剑桥商务英语高级-3(总分70,考试时间90分钟)READINGPART ONE· Look at the sentences below and following texts.· Which text does each sentence refer to?· For each sentence 1--8, mark one letter A, B, C, D or E.· You will need to use some of the letters more than once.A. Kmart sells 18 stores to Home DepotKmart finalized Monday a deal to sell 18 of its stores to Home Depot Inc. , for $ 271 million, with an option to sell one more store. The original pact called for the sale of as many as 24 stores for up to $ 365 million. "The stores we are retaining from the originally announced transaction have been operating profitably and better than plan for this year," Julian Day, president and chief executive of Kmart, said in a statement about the revised deal.B. Toys R Us still selling toysTroubled Toys R Us, in the midst of a major restructuring, reported a wider second-quarter operating loss Monday, while CEO John Eyler appeared to play down speculation that **pany will stop selling toys altogether. Toys R Us earlier this month announced **pany was exploring a possible sale of its global toy division as well as spinning off its Babies R Us unit as part of an ongoing strategic review of its business. The news sparked much speculation among industry watchers that **pany was looking to remove itself from its traditional toy-selling business.C. Southwest cutting 88 flightsSouthwest Airlines Inc. , the largest U. S. discount carrier, said Monday it would eliminate 88 scheduled flights in a bid to boost revenue by freeing up planes for more lucrative markets. The Dallas-based carrier estimates the schedule changes, the largest in its history, will increase annual revenue by about $60 million. "This does represent the largest schedule tweak we've ever made," said Linda Rutherford, a spokeswoman for the airline, adding that the planned schedule changes will affect 3 percent of the airline's 2,800 daily flights.D. "Exorcist" prequel scares up $18M"Exorcist: The Beginning", a film that had to be re-shot with a new director because the first version was not scary enough, led the North American box office over the weekend, as moviegoers once again flocked to the resurrection of an aging franchise. According to studio estimates issued Sunday, the fourth installment in the 30-year-old "Exorcist" series sold about $18.2 million worth of tickets in the three days since its Aug. 20 opening. Another new entry, **edy "Without a Paddle", launched at No. 2 with $13. 2 million. The teen romance "The PrincessDiaries 2.. Royal Engagement" slipped to No. 3 with $13. 2 million in its second weekend.E. Low interest in low carbFood manufacturers who have stocked store shelves with low-carbohydrate versions of everything from spaghetti sauce to ice cream may find they are eating the costs themselves, as the low-carb fad peaks, analysts and industry observers said. "It's typical that one rushes into the party just when the party is breaking up," said William Leach, food industry analyst at Neuberger Berman. Sales of low-carb branded foods surged $ 815 million, to $1.13 billion, in the 12 months ended June 13, according to market research firm Information Resources Inc. That includes both new brands like Atkins and Carb Solutions and extensions of existing brands--like Unilever' s Carb Options versions of Skippy peanut butter and Lipton soups.1. **pany may deviate from its traditional business.2. **pany will experience a significant restructure.3. **pany is reducing its scale.4. **pany is a film-making firm.5. **pany has underestimated its operations.6. **pany is trying to clear up the speculation.7. **pany may feel a little late when swarming into the market.8. **pany considers its future to be hopeful.PART TWO· Read the following text.· Choose the best sentence from A--H to fill in each of the gaps.· For each gap 9--14, mark one letter A--H.· Do not use any letter more than once.When there is a vacancy in a company, it is the job of the Personnel Manager and his department to manage the recruitment of a new employee. (9) . Management can inform people of new appointment by means of the firm's notice board or news bulletin. Another possibility is to ask for recommendations from departmental managers and supervisors. If it is necessary to recruit outside **pany, (10) . It may prefer to put its own advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.It is usual for an advertisement to give a short description of the job, conditions of work and salary, (11) . After studying these, management decides who receives an application form.In order to assess the applications, managers can work from a personnel specification such as Rodger's Seven-Point Plan. (12) . For this reason, it is important that the application form requests clear information about such things as the applicant's age, education, qualifications and work experience. It must also ask for references from other employers or people who know the applicant well. (13) .The staff who hold an interview together are called an interview "panel". (14) **es from a careful reading of job descriptions, personnel specifications, and applications. To help the panel in their selection, **panies use an interview assessment form. This is used by the panel during the interview when each applicant is checked under the same point of the form.Many employers say that the success of a good business begins in the Personnel Manager's office.A. this information helps management to make a final decision on the number of applicants they can short-list for interviewB. they do not choose applicants who do not have a good profileC. it is important that they know what information they need to get from the applicantsD. they will decide to employ several applicants after interviewE. first **pany should know who they really need for the job vacancyF. the personnel department may **mercial and government employment offices or consultantsG. one way an organization can find staff for job vacancies is to recruit in companyH. and to invite introductory letters from applicants9.10.11.12.13.14.PART THREE· Read the following text.