Module 1 I. Choose the best answer:
1. She B for an advertising agency.
A. work B. works C. working D. worked 2. I ___C______all the computer systems in the office. A. checking B. checks C. checked D. check 3. The managers ___D_____a lot of time in meetings. A. spending B. spent C. spends D. spend 4. I ___C_____work before six o’clock most days.
A. didn’t leave B. not leave C. don’t leave D. doesn’t leave 5. The department ____B____a full-time secretary. A. not have B. doesn’t have C. didn’t have D. don’t have 6._____ A __weekends? A. Do you work B. Did you work C. Does you work D. Are you work 7. We B receive telephone calls. A. never B. rarely C. sometimes D. still 8.The bonuses are D late. A. rarely B. sometimes C. often D. always
9. She’s a good B .She did a great session on team-building last week. A .train B. trainer C. training D. trained
10. A health and safety C is coming to see the factory tomorrow. A. operate B. operating C. operator D. operated
II. Translate the followings into Chinese: 1. I’m responsible for checking company’s accounts. 1.我负责检查财务报告
2. My job also involves giving financial advice.
2.我的工作还包括提供财务咨询。
3. I deal with questions people have about their accounts.
3.我要处理人们在账目上出现的问题。 4. As part of my job I have to produce financial reports.
4.提供财务报告是我工作的一部分。
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5. I am based in Reading, not far from London.
5.我上班的公司地点在伦敦不远的雷丁城。 III. READING
PART ONE (Questions 1—5) ? Look at Questions 1--5.
? In each case, which sentence is correct?
? Mark one letter ( A, B or C ) on your answer sheet. 1. 20 : 45 The time is C A. quarter to nine in the morning. B. quarter, past nine in the evening. C. quarter to nine in the evening. 2. A
A. All flights except, one leave in the morning. B. Every flight goes to a different country. C. AA 125 and CI 132 gar to the same continent. 3. B Monthly Expenditure—April
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A. The expenditure on taxes is greater than that on salaries.
B. The expenditure on supplies is one-fifth as much as that on salaries. C. The expenditure on visits is smaller than that on supplies.
4. I guarantee that if you’ re not completely satisfied within a month, I will give you a full refund.
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A A. If you are not completely pleased with what you’ve bought, you can return it and get all the money back within 31 days.
B. If you are not completely satisfied with what you’ve bought, you are allowed to come and get a replacement within a month.
C. If you are not completely satisfied with what you have bought, you may come and find another one within 30 days.
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A. Colour printer will perhaps be delivered on 2.3 June. B. Colour scanner will perhaps be delivered on 23 June. C. Blouse Will certainly be delivered on 7 May. PART TWO (Questions 6—10) ? Look at the Office Plan below.
? For Questions 6 ~10, choose the correct answer.
? For each question mark one letter A—G on the answer sheet.
6.Who is in charge of how produced ? E 7.Who is the authority of the Board Directors? F 8. Who gets the feed-back about products from the-customers? A 9. Who seeks after the highest selling of products? D 10. Who looks at the company's Balance Sheet and Journals? G PART THREE (Questions 11-15)
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?Look at the chart below. It: shows the sales and the three different production lines of a company.
? What 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.
11. The sales reached the peak. K
12. The production was the same as that of the following two months, B
13. The production was lower than that of the previous two months but higher than that of the following two months. G
14. The production was higher than that of the previous two months and the following months. I 15. The production Was the same as that of the previous two months and lower than that of the
following two months. H
PART FOUR (Questions 16-20)
? Look at the article below, about management and employment. and the following questions. ? Each question has three suggested answers or ways of finishing the sentences, A, B and C. ? Mark one letter A,B or C on your answer sheet, for the answer you choose. M&S trim upper echelon
The axe scything through Marks & Spencer’s yesterday hit management levels. As a result, 290 people from store bosses to those on the first rung of the management ladder will lose their jobs. One in seven will be affected, an average of one per store, in what has previously been seen as almost a protected species. Some of the victims will be commercial staff, responsible for trading operation, while others will come from the ranks; of personnel; and finance specialists. Peter Salsbury, the chief executive, was appointed last November in the middle of the group’s worst ever profits slide. It became his job-to try to turn the company round. He said the cuts were
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necessary to remove areas of duplication, overtop and unnecessary management layers within individual stores.
Marks will announce their .end-of-year results next week. These are expected to show profits of no more than,.$650m—- a little more than half last yearns level.
The company admitted yesterday that the management clear-out was a cost-cutting measure in response to the slump in sales and profits. \cutting exercise” a spokeswoman said, \t be right to' have more management layers than is absolutely necessary.”
But the latest management in the firing line are also victims of the new chief executive’s efforts to shake the organization out of a complacent culture which has typically paid too little attention to what customers want.
The largest group will be local shops in small centres. There willbe more than 100 of these. At the other end of the scale are 44 big departmental stores, led by the larges outlets at London’s Marble Arch and the new Manchester Building. The latter will open later this year. In .the middle will be 60-odd regional centres and a similar number of high-street locations.
Marks warned that once the new structure was in place, there-could be further-management cuts.. These cuts would \sure that the customers’ voices and needs are heard far more clearly.
16. Why does the writer say \as almost a protected species\C A. He means that Marks and Spencer's has so far always been protected from disasters. B. He means that the managers have always felt that they had safe jobs.
C. He means that people have always thought that M & S managers had safe-jobs. 17. Those sacked so far include B
A. builders, managers, and financial staff. B. commercial, personnel and financial staff. C. senior managers.
18. Peter Salsbury made the cuts in order to C A. increase profits. B. reduce inefficiency. C. save costs.
19. Salsbury was able to make the cuts mainly because A
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