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·Youwillhearadiscussion.·Foreachquestion

· You will hear a discussion.
· For each question 23- 30 mark one letterA,B、orC、for the correct answer.
·After you have listened once, relay the recording.

At present the engineering services and expertise is ______.A、concentrated at headquarters.B、spread unevenly throughout 12 factories.C、both at headquarters and in the company’s 12 factories.
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What will Mary do later
A、Call back Mr.Baker

B、Meet Mr.Baker
C．Fly to Scotland
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Television Network0.As one of the three major commercial networks,CBS was organizedCORRECT00. in 1928 in which its founder, William Paley, acquired ownership of aA41. the group of radio stations.As theColumbiaBroadcasting System42. expanded its operations, and soon becoming the largest radio network43. in the United States, it is precociously recognized the potential for the44. rapidly evolving television broadcasting technology. On July 13th,45. 1931, it began to experimental television broadcasting in New York,46. and ten years later it began regular black and white week broadcasts47. over its WCBW TV station in the same city, in which became WCBS TV48. in November 1946. With TelevisionCity in Hollywood,CBS has launched49. the industry’’s first full scale production studio there. TodayCBS owns50. television stations, radio stations, and home video production and distribution is51. interests. TheCBSBroadcasting Group is composed of six divisions: television52. network, entertainment, sports, news, local television stations, and the radio. For most of commercial television history,CBS has been the leader in prime time ratings, having the highest rated shows in almost every year from the mid-1950s through the mid-1980s.
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Production
Production, in economics, means all those activities of mankind that have to do with the creation of wealth, i.e. with making raw materials useful so that to (0)A、 human wants.
The farmer makes use of the (19) of nature to grow wheat. The miller (20) the wheat into flour.And the (21) turns flour into breaD、These producers, each in his own way, (22) form utility to goods.Another class of producers, who transport goods from place to place, add place utility to goods.A、third class, who do such things like canning, storage, and refrigeration, add (23) utility.
Although businessmen think of them as marketing, economists regard the creation of time and place utilities (24) a part of production because, until goods are made (25) at the right time and place, they can not satisfy human wants.
Production is (26) to satisfy human wants, and the ability to produce is (27) by three basic factors necessary for production. These three basic factors of production are capital, land and labour.Capital (28) to man-made resources that are used to produce other goods and services. Land, which includes natural resources, is the non-human non-man-made part of resources. Labour is the human part--the service given by people in the process of production.
These three primary factors of production are sometimes added a fourth: the entrepreneur or enterpriser, who (29) the forces of production and takes the risks. (30) under capitalism production is for a market, an important role of the entrepreneur is to predict (31) the economic demand for goods and to produce the (32) and quantity of goods that will (33) that demanD、
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B．change
C．increase
D．stimulate
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Practise discussing this task, and the questions which follow it, with a partner:{{B}}STAFF TRAINING REVIEW{{/B}}The organisation you work for plans to review the training it currently provides for staff and to make improvements. You are part of the team that has been appointed to contribute to the review.Discuss, and decide together:· how to evaluate the training currently provided· how to set about meeting training needsFollow-up questions: ·Do you think all members of a company should receive training ·Are there types of training which are not appropriate for a company to provide for staff · What training would you most like to receive · How can the effectiveness of training be measured ·Do you think the kinds of training that companies provide will change in the future
·ReadthearticlebelowaboutSouth-eastAsian

