关于BEC
教育部考试中心和英国剑桥大学考试委员会合作,于1993年起举办商务英语证书(BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE)考试。该系列考试是一项水平考试,根据商务工作的实际需要,对考生在商务和一般生活环境下使用英语的能力从听、说、读、写四个方面进行全面考查,对成绩及格者提供由英国剑桥大学考试委员会颁发的标准统一的成绩证书。该证书由于其颁发机构的权威性,在英国、英联邦各国及欧洲大多数国家的商业企业部门获得认可,作为确认证书持有者英语能力证明的首选证书,也是在所有举办该项考试的国家和地区求职的“通行证”。目前,BEC考试已经从中国推广到亚洲、欧洲、南美洲、澳洲等几十个国家。
考试等级
BEC共分三个等级:BEC1、BEC2、BEC3。BEC1是面向初级和中下级英语水平的考试,BEC2是面向中高级英语水平的考试,BEC3是面向较高级英语水平的考试。考生可根据自己的英语水平不按级别顺序选考。
考试内容
考试分两个阶段进行:第一阶段为笔试,包括阅读、写作和听力;第二阶段为口试。考试时间分别为:BEC1阅读、写作70分钟,听力30分钟,口试约10分钟;BEC2阅读、写作90分钟,听力35分钟,口试约12分钟;BEC3阅读、写作100分钟,听力40分钟,口试约14分钟。
报名时间
报名无开始时间即任何时间都可以报名,有截止时间:上半年报名截止时间为3月20日;下半年报名截止时间为9月17日。
报名条件与考试费用
报名不受年龄、性别、职业、地区、学历等限制,任何人(包括学生、待业人员等)均可持本人身份证件到当地考点报名。在华工作的外籍人员和现役军人亦可持本人有效身份证件报名参加考试。报名每次收取考试费(含口试费)BEC1约289.40元人民币(包括按人民币汇率折算的18美元);BEC2372.60元人民币(包括按人民币汇率折算的22美元);BEC3约488.90元人民币(包括按汇率折算的33美元)。因人民币汇率可能变化,每次考试收费标准以考点公布的为准。
考试时间及地点
每年五月的第三个周六(BEC3)、第四个周六(BEC1),六月第一个周六(BEC2),每年十一月第四个周六(BEC3),十二月第一个周六(BEC1)、第二个周六(BEC2)。上午笔试下午口试口试进度慢的延至第二日上午。
成绩评定及证书颁发
一级笔试分A、B、C、D、F四等,口试分1、2、3等;二级笔试分A、B、C、N、F五等,口试分1、2、3等;三级笔试分A、B、C、N、F五等,口试分1、2、3等由海外考试处打印成绩通知单(包括不及格的N、F,口试的3等)剑桥大学地方考试委员会印发成绩合格证书由教育部考试中心及各考点向考生颁发。
BEC重点词汇掌握
2004年2月24日 一、 business and businesses 商业和公司
A business, company, or firm is an organization that sells goods or services .A business may also be referred to formally as a concern. Business is the production, buying, and selling of goods and services.
A business may be referred to approvingly as an enterprise to emphasize its adventurous, risk-taking qualities, and business in general may be referred to in the