商务英语写作试题及参考答案

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学院

2015

学年度第

1

学期

期末考试试卷

考试年级

13.14.15

专业

商务英语

科目

商务英语习作

出卷老师

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试题号

得分

一

二

三

四

总分

商务英语写作

I. Complete the letters with the words given. Change the word forms where necessary.

(10points)

popular

,

inquiry,

hire,

volume,

assign,

instead

of,

recommend,

cooperation,

responsible,

branch

(1)

Dear Sir

Owing to the large increase in the ___1___ of our trade with this country, we have decided

to open a(n) ____2____here,with Mr. Jackie Black as manager. The new branch will open on

1

st

July and from that date all orders and ___3____ should be sent to Mr. Black at the above

address, ___4___to our London office.

We take this opportunity to express our thanks for your ____5____ in the past. We hope

the new arrangements will lead to even better results.

Y

ours faithfully

(2)

Dear Sir

This letter is to ___6___ Tim Steven as an outstanding salesperson.

I have known and worked with Tim for more than three years. He is a highly __7____

and creative individual. Form the day he came to work for us, he was a welcome member of

our sales team. He willingly undertook any task___8___ to him, whether it involved direct

sales or not, and his enthusiastic manner made him____9___with all our customers.

I am sorry to lose Tim, but his educational plans call for him to move outside our city

. I

believe anyone who____10___ him will be truly fortunate.

Y

ours sincerely

II. Choose the best answer for each question. (10 points)

11.

After

checking the

goods

against

your

invoice, we

discovered

a

considerable

shortage

______ number.

A. of

B. in

C. for

12.

As

soon

as

we

receive

the

signed

form,

we

will

add

your

name

to

the

list

of

people

_______ snow shoveling.

A. requiring

B. require

C. required

13. The report is to be _______ to the Directors as soon as possible.

A. prepared

B. promoted

C. presented

14. I am glad that I feel quite _______ for the position you advertised.

A. qualifying

B. qualified

C. qualification

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15. We recommended ________ a small quantity for trial.

A. to buy

B. you bought

C. buying

16. _____ the quality

, you must assure that we would get the goods produced in 2004.

A. In regard to

B. Due to

C. In view of

17. ________ we appreciate your cooperation in giving us the information about your market,

we regret that we are unable to reduce our price to the level you indicated.

A. Despite

B. Since

C. While

18. We shall appreciate it if you will effect shipment as soon as possible, thus _______ our

buyers to catch the brisk demand at the beginning of the season.

A. enable

B. enabling

C. enables

19. I am writing _______ your advertisement for the position of Conference Manager.

.A. in view of

B. in reply of

C. in response to

20. I will phone you next week after you ______ a chance to go over the material.

A. have had

B. had

C. had had

Ⅲ

Match (10 points)

(

一

)

In

the following, 21-25 describe

the

problems,

and

a-e give

the

solutions.

Please

match them.

21. The printed shirting clearly does not match the samples you left with us.

22. The bottom corner of the suitcase is broken.

23. We regret to inform you that the above invoice contains a mistake.

24. The color of the goods shipped by you is different form what we need.

25. We only received 80 cartons instead of 95 cartons.

a) We think a little difference in color between them is unavoidable.

b) It seems that some of the materials escaped the examination we normally give to all

materials.

c) We doubt the shortage happened due to losses or pilferage.

d) No commercially made suitcase can withstand an impact of this kind.

e)

We

have

checked

with

our

accounting

department

and

found

that

the

figure

was

wrong.

(

二

)

Choose from f-j to match 26-30.

26.

Herewith please

find enclosed

a

check

for

US$$5,000 in

payment of

your invoice

No.2771.

27. We take the liberty of writing to you with a view to building up business relations

with your firm.

28. To step up trade between us, we trust you would allow us a higher rate of discount

with your firm.

29. Are your valuables protected from burglary?

30.

Since

this

is

our

first

order,

we

hope

you

will

do

everything

possible

to

ensure

punctual shipment.

f) Our lines are mainly textiles and handicrafts.

g) We are now pleased to send you our official receipt.

h) Let us here at Home Safe, Inf. help you make sure your family and home are fully

protected.

i) We assure you that we shall effect shipment on the specified date in your order.

J) Since this is our first transaction with you, we decide, as an exception, to cut the price

by 2%.

Ⅴ

. Translate the following into Chinese (10 points)

33.