The Third National Contest for College Business English Knowledge Time:90mins.
Part I(70%)Business English Skills
Directions:Mark A,B,C or D that best completes the following sentences.
1.The fact that the executives did not sell all the shares they could prior to the steep fall does indicate that they did not______collapse in the near future
A.foretell
B.anticipate
C.antedate
D.predict
2.I hope the example of my success will convince other women to get into politics–and not just to stuff envelopes,but to______office.
A.run for
< into
C.vie for
Dpete with
3.Managers with Master’s degree overseas______80to90per cent of the company’s board.
A.make up
Cpose
Dprise
4.Is it possible that choosing stocks______random could be just as effective as getting advice
from financial experts and stockbrokers?
A.in
<
C.at
D.by
5.Americans eat______as they actually need every day.
A.twice as much protein
B.twice protein as much twice
C.twice protein as much
D.protein as twice much
6.______,people will do business with,and refer others to,those people they like,know and
trust.
up there listeningA.All things been equal
B.Anything been equal
C.All things being equal D Anything being equal
7.As tokens of thanks for our successful negotiation,we exchange with each other a______ scarf as a gift.
A.long nice yellow
C.long yellow nice
D.nice long yellow
8._____successful communication,there must be attentiveness and involvement in the
discussion itself by all present.
A.For it to be
B.For there being
C.For there to be
D.For it being
9.Federally subsidized crop insurance,_____farmers pay premiums,would kick in with deeper
losses.
A.for which张涵予的老婆
B.for that
C.as like
D.as
10.Though_____rich,she was better off than at any other period in her life..
A.by means of
B.within her means
C.by all means
D.by no means
11.In today’s fast paced,ever-changing,global environment there cannot be one way to lead or
manage,_____teams,projects,organizations or countries.
A.whether it
B.it being
C.being it
D.be it
12.The Chinese New Year is approaching.All the highways will soon be_____with people going
back home to join their families.
A.a swarm
B.aswarm
C.a swarmed
D.aswarmed
13.In the latest study,a group of students were asked to count out a_____of cash consisting of
80one-hundred dollar bills,or just80slips of blank paper.
A.set
B.wad
C.deck
D.chunk
14.Since the state is so dependent upon natural resources,this pattern of_____causes
instability in revenue streams,leaving communities vulnerable,underdeveloped,and less economically secure.
A.dooms and glooms
B.busts and dooms
C.glooms and looms
D.booms and busts
15.The rules would require firms to spread at least half of top managers’incentive pay,including
毕业歌简谱stock and options,_____three years.
A.within
B.over
C.through
D.up to
16.The study found that emerging economies continued to grow in the three months to the end
of June,but at a slower pace.The index_____to53.0,from53.6in the first quarter.
A.slumped
B.slipped
C.climbed
D.ascended
17.The idea that a firm might want change for its own_____often provokes skepticism.
B.privilege
C.sake
18.They______the rise in oil prices for the big increase in inflation.
A.accused
B.blamed
C.charged
19.Some customers requested us to_________our price because they consider it too high.
A.put down
< down
C.pull down
D.bring down
20.If parties to a contract desire to settle disputes,an arbitration clause is usually made in the contract well before a dispute_________.
A.rises
B.arises
C.look
D.appear
21.Our club is_____with a national organization of similar clubs.
A.affected
B.affirmed
C.affiliated
D.belonged
22.This official rule was drafted by the agency regulators and approved______public comment
by the Federal Deposit Feb.7.
A.for
B.with
<
D.of
23.These details are______in a few pages that only a handful of lawyers are aware of in an
increasingly complex tax code.
A.tucked away
B.put away
C.taken away
D.put aside
24.The U.S laws are believed to be properly structured to_____appropriate taxes on American expatriates,but that is not true in reality.
B.impose
C.impress
D.possess
25.Minimum tuition rates are set by the state legislature and are_____to change by legislative
action.
A.opt
B.open
D.subject
26.The hunter kept the lion’s skin and head as_____.
B.fillet
C.tulip
D.clown
27.After more than a week later,she_____replying to my e-mail of product inquiry.
< away with
< back at
< back
< round to
28.A flock of birds was already_____a cheerful morning chorus.
A.overworking
B.overstating
C.warbling
D.imprecating
29.The sales manager has taken great pains to conceal her emotions,and thereby made her
colleagues_____conspicuous.
A.all the more
B.all the much
C.all more
D.all much那些年 歌词
30.The American civil-rights movement and push for real integration took_____,his photos
began documenting the darker side of segregation,the disparity between white and black America.
A.charge
B.hold
C.side
D.lead
31.For much of her life,as her literary fame has expanded so too have the anxious disorders that
keep her confined_____her two-story home in Vienna.
A.in
B.with
<
D.at
32.Governments want a tight regulatory leash on mutual funds,which are geared_____
individual investors,many of them saving for retirement.
<
B.from
C.at
<
华晨宇poker face33.There are mobile and web technologies promising to help the country’s more than200
million drivers to fight tickets,keep violations_____,and protect their insurance premiums from unjust penalties.
younique unit
A.under control
B.by their command
C.in direct contact
D.off their record
34.As innovation practitioners,we see failure every day,and we can tell you exactly what drives
us_____about it.
A.nutshell
B.nuts
C.nut
< nuts
35.In our letter of June2,we made________clear that shipment is to be effected in August.
B.them
C.that
D.it
36.To many people,the Great War—as it was known at the time—seemed to come out of the
blue,as the European continent was enjoying a long stretch of_____peace and prosperity.
A.unparallelling
B.unparallel
C.unparalleled
D.parallelled
37.We can engage in a moral inquiry to determine whether kidneys should or should not be
_____for sale.
A.up
<
C.off
D.out
38.The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,_____every child
should be given the wish to learn.
A.but
B.as that
C.as
D.that
39._____,corrupt officials can often manage to deceive their seniors into believing their feigned
innocence.
A.To be good at putting on a show
B.Good at putting on a show
C.Them good at putting on a show
D.Being good at putting on a show
40.Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles react more exuberantly to funny cartoons than
did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown,_____that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around.
A.suggesting
D.supposing
41.Fellow cycling enthusiasts,gathered to witness this act of civil disobedience,cheered as the
police hauled them away,_____the stage for a battle_____biking and its proper place in the park,and on the nation’s roads.
A.setting,for
B.setting,over
C.set,over
D.set,on
42.Any time a person loses weight_____they'd wipe out or lower risk factors associated with
certain health issues,adding up fatness most often.
A.there is a good chance
B.there is good chance that
D.there being good chance that
43.As Aristotle put it:“The whole is greater than the_____of its parts.”Today,more than ever,
the world needs a vision of‘the whole’.
B.addition
C.sum
D.subtraction
44.Those earning the highest pay levels seem to be locked in a mechanism that increases the
worth of their jobs annually whilst most others receive a rise in line with or lower than inflation,_____increasing the pay differential.
A.as a result
B.while
C.thereby
D.however
45.Whereas_____-chip impressionist and modern art dominated the recessionary period of
2009and early2010,the market this year has seen a swing back to post-war and contemporary art,especially in New York.
A.blue
D.white
46.It was Christmas Eve,yet they had to lay_____in St.Louis for three hours waiting for a plane
for Washington.
A.over
B.down
C.up
D.off