2014商务英语阅读试卷B卷

汕头大学（纳思教学点）

2013级商务英语专科第五学期

《实用商务英语阅读》闭卷考试（B 卷）

备注：考试时间120分钟。请考生把答案写在答题卷上,请勿直接在试卷上答题。

Reading

PART ONE (Questions 1-5)

● Look at questions 1-5. In each question, which sentence is correct? For each question, mark one

letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. （请按照方框里提供的信息进行作答。）

1

A Item 20 is now discontinued.

B Item 20 has developed a fault.

C

Item 20 is unavailable at the moment.

2

A Jane Halton is moving from banking to insurance.

B Boulder Insurance hopes to appoint a new Chief Executive.

C The post of Chief Executive at Curtis Bank has become vacant.

3

This organization

A rents luxury office space.

B provides conference facilities.

C markets other companies ’ goods.

4

Fine foods requires an agent to

A own a suitable vehicle for delivery.

B be a specialist in food distribution.

C deliver goods all over the country.

5

Staff should tell Jane Fellows

A how many people have enrolled for the course.

B if they are interested in doing the course.

C which of the courses they have decided to do.

PART TWO (Questions 6-10)

●Look at the list below. It shows a number of business training courses.

●For questions 6-10, decide which training course (A-H) each person on the opposite page

needs.

●For each question, mark one letter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet.

●Do not use any letter more than once.

（请在方框内A-H中选择匹配的信息对应6-10题，A-H每条只对应一题，请不要多选。）

6Andrew Taylor used to work for a PR company, so has good social skills and mixes well at public events. 7Robin Richards is skilled in art and computer-aided design, and previously worked for a publicity company.

8Fiona Murphy used to work for a local business producing CDs and has contacts with performers in the music business.

9Since working as an office manager, Mary Smith has gained experience of booking large local venues for entertainment events.

10John Albright, who worked briefly as a hotel porter, has developed accurate keyboard skills since he joined the company.

PART THREE (Questions 11-15)

●Look at the charts below. They show profits before tax and profit margins for

eight different companies from 1998 to 2002.

●Which chart does each sentence (11-15) describe?

●For each sentence, mark one letter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet.

●Do not use any letter more than once.

STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE

11At the close of this day’s trading, shares dipped just below 630 pence, despite achieving higher levels throughout the rest of the day.

12On this day share prices closed considerably lower than the previous working day, with the fluctuation between high and low being at its greatest.

13Shares closed at their lowest value of the day’s trading, but narrowly avoided the worst performance of the period.

14Shares closed at a higher value than the precious two days, although around 17 pence down on the high point for the day.

15During this day shares rose and fell within only a narrow margin and closed in the middle of the range, before falling sharply at the end of the following day.

PART FOUR (Questions 16-22)

●Read the article below about a self-employed journalist.

●Are sentences 16-22 on the opposite page ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’? If there is not enough

information to answer ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’, choose ‘Doesn’t say’.

●For each sentence (16-22), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet.

Louise Wood’s Success Story

Three years ago, Louise Wood set up her own hair products company. She soon found she had more orders than she could handle by herself, and now employs ten people. Her turnover last year was £5.8 million.

‘I used to work as a rep, selling hair products to people like famous hair-dressers. One day someone suggested to me that I should make and sell similar products myself, and I thought, “Why not?”’‘before I started, I thought running my own business would be similar to my previous job, but straight