· 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 for the answer you choose."How many of you have been angry at least once today?" asked the conductor of an anger-management seminar. According to an article of The New York Times, most of those in the room raised their hands. "The fact is," the seminar leader continued, "people get angry an average of 10 to 14 times a day. But anger is especially endemic to work. If you have a job, you're guaranteed to get angry."Up would have gone my hand, had I been in the room and heard that last mark. And I would have respectfully disagreed.Although some statistics indicate that the number of on-the-job flare-ups has increased in recent years, to hold onto the notion that workplace anger that is therefore guaranteed is counterproductive. It leaves one with the impression that any efforts to remain even- tempered at work are, at best, only a bandit.Anger-management experts do offer a **mon-sense guidelines to minimize work related anger: don't let it fester; don't look for snubs in what are purely innocent incidents; don't get caught up in other people's gripes; if you start to lose control, take a break.I would add, pray.Instead of sitting there fuming over some encounter, why not use the time to listen for God's thoughts, his messages to you? To be sure, they will snuff out the heat of anger and bring calmness, clarity, and healing. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, faith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."Better still, one can act preemptively to prevent a volatile atmosphere on the job. A good start is to consider that the people we work with--whether it's the person at the desk across from ours or the president of **pany--are not what we see on the surface.If we take it for granted that our coworkers are so many **posed merely of an assortment of physical and emotional characteristics, then our overall expectations on the job, as well as our concern for the well-being of those we work with, are limited. But our true nature isn't the sum of material and sometimes fiery emotional elements. Each one of us is God's child. Everyone's true **es from this one source--God, divine Spirit--and is therefore purely good and spiritual."Man (including woman) is the offspring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind,"wrote Mary Baker Eddy, author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". This divine Mind, or God, is expressing in each of us these "highest qualities" as our real nature, respectfully and lovingly, and revealing our actual relation to one another as sons and daughters of God.What we should be counting on at work, then, or anywhere else where **e into contact with one another, is an atmosphere in which everyone feels upheld by God's thoughts of peace. In this atmosphere, solid relationships develop and solutions appear even in situations where it was believed that none were possible.So, instead of bracing for a showdown with a fellow worker, you can arrive at work filled with the conviction that you and your colleagues, clients, and customers are all inherently good-natured--God-natured--the offspring of a totally loving creator. You're certain to have higher expectations, **passion, more patience. A real peacemaker attitude.This is doing more than managing work-related anger. This is helping to eliminating it.15. The author may be a ______.A. ChristianB. IslamiteC. BuddhistD. Antitheist16. With regard to the sentence "If you have a job, you're guaranteed to get angry", the author takes a ______ attitude.A. positiveB. negativeC. indifferentD. critical17. Which of the following does not belong to Anger-management?A. Trying to control one's temper.B. Trying not to find fault with others.C. Trying to have a break when angry.D. Trying to control other's temper.18. In the author's eyes, human being is ______.A. physical and emotionalB. spiritualC. selfishD. full of loving19. According to the author, we should consider people around us to be ______.A. selfishB. God's childC. inherently good-naturedD. peacemakers20. The author attaches more importance to ______.A. anger-managementB. anger-eliminationC. God's spiritD. prayerPART FOUR· Read the following text.· Choose the best word to fill each gap.· For each question 21--30, mark one letter A, B, C or D.International airlines (21) the business travelers, the man or woman who regularly jets from country to country as part of the job. This does not necessarily mean that airlines ever abandoned their business travelers. Indeed, companies like Lufthansa and Swissair would rightly argue that they have always catered best (22) the executive class passengers. But many lines could be (23) of concentrating too heavily in the recent past on attracting passengers by volume, often at the expense of regular travelers. Too often, they have seemed (24) for quantity rather thanquality.Operating a major airline in the 1980s is essentially a matter of finding the right mix of passengers.The airlines need to fill up the back end of their wide-bodied jets with low (25) passengers, without forgetting that the front end should be filled with people who pay substantially more for their tickets.It is no coincidence that the two major airline bankruptcies in 1989. were among **panies