most valuable available.D 1001 Ways to Promote Your Business Geoffrey and John Behr Nowadays it is your responsibility to take the initiative

8、 in promoting your business. This book is full of innovative and unusual promotional ideas that carry the added benefit of being inexpensive. By using these tried and tested techniques you will realise how easy it is to exeeed your cusomers expectations and make your product, service or event worth

9、I talking about.1. You can find out how to make a fortune.答案: A2. The will to succeed is the most important factor in success.答案: A3. People in different jobs and positions can all learn how to make other people change their minds.答案: B4. Not all good ideas involve spending a lot of money.答案: D5. Yo

10、u can achieve more than people think you can.答案: D6. You can get what you want in business, without lowering your moral standards.答案: B7. Improvement can be achieved through following a dairy system.答案: CPART TWORead the article below about.Choose the best sentence to fill in each of the gaps.For ea

11、ch gap 8-12, mark on letter (A-G) on your Answer Sheet.Do not use any letter more than once. The Steady Progress of APECIt is a measure of APEC s success that its summit meetings (stating with the first held in 1993 at Seattle in USA) are now held annually. The second was held in 1994 at Bogor in ln

12、donesia. It adopted a declaration to abolish tariffs between all its members by the year 2020. APEC s developed economies would, however, follow an earlier schedule of freeing trade by 2010. The third summit at Osake (Japan) in November was to stock of the progress towards the free trade goal.APEC s

13、 progress is even greater considering that until the first Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting of 12 regional foreign and economic ministers in Australia, it was simply a laudable idea. 1 Ever since that fateful Canberra conference in November 1989, APEC has never looked back. The origi

14、nal 12-member forum has 18 members: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Guinea, the Philip-pines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. The rush to join the APEC club is so great that it had to impose a three-year mora

15、torium on new membership till 1996. 2 When Australia first mooted the proposal to convene a conference for regional cooperation, there was considerable misgiving and scepticism about it. Most ASEAN countries (Association of South East Asian Nations)-Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysin, the Philippines, Sing

16、apore and Thailand (Vietnam was not a member of them)-were not particularly enthusiastic. 3 Indonesias Foreign Minister, Ah Alatas, simply wanted any Pacific organization to be an extension of ASEAN. Indonesias hosting of the APEC surnmit last year, where President Soeharto played a leading role in

17、putting together the free trade declaration, would suggest that Jakartas earlier misgivings have disappeared. 4 In the lead-up to the Osaka summit, the report card on the free trade agenda (gleaned from the meetings of officials from member countries) did not seem terribly good. The United States, w

18、hich seeks expanded access (and at a quicker pace) to regional markets, was unhappy with the slowness of Japan to advance the free trade agenda. Japan was the country chairing APEC for 1995. According to MS Sandra Kristoff, the US State Departments Coordinator for APEC, Japan had to go out there and

19、 create a consensus on free trade, lead a consensus, make this happen . The United States doubted Japans free trade credentials and felt that its heart was not in the APEC pledge. Tokyo has wanted a free trade agenda to develop on a voluntary basis. 5However, because of Americas growing preoccupatio

20、n in the months ahead with presidential elections, the Clinton administrations impatience and consequent negative rhetoric need not be taken at its face value. Washington cannot afford to ignore or opt out of APEC, with the USA having about 400 billion annual trade with the region.A The second summi

21、t was held in 1994 at Bogor in Indonesia.B It was felt that a pan-Pacific organization would dwarf 12 ASEAN, which might then lose its reason for being discussed and even its existence.C But, it was an idea whose time had come.D It would, however, be naive to suggest that APEC will be all smooth sai

22、ling.E This in itself is a proof of the considerable headway APEC has made in a short period of about six years.F It needs emphasizing that all APEC members are in favour of regional free trade but all de not favour set time-schedules and their enforcement.G Washington has not been happy with this a

