SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
ANSWER SHEET ONE
Fill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.
When I was nine years old, I found an ad for selling greeting cards in a childrens magazine. I begged my mother to allow me to send for the kit. When the kit arrived two weeks later, I (16) off the brown wrapper, dashed from the house with the cards. Three hours later, I came back home with a pocket of money. A (17) was born.
When I was twelve, my father took me to attend Zig Zieglers lecture. In the dark auditorium he raised everybodys (18) up to the ceiling. I left there feeling I would do everything. I told my father I wanted to be a (19) speaker just like Mr. Zigler. A dream was born.
Recently, I picked up my dream. I left my company at the height of my career. Many people were surprised and wondered why I would risk everything for a dream.
I was determined to pursue my dream after attending a (20) sales meeting. The vice-president of our company asked us, "If a genie would grant you three wishes what would they be?" After a moment he continued to ask, "Why do you need a genie?" The (21) I felt was so great at that moment that I would never forget.
I realized that everything I had achieved had prepared me for this moment. I did not need a genies help.
When I told my plans to my boss in tear, he replied "Go on with (22) abandon and you will succeed."
One week after I gave my (23), my husband was (24) from his job. We were confronted with lots of difficulties. It was attractive to go back to my former company, but I knew that once I went back, I would never leave. In spite of the hardships I preserved.
In a short time period, my husband found a better job. We didnt miss a (25) payment. And I booked several speaking engagements with new clients. I held fast to my dream, and it was realized. To celebrate my success I had an artist paint my new office as a garden. At the top of a wall she stenciled. "The world always makes way for the dreamer."
PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION
The following passage contains ten errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
EXAMPLE
When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit,
(1) an
it (never/) buys things in finished form and hangs
(2) never
them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it.
(3)exhibit
When Zhou liang answered the doorbell recently, he was rather astonished to see what he had purchased on the Internet only two days before sitting on his doorstep.
"I never expected to get my books so quickly," he told Business
(26) weekly.
Li Qiang, an employee of a Beijing-based electronics company
shared Zhous experience. He said online shopping was very good
and always offered comparatively lower prices than ordinary retailer
(27) stores.
Along with Chinas rapidly developing IT industry, online
shopping is attracting the interest of more and more people.
Wang Juntao, general manager of the Electronic Business Department
of Beijing-based Federal Software Co Ltd, said online
shopping had tremendous market potential giving Chinas large
(28) population.
In mid-March, Wangs company established an online shopping
center for Internet surfers.
More than 14,000 kinds of goods are available on the Federal
website, including computers, software, books and daily necessity.
(29).
Its online service cover 13 cities in China including Beijing,
Shanghai and Nanjing.
"We have achieved great success in the three months since we
launched the service," he said.
Figures from the company show that by mid-June, the sales
volume of the website reached more than 2 million Yuan (US
240,000).
Daily visitors to the site surged from 10,000 in March to
30,000 in June.
With the increase in the number of Chinas Internet users,
that figure is likely to multiple," Wang said.
(30)
Industry experts say that because of the lack of appropriate
payment tools, online shopping is still at a primitive stage.
The Federal site is reportedly the first Chinese website that
combines online shopping with online payment.
Sources from the company say that customers can use credit
cards from several banks including Bank of China and the Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China.
"The application of online payment marks up a milestone for
(31) the development of the online industry," Wand said.
However, problems such as a limited pot of Internet users,
(32) comparatively high charges on Internet surfing and traditional views
(33) on shopping have hindered the development of online shopping.
"There is still a long way to go for us to become a competent
online shopping company both in and outside China," Wang said.
He said the company planned to invest 200 million Yuan (US
24 million) on its shopping website by the end of 2000.
(34).
"We are going to seek cooperation with domestic and oversea
companies to extend the variety of our online products," he said. 共9页: 上一页 [1] 2 [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] 下一页