specializing (26) cheap flights. But low fares require (27) full aircraft to make flights economically viable, and in the recent recession the volume of traffic has not grown. Equally the large number of airlines jostling for the available passengers has created a huge excess of capacity. The (28) result of excess capacity and cut- **petition driving down fares has been to push some airlines into collapse and leave many others (29) on the brink.Against this (30) background, it is no surprise that airlines are turning increasingly towards the business travelers to improve their rates of return. They have invested much time and effort to establish exactly what the executive demands for sitting apart from the tourists.High on the list of priorities is punctuality; an executive% time is money. In-flight service is another area where the airlines are jostling for the executive's attention. The free drinks and headsets and better food are all part of the lure.21.A. will rediscoverB. have rediscoveredC. rediscoverD. rediscovered22.A. towardsB. withC. ofD. for23.A. accusedB. abusedC. askedD. questioned24.A. developedB. devisedC. designedD. geared25.A. feeB. fareC. chargeD. cost26.A. withB. forC. inD. to27.A. consistentlyB. contrastlyC. constantlyD. conversely28.A. realB. totalC. pureD. net29.A. hoveredB. hoveringC. hoverableD. hover30.A. grimB. brimC. gloomD. glazePART FIVE· Read the following text.· For each question 31--40, write one word.Californian Michael Schwabe said goodbye to the gas pump two years ago when he leased an electric car. Schwabe says (31) he gets out of driving electric is more than just a charge. "With the price of gasoline and with the problems of clean air it's important we get electric vehicles out on the road."On California roads there are about two thousand electric cars. By 2003, ten percent of all new cars may be required to have zero emissions. This mandate automakers say is way ahead (32) its time.Gloria Bergquist of the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers says, "The technology isn't here yet; it still needs advancement (33) driving range to make it more appealing to a wider consumer audience".Automakers blame it (34) the batteries. Power runs out on most (cars) after about 70 miles, although some can now go more than 100 miles on a charge. Batteries are expensive and carmakers say there is nothing they can do about it.Now car manufacturers want the California Air Resources Board to relax the 10 percent mandate. (35) not, they say people won't be able to afford electric cars that aren't heavily subsidized.Dave Hermance of Toyota Motors says, "In 2003, a highway electric vehicle will be 20 thousand dollars more than a gasoline vehicle."The state of California demanded tough restrictions on emissions in 1990. Twice since then, the state relaxed regulations (36) **plained they couldn't meet the requirements.Tim Carmichael of the Clean Air Coalition says, "The automakers have not built a vehicle (37) required to do so, (38) it's very important (39) the state to **mitted to this program requiring automakers to build small amounts in beginning years and then the market will take off".Michael Schwabe believes other drivers would take off in electric cars (40) only carmakers would make them available.31.32.33.34.35.36.37.38.39.40.PART SIX· In most lines of the following text, there is one unnecessary word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text.· For each numbered line 41--52, find the unnecessary word. Some lines are correct. If a line is correct, write CORRECT.To avoid buying or selling a stock at a price higher or lower thanwhat you wanted, you need to place a limit order rather than a (41) ______ market order. A limit order is an order if to buy or sell a security at (42) ______a specific price. A buy limit order can only be executed at the limitprice or lower, and a sell limit order that can only be executed at (43) ______the limit price or higher. When you place a market order, you can'tcontrol the price at which your order will be filled with. (44) ______For example, if you want to buy the stock of a "hot" IPO that wasinitially offered at $ 9, but don't want to end up paying more than (45) ______$ 20 for the stock, you can place a limit order to buy the stock atany price up to $ 20. By entering with a limit order rather than a (46) ______ market order, you will not be caught in buying the stock at $ 90 (47) ______and then for suffering immediate losses as the stock drops later in (48) ______the day or the weeks ahead.Remember so that your limit order may never be executed because (49) ______ that the market price may quickly surpass your limit before your (50) ______ order which can be filled. But by using a limit order you also protect (51) ______ yourself from buying the stock at too high a price. (52) ______41.42.43.44.45.46.47.48.49.50.51.52.WRITINGPART ONE1. · The graph below shows the average yearly change of comsumption.· Using information from the graph, write a short report describing.· Write 120--140 words on your Answer Sheet. Average Yearly Change(chained[20000]dollars)1992-2000 2000-2002 2003 Q1 2004 (a.r.)Personal consumption expenditures 225.6 200.5 221.8 193.4Gross private domestic investment 105.8 -81.8 63.7 109.0Government consumption & investment 20.8 57.7 62.6 20.82. · **pany is launching a new product. You have been asked to organize a public relations event as part of the launch. · Write a report about who should be invited and what the program should involve. · Write 200--250 words on your Answer Sheet.SPEAKING1. If you are the director of Human Resources Department, please discuss the importance of providing staff training.。
