{{B}}How to approach Listening Test Part Three{{/B}} · In this part you listen twice to a long conversation, interview or monologue, and answer eight questions. · Before you listen, read the questions. Think about what will be said. · Note all possible answers as you listen for the first time. Do not make an immediate decision. · 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. · You will hear Katherine and Andrew, students at a business school, discussing their experiences and views of business. · For each question 23 - 30, mark one. letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. · You will hear the recording twice.

· You will hear a radio interview about the sportswear industry. · For each question (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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· You will hear a professor giving a talk on the slowdowns of the world economy. · 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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· You will hear an interview with Mr Lyon, a fund manager, by a reporter from Business Week. · For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. · You will hear the recording twice.

·You will hear a job applicant talking to the Personnel Manager of a chain store. ·For each question (23-30), mark one letter (A, B or C). ·After you have listened once, relay the recording.

· You will hear two managers, Louis and Sally, discussing changes in their company. · For each question 23 - 30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer. · You will hear the recording twice.

·You will hear a radio interview with David Meerman Scott, writer, consultant, conference speaker. ·For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C). ·You will hear the recording twice.

· You will hear a news report in which Bonita Carol will tell you what is happening to domain names.· For each question 23--30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· You will hear the recording twice.

· Read the article below about the impending flu.· Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.· For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet. The nation's supply of vaccine for the impending flu{{U}} (19) {{/U}}took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory. The company said it will hold up shipment of about 50 million shots—about half the supply U.S. health{{U}} (20) {{/U}}had hoped to have on hand this year—while it{{U}} (21) {{/U}}what went wrong and determines whether the vaccine is safe to use. "There's no product{{U}} (22) {{/U}}is going to go into the arms of the American public that will not have been{{U}} (23) {{/U}}to have met the highest standards of{{U}} (24) {{/U}}" chief executive Howard Pien said. Pien said the company hopes to ship between 46 million and 48 million doses by early October, about month later than{{U}} (25) {{/U}}. About 1 million doses have already been shipped, but no vaccines have yet reached the{{U}} (26) {{/U}}Pien said. Vaccinations usually begin in September and{{U}} (27) {{/U}}through the flu season. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which oversees the nation's flu vaccine{{U}} (28) {{/U}}, did not immediately return calls for{{U}} (29) {{/U}}. Chiron would not give{{U}} (30) {{/U}}on the{{U}} (31) {{/U}}of the contamination, which Pien said was found in a small number of{{U}} (32) {{/U}}at the company's factory in Liverpool, England. The company supplies about half the nation's flu vaccine. Aventis Pasteur supplies most of the{{U}} (33) {{/U}}.

The nation's supply of vaccine for the impending flu (19) took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory. The company said it will hold up shipment of about 50 million shots—about half the supply U.S. health (20) had hoped to have on hand this year—while it (21) what went wrong and determines whether the vaccine is safe to use. "There's no product (22) is going to go into the arms of the American public that will not have been (23) to have met the highest standards of (24) " chief executive Howard Pien said. Pien said the company hopes to ship between 46 million and 48 million doses by early October, about month later than (25) . About 1 million doses have already been shipped, but no vaccines have yet reached the (26) Pien said. Vaccinations usually begin in September and (27) through the flu season. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which oversees the nation's flu vaccine (28) , did not immediately return calls for (29) . Chiron would not give (30) on the (31) of the contamination, which Pien said was found in a small number of (32) at the company's factory in Liverpool, England. The company supplies about half the nation's flu vaccine. Aventis Pasteur supplies most of the (33) .

· You will hear a discussion.· For each question 23- 30 mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.· After you have listened once, relay the recording.

