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2010年BEC阅读真题分析！PART ONEQuestions 1-7Look at the statements below and the advertisements on the opposite page.Which advertisement does each statement 1-7 refer to?For each sentence 1-7, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.You will need to use some of the letters more than once.Example:0 You need to be familiar with a variety of computer software.0 A B C D1 This job involves working for a well-known company.评析：advertisements C中含有well-established firm的信息，判定C符合题意。2 You will meet a wide variety of customers in this job.评析：advertisements A中含有client liaison (客户联络)的信息，判定A符合题意。3 This post involves responsibility for recruitment.评析：advertisements D中含有interviewing job applicants的信息，判定D符合题意。4 Your work should not be discussed outside the office.评析：advertisements B中含有highly confidential(高度保密)的信息，判定B符合题意。5 In this job you will deal with peoples investments.评析：advertisements B中含有looking after customers financial assets such as property and possessions的信息，判定B符合题意。6 This post has recently been established.评析：advertisements C中含有newly-created position的信息，判定C符合题意。7 Your job description will require you to read some documents very carefully.评析：advertisements A中含有proof reading and checking的信息，判定A符合题意。AILT Consultants 19,000+benefitsHeres an exciting opportunity to combine your presentation skills and organizational abilities, working for a team of systems analysts. You will need to have a good eye for detail as the role involves large amounts of proof reading and checking. The job also involves client liaison at all levels, as well as an element of research.BJohn Guild & Son 17,500+benefitsCity finance house seeks a mature person to work for the Secretariat. The post involves: looking after customers financial assets such as property and possessions; database work; accounting; and organizational responsibilities. The bulk of the workload is highly confidential. A good level and range of PC experience will secure you an interview.CHoopers 17,000Join this household name and play a key part in supporting their Regional Operations Director and marketing team. This is a newly-created position within a well-established firm and there is plenty of opportunity for you to develop your role. You will need to be self-motivated with the ability to prioritise. Some Windows experience essential.DITC Investment Consultants 18,000+This is an opening for a bright, part-qualified assistant to work in an investment companys busy personnel department. You will need to have one years experience of interviewing job applicants, and the confidence to handle appraisals and disciplinary actions. Further training will be offered or the right candidate. Keyboard skills are desirable as you will manage all personal correspondence。PART TWOQuestions 8-12Read the article below which reviews a new book on company planning.Choose the best sentence from the list on the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.For each gap 8-12, mark one letter (A-G) on your Answer Sheet.Do not use any letter more than once.There is an example at the beginning (0).Firms need a better way of planningNick Field, in his book Strategy Management, offers a new approach to help companies map out their future.Many companies have lost the art of strategy-making. They spend too much time looking at process change, organisation and systems. (0)_. They have got things out of balance. In many companies, the development of strategy is in crisis. In a recent magazine poll, only six per cent of executives rated their company highly for long-term planning skills. (8) _. If this figure is accurate, it is not surprising that 29% of the FTSE 100 companies failed to achieve real sales growth between 1992 and 1996, when take-overs are excluded from the figures.