BEC商务英语考试中级模拟试题6:READING(4)
日期:2014-02-28 09:34

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题型模拟

  PART FOUR

  Questions 21-35

  . Read this news. .

  . Choose the best word to fil1 each gap.

  . For each question (21-35) mark one letter (A ,B ,C or D) on your Answer She et.

  . One answer has been given as an example.

  Three Bootleggers Jailed

  Three men who ran a cross-channel smuggling group ,selling cheap.

  French beer ,wine and champagne in Britain ,were jailed yesterday.

  The men were leaders of an 11-man group which made at least 42……example……on the Dover-Calais ferry in three months.

  Trucks of cheap drink were brought into the country and sold …… ……21 …… ……at Sunday market, And corner shops in South Wales , Two secret teams of customs officers …… …… 22…… ……vehicles between Kent and Cardiff in an operation called "chancer". Eleven men admitted their part in a…… ……23…… ……to avoid paying duty on beer and spirits.

  Mr. Roger Thomas said it was ……24 …… that 70, 000pounds of unpaid duty was involved between January and April last year when the gang was …… 25 ……the smuggling group. Cases of beer, wine and champagne were brought to a rented warehouse in Cardiff before being …… 26 …… to traders. Mr. Richard Nichols, a former market trader, Mr. Qichard Spencer ,a shopowner, and Mr Raymond Tout , were put in prison for …… …… 27…… ……of nine, four and three months …… 28 …… Judge Michael Burr said the group had used "an army of helpers "in an organized conspiracy to make …… …… 29 …… …… money. He ordered six other men to carry out community service and conditionally …… …… 30…… ……two others who had played a lesser role.

  After the …… 31 …… customs investigators said that the group made as many as four cross channel trips a day …… …… 32…… …… to a hypermarket near Calais. They went into business only three weeks after the new customs laws came into …… 33……on New Year s day last year. The investigators added : "We hope these jail …… …… 34…… ……will be a big help to tackle this . ……35…… ……crime which is causing concern to the retail industry

  example

  A. holidays B. tours C. trips D. voyages

  Answer: C

  21. A. law fully B. secretly C. legally D. illegally

  22. A. tracked B. travelled C. saw D. watched

  23. A. accident B. conspiracy C. hope D. dream

  24. A. calculated B. considered C. counted D. estimated

  25. A. meeting B. talking C. organizing D. using

  26. A. moved B. rented C. distributed D. using

  27. A. times B. lengths C. terms D. periods

  28. A. each B. altogether C. long D. respectively

  29. A. hard B. easy C. comfortable D. simple

  30. A. closed B. discharged C. opened D. liberated

  31. A. trial B. sentence C. accident D. case

  32. A. occasionally B. particularly C. mainly D. consequently

  33. A. being B. force C. strength D. use

  34. A. words B. sentences C. phrases D. punishment

  35. A. widespread B. terrible C. serious D. rare
参考答案

  PART FOUR

  21. D 22. A 23.B 24. D 25. C 26.C 27.C 28. D 29.B

  30. B 31. D 32.C 33. B 34. B 35.A

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重点单词
  • consequentlyadv. 所以,因此
  • tacklev. 处理,对付,阻截 n. 用具,滑车,对付
  • jailn. 监牢,监狱,拘留所 vt. 监禁,下狱
  • trialadj. 尝试性的; 审讯的 n. 尝试,努力,试验,试
  • rareadj. 稀罕的,稀薄的,罕见的,珍贵的 adj. 煎得
  • communityn. 社区,社会,团体,共同体,公众,[生]群落
  • occasionallyadv. 偶尔地
  • toutv. 招来顾客,死乞白赖地劝诱,刺探 ... 情报
  • retailn. 零售 vt. 零售,传述 adv. 以零售形式
  • conspiracyn. 阴谋