A speaker plans to give a speech about the development of the Pony Express. In order t
A.Chronological.
B.Spatial.
C.Topical.
D.Problem-solution.
A.Chronological.
B.Spatial.
C.Topical.
D.Problem-solution.
第1题
&8226;You will hear five short recordings.
&8226;For each recording, decide what stage of agreement each speaker is talking about.
&8226;Write one letter (A--H) next to the number of the recording.
&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.
&8226;You will hear the five recordings twice.
A signing an agreement
B reviewing a contract
C discussing new ideas
D implementing plans
E revising the wording of a contract
F canceling an appointment
G clarifying details
H setting up a signing date
第2题
What is learned about the speaker?
A.His business is organizing conferences.
B.He made a conference presentation recently.
C.He plans to attend a conference at the end of the month.
D.His company plans to interview job candidates at a conference.
第3题
What does the speaker say Wellington Corporation plans to do?
A.Cut prices for a number of its products
B.Expand its product offerings by 30 percent
C.Increase the number of its employees worldwide
D.Increase the number of countries in which it sells products
第4题
Who might the speaker be?
A.A news anchor
B.Tasksette's chairman
C.The Lincoln Town Mayor
D.Taskette's spokesperson
第5题
听力原文: If you're having trouble paying your bills, consider all your alternatives before deciding to file for bankruptcy. A credit counseling service can help you a great deal. These organizations work with you and your creditors to develop debt repayment plans: you deposit money each month with the counseling service, and they pay your creditors. I would caution against getting a second mortgage or home equity line of credit. These loans may allow you to consolidate your debt, but they also require your home as collateral. If you fail to pay, you can lose your home.
What is the subject of the speaker's talk?
A.Credit card options
B.Private loan sources
C.Bank loan possibilities
D.Alternatives to bankruptcy
第6题
听力原文: It's amazing how quickly our group has grown. We began with 15 people a little over 4 years ago. We used to meet out at the airport to talk about retail marketing; we were focused on sharing marketing strategies and trying to find new retail opportunities for a variety of banking products. Over time, we put together a line of marketing approaches for financial services that several companies have seized upon. We now routinely speak at financial services conferences and provide private consulting. Our group of 15 people has grown to more than 200, and we take up a lot more office space.
What is the speaker mainly discussing?
A.The plans of a group
B.The history of a group
C.The benefits of joining a group
D.The services provided by a group
第7题
According to the speaker, as an investor you should do the following EXCEPT ______.
A.researching financial pages of the Wall Street Journal
B.keeping an eye on the stock market
C.consulting an expert on investment
D.searching for as much information as possible about the listed companies
第8题
听力原文: Our company's offices are filled with models and gadgets that employees have built to test their ideas. We encourage this kind of creativity. We believe the best way for an engineer to test an idea is to build it. If one can get a prototype of the product to work, one can usually figure out how to scale it up and this in turn helps one to anticipate any problems one might have. We also believe fixed meetings are a waste of time. We're engineers, so if we have ideas, we need to build them and test them. Building working models feeds our creativity, which in turn fuels innovation. It also gives the client a clear example of what the final product will look like.
According to the speaker, what special items could be found in their office?
A.Prototypes
B.Games
C.Paintings
D.Printed plans
第9题
BUSINESS SERVICES
A Translation services
B Maps and plans - paper and other media
C Multimedia - electronic publishing
D Music publishing - CDs, audio and video cassettes
E Plastic cards - credit cards, ID cards, etc.
F Business publishing - corporate brochures, documents, etc.
G Design of promotional stickers, labels and signs
H Technical publishing - product manuals, etc.
Foresight, a manufacturer of audio equipment, is launching a new range of CD players and needs accompanying instruction booklets.
第10题
听力原文: Speaker One
Man: Good morning. This is Daily Business Report. Shanghai gets western gas. Gas started pumping through the huge West-to-East Natural Gas Pipeline on Friday, sending gas from the Tarim and Chongqing gas fields in western Xinjiang and Shanxi Provinces to Shanghai. At 9:00 am on National Day, PetroChina President Jiang Jiemin pushed a button at a gas compression station at Jingbian in Northwest China's Shanxi Province to launch the 4,000-kilometre-long pipeline Construction of the pipeline began on July 4, 2002 and cost more than 140 billion yuan (US $16.9 billion). It will transmit 12 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
Speaker Two
Woman: China and Russia are going to build hi-tech parks. President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Lu Yongxiang said in Beijing Thursday that his academy and the Academy of Sciences of Russia (ASR) planned to build hightechnology parks both in Northeast China and in Russia's Novosibirsk. Representatives from CAS Changchun Academy and the ASR Siberia Academy signed a memorandum on seven cooperative projects Thursday morning at CAS headquarter. While carrying out the new form. of science and technology cooperation in building the hi-tech parks, Lu acknowledged, the two sides need to start appropriate research projects on the principle of equality and reciprocity. N. L. Dobretsov, vice ASR president who aim heads ASR Siberia Academy, said the hi-tech parks will epitomize increased cooperation between Russian and Chinese science communities.
Speaker Three
Man: Shanghai Volkswagen Corporation declared Tuesday a price-cutting plan for its car parts aiming to increase its market share in China. According to the plan, hundreds of components for Passat and Polo, its two dominant cars in China, will get large price cuts of between 25 and 80 percent starting Oct. 1. The price adjustment "will offer more preferential prices and lower the maintenance costs for consumers" as the corporation has formed "batch-produced ability for components" and set up an "after-sale service network" around the country, said a company spokesman. The spokesman said insurance premiums and purchasing and usage costs will also decline. Consequently, the two cars will become more competitive and help consumers regain confidence in the car market. China's car market is price-sensitive, but experts noted that price cuts only have short-term effects. In the long run, other factors will win out. Shanghai Volkswagen is one of the top car sales companies in China.
Speaker Four
Woman: China strives to build the "remanufacturing" industry as one of its pillar manufacturing industries, said Xu Binshi, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in Beijing Wednesday. "China will also set up related auxiliary industries, aiming to promote the national economy and realize re-employment and sustainable development," said Xu at a national workshop on "recycled economy". He went on to say that remanufacturing and self-renovation are considered in China's medium and long-term plans as a priority development theme and a key technology in the manufacturing sector. From the 1990s on, there have been enterprises in China studying remanufacturing, said Xu. Although the remanufacturing project is yet to be mature, he said, it is a "sunrise industry" and a potential giant industry, which has the ability to improve the quality and performance of products, reduce material consumption, save energy resources and protect the environment. Xu added that the crucial step of putting forward China's remanufacturing industry is to establish relevant laws and standardize business activity and market operation.
Speaker Five
Man: China plans to regulate fireworks industry. The Chinese government is planning to strengthen safety supervision over its scattered fireworks manufacturers to reduce the rising risks of accidental fireworks explosions. Sun Huashan, deputy dir