(8)评析：前句谈到：杂志调查显示，只有6%的总裁对他们公司的长期规划评价很高。可见，这部分信息的重心是planning,和strategy。后句说，假如这个数字是正确的话，那么。可见(8)中必然要包含关于数据的内容。正确答案为C. Another survey estimated that only one in ten companies had the information they needed to make strategic decisions. C中含有数字only one in ten，而且话题和前句一致，都是关于strategy.There can be no doubt about the value of effective strategy-making. Recent research has shown that what are described as visionary companies - those with clear strategies for the future - deliver higher shareholder returns. They are less at risk from short-term earnings pressures because they know - and they can convince others - that they will survive these.(9) _ Times have changed. The big company of today is not being defeated by another big company but by the small companies. So how do they do it?. And where do companies that are failing in this respect turn? If a company accepts that their strategy development is not the best in the class, if they acknowledge that they need to do more to map out their future, influence rather than be influenced, shape their market instead of being shaped by it, how should they take on this strategy-making challenge?(9)评析:后一句谈到“时代已经变了，大公司不是被大公司，而是被小公司击败。”既然后句谈时代改变了，那么前句应当在谈过去怎样。正确答案为 F. In the past, it was generally believed that the scale of the company was the most significant factor.Fields book Strategy Management puts forward a new approach to help companies rediscover the power of forward planning. (10) _. The book is straightforward to understand and use, and offers practical and specific directions. Research and empirical testing have proved that it can be useful in all areas of industry and should be of value to any company.(10)评析：前句谈到Field的书战略治理提到一种新的重新帮助公司发现未来规划的能力。后一句也谈到书，可见(10)句中一定包含关于书的信息。正确答案为A Clear guidelines are given on how to become involved with customers and build new forms of competitive advantage.The approach put forward is based on two key building blocks, the first being that any company considering its future must have a commitment to win. (11) _. The second building block is competitive advantage. The author defines four prime areas that differentiate organisations and influence purchase decisions. These are the performance of the product or service, sold at the most attractive price, with extraordinary levels of service and strong emotional values. It may require only one of these areas to produce a competitive advantage. Take Coca-Cola for example. (12) _.(11)评析：前句提到two key building blocks的第一个，后句提到第二个，可见(11)的信息应当和第一个building block有关。前句中：the first being that any company considering its future must have a commitment to win.这里重心落在commitment to win上。正确答案为E If this comes across forcefully enough rivals will see it and go elsewhere, believing the market will be taken over by another.这里的this指的即为commitment to win。(12)评析：前句提到可口可乐，后面一定在举可口可乐的例子。