商务英语中级模拟试题听力部分原文.doc

商务英语中级模拟试题听力部分原文 PART THREE Questions 23 to 30 You will hear a talk about a conference. The manager of a company is talking about a conference which his company held recently. Choose the correct ending for each of the sentences 23 to 30. Mark one letter A, B or C for the ending you choose. I think it’s now a good time to try to evaluate the conference which we had last week. First, I’d like to thank you all for your hard work in organizing the conference. It was well attended and also quite successful in several ways. But there are lessons which we can all learn for the next conference we organize. And so I’d like us all to try to evaluate the conference from our different points of view. I myself will begin by giving you my own reactions to the conference. First, I’ll comment on its strengths and then later I’ll deal with what I see as one or two weaknesses. Let me begin by saying that I feel we got the timing of the conference just right this year. We managed to choose dates when the people we wanted to attend could actually make it – and we informed everyone about it in plenty of time. Now what about the conference programme, itself? There seemed to be enough time in the conference for everything to be covered-but not too much time. No one had too much time on their hands. The balance on the whole would have been perfect if there could have been a little more opportunity for informal sessions built into the conference timetable. I think we ought to allow slightly more time for informal demonstrations and discussions in future. We want our agents to feel confident about the products they are handling –and three or four fewer formal talks could have been replaced by such informal sessions of the nature I’ve been describing. But this is only a small point, and it didn’t reduce the usefulness of the programme in any serious way. The choice of venue-the Guangzhou Peace Hotel-was excellent. The facilities the hotel provided were first-rate. I know a few of