剑桥商务英语中级阅读全真试题

PART FOUR 
Questions 21-35 
·Read the text below about job prospects at the Provincial Bank. 
·Choose the correct word A, B, C, or, D on the opposite page to fill each gap. 
·For each question 21-35, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet. 

Employment Opportunities for Graduates with the Provincial Bank 
The Provincial Bank is one of the biggest (example) ____________ institutions in the U.K. With its 1,900 branches and 58,000 employees, it has (21) ____________ a household name. Almost 4,000 of these employees (22) ____________ managerial or executive positions. The bank has an outstanding (23) ____________ of profitability, which has been achieved by introducing innovations at the same time as maintaining leadership of the (24) ____________.  
The bank’s comprehensive training programme concentrates on (25) ____________ the most important skills that graduates need in order to (26) ____________ early management responsibility. Trainees take responsibility for their own continuous self-development through visiting other branches and departments, and by (27)____________ courses in management skills. They also receive training in order to increase their knowledge of the bank’s (28) ___________. The bank supports (29)____________ of staff who wish to take professional examinations, and its Graduate Training Scheme is (30)_____________ to the nationally recognized Diploma in Management. 
Obviously the quality of its mangers is of (31)____________ importance to the bank’s performance. It welcomes good graduates in any subject area, (32)____________ they can demonstrate the ability to influence events, and have the potential to (33)____________ both as leaders and as part of a team. Most graduate trainees join the Retail Banking division initially. Those starting on this programme will soon have the (34)____________ to work in other parts of the bank and can (35)____________ a varied and flexible working life. 
Example: 
A budgetary     B fiscal       C financial         D economic  
0   A   B   C   D    
  
Example 
21  A  opened        B  entered         C  turned       D  become  
22  A  hold           B  do             C  keep          D  own 
23  A  career         B  catalogue       C  record         D  experience  
24  A  area           B  trade          C  record         D  market 
25  A  making         B  reaching       C  developing       D  heightening 
26  A  present         B  treat          C  deal           D  handle  
27  A  observing       B  attending     C  involving       D  staying  
28  A  services         B  goods               C  creations     D  abilities  
29  A  colleague        B  members     C  people       D  persons  
30  A  qualified         B  combined      C  fastened       D  linked 
31  A  main             B  vital           C  necessary               D  superior  
32  A  therefore        B  thus            C  provided         D  only  
33  A  succeed        B  realize           C  gain             D  overcome  
34  A  choice          B  chance         C  likelihood       D  probability 
35  A  forecast         B  believe         C  suppose             D  expect 

PART FIVE 
Section  A  
Questions 36-40 
             Read the text below about a special kind of competition. 
             In most of the lines 36-40 there is one extra word which does not fit. One or two lines, however, are correct. 
             If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet. 
             If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet. 

Examples: 
0  The international Youth Skills Olympics is a vocational skills competition in 
         0     C    O   R    R    E    C    T 
00       which the young people demonstrate their achievements in a range of areas. 
         00    T    H    E 

36  The competition, which there is held every two years, is organized by the international 

37  Training Organisation. All U.K. competitors qualify for the team by getting through 

38  a tough national competition.Their backgrounds are vary from arts to sciences,  

39        and students to the self-employed. Since they do not know which skill area they 

40  will be tested in, they must to train for everything before the start of the competition.