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商务英语初级试题（真题） Company results Present perfect v. past simple 1. Listening listen to a company chairman making an end-of-year presentation. As you listen, complete his presentation notes. Listening task I’d like to spend a few minutes of your time looking back over the year. I’m going to divide my review into three areas: firstly, financial, secondly, personnel and finally technology. On the financial front, the results have been very pleasing. Turnover has increased by 14%, costs have dropped by 3%and profits are up by 16%. So the company as a whole has performed well. Some business areas have done better than others. Export sales have done very well-especially in America, our largest export market. The domestic consumer market has been very competitive and will continue to be so-our results in this market have been rather disappointing-just 1% up compared with last year. Right, let’s move on to personnel. Our policy of personnel development through training and promotion opportunities has continued to be a great success. We have actually recruited 72 new staff, while 20 have retired-so there’s a net balance of 52. The training department has expanded considerably and moved into new areas such as quality assurance and sales training. Finally, technology. I thought you would be interested to have an update since this vital for out future growth. Over the last year, our Research Department has thoroughly tested a new prototype engine. Results so far have looked promising. We have also invested heavily in a European technology programme which links industry with the universities. Right, those are the three main areas- finance, personnel and technology. Are there any questions, personnel and technology. Are there any questions, before I go on?... 2. Presentation In his presentation, the chairman used the present perfect tense(has/have + past participle). e.g. The results have been very pleasing. The company has performed well. He uses this tense because: 1