商务英语阅读测试试题A

商务英语阅读试题A

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商务英语阅读试题A

Part I Multiple Choice (20 points)

Complete the sentences by choosing from the words below each sentence.

1. Technical skills performing specialized tasks within the organization.

a. are associated with

b. differ from

c. are similar to

2. Corporate culture is the shared experiences, stories, beliefs, and norms .

a. which creates a company

b. that characterize a company

c. whose company has got

3. If a company is to get the most out of its workers, it must those workers.

a. develop

b. select

c. promote

4. In theory, a company’s auditors are appointed independently by its shareholders, to whom they report. “Whom” represents .

a. auditors

b. accountants

c. shareholders

5. Over-capacity in the car business leads to a series of joint agreements and mergers between .

a. car companies

b. joints ventures

c. capacity level

6. Ford intended to V olvos and hoped to use V olvo’s technology to develop new cars.

a. share

b. focus

c. distribute

7. The principles in the Organizational Chaos Model can also be used to the company’s competition.

a. introduce

b. overcome

c. understand

8. As a senior student, you are supposed to know better than just until the examination time.

a. fooled around

b. to fool around

c. having fooled around

9. Transnational companies will in China.

a. continue locating

b. continues to locate

c. continue to locate

10. E-business is about transforming business process and _______ them with Internet technologies.

a. integrates

b. integrating

c. to integrate

11. Other companies use Web technology to ______ business electronically at the wholesale or retail level.

a. support

b. exchange

c. transact

12. The funds needed to operate an enterprise are refereed to as .

a. labour

b. capital

c. resources

13. They also want to integrate these systems _______ the rest of their business process.

a. with

b. and

c. for

14. Accounting firms frequently _________ their audit clients.

a. buy management skills from

b. sell consulting services to

c. provide audit assignment for

15. I went to buy a new tie to _______ this brown suit.

a. go into

b. go with

c. go after

16. The secretary entered with a pencil and paper, and _________ every word the manager said.

a. made for

b. took up

c. took down

17. The financing of international trade is more complex than that of domestic trade. ‘That’ here means .

a. financing

b. international trade

c. domestic trade

18. The process of education, experience, more education, and then is called a cyclical process.

a. less education

b. more experience

c. education and experience

19.Hardly _______ the airport when he started for his destination.

a. I had reached

b. had I reached

c. I reached

20. The climbers tried to find a new ______ to the top of the mountain.

a. approach

b. route

c. entrance

Part II Match (20 points)

Section A

Choose the correct word or words from the box to complete the passage:

the Industrial Revolution customers’ needs

the marketing concept production and selling

the selling of goods business focus

Business people focused on the production of goods from 21 until the early twentieth century, and on 22 from the 1920s to the 1950s. Marketing received little attention up to that point. After 1950, however, business people recognized that their enterprises involved not only 23 but also the satisfaction of 24 . They began to implement 25 , a business philosophy that involves the entire business organization in the dual process of satisfying customer needs and achieving the organization’s goals.

Section B

Choose the correct word or words from the box to complete the following sentences: marketing concept benefits