判断题Management in America Do it my way NEW YORK Cultural differences between Japanese and American managers have presented the biggest obstacles to Japanese companies investing in America. A seminar for Japanese executives working in America was attended by 25 men, nearly all of them in identical dark suits. Despite the room's stifling heating system, they resolutely refused to remove their jackets. Their coffee break lasted exactly the scheduled ten minutes. They did not ask any questions until after they had got to know one another a bit better at lunch. They were usually deferential and always polite. A similar seminar for 25 Americans working for Japanese subsidiaries in America included eight women. Several of the men removed their jackets on entering the room. A ten- minute coffee break stretched beyond 20 minutes. Participants asked questions and several aggressively contradicted what the speakers had to say. According to Mr Thomas Lifson of Harvard and Mr Yoshihiro Tsurumi of New York's Baruch College - the two main speakers at both seminars - misunderstandings between Japanese and American managers are possible at nearly every encounter. They can begin at the first recruiting interview. A big American company typically hires people to fill particular slots. Its bosses know that Americans are mobile people, who have a limited commitment to any particular employer or part of the country. As a result, jobs are clearly defined and so are the skills needed to fill them. American firms hire and fire almost at will. The assumptions (and the expecta- tions) of the Japanese managers of Japanese subsidiaries in America could hardly be more different. They hire people more for the skills they will acquire after joining the company than for their existing skills. American managers rely heavily on number-packed memoranda and the like. The Japanese colleagues prefer informal consultations which lead eventually to a consensus. According to Mr Tsurumi, they find comical the sight of American managers in adjacent offices exchanging memos. Confronted with a dispute between middle managers, most Japanese superiors refuse to become involved, expecting the managers themselves to resolve the issue. The Americans con- clude, wrongly, that their Japanese bosses are indecisive or incompetent. Japanese managers do not share the American belief that conflict is inevitable, and sometimes healthy. They want to believe that employees form one big happy family.

判断题Read this article and then answer the questions that follow: Go along and get along THE Japan Society's crash course on how to bridge the chasm between Japanese and American managers forces participants to exam- ine their own cultural assumptions, as well as to learn about the other side. Behaviour which Americans consider trustworthy is often precisely that which Japanese associate with shifty characters - and vice versa. To Americans, people who pause before replying to a question are probably dissembling. They expect a trustworthy person to respond directly. The Japanese distrust such fluency. They are impressed by snme- body who gives careful thought to a question before making a reply. Most Japanese are comfortable with periods of silence. Americans find silence awkward and like to plug any conversational gaps. The cherished American character- istics of frankness and openness are also misunderstood. The Japanese think it is sensible, as well as polite, for a person to be discreet until he is sure that a business acquaintance will keep sensitive information confidential. An American who boasts "I'm my own man" can expect to find his Japanese hosts anxiously counting the chopsticks after a business lunch. As the Japanese see it, individualists are anti-social. Team players are sound.

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填空题{{B}}PART THREE{{/B}}{{B}} ·Look at the following text and questions over the page. ·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 on your answer sheet, for the answer you choose.{{/B}} Anyone who lives in the eastern part of the United States or Canada and gazed skyward on Tuesday evening may have noticed something strange in their west-northwest sky. At around 9 p.m. ET, a small, bright, silvery circular cloud of light suddenly appeared. Over the next 25 minutes, the cloud appeared to gradually expand and fade, finally becoming invisible to the unaided eye. Those who saw it, wondered exactly what it might have been. John Bottle, a well-known amateur astronomer with over four-decades of experience of sky observing first caught sight of the cloud at 9:03 p. m. from his home in Stormville, New York. Initially, he thought the cloud was as bright as zero or first magnitude and upon examining it carefully with binoculars, thought that it "... resembled the petals of a day lily." By 9:30 p. m. , he reported that the cloud had faded completely from his view. From the North Fork of Long Island, Bill Bogardus and his wife were out observing when they took note of the cloud "... about the size of the moon" in the northwest sky. "It was a roundish, yet not all that round, object drifting towards our location very slowly, slower than most satellites because it took at least twenty minutes to move from where we first saw it to pretty much our zenith." After studying it for a while through an 8-inch telescope, Bogardus noticed two points of light, "... like a satellite would appear, in line and above a jet of gas that seemed to come from them." Observing from Ithaca, New York, Joseph Storch used 7×50 binoculars on the cloud and reported a star-like point or nucleus and four butterfly shaped petals radiating outward. Other reports, received as far west as Toronto, tell of people who initially thought that what they were seeing was the moon behind a cloud. Typical was the comment: "For a second I thought it was the moon, then I realized the moon was in the east." What was it? Quite a few people who saw this strange, expanding cloud thought that it might have been an atmospheric experiment sent aloft by a sounding rocket. Over the years, those living along the East Coast have been accustomed to occasionally seeing unusual brightly colored clouds caused when exotic chemicals such as barium and trimethylaluminum were released into the Earth's ionosphere by rockets launched from NASA’s Wallops Island, Virginia site. NASA was indeed responsible for the unusual cloud formation on Tuesday night, but it was not part of a planned experiment. It was, in reality, a fuel dump of the Centaur stage involved in the NRO-1 satellite launch from Cape Canaveral late Tuesday afternoon. Dumping excess fuel is the usual practice for all Centaur-booster assisted launches. It happens after spacecraft separation; the fuel bleeding off from a Centaur upper rocket stage on its second orbit after launch. Being just after nightfall, the cloud of fuel was still sunlit at that altitude. And those who were fortuitously outside when the dump occurred, were the ones who saw this very unusual sight!