正确答案选B Through the brand name, the company has established a relationship with customers feelings that has made the product highly successful.Companies can explore how to win by building on their commitment and working around this approach to identify which one or more of these four sources of advantage will lead to successExample:A B C D E F GA Clear guidelines are given on how to become involved with customers and build new forms of competitive advantage.B Through the brand name, the company has established a relationship with customers feelings that has made the product highly successful.C Another survey estimated that only one in ten companies had the information they needed to make strategic decisions.D Lacking any debate about the future, these are typically reduced to a once-a-year form-filling exercise.E If this comes across forcefully enough rivals will see it and go elsewhere, believing the market will be taken over by another.F In the past, it was generally believed that the scale of the company was the most significant factor.G They do not invest enough effort in determining where they want to be in their markets and how they are going to beat their competitors考官支招BEC阅读难题解析Reading PART ONE在BEC Vantage 和Higher 中，Part one和Part two 是考生普遍反映难以应付的题型，这次我们就来解析一下第一个部分。根据考生的反映，问题主要集中在两个方面，一个是词汇的问题，即考生无法判断词汇的含义和与其相关的词汇，二是考生能够理解词汇，但是对于整体的段落含义无法明白，这是由于考生缺乏相关的商务背景知识。其实，这正体现得这道考题的考点，第一个是同义词，近义词的转换，第二个是需要考生进行总结。下面，我来具体帮助大家来解决这些难题。现在我们先来看一下阅读第一部分的题型。题目的要求是给出七句话，和五段节选段落，要求考生指出七句陈述分别指的是哪段节选。在题型上BEC Vantage 和 Higher 是一致的，差别在于段落的数量和难度。我们以08年5月BEC高级真题的阅读第一部分为例。按以下的步骤审题，分析考题，找出答案，能够更高效更准确的答题。1 阅读说明：在处理题目时，请大家一定要注意Instruction 中的第一个，因为这里将会告诉大家一个非常重要的信息，那就是之后要出现的段落都是有关一个什么内容，这会为大家提供一个预测的平台。例如在这道考题中，我们可以发现这些节选都是围绕公司企业展开的。如例题中的下划线部分：PART ONEQuestions 1-8 Look at the statements below and at the five newspaper items about different companies on the opposite page. Which company (A, B, C, D or E) does each statement 1-8 refer to? For each statement 1-8, mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E) on your Answer Sheet. You will need to use some of these letters more than once. There is an example at the beginning, (0).2 看题目：然后大家可以看题目了，这里很多考生会问到一个问题，就是先看Statement 还是现在 extract？这里请大家注意，在BEC考题中，第一部分和第二部分，一个先给出选项，一个后给出选项，那么就是说第一部分中，出题官希望考生能够先处理选项，也就是statement的部分。那么下一个问题就是，选项这么长，怎么能记得住呢，如果每读到一段extract, 都要再从头到尾读一遍statement，那就非常浪费时间了，甚至可能答不完题目。这里要和大家说的是，请大家将选项中的关键字画出，之后只要锁定所画的关键字就可以了。在这道题目中我们可以看到每句话的关键词（下划线部分）：1 Shares in this company have stopped rising in value.2 This company has again revised its growth targets downwards.3 A problem experienced by this company has led to a change of personnel.4 Suppliers may refuse to charge this company less for their goods.5 A period of rapid growth immediately preceded a fall in this companys share price.6 This companys reputation differs from that of its competitors.7 This company is planning to operate from fewer sites.8 A rise in the value of this companys shares appears to depend on the success of its present strategy.3 处理文章：画完关键词后，就可以来阅读五段文章。在BEC的考点中，最经常出现的便是同义词和近义词，所以考生在阅读文章中，要时刻留意所看到的词汇和所画关键词的关系。我们现在来看一下文章A 请大家注意 respect, considerable more than its peers in, 这里的respect 大家可以联想到关键词 reputation, 而peers 大家可以想到 competitors，再看句意，说的是Angus这家公司在刚进入市场的时候，它的名声便和其他同行业的公司不同。因此，我们根据关键字的近义词判断 6 所指的是A.接下来， the companys recent warning that such growth is unlikely to be maintained has caused a leveling off in its share price. 这里请大家注意 level off 这个短语，如果这个短语的含义能够清楚，那么选项也就明白了。这个词组表达的含义是变平，这里就是停止增长，开始走平。这样我们马上就可以对应上关键词 shares stopped rising in value。因此 1 选择 A最后一句话，说到投资人希望通过现在北美的扩张来带来收益和付给工人工资，以推高公司的股票，这对应了 8 。B 这里提到了 further reducing the cost of raw materials by 15% is perhaps over-ambitious, given the resistance to the 5% cut the company imposed last year. 