2016年下半年商務英語中級考試將於12月3日開考，大家備考得如何了?以下是yjbys網小編整理的關於BEC商務英語考試中級閱讀資料，供大家備考。
Read the following text.
? Choose the best sentence from the list on page 52 to fill each of the gaps.
? For each gap 8 – 12 mark one letter A – I on your Answer Sheet.
? Do not mark any letter twice.
The Cash-free Society
Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is electronic, as in bank-card Systems. Currency and coin are abandoned.
____ example ____ . Theft of cash would BECome impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur ____ ( 8 ) ____ . Purse snatchings would become a thing of the past. Urban streets would become safer ____ ( 9 ) ____ . Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighbourhoods would improve.
Drug traffickers and their clients, burglars and receives of stolen property, arsonists for hire, and bribe-takers would no longer have the advantage of using untraceable currency. ____ ( 10 ) ____ These prosecutions, in turn, would inhibit further crimes.
In a society devoid of physical money, a change from cash to recorded electronic money would be accompanied by a flow of previously unpaid income-tax revenues running in the tens of billions of dollars. ____ (11) ____
Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. ____ (12)____ Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the country’s 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach.
Example: H.
A. A national electronic-money system would operate as a debit-card system.
B. Retail shops in once dangerous areas could operate in safety.
C. As a result, income tax rates could be lowered or the national debt reduced.
D. The use of cash has diminished substantially since World War II.
E. Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers would all end.
F. The emergence of electronic funds-transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil.
G. Almost every present-day cash transaction can be duplicated electronically.
H. The immediate benefits would be profound and fundamental.
I. Electronic “money” would leave incriminating trails of data, resulting in more arrests and convictions.
答案：Questions 8 – 12: E, B, I, C, F
拓展閱讀：BEC商務英語中級閱讀高頻句型總結
1. It作先行主語和先行賓語的一些句型
She had said what it was necessary to say.
2. 強調句型
It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us.
3. "All+抽象名詞"或"抽象名詞+itself"(very+形容詞)
He was all gentleness to her.
4. 利用詞彙重複表示強調
A crime is a crime a crime.
5. "something(much)of"和"nothing(little)of""something of"相當於"to some extent"，表示程度。在疑問句或條件從句中，則為"anything of "，可譯為"有點"，"略微等。""譯為毫無"，"全無"。"much of"譯為"大有"，"not much of"可譯為"算不上"，"稱不上"，"little of"可譯為"幾乎無"。 something like譯為"有點像，略似。"
They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar.
6. 同格名詞修飾是指of前後的兩個名詞都指同一個人或物，"of"以及它前面的名詞構一個形容詞短語，以修飾"of"後面的那個名詞。如"her old sharper of a father"，可譯為："她那騙子般的'父親"。
Those pigs of girls eat so much.
7. as…as…can(may)be
It is as plain as plain can be.
8. "It is in(with)…as in(with)"
It is in life as in a journey.
9. "as good as…"相等於，就像，幾乎如;實際上，其實，實在。
The merchant as good as promised the orphan boy, that he would adopt him.
10."many as well…as"和"might as well …as" "many as well…as"可譯為"與其……，不如……，更好"，"以這樣做……為宜"，"如同……，也可以……"等等。"might as well …as"表示不可能的事，可譯為"猶如……"，"可與……一樣荒唐"，"與其那樣不如這樣的好"等等。
One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly.
