BEC真题 第四辑高级Test 2
qq诈骗READING 1 hour
PART ONE
Questions 1-8
• Look at the statements below and the five news items on various companies on the opposite page.
• Which report (A, B, C, D or E) does each statement (1—8) refer to?
• For each statement (1-8), mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E) on your Answer Sheet.
• You will need to u some of the letters more than once.
• There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
0 Some new premis are going to be opened.
1 This company reports not being able to pass on higher costs to its customers.
2 The sale of part of a company has had an adver affect on profits.
3 This company's respon to fluctuations in sales has not had the desired effect.
4 Jobs have been lost becau a company has ended one of its activities.
孙茂珲5 There are fears about the impact of internal competition within the company.
6 This company has reported contrasting results from different parts of its operations.
7仙人指路k线 This company has spent money on moving part of its operation.
8 Efforts are to be made to turn around sales at a store.
New Store
Parkin's arch for a site for its next store has been ended by Marsden's misfortunes, with Parkin agreeing to buy half of the latter's Birmingham store for £40m. Parkin's main s
tore is in London, but it opened its cond, in Birmingham, three years ago, and has been eking sites in other large cities. There was surpri that the new store, likely to open next year, is so clo to the existing one, where profits have so far beaten Parkin's sales targets, in ca it draws customers away from the existing outlet.
A神采奕奕Capacity Cut春日唐诗
The packaging industry has typically suffered from a vicious cycle, with rising prices leading to excess capacity, which in turn leads to a collap in prices, and Johnson Keithley is no exception. The company has been attempting to smooth the boom/bust cycle by better capacity management, but it admitted yesterday that it has been forced to make significant cuts to capacity becau of a surprisingly sharp downturn in demand. The group now expects its cond-half results to fall below expectations, and warned of further problems on the horizon.吴十九
BHit by Higher Costs
Higher raw-material costs have reduced full—year profits at Bonner's, the plastics manufacturer, with prices of polyethylene, the main component of its business, rising 8% since last year. Profits were also held back by the disposal of its packaging division, which accounted for over half of turnover the previous year. Additional costs were incurred by relocating the head office from Wrexham to Cardiff, and from reorganisation and redundancy in its plastics business. Bonner's said that trading in the current year has started slowly, particularly in its European markets.
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笠翁对韵Surpri Fall
Shares in regional supermarket chain Couldson fell steeply yesterday after the retailer warned of loss at its biggest outlet, in Bristol. The warning was in stark contrast to its trading statement three months ago, which reported a ri in like-for-like sales of 5% in the preceding month. However, trading across the rest of the chain, including ven outlets bought last year from Luxona, showed a healthy improvement. The company has
promid to do all it can to stem the decline of the last four weeks at the Bristol outlet.
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