2015春中央电大《商务英语（上）》期末复习资料

一、         阅读理解（共17分）

Passage One

When weather is hot, you go to a lake or an ocean. When you are near a lake or an ocean, you feel cool. Why? The sun makes the earth hot, but it cannot make the weather very hot. Although, the air over the earth becomes hot, the air over the water stays cool. The hot air over the earth rises.

Then the cool air over the water moves in and takes the place of the hot air. When you are near a lake or an ocean, you feel the cool air when it moves in .You feel the wind, and the wind makes you feel cool.

Of course, scientists cannot answer all of our questions. If we ask, “Why is the ocean full of salt?” scientists will say that the salt comes form rocks. When a rock gets very hot or very cold, it cracks. Rain falls into the cracks. The rain then carries the salt into the earth and into the rivers. The rivers carry the salt into the ocean. But then we ask, “What happens to the salt in the ocean? The ocean does not get more salty every year.” Scientists are not sure about the answer o this question.

We know a lot about our world. But there are still many answers that we do not have, and we are curious.

1. The main idea of the passage is _____A_______.

A. people feel cool when they are near a lake or an ocean

B. scientists can explain everything we want to know

C. scientists can explain many things except one thin

D. the salt in the ocean comes from rocks

2. You feel cool when you are near a lake or an ocean because ____D____.

A. the water is not so hot as the earth.

B. the earth is hot

C. the water is colder than the earth

D. cool air from the water moves towards the land

3. Now scientists know ____A___.

A. what makes people feel cool near a lake or an ocean in summer

B. everything about the ocean

C. why the ocean does not get more and more salty

D. what happens to the salt in the ocean

4.. A rock cracks when ____D_____.

A. rain falls      B. it gets very hot     C. it gets very cold    D. either B or C

5. People are always curious about the world around them because ____C_______.

A. they know nothing about it         B. they know little about it

C. there are answers they do not have      D. there are a lot of interesting stories about it

Passage Two

If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak, when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.

When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.

If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parent may be blamed, and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember thing, they cannot write them down in a small notebook. They have to remember days, names songs and stories, so their memory is the whole time being exercises.

So if you want to have a good memory, learn from people ; practices remembering things in a way as other people do.

6. Someone can’t have a good memory if ___B_____.

A. he can’t read or write               B. he doesn’t use his memory

C. his parents haven’t a good memory    D. he doesn’t use his arms or legs for some time

7. If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, _____D____________.

A. they become weak forever.

B. they are always strong.

C. they become weak but they slowly become strong again

D. they become weak and won’t become strong until you use them again.

8. Which of the following is true?B

A. The way that your memory works is different from that of your arms or legs.

B. Your memory becomes weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice.

C. Don’t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory.

D. A good memory comes from less practice.

二、          9. Few people know that it is only ____A__ if a friend has a poor memory.

A. his own fault               B. his parent’s fault    

C. his teacher’s fault           D. his grandmothers’ fault

10. The writer wants to tell us _____C______.

A. how to use our arms or legs                B. how to have strong arms

C. how to have a good memory               D. how to learn from the people

Choose a word from the box for each space in the passage below.

At first business went 1______ . their customers were satisfied with both their goods and the service World Fabrics provided. Morale among the workers was also good and they were all highly 2______ and  3_____ to make a success of the new company. The number of customers increased twofold in less than six months and their sales figures rose  4______. Their staff doubled and the company’s existing premises were too 5______ to deal with the increase in business so they moved to a larger more modern office on the outskirts of Birmingham.

Once in their new premises things begin to change for the worse. The number of complaints they received 6______ suddenly and, as far as the company was concerned, inexplicably. Their customers were no longer pleased with the service they received and began to look elsewhere for their business. As a  7_____ sales figures 8_____. The next few years were 9______ for the company as it struggled to keep afloat. Staff felt 10_____ as their salaries froze and the threat of redundancy was always in the background.

Choose a word from the box for each space in the passage below.

1__________ our initial market survey 2_____ focus groups, I think we have come up with our big idea: there would appear to be a niche 3 _______ for luxury toothpastes, 4_________ toothpastes with non-mint flavours. The concept we are working on is a 5_____ of luxury toothpastes with new exotic 6________. We would like to explore the 7_____ of positioning it somewhere between a health product, a cosmetic and an ice-cream! You will wish to discuss this in 8______ especially as it will affect the company’s image. Meanwhile, I will 9_____ more detailed market research to establish what sort of market would 10______ for this product in Europe andNorth America.

Choose a word from the box for each space in the passage below.

The purpose of this report is to tell you about RTX’s 1          over the past year and to outline our plans and prospects for next year. This year has not been a good one for RTX. There has been a dramatic2      inturnover as a result of a new3       inthe market. Our investments have also gone down because of poor financial 4         . This has led to a decrease in both profit and 5        . Looking now towards the future, we hope that next year we will see an increase in turnover and profits again. We now have to face the 6         of having a serious new competitor so we are going to move into new  7      in Eastern Europewhere prices are still 8        and there are many 9           . To conclude, while this has been a 10        year for RTX, the prospects for the next 12 months look good.

Match the word on the left with their definitions on the right

Match the word on the left with their definitions on the right

1.What is Product literature?

2.Please describe the STEEP analysis

3.Please explain three categories of person specification.

4.Please tell the difference between tall structure and flat structure.

5.Please define the annual report.

6.Please explain types of reference.

7.What is TQM?

8.What is telecommuting?

．At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

速60英里的这种新式“劳斯莱斯”轿车  最响的噪音是来自车内的电钟。

2. As the contract has been signed, what’s done is done and can’t be undone.

现在合同已签了，真是木已成舟，生米煮成了熟饭，只好如此了。

3. This contract is binding subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions。（

本合同须满足下列条件方始生效。

4. 新的价格表将自（在）6月1日始生效。

The new pricelist will become effective from (on) June 1.

5. 我们希望产品的图案和色彩能照顾到欧洲人的心理。（请注意中西方思维和文化的差异）

We hope that the design and color of the products would suit the European taste.

6．We take this opportunity to inform you that we are now in a position to make prompt shipment of the merchandise. （

兹奉告，该商品可即期装运。

7．We are exporters of the above goods, having a background of some 30 years.我们出口上述商品，已经经营了30来年。

1. 饭店拥有各类高级客房385间（套）,各种先进的服务设施为每位宾客提供尽善尽美的服务。

The hotel houses 385 deluxe guest rooms and suites with a wide array of state-of-the-art equipment, hotel facilities and services, making accommodation as comfortable and convenient as possible, and catering to the individual needs of each guest.

2当史蒂夫被介绍给这对老年夫妇的时候，他们只是淡淡地说：“我们看过你的文章，没想到你这么年轻。”

When Stephen was introduced to the old couple, they said simply, “We’ve read your article. We expected to meet an older man.”

3读一点世界史，对学习时事是有帮助的。

. An acquaintance of world history is helpful to the study of current affairs.

4.他太软弱，不敢起来斗争。1

He is too yellow to stand up and fight.

5. 能为他的这本散文集作序，我觉得很荣幸。

I find it a great honor to write a preface to this collection of his essays.

6. 她今天显得闷闷不乐，出了什么事情？她得了假期忧郁症。

—— She looks blue today. What’s the matter with her?
—— She is in holiday blue.

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