{{B}}PART ONE{{/B}}· For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings.· For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the eight recordings twice.

● You will hear a manager talking to staffs about the way they answer the telephone. ● For each questions 23—30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. ● After you have listened once, replay the recording.

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· Listen to the head of a department talking to an employee about her performance.· For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the recording twice.

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· Read the following passage below about Chicago.· For questions 23 - 28, choose the correct answer.· Mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. {{B}}Chicago{{/B}} Chicago, lying in the east of the USA, is the rather young American city. It was almost completely rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1871. One's first impression of the city may include streams of cars running to-and-fro on the highways, skyscrapers and the wide green water of Lake Michigan, which lies to the northeast of the city. The area of the city is over 228 square miles with a population of about 3 million. The climate of Chicago on the whole is almost the same as that of Beijing with rather hot days in summer, colorful and fresh days in fall and icy but often clear days in winter. The spring in Chicago is a little changeable in temperature. For instance, I saw a snowfall in early April this year while some of the flowers were already in full bloom. Chicago is also famous for its frequent strong winds, and as a result has got the name of "the Windy City".

· Read the magazine article below a new tape storage system.· For questions 23-28,choeso the correct answer.· Mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. {{B}}TapeStore: A NEW TAPE SIORAGE SYSTEM{{/B}} TapeStore is a new kind of tape storage system which can store up to 6,000 computer tapes. No other tape storage system can hold as many computer tapes as TapeStore. The tapes look exactly like video cassettes. Many hundreds of data files can be stored on each tape, up to a maximum of 500 million bytes of data. If you stored the same amount of information on paper, you would need nearly 4.5 billion printed pages. The machine is a tall black box with a mechanical arm. The machine is 2.5 metres high and 3.0 metres wide. This is how it works. Each tape has a code printed on it. YOU feed the code number into TapaStore, which then looks for the code. As soon as TapaStore locates the cede, the arm reaches in and pulls out the tape. The system is very fast. It takes the mechanical arm about 10 seconds to find the tape it is looking for. The machine then searches the tape to extract the required file, and this take less than a minute. A human technician would have to locate and remove the tape by hand; and could take at least an hour to find the right file on the tape. Some of the world's biggest companies, including banks, insurance companies, airlines, telephone companies, utilities and computer centres, have bought the system. They like it particularly because the system guarantees the security of their data. TapeStore was originally developed in Canada and is now being marketed world-wide. In Europe alone, 750 have already been installed at a cost of 480,000 dollars each.

·You will hear a conversation between two employees of a company which is going to move its premises.·For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.·After you have listened once, replay the recording.

{{B}}PART ONE{{/B}}· For questions 1 -8 you will hear eight short recordings.· For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the eight recordings twice.

· Listen to the talk of business development.· For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the recording twice.

{{B}} Questions 23-30{{/B}} · You will hear people from the National Food Council complaining to retailers about the high prices they are charging for food products and household goods. They complain that the shops have marked up wholesale prices far too much. · For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. · After you have listened once, replay the recording.

● Listen to the talk on import regulations. ● For each questions 23--30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer? ● After you have listened once, replay the recording.

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{{B}}PART ONE{{/B}} ·In this part of the Listening Test you listen to eight short conversations or monologues and choose the best answer to eight questions. ·Before you listen, read each question and the three possible answers. ·Note all possible answers as you listen for the first time. Do not make an immediate decision. ·Do not worry if you do not know the answers. You will hear the recording a second time. ·Listen for overall meaning. Do not choose an answer just because you hear the same words in the recording as in the question. ·Decide on your final answer only after you have listened for the second time. ·For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings. ·For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. ·You will hear the eight recordings twice.

{{B}} Questions 29-40{{/B}} · Read the introduction below about a company training programme. · Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, B or C. · For each question (29-40), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. We support a staff development programme for all our employees. Courses are divided {{U}}(29) {{/U}} two categories: technical training and personal development. In the first year of training, staff follow a structured personal development programme{{U}}(30) {{/U}} is designed to teach the skills needed {{U}}(31) {{/U}} succeed in the commercial world communication and business awareness, for example. {{U}}(32) {{/U}} the same time, technical training courses teach the skills needed for a particular job, {{U}}(33) {{/U}} as product design techniques. In addition to training, there is {{U}}(34) {{/U}} regular individual supervision. {{U}}(35) {{/U}} recruits have a training manager, who guides their individual staff development. Practical experience is gained in the company while {{U}}(36) {{/U}} on a variety of team projects. These projects {{U}}(37) {{/U}} last for a few months or for several years. The company provides a friendly atmosphere where we have managed to maintain {{U}}(38) {{/U}} the pressures of rapid growth. This continuing growth contributes {{U}}(39) {{/U}} a stimulating, exciting workplace, and creates excellent prospects for the individual at all levels {{U}}(40) {{/U}} the organization.

{{B}}PART ONE{{/B}}· For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings.· For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the eight recordings twice.

{{B}}PART ONE{{/B}}· For questions 1 -8 you will hear eight short recordings.· For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the eight recordings twice.

· Read the following review of a book called The Bosses Speak.· For each question (23-28) , choose the correct answer.· Mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. {{B}} The Bosses Speak{{/B}} Adam Rogers is an executive recruitment specialist who has turned to writing. The result is this book, based on interviews with twenty Chief' Executives. Each top manager -- none of them famous names, surprisingly -- is .given a short chapter, and there is some introductory material and a conclusion. This means you can jump from one person to another, in any order, which is good for people who are too busy to read a book from cover to cover. For a management book it isn't expensive, although whether it's good value for money is doubtful. Some of the twenty interviewees started their own businesses, while others joined a company and worked their way up. Some are fairly new in their position, and others have had years of experience, though, strangely, Rogers doesn't seem interested in these differences. The interviewees work in everything, from retailing to airlines to software, and it is this variety that forms the main theme of Rogers's book. I have to say that Rogers's approach annoys me. He rarely stays at a distance from his interviewees, who are mostly presented in their own, positive words. If this were always the case, at least you would know where you were. But he seems to dislike certain interviewees. As a result, I don't know whether to accept any of his opinions. It also means that the book gives no clear lessons. At the very least, I expected to learn what makes a successful Chief Executive. But these people seem to share two types of qualities. Some of them are very common, suggesting that anyone can be equally successful, which is definitely not the ease. And the other qualities are ones which most successful bosses I've seen definitely do not have. So in the end I'm no wiser about what really goes on. Perhaps I'm being unfair. As long as you don't think about whether you'd like them as friends, and pay no attention to most of the advice they give, the most readable parts are where the bosses describe their route to their present position. Rogers seems to think that his book would be useful for people aiming for the top, and that it might even make a few want to start their own company; but, in fact, what they could learn here is very limited. Seen as light business reading for a doctor or teacher, though, this book would provide some good entertainment.

{{B}}PART ONE{{/B}}· For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings.· For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the eight recordings twice.