2016下半年BEC商务英语考试中级阅读资料

2016年下半年商务英语中级考试将于12月3日开考，大家备考得如何了?以下是yjbys网小编整理的关于BEC商务英语考试中级阅读资料，供大家备考。

Read the following text.

? Choose the best sentence from the list on page 52 to fill each of the gaps.

? For each gap 8 – 12 mark one letter A – I on your Answer Sheet.

? Do not mark any letter twice.

The Cash-free Society

Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is electronic, as in bank-card Systems. Currency and coin are abandoned.

____ example ____ . Theft of cash would BECome impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur ____ ( 8 ) ____ . Purse snatchings would become a thing of the past. Urban streets would become safer ____ ( 9 ) ____ . Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighbourhoods would improve.

Drug traffickers and their clients, burglars and receives of stolen property, arsonists for hire, and bribe-takers would no longer have the advantage of using untraceable currency. ____ ( 10 ) ____ These prosecutions, in turn, would inhibit further crimes.

In a society devoid of physical money, a change from cash to recorded electronic money would be accompanied by a flow of previously unpaid income-tax revenues running in the tens of billions of dollars. ____ (11) ____

Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. ____ (12)____ Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the country’s 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach.

Example: H.

A. A national electronic-money system would operate as a debit-card system.

B. Retail shops in once dangerous areas could operate in safety.

C. As a result, income tax rates could be lowered or the national debt reduced.

D. The use of cash has diminished substantially since World War II.

E. Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers would all end.

F. The emergence of electronic funds-transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil.

G. Almost every present-day cash transaction can be duplicated electronically.

H. The immediate benefits would be profound and fundamental.

I. Electronic “money” would leave incriminating trails of data, resulting in more arrests and convictions.

　答案：Questions 8 – 12: E, B, I, C, F

　拓展阅读：BEC商务英语中级阅读高频句型总结

1.　It作先行主语和先行宾语的一些句型

She　had　said　what　it　was　necessary　to　say.

2.　强调句型

It　is　not　who　rules　us　that　is　important,　but　how　he　rules　us.

3.　"All+抽象名词"或"抽象名词+itself"(very+形容词)

He　was　all　gentleness　to　her.

4.　利用词汇重复表示强调

A　crime　is　a　crime　a　crime.

5.　"something(much)of"和"nothing(little)of""something　of"相当于"to　some 　extent"，表示程度。在疑问句或条件从句中，则为"anything　of　"，可译为"有点"，"略微等。""译为毫无"，"全无"。"much　of"译为"大有"，"not　much　of"可译为"算不上"，"称不上"，"little　of"可译为"几乎无"。 something　like译为"有点像，略似。"

They　say　that　he　had　no　university　education,　but　he　seems　to　be　something　of　a　scholar.

6.　同格名词修饰是指of前后的两个名词都指同一个人或物，"of"以及它前面的名词构一个形容词短语，以修饰"of"后面的那个名词。如"her　old　sharper　of　a　father"，可译为："她那骗子般的'父亲"。

Those　pigs　of　girls　eat　so　much.

7.　as…as…can(may)be

It　is　as　plain　as　plain　can　be.

8.　"It　is　in(with)…as　in(with)"

It　is　in　life　as　in　a　journey.

9.　"as　good　as…"相等于，就像，几乎如;实际上，其实，实在。

The　merchant　as　good　as　promised　the　orphan　boy,　that　he　would　adopt　him.

10."many　as　well…as"和"might　as　well　…as"　"many　as　well…as"可译为"与其……，不如……，更好"，"以这样做……为宜"，"如同……，也可以……"等等。"might　as　well　…as"表示不可能的事，可译为"犹如……"，"可与……一样荒唐"，"与其那样不如这样的好"等等。

One　may　as　well　not　know　a　thing　at　all　as　know　it　imperfectly.