2010年BEC高级听力部分模拟试题（六）
　　Intensive Exercise One
　　Part Two
　　1. Spot dictation：
　　1. I was quite surprised to get their letter， actually. ____________ theyve done nothing but complain about everything. There always seemed to be something wrong. So its strange that they ______ ______ so many of ___________. Especially theyre relatively ______. Weve only ____________________ for a month. They want us to deliver sixty September.
　　2. Well， ___ wrote to them ________ thanking them for their help over the accounting matter. Ive just had a ______. __________________ we ____________________ reduce costs， which is ______ to know. But they want us to cut back even more.
　　______suggested that I ___________________________ to see if they could make more savings. But ___ think ____________________. So ____________________________________. If theyre really insistent， theyll write again. But I dont think __________________________________________.
　　3. Ive just _________________ about that actually. They ______________ __________________. They _____________________ our decision to expand within Australia， so _____ they ______________________________go into New Zealand as well. I dont want to give too much away until we know what they are doing. I was going to write and ask for further details of their _________________， __________________. I think it will be better done _____________. So Id ask my secretary to ___________________ for next week. And hopefully it will be fairly friendly.
　　4. About two months ago， we ______________________ that they were selling. But they still ________________. Now theyve written to say ___________________________. They ____________ to deliver them ______________________. Thats lucky， because I ___________________ write to complain about them taking so long. ___________________， but I still dont think we ought to just accept it. So _______________________ to talk about the problems. If we dont say anything， then the same thing will just happen again next time. But Id like to keep informal _____________.
　　5. I said I wanted to ___________ to Harrison. So ____________ to say they ________________________. Apparently _________________________. ________________ everyone in the sales and marketing to go. Of course theyre__________________________， as hes the ______ in their ______. The problem is I wanted the opportunity to have a __________ discussion with him. I dont want to just listen to a lecture with a lot of other people. So Im going to ________ saying I am ____ of course for __________ but Ive ____________________.
　　Part Three
　　1. Spot dictation：
　　23.
　　I started it because I was hungry really. There was ________ to _____________________________. And I ______________________. I set up the business with a partner.
　　24.
　　However the first three years were ________. We ______________________________________________. We just didnt have ____________________ of what we wanted， and frankly we were _________________.
　　25.
　　Having said that， the fast food chains do some things _____________. And Id like us to _________________________ of how they operate. What I mean is we should _______________________________， not waste __________ or ______________.
　　26.
　　No， I am not. ___________________. I find this _________________ gives me__________________. I ____________ how you can get things done if __________________________. I am sorry for my secretary， who _____________________________， but for me its the only way.
　　27.
　　And we focus there not on details but on major issues. This means I can actually spend about 95% of my time listening to customers. And this is really the _____ to how I run my business life－－－listening to our employees， because ____________________________.
　　28.
　　Were in a high _______ low ________ business. We only make ____________ on everything we sell， so basically we have to _____________. And the secret of success in a business like this is a ___________________. Its as simple as that.
　　29－30.
　　Id say， look at what other people ___________________ are doing. Its _____________.
　　But doesnt everyone monitor what their competitors are doing？
　　Perhaps they do， but the important thing is ____________________. A lot of people seem to monitor whats going on so they know what their feelings are. Then they ______________________. I find it most extraordinary.