23、pproach.1.答案: C2.答案: E3.答案: B4.答案: D5.答案: GPART THREERead the article below about common stock and preferred stock.For each question 13-18, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet, for the answer you choose. Common Stock and Preferred Stock A public corporation issues certificates of own

24、ership, called common stock, that may be traded on stock exchanges. Anyone can buy and sell shares of common stock. Owners of stock are referred to as shareholders and stockholders. Common stockholders are accorded certain rights by the corporate charter. In the United States, these rights vary from

25、 state to state, but in general the articles of incorporation spell out voting rights and rights to receive profits. Common stockholders are the voting owners of a corporation. They are usually entitled to one vote per share. They may vote on numerous decisions affecting the corporation (including a

26、 derision to sell or merge with another corporation) and elect a board of directors, who, in turn, hire managers to run the business. A majority shareholder is one who owns over 50 percent of the outstanding (issued) shares in a corporation and, thus, can call the shots. All other shareholders are m

27、inority shareholders. In large corporations no single person or organization owns anywhere near a majority interest. In large, publicly owned corporations a shareholder with as little as 10 percent of the shares may control the corporation effectively. If things go badly, a coalition of so called di

28、ssident shareholders may gather enough votes to replace the existing board of directors; the new hoard may fire the existing management and bring in their own management team. Although common stock represents ownership in a company, it does not guarantee the owners a specific rate of return. As owne

29、rs, the stockholders receive profits after all expenses, including debts and taxes, have been paid. They receive profits from the business in the form of dividend payments, which represent a percent-age of profits. Not all after-tax profits are paid to the stockholders in dividends. Directors usuall

30、y deride quarterly how much, if any, of the profits they wish to distribute to the owners. The profits are either distributed to the owners in dividends or they are reinvested back into the company in the form of retained earnings. If the company decides to keep the profits, the company may become m

31、ore valuable and the price of the stock usually goes up. Some investors prefer profits in the way of dividends while others speculate for an increase in the price of stock. If a company goes broken, common stockholders get last claim on whatever is left over. Corporations may also issue preferred st

32、ock to investors. Preferred stock usually has no vote in the election of the bard of directors, but does get preference in the distribution of the companys earnings. It offers investors a different type of security and may be issued only after common stock has been issued. The term preferred applies

33、 to two conditions. First, preferred stockholders gain preferential treatment in the matter of dividends; that is, they receive a fixed rate of dividends prior to the payment of dividends on common shares. Second, if the company goes out of business or liquidates, pregerred stockholders are closer t

34、o the front of the line than common stockholders! when distributing the companys assets. Dividends to preferred stock may be cumulative or noncumulative. Cumulative preferred stock maintains its claim to dividends even if the company decides not to pay them. For instance, if the company had a bad ye

35、ar in 1994, they might decide not to pay dividends. But if they had a good year in 1995. noncumulative preferred stock dividends do not accumulate. If dividends are not declared, noncumulative owners lose their claim to the profit of that period. In short, common stock usually has more control throu

36、gh voting privileges, greater chance for high returns, and more risk, whereas preferred stock usually has less control, fixed returns, less risk, and less chance for big gains. 1. Common stock traded on stock exchanges represents _ .A.the voting rights the stockholders haveB.the stock shared by comm

37、on peopleC.the profits the shareholders receiveD.the ownership of a public corporation答案:D2. The second paragraph describes _ .A.the returns to common stockholdersB.the majority and minority stockholdersC.the voting rights of common stockholdersD.the formation of common stock答案:C3. The main purpose

38、of the third paragraph is to tell us _ .A.the rate of returns to the stockholdersB.the risk of common stockholdersC.the distribution of profits to the stockholdersD.the benefits of common stock答案:C4. One of the differences between common stock and preferred stock lies in that _ .A.the former is safe

39、r in getting dividendsB.common stockholders get more stable profitsC.the latter gets more fixed returnsD.preferred stockholders have more rights in voting答案:C5. With cumulative preferred stock, stockholders can _ .A.claim to the former profits when the company has a good yearB.have more control over