· Read the article below about South-eastAsian stocks.
· For each question 23-28 on the opposite page, choose the correct answer.
· Mark one letterA,B、orC、on yourAnswer Sheet.
{{B}}After a good 2003, will 2004 be better {{/B}}
The past year has been a good one for SoutheastAsian stocks. Markets in both Singapore and the Philippines have risen by more than 30% in dollar terms; Indonesia has surged more than 70%; and tigerish Thailand has leapt by almost 130%. Investors, needless to say, are keen to know whether lightning will strike again in the same places in 2004. There is indeed something good in store: elections.
The gains of the past year are easy to explain. Indonesia, for one, has finally found its feet after years of chaos following the regional crisis in 1997. Inflation and interest rates are failing, and the economy has grown by around 4% in the past year.
Thailand’s economy, meanwhile, has been doing even better. It has grown at an annual rate of 6.5% in the year as a whole.Because of low interest rates, consumers have been wildly purchasing cars and houses, helping crisis-hit companies pay off their debts and thus improving the balance sheets of Thailand’s struggling banks.
Analysts tell similar tales of asset increase all around the region. Markus Rosgen, of ING, aDutch bank, notes thatAsians have been piling up deposits in their bank accounts since the crisis. With interest rates so low, he argues, they now have an incentive either to consume more or to put their savings into more lucrative investments.Either way, share prices should rise.Even now, ail SoutheastAsian markets are still well below their pre-crisis highs. Moreover, points outChristopher Wood ofCLSA, an investment bank, all SoutheastAsian markets except Singapore serve as useful hedges againstAmerica, since they do not rise and fall with Wall Street.
Unexpected events might yet upset these rosy prospects. There will be elections in the Philippines and Indonesia in 2004, and probably in Malaysia, too. Thailand goes to the polls at the beginning of 2005.Economically corrupted governments, street protests or bombing campaigns are always a possibility.But the responsible leaders seem likely to get re-elected in all four countries. Furthermore, they will spend a lot of money in the process, out of both the state budget and their own pockets, giving their economies a further boost.As a recent report by ING points out, Indonesian stocks rose in the nm-up to all of the past three elections.
What has happened in Indonesia in the past yearA、There has been chaos following the regional crisis in 1997. B、The economy has grown by around 4%. C、Both inflation and interest rates have finally risen.
·YouwillheararadiointerviewwithMarthaFlo

·You will hear a radio interview with Martha Flowers, the ManagingDirector of the MAX chain of sandwich bars.
·For each question (23-30), mark one letterA,B、orC、for the correct answer.
·After you have listened once, replay the recording.

Martha’s advice to anyone who is starting a new business is to A、look for an area with few competitors. B、keep yourself well informed about competitors. C、try to offer lower prices than your competitors.
YOUTHMARKETWithincreasingprosperity,West
YOUTH MARKETWith increasing prosperity, WestEuropean youth is having a fling that is crating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns. The result has been the increasing emergence inEurope of that phenomenon well known inAmerica as the "youth market". (0).In the United States, the market is wide ranging and well established, almost an industry, with which this country’’s emphasis on "youthfulness" even extends beyond teenager group. (8). In some country such asBritain, West Germany and France, it is more advanced than in others. Some manifestations of the market, chiefly sociological, have been recorded, but it is only just beginning to be the subject of organized consumer research and promotion. (9).Similarities:The market’’s basis is essentially the same—more spending power and freedom to use it in the hands of teenagers and older youth. Young consumers also make up an increasingly high proportion of the population.As in the United States, youthful tastes inEurope extend over a similar range of products—records and record players, transistor radios, leather jackets and "way-out" extravagantly styled clothing, cosmetic and soft drinks. Generally it now is difficult to tell in which direction transAtlantic teenage influences are flowing.Also, a pattern of conformity dominatesEuropean youth as in this country, though inBritain the object is to wear clothes that "make the wearer standout",. but also make him "in", such as tight trousers and precisely tailored jackets.There are Worship and emulation of "idols" in the entertainment field, especially the pop singers and other performers. (10). In Paris, buyers of stores catering to the youth market carefully watch what dress is being worn by a sudden demand of copies. In Stockholm other followers of teenage fads call the youth market "attractive but irrational". (11). In theEuropean youth-market, unlike that of the United States, it is the working youth who provides the bulk of purchasing power. On the average, the school-finishing age still tends to be 14 years. This is the maximum age to which compulsory education extends, and withEurope’’s industrial manpower shortage, thousands of teenage youths may soon attain incomes equal in many cases to that of their fathers.(12). TheEuropean average is about $ 5 to $ 10 a month. Working youth, consequently are the big spenders in theEuropean youth market, but they also have less leisure than those staying on at school, but these in turn have less buying power.[A]Although, because of general prosperity,European youths are beginning to continue school studies beyond the compulsory maximum age, they do not receive anything like the pocket money or "allowance" ofAmerican teenagers.[B]Characteristics of the evolvingEuropean youth market indicate dissimilarities as well as similarities to theAmerican youth market.[C] There is also the same exuberance and unpredictability in sudden fad switches.[D] This is a market in which enterprising business caters to the demands of teenagers and older youths in all their beatlemania and pop air forms.[E]But there are also these important dissimilarities generally with theAmerican youth market.[F] In WesternEurope, the youth market may appropriately be said to be in its infancy.[G] TheAmerican andEuropean youth markets are alike in regard to occurrence of frequent changes in buying habits.EXAMPLE、The correct answer for blank (0) is [D].