削减原材料成本就是要求供应商降价，而很难就说明供应商会拒绝，所以选项中的我么可以对应上 4说到 improving manufacturing efficiency, including job cuts and plant closures,时， 指的是通过裁员和关闭工厂来控制成本，这正对应了7 中的关键字。C 这里的选项是通过总结来判断出来的，最开始的股票价格为 405p，之后开始下跌到 64p,先升后降，选择 5D 注意 the turmoil and has resulted in the resignation of the director responsible for product and marketing. 动荡造成了一名主管的离职，属于人事变动，所以选择 3E abandoned the targets it set only six months ago. Move away from to more realistic figures. 这些词都对应了 2综上所述，大家可以发现，我们并不需要完全理解整个文章，只需要能够判读出关键词，和文章中与其对应得近义词，便可以应对自如。所以请大家不要担心遇到生词怎么办，不是很明白怎么办。只要大家思路清晰，关键词判断正确，便可以做对题目。名师指点BEC备考-听力-Eric 对于中国考生而言，BEC考试的听力部分毫无疑问是四个板块中难度最高的，可以不夸张的说：“令万千考生泪洒考场，痛不欲生！”中国考区的平均通过率之所以低于全球水平很大程度上也是因为考生在听力部分丢分太多。但这并不能完全说明，中国考生的听力水平都很差。我们有不少学员常感叹，自己从来不觉得自己听力差，参加过不少国内外的英语考试，听力成绩都不差，怎么就“栽”在BEC听力上了呢？其实这跟BEC听力考试的很多特点有关。 首先，语音构成复杂：英音居多，占据整个听力的80% 以上，其余的以美音为主，有时也会出现其他口音，我们的大多数考生显然平时接触美音较多，对英音不够适应。那schedule来说，应该算是听力里的高频词汇，它的英式发音非常特别，就很少有考生能辨别出来。 在商务的背景中出现：有背景音，比如接电话的题目，势必有一个人声音较轻，不容易捕捉；访谈类的题目比较长，长句很多，容易更不上节奏，错过题目。 BEC是给放两遍音频的，这应该说会很有帮助的，但也容易出现，考试一上来没有更上，就放弃第一遍，等着听第二遍的情况，这样其实浪费了一次非常宝贵的查缺补漏，提高正确率的机会。 考点设计的比较隐蔽，陷阱多。有细节的，也有被隐藏起来的，但是总体而言细节题居多，只不过是变换了样子以近义词，近义句的形式出现而已。 在对BEC听力考题的特点有了个全面的了解后，下面就结合这些特点给大家分享一些听力Part1（单词填空）的答题技巧： 力争在第一遍就完成80以上的缺口，在第二遍时查缺补漏，完成并校对所有缺口。 在听力开始之前仔细阅读第一项文字部分，尤其是缺口部分前的字句，理解其意思，因为不要指望说话人会在提及缺口内容之前说出与缺口部分前的字句完全一致的字句。说话人往往说出与缺口部分前字句意思相同的其他表达，包括使用近义词，近义句等。 根据缺口前后内容的词性，结构来“predict”缺口内可能出现的词的词性或结构。 缺口部分包括：单个名词或形容词（通常词形比较复杂）；两个名词构成的结构；一个形容词和一个名词构成的结构；动词加名词的结构；数词。 可供判断的标志： 缺口是名词（或名词结构）的标志是：缺口前有介词的出现。 缺口是形容词的标志是：缺口后有名词的出现。 缺口是动词（或动词结构）的标志是：缺口后有介词的出现。 缺口是数词（或数词结构）的标志是：缺口前后有number、percentage等提示词的出现。 当缺口处单词（或结构）过长时，可以在第一遍时进行速记，第二遍时完成。 不要超出词数限制，中级是每空不超过两个单词，高级是三个单词。注意所填单词的单复数形式，及分词形式。拼写不可以出错。要求填写听到的确切信息，不可以同义替换。 填写听写的时候，记得要用大写字母誊写在答题纸上。 下面我们以一道高级听力Part1的考题为例：It is essential to do thorough _ before visiting China.It is viewed as extremely rude if you are _ in China.First of all, everyone exchanges _ with one another.The Chinese feel an obligation to provide _ at all times. 这是一段讲述到中国去做生意应该注意些什么文化问题的小段落。 原文中的句子是这么出现的，第一句：it is imperative that you do extensive preparatory work. 飘红的部分我们看到了明显的特征，就是同义词的替换，这在商务英语中的应用非常广泛，词汇的丰富变化在此可见一斑。Imperative 和essential 属于近义词，同时可以跟随虚拟语气，表示基本的，紧急的。 第二句的原句是：the Chinese find it most discourteous if you are late for meeting. 这个discourteous 和卷面上的extremely rude 同义。 第三句的原句是：To begin with, all those present will swap business cards in itself a very important ceremony. Swap 和exchange 同义，互换名片之意。 第四句中，hosts believe it is their duty to offer their visitors hospitality, even though the visitors themselves may much prefer a day off after intense negotiations.这里，obligation 和duty同义，provide 和 offer 同义， 所以我们发现这类题目中的重要特点：正确答案隐藏在同义词的后面，填空的时候注意力要集中在空前，多数情况下空格前面的词是原文的同义词，所以关注空格前，线索在空格前面，反应要快。 在这一部分的考题中，要求我们同学平时就有比较好的写的基本功，单词拼写要准确无误，所以我们不建议大家平时多用电脑工作，写文章，尽量自己动笔写，提升基本写作能力。考官支招BEC听力难题剖析BEC中级听力Part 2之主动出击 BEC听力的第二部分开始，是很多考生的“考场噩梦”，我们和很多考生交流过，大家大部分的认知是：考题语速很快，意思不能很快反应就已经过去，没有可抓住的信息点，总是感觉不能做到crystal clear，就像被拥在雾里，稀里糊涂地往前做题。 根据大家的感受和我们自己授课的心得，给同学们一些建议，希望对大家有所帮助。 第二部分的考题音频正式开始前，有一段指导声音，加上音频里本身给的15秒读题时间，总共是1分钟，我们可以利用这一分钟的时间来“跳读”选项，所谓“跳读”就是不用，也没有时间很细致地读每个选项，这一分钟，只够划出核心词，主要是核心动词和宾语。我们来看一道例题：真题集第二套里的Part II PART TWOQuestions 13-22Section One(Questions 13-17)You will hear five short recordings.For each recording, decide what the speaker plans to do in their future career.Write on 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.A to get a directorship in a large companyB to gain a qualification in business administrationC to become self-employedD to move into marketingE to be an independent financial adviserF to design innovative modelsG to be the best in a particular fieldH to advise people in career management A - H 的选项里，下划线标注部分就是我们可以挑到核心内容。 