填空题BPART ONE/B· Look at the statements below and the information about newspaper stories.· Which story (A, B, C or D) does each statement refer to?· For each sentence1—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. BA/BChief Michael Omisade, a lawyer, has been appointed chairman of the National Bank of Nigena. He succeeds Mr. C S. O. Akande, who relinquished the post at the end of his three-year term. The Board of Directors of the Bank has also been reconstituted with the appointment of five new persons: Mr. M A. AdAeniran, Mr. G. L. Oyawola, Chief Femi Oyebanjo, Mr. Tunde Oyefodunnn, Mr. ,J. O. Turki, Mr. S. O. Banjo (the managing director) and Mr. J. A. Ogunbiyi.BB/BUnion officials from Australia, Barbados, Britain, Canada, India, Sierra Leone and Tanzania have been named as the steering committee of the newly-formed Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC) . Dennis McDermott, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, was appointed chairman of the council, whose chief aim is promoting the interests of trade unions and some 25m workers in the Commonwealth, specially those in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Mr. Len Murray, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, said he hoped the new organization, officially formed on March 1, could help further the dialogue between the nations of the industrialized North and the developing South.BC/BThe Sokoto Match Factory, opened in 1978, has been closed down due to acute shortage of spare pans, lack of raw materials and cash flow problems. The general manager of the company? Mr. Nasir Mikhali, regretted the closure because he had thought the project was viable. The factory was a joint venture of the Sokoto State Government, Messrs Alawa A/C factory, and PAPCO (Nigeda) Ltd. It had 50 employees and was producing about 27,000 canons of good quality matches a year. The workers went on strike.BD/BThe meeting of the international Tin Council in London earlier this month decided to raise the price range of the buffer stock by ten percent. This lifted the "floor" from 1,500 ringgit (Malaysian dollars) per picul (133 1/31bs) to M 1,650 per picul and the "ceiling" from M 1,950 to M 2,145. At last week's exchange rates that would make the floor a bit under 6,000 a tonne and the ceiling over 7,250 a tonne, with the middle belt, where the buffer stock manager may neither buy nor sell without special permisson, from about 6,150 a tonne just over 6,700 a tonne.

填空题The Federal Reserve SystemCorrect Commonly known as the Federal Reserve Bank or the "Fed", this is the centralWhich bank of the United States which founded in 1913, it determines the Reserve34 Requirement within limits set out by the US Congress. The function of the Fed is35 economic stabilization operate through the management of the national money36 supply. The Federal Reserve System comprises with a board of governors with37 seven members both stationed in Washington D. C. The responsibilities of the38 Fed system are carried out through 12 Regional Federal Reserve Banks39 controlling. The members of the Fed include the commercial banks, i.e. those40 with the national chartered commercial banks and approximately to 10% of the41 State-chartered commercial banks. These member banks buy stock from their42 Regional Federal Reserve Banks is the larger body of the Fed system which43 determines what the interest rates of the USA. Through the purchasing and44 selling of securities, the Fed is able to control the money supply. Its open-market45 operations may well effect the reserve base, thus restricting the credit and loan market in the USA.

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