BEC剑桥商务英语中级考试真题试卷.doc

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真题一

When to Recruit?

0 In a small business, deciding when to take on new staff is a delicate calculation.

On

00 the one hand, if you are increase your workforce, you might find it difficult to

cover

34 for the increased costs straight away. On the other hand, extra staff could

35 enable you to spend more time on activities such as marketing, which in the

36 end should meanthe increased profits. A useful way of deciding when to increase

37 your workforce is to ask yourself if you can make enough of extra sales to meet

38 the cost of taking on with an extra employee. But even if you are not able to

39 increase your sales immediately you may still be able to employ someone.

40 In this such case, however, you must keep your business going until you have

built

41 your sales up to the new level you need. If in the end you are clever enough to

42 get your timing so right, you will not want to throw away your advantage by

43 employing the wrong type person. The whole process of advertising and

44 interviewing can take around many months, so finding you made a mistake and

45 need to recruit again it can have a very serious impact on the future of your

business.

《When to recruit? 》，何时招人 ?文章是讲的小公司招人的一些注意事项，应该如何

判断招人的时机。

34 题， cover 是及物动词，后面直接接宾语，不需要用for 。cover 在此处的含义是“ to be enough money to pay for something 。”

35 题，正确的。

36 题，这句的意思是说招人可以反过来增加收益。mean (the) increased profits ，意

味着增加的收益。并不是特别指代，不需要使用定冠词the 。

37 题， make 是及物动词，直接后面接名词， make enough extra sales ，不需要 of 。

38 题， take on 是雇佣的意思。看韦氏词典的解释： If you take someone on, you

employ them to do a job. 后面不需要 with 。

39题，正确的。

40 题， in this case: in this situation, if so, if we consider this situation在这种情况下，such 多余。

41题，正确的。

42题， timing 是时机掌握的意思： the choice, judgement, or control of when

something should be done 。这个句子的意思是如果你够聪明，把握好了正确的时机。

直接用 get sth. right ，so 是多余的。

43 题，招到了错误的人，形容词 wrong 后面直接接名词 person ，type 是多余的。

44 题， take 在这里是及物动词，指耗费了多少时间和精力，直接用动词take 就能表

示这个意思， around 是多余的

45 题，整个句子 finding you made a mistake and need to recruit again(it) can have a

very serious impact 成分很完整。 finding you made a mistake and need to recruit

again 是主语， have 是谓语， impact 是宾语， it 在这里多余。

真题二

Business Meetings

It is important that ideas and suggestions tabled at formal meeting are voiced at the

(0)time. This is achieved by keeping to the (19)....... shown on the agenda. For example, there is no (20).......in discussing ideas to do with item six on the agenda

when item two has not yet been (21)........Such deviations from the agenda may (22)....... in confusion among the people at the meeting; they may also (23)....... concentration if they see something as irrelevant.

To make certain that the meeting proceeds in an orderly fashion, it is therefore

useful to (24)....... some ground rules. First, everyone will need to understand that

they must (25).......their comments to the topic under discussion. The Chair can then encourage one person to speak at a (26)....... , so that any ideas offered can be discussed and (27)........Once that person has finished, someone else can put (28).......their ideas and so on. If this procedure is adopted, the participants will be

able to follow the various issues in a consistent manner, which will help with the

decision-making (29)....... later on. It will also (30).......that the quiet people at