这样我们把听力从被动等待变成了主动出击。再来听具体内容：13题里，女声开头：would like a change.but.broaden knowledge, could have move into .but .invest in MBA.build potential.improve prospects. 我们可以得到对应选项B，这里我们还要注意一点，就是整段音频中的“转折”部分，凡是有but 出现的地方，一定是有线索的地方。BEC中级听力Part3之勇往直前 首先和大家分享美剧The Apprentice里的一句话：You have nothing to lose here, its nothing personal, its business. 学习和准备考试的同学，都是为自己选择了一个阶段性的目标，如果目标已经确定，那么就是无所谓牺牲什么，都要达到。听力做到第三题，应该已经听了20分钟自己并不喜欢的英文，大脑进入疲惫期，反应很慢了，但是，已经上了考场，就要义无反顾，冲下去！ BEC听力的第三题中级是一段访谈，高级可能是访谈，也可能是独白。题干给在题面， 8道选择题，给三个选项，只有一个是正确的。 第三题的音频开始以前，同样有指导的guidelines，中间给45秒的时间读题干，这样就有1分半钟左右的时间来看题了，和第二题一样，我们“跳读”选项，提醒所有考生：除了选项里的信息以外，一定别忘记了题干本身的信息，我们很多同学，觉得这道题目听的很懂，但是忘记看题目问了啥。 听的过程中反映要快，同时要舍得放弃，听力考试不像阅读，声音过去了就没有机会，所以不管出现什么问题，都不能停下来。 这种题目的干扰项很多，而且多数都和答案非常接近，比如，真题第二套的听力第三部分，23. 题干的核心部分是：most recent customers 最近的客户群体是什么，我们听到原文中提到了几个客户群，这时同学们一定要有笔记，原文中提到的几个客户群，分别和什么信息联系在了一起：150yrs ago, shipping industrybut now supermarketshealth authorities flue occurs - got off the ground （注意：习语，译为刚刚开始从事）advisory advice - farmers, fishermen and airlines; 我们在选项中可以看到，A选项的，supermarket retailers 和C选项的 maritime and aviation 确实都在原文中提到，只是都不能对应recent customer 这个核心概念，而只有B选项中的healthcare managers 替代了原文中的health authorities, 题干中的most recent 替代了原文中的 get off the ground。 可见这类题型中，同义置换是很大的特点，同时要勇往直前，千万不能停下来琢磨到底该怎么选，听力的很多题目，是要边做边想的。BEC阅读答题技巧 BEC阅读部分内容多，时间紧。考察考生查找信息的能力、理解能力、词汇结构的能力和逻辑的能力。有些题型国内的考试中常见，如PART THREE, PART FOUR，PART SIX 等。 但有些题型，如PART ONE， PART TWO对中国考生来说就比较陌生。尤其是PART TWO， 考察逻辑和理解能力，这恰恰是中国学生的弱项。下面我们就以真题为例来谈谈PART TWO 的做题技巧。 PART TWO Questions 8-12Read the article below which reviews a new book on company planning. Choose the best sentence from the list on the opposite page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap 8-12, mark one letter (A-G) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once.Firms need a better way of planningNick Field, in his book Strategy Management, offers a new approach to help companies map out their future.Many companies have lost the art of strategy-making. They spend too much time looking at process change, organization and systems. (0)_. They have got things out of balance. In many companies, the development of strategy is in crisis. In a recent magazine poll, only six per cent of executives rated their company highly for long-term planning skills. (8) _. If this figure is accurate, it is not surprising that 29% of the FTSE 100 companies failed to achieve real sales growth between 1992 and 1996, when take-overs are excluded from the figures.（8）评析：前句谈到：杂志调查显示，只有6%的总裁对他们公司的长期规划评价很高。 可见，这部分信息的重心是planning,和strategy。后句说，如果这个数字是准确的话，那么。可见（8）中必然要包含关于数据的内容。正确答案为C. Another survey estimated that only one in ten companies had the information they needed to make strategic decisions. C中含有数字only one in ten，而且话题和前句一致，都是关于strategy.There can be no doubt about the value of effective strategy-making. Recent research has shown that what are described as visionary companies - those with clear strategies for the future - deliver higher shareholder returns. They are less at risk from short-term earnings pressures because they know - and they can convince others - that they will survive these.(9) _ Times have changed. The big company of today is not being defeated by another big company but by the small companies. So how do they do it