40、 the companyC.claim to the former profits when the company has a bad yearD.receive high returns答案:A6. For those who want to get high returns, it is better for them to buy _ .A.preferred stockB.common stockC.noncumulative stockD.cumulative stock答案:BPART FOURRead the article below about computers.Choo

41、se the best work to fill each gap, from A, B, C or D.For each question 19-33, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet. Making computers work for you It is a typical day at the office-a senior manager is away when an urgent letter arrives from one of her clients. Meanwhile someone has dis

42、covered that the wrong price list has been sent out and half of the last 1 has been returned because the addresses are out of date. after a lot of time and effort has been 2 sorting out all these problems, someone asks 3 the new computer system didnt 4 all of this from happening. Unfortunately, such

43、 problems are 5 . One firm which used to have serious computer problems is Brinkman Lewis, a professionals ervices firm. David Callaghan, a partner at the firm, 6 . The initial problem for us was that we had all this information on computers around the office but didnt know what to 7 with it. Finall

44、y, Brinkman Lewis decided to 8 a network linking all the machines in the office. 9 than simply asking one of the senior managers to 10 responsibility for information technology, the firm brought in 11 Zoe Edlington to plan the development of its network. She began by upgrading the 12 telephone syste

45、m so it could be integrated with the computers to provide closer links between the 13 of the firm. She then began finding other ways in which the information already on the network could be 14 more effectively. The strategy worked. The company soon realized that there could be a market for such a 15

46、 , and before long Zoe Edlington was head of the firms new network consultancy business. 1.A.campaignB.postageC.mail shotD.launch答案:C2.A.spentB.lostC.takenD.employed答案:A3.A.whoreB.whetC.whenD.why答案:D4.A.avoidB.preventC.blockD.frustrate答案:B5.A.commonB.averageC.traditionalD.general答案:A6.A.convincesB.d

47、iscussesC.refersD.explains答案:D7.A.makeB.tryC.haveD.do答案:D8.A.manufactureB.foundC.introduceD.make答案:C9.A.RatherB.OtherC.InsteadD.Opposite答案:A10.A.confirmB.manageC.exerciseD.accept答案:D11.A.agentB.specialistC.masterD.authority答案:B12.A.formerB.onceC.existingD.ongoing答案:C13.A.membersB.colleaguesC.workmat

48、esD.subscribers答案:A14.A.usedB.workedC.practicedD.operated答案:A15.A.resultB.clarificationC.solutionD.decision答案:CPART FIVERead the text below, about qualification of a business person.In most of the lines 34-45,there is one extra word. it is either grammatically incorrect or not fit in withthe meaning

49、 of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.If a line is correct, write CORRECT on you Answer Sheet.If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word on your Answer Sheet. Education or experience?0 Recently there has been much debate done about what should qualify a person00 for promoti

50、on in the business world. In the past, a new employee would34 start by delivering the office mail. He would then work his way up the ladder,35 gaining higher and more responsive positions, eventually leading to the management.36 But with the rapid growth of getting business courses and qualification

51、s there is37 now another way many of people who aim for top management can miss out on the38 mail delivery stages by studying for a period and gaining in one of the numerous39 business qualifications now available. There is some criticism of this accelerated40 promotion. It is felt that it results i

52、n knowledge without also experience, and such41 knowledge type is inevitably incomplete. On the other hand the growth in business42 courses has led to much more highly skilled business practices. The answer seems43 to be that both experience and qualifications have their value, but as it should not

53、be forgotten44 that experience is45 a qualification in itself1.答案: CDRRECT2.答案: TO3.答案: GETTING4.答案: OF5.答案: IN6.答案: CORRECT7.答案: ALSO8.答案: TYPE9.答案: CORRECT10.答案: AS11.答案: CORRECT12.答案: CORRECTWRITING問題:1.PART ONEThe staff in your office decided to spend holidays together this year. While reading the news you are attracted by the advertisement of the Grand Palazzo Hotel in Italy. No one in your office has ever been to It