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专业好文档电大内部资料 高级职业英语 期末真题与答案试卷代号 : 1 0 1 6 中央广播电视大学开 放 本 科期末考试高级职业英语试题Information for the examinees:This examination consists of three sections. They are:Section I: Listening Test 30 points 20 minutesSection IT: Reading Test 50 points 40 minutesSection ill: Writing Test 20 points 30 minutesThe total marks for this examination are 100 points. Time allowedfor completing this examination is 90 minutes. 104Section I : Li stening Test 30 points Instructions The Listening Test will take approximately 20 minutes. There are two parts to the test and you will hear each part twice. 圃 T here will be a pause of 30 seconds after each part to allow you to think about your answers. You can first write your answ巳rs on this test pape r. You will have a few minutes at the end of the test to transfer your answers to the Answer Sheet. ALL ANSWERS MUST APPEAR ON THE ANSWER SHEET.Part 1: Qu臼tions 1-10 are based on this part. 10 pointsYou are going to hear a Television interview. Fill in the blanks in the summary of the interviewwith appropriate words. Unemployment and its links to crime rates General results Specific effects and problems Possible solutions General results A. High levels of (1) stress_B. Loss of sense of (2)_community_C. Very strong feelings of (3) _insecurity_ D. Loss of (4) _wages and _income_E Loss of (5)_job prospects_for school leavers _F. Lack of (6)_goverment funding_G. Increased government 7(support) H.( 8)_income_ support for jobless families I( 9)_retraining_ to help 3 people find jobs In new (10)_developing industries_Part 2: Questions 11 - 20 are based on this par t. 20 pointsYou are going to hear a Television interview. Fill in the blanks in the summary of the interviewwith appropriate words. John Shipton Secondary School is a fairly 11(average) school in most ways. It doesn tspecialize in anything in 12 (particular).Te teach the usual range of subjects. The sportsdepartment is quite good and there are 13(reasonable) sports facilities. There is a very goodgymnasium. There is a separate classroom block which was built in 1 4(1913) .Each department tends to have its own classrooms. The ground floor has very few classroom:because it s mostly taken up by the 15(assemble) hall the dining room and theadministrative offices. On the ground floor among the administrative offices there is asixth form 1 6(common) room a place where the 17 and 18 year-olds can go at break time. 105The library is on the first floor too small for our needs. There is only one 1 7( librarian)and one library assistant. There is also a tiny sick bay. I don t think it s used much 1 8(though) . I mean we don t have a special 1 9(medical) officer or anything. And lance 20 (caught) a couple of boys in there smokingSection II : Reading Test 50 points Instructions There are three parts to the test each including one reading passage. The test will take approximately 40 minutes. There will be NO extra time to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet therefore you should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task.Part 1: Questions 21-30 are based on the following passage. 20 pointsPassage 1 Business Executives Horizons Carol Hymowitz a journalist is interested in the impact of working conditions onexecutives. She wrote an article on the topic for The Wall Street ournI. This was based onher interviews with Doug Mercer an executive recruiter and former investment banker Ethan Berman an executive with a risk management firm and Becky Roloff a senior vicepresident with a financial planning business. Doug Mercer believes that business executives horizons are too narrow. The cause ofthe problem is the increasing pressure of work. They have too little time apart from work and when they are away from the office the stress from work follows them home so that theyhave too limited an attention span to be able to read a book reflect quietly about currentissues or even to talk with family or friends. Even in those times that used to be availablefor reflection commuting to work or visiting theatres in the evening executives are likely tobe interrupted by the mobile phone. The consequence is a paradox: the creativity necessary for any senior executive positionis gradually being eroded by the pressures stemming from that position. Ethan Berman agrees with Mercer. He has tried to combat this effect by opening up hisworld by talking to his clients about their lives and by holding arts meetings in his office towhich he invites a series of artists and musicians to meet his employees and his clients. By 106opening up his social and business life to social discussion and the arts he aims to regeneratehis own business creativity. Similarly Becky Rolf makes deliberate attempts to avoid the dangers created by thepressures spoken of by Doug Mercer. At times she has worked 20-hour days for a period of100 days at a time. Her way to avoid the hazard of quotnarrowing downquot that the workload cancreate is to join non-profit organizations. Currently she is working with a children s theatregroup. The complex creativity of being involved in presenting amateur stage productions hasled to a more informed use of her own business talents. She believes that employees canlearn from actors the skills of becoming more open and flexible to suggestions. This isparticularly important in the electronic do t. com world of today s businesses where instantsnap decisions have to be made. Frenzied business activity doesn t provide visionary workers according to DougMerce r. The question is how many workers share the level of control over their time that Ethanand Becky exert How can we ensure that achieving the right balance between work andvision is an option that is open to everyoneQuestions 21 30. Mark the following statements as being T true or F false according to theinformation in the text: (F)2 1. Carol Hymovitz is a former inVestment banker. (T)22. Doug Mercer is a former investment banker. (T)23. Most business executives dont do enough different things outside work.