历年商务英语中级听力＂中招＂原词

2012-04-29 00:00:00来源：考试大

　　BEC中级听力分三个部分，分别是填空、判断和单项选择。从测试学角度看，命题者为增加题目难度，突出某种语言应用能力，在题目设计上采用一种“原词陷阱”的策略。洞悉了这一特点，可以避开很多看似正确的“陷阱”。下面以第二部分的题目作为范例。

　　先看题目：

　　For each recording, decide what the speaker’s purpose is.

　　Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording.

　　Do not use any letter more than once.

　　After you have listened once, replay the recordings.

　　听力文本：

　　Eighteen

　　Man: Hello. This is Guy Cooper from Centron Electronics here. I believe you rang for some advice about your alarm system, which isn’t functioning properly. The message I got said you weren’t sure if you needed someone to come and sort it out, or if we could advise you over the phone. Well perhaps you’d like to get back to me as soon as it’s convenient and tell me exactly what the problem is, and I’ll see what I can do.

　　Nineteen

　　Woman: Well, as you say, Redlon has been supplying us for years but, quite honestly, two-thirds of the complaints we receive about our products are actually due to faults in components we’ve had from Redlon. So I talked to the Production Manager and he agreed that I should look at some alternatives. Future World’s range is fine for us, and one of their customers who I spoke to recommended them highly, so that’s why we’ve changed to using them.

　　Twenty

　　Woman: The competition’s getting tougher, and you know we’ve facing serious problems. We need to see more benefit from the undeniably hard work we’re putting in, and this means saying no to jobs which aren’t profitable. It would be much more beneficial to put all our efforts into winning higher-margin contracts. So the way I feel you can help most is by identifying the types of contracts which bring in the income we need in order to ensure our future.

　　Twenty-one

　　Man: John Woods here, phoning about the project we discussed earlier. Could you give me a ring so that we can talk about it a bit more? I’ve done a few calculations and I’m beginning to wonder whether it’s really a practical proposition. I still think the project’s got potential, but there are significant additional costs which we hadn’t taken into account. So could you get back to me as soon as you can, please?

　　Twenty-two

　　Woman: Hello, Sally here, from Pagwell Paints, returning your call. I’m very sorry you aren’t happy with the latest consignment you’ve had from us. It’s rather strange, because following your complaint about the last delivery, we did in fact take action to change the specifications in the way you suggested. So it isn’t quite fair to say that we ignored your advice. I know it’s important to achieve the consistency that you require, but perhaps your recommendation wasn’t exactly what’s needed.

　　　　分析：此题考察考生对听力文本信息综合、概括、归纳的能力，因此应避免根据某一句话尤其某一个词做出判断。而命题者故意在每个文本设计放了一些“陷阱”，等待不明真相的童鞋“英勇献身”。第18里有一个词advice和选项D对应;第19里的complaints和选项A对应;第22里面的complaint和 recommendation 分别和选项A和H对应。但是，这些选项都不对。因此，对付此类题目，小心“敌人”的“诱饵”，避免上当。

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