(F) 24. Business pressures are reduced by the introduction of mobile phones. (F)25. The work of senior executives makes them more creative. (F)26. Ethan Berman believes that music always interferes with business efficiency. (F)27. Ethan Berman restricts his interviews with his clients to business matters. (F)28. The senior vice president of a financial planning business is a man. (F)29. Becky Roloff has never worked long hours. (F)30. The senior vice president of a financial planning business only works fororganisations that make a profit. 107 Part Z: Questions 31 一-35 are based on this part. 10 pointsPassage 2 Tesco to cull directors after supply fiasco Tesco Britain s biggest supermarket has axed 10 positions from its ZO-strong board ofsupermarket directors as part of a drive to improve its supply and communications. The supermarket board members are next in importance to the 14 group directorsincluding chief executive Sir Terry Leahy and are in charge of key functions such asdistribution supply and communications. The cull comes at a critical time for Tesco: the company admits it has suffered fromavailability problems which independent analysis suggests have only been resolved in recentweeks. At least two directors have already left the company including Barry Kniche l thesupply chain development manage r. A third Graham Booth was due to retire but has nowlef t. David Wild group supply chain director and one of Tesco s spokesmen on its factorygate price campaign has been relocated to part of its international business. Two directors with regional responsibilities Ann Murray and Liam McElroy haveopted to be made redundant rather than staying on in different posts. Murray was a regionalsupport office director and 岛1cElroy a regional distribution directo r. A Tesco spokesman confirmed that the company was in talks with at least five otherdirectors who have yet to decide whether they will accept alternative internal postings or takeredundancy. He said: quotThe people who have left have left as friends of Tesco and we value the workthey did. Nobody has been sacked. We have done some work on our supply chain anddistribution functions to combine two functions into one. We have not cut the number of distribution centres. We have been focusing on factorygate pricing and how we get products more directly from the manufacturer to the shelf.Previously we had one person looking after supplier-to-distributor and another looking afterdistributor to the store. It is all about being better simpler and cheaper. We admit we have 108had some problems on availability last year but we had resolved those by Christmas. quot However independent data collected and reported in the Grocer the industrymagazine indicates that the problems have only been resolved in recent weeks. The regular monitor of how many items were out of stock when mystery shoppersvisited suggested that Tesco repeatedly performed poorly ag 3.inst rivals Sainsbury and Asdaand even did worse than smaller chains including Morrisons and Waitrose.Questions 31-35: Choose the best answer among the choices given according to the meaning inthe tex t. Write down the letter representing your chosen answer in the space provided on theAnswer Sheet. (A)3 1. Tesco has 10 positions from its board members. A. cut B. increased C. selected D. supplied (C)32. It seems that Tesco has suffered from problems on A. staff availability B. director shortage C. supply chain D. distribution functions (D)33. Ann Murray and Liam McElroy preferred to rather than working indifferent posts. A. work in the same posts B. work for different companies C. work for the same company D. leave the company (B)34. Tesco has A. combined its board members with the supermarket B. combined its supply chain and distribution functions into one C. sacked old board members D. performed better than its main rivals 109 (A)35. Tesco prefers to 一一一一一一 A. get products more directly from the manufacturer to the supermarket B. have one director looking after supplier-to-distributor C. have another looking after distributor to the supermarket D. both C and DPart 3: Questions 36-40 are based on this par t. 20 pointsPassage 3 Hospital crisis mounts Concern is mounting over the increasing number of hospital casualty units that havebeen forced to close down around the country. The Department of Health has receivedreports of a 四tastrophic situation from representatives of casualty units. They attributethe problem to increasing numbers of patients and fewer doctors than ever before. General staff shortages a change in the rules for training junior doctors and abuse of thehealth service by both doctors in general practice GPs and patients have been identified asmajor contributory factors. Managers of one W e1sh hospital blame the crisis on the shortage of junior doctors whileconsultants at the same hospital suggest the roots of the problem are more complex. Therecent closure of some accident and emergency units AampE has given rise to the greatpressure on those which are treating the extra patients. The reduction in bed numbers in many hospitals often means that patients who aretreated in AampE cannot be admitted to the main hospital wards. London hospitals frequentlyhave to send patients elsewhere because they cannot take any more admissions. The pressureon Aamp.E units is worsened by CPs sending patients there unnecessarily in order to avoidhaving to pay for services such as X-rays from general practice funds. In recent weeks several hospitals have had to appeal to patients to stay away fromcasualt y units unless th巳y genuinely have no other alternatives. As a result of the verystressful working conditions junior doctors motivation to work in Aamp E has decreased leaving casualty units - which require high staffing levels for 24-hour cover gt s ho r t ofdoctors. The long working hours and stress that doctors now experience is also causing moreand more of them to leave the profession. Hospitals report difficulties in recruiting junior 110doctors and say that they are often unable to fill posts despite nation-wide advertising. Francis Lockley a member of the British Association of Accident and EmergencyMedicine has described the situation as catastrophic. quotUnits all over the country will beforced to close down at night or for several hours during the day. Some will simply beunable to function. quot Government representatives will meet representatives from the British MedicalAssociation later this week to discuss the matte r.Questions 36-40: Answer the following questions based on the text you have just read. 36. Why have the increasing number of hospital casualty units been forced to closedown Answer: Because there are increasing numbers of patients and fewer doctors than ever before.37. Who are blamed for the abuse of the health service Answer: Both the doctors and patients.38. Why do the GPs send patients unnecessarily to AampE units according to the writer Answer: They want to avoid having to pay for services such as X-rays from general practice funds.39. Do the junior doctors want to work in AampE units Why Answer: No,Because they have to work long hours and under stress.40. In what ways will AampE units all over the country functionAnswer: They will be forced to close down at night ,or for several hours during the day .Some will simply be unable to function.Section ill : Writing Test 20 points Instructions: This test will take 30 minutes. Write your essay on the Answer Sheet. You may use the space below to write an outline or a draft. 国 Yo ur essay should be about 150 words. 4 1. Think of any process in your daily life or your work and write a short description of i t. You can write about making a dish or about sending an email. It should be a clear description of a process. Answer:Ill tell you something about my daily life and hope you will find it interesting. I usually get up early and go to school at 9 oclock in the moring. I have lunch in the office. And I come back home at half past six. As a teacher, I give the english lesson during work hours of my lesson. After work, I like to do shopping with friends or watch TV at home. Sometimes, I also like to chat on the Internet. 111试卷代号 : 1 0 1 6 座位号 中央广播电视大学 2 0 1 0 2011 学 年 度 第 一 学期 quot 开 放 本 科 quot期 末 考 试 高级职业英语试题答题纸 .If we dont do that it will go on and go on. We have to stop it; we need the courage to do it.His comments came hours after Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb - also in London for the FAs celebrations - said he wanted to meet Ivory Coast international Toure to discuss his complaint.CSKA general director Roman Babaev says the matter has been exaggerated by the Ivorian and the British media.Blatter, 77, said: It has been decided by the Fifa congress that it is a nonsense for racism to be dealt with with fines. You can always find money from somebody to pay them.It is a nonsense to have matches played without spectators because it is against the spirit of football and against the visiting team. It is all nonsense.We can do something better to fight racism and discrimination.This is one of the villains we have today in our game. But it is only with harsh sanctions that racism and discrimination can be washed out of football.The (lack of) air up there Watch mCayman Islands-based Webb, the head of Fifas anti-racism taskforce, is in London for the Football Associations 150th anniversary celebrations and will attend Citys Premier League match at Chelsea on Sunday.I am going to be at the match tomorrow and I have asked to meet Yaya Toure, he told BBC Sport.For me its about how he felt and I would like to speak to him first to find out what his experience was.Uefa hasopened disciplinary proceedings against CSKAfor the racist behaviour of their fans duringCitys 2-1 win.Michel Platini, president of European footballs governing body, has also ordered an immediate investigation into the referees actions.CSKA said they were surprised and disappointed by Toures complaint. In a statement the Russian side added: We found no racist insults from fans of CSKA.Baumgartner the disappointing news: Mission aborted.The supersonic descent could happen as early as Sunda.The weather plays an important role in this mission. Starting at the ground, conditions have to be very calm - winds less than 2 mph, with no precipitation or humidity and limited cloud cover. The balloon, with capsule attached, will move through the lower level of the atmosphere (the troposphere) where our day-to-day weather lives. It will climb higher than the tip of Mount Everest (5.5 miles/8.85 kilometers), drifting even higher than the cruising altitude of commercial airliners (5.6 miles/9.17 kilometers) and into the stratosphere. As he crosses the boundary layer (called the tropopause),e can expect a lot of turbulence.The balloon will slowly drift to the edge of space at 120,000 feet ( Then, I would assume, he will slowly step out onto something resembling an Olympic diving platform.Below, the Earth becomes the concrete bottom of a swimming pool that he wants to land on, but not too hard. Still, hell be traveling fast, so despite the distance, it will not be like diving into the deep end of a pool. It will be like he is diving into the shallow end.Skydiver preps for the big jumpWhen he jumps, he is expected to reach the speed of sound - 690 mph (1,110 kph) - in less than 40 seconds. Like hitting the top of the water, he will begin to slow as he approaches the more dense air closer to Earth. But this will not be enough to stop him completely.If he goes too fast or spins out of control, he has a stabilization parachute that can be deployed to slow him down. His team hopes its not needed. Instead, he plans to deploy his 270-square-foot (25-square-meter) main chute at an altitude of around 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).In order to deploy this chute successfully, he will have to slow to 172 mph (277 kph). He will have a reserve parachute that will open automatically if he loses consciousness at mach speeds.Even if everything goes as planned, it wont. Baumgartner still will free fall at a speed that would cause you and me to pass out, and no parachute is guaranteed to work higher than 25,000 feet (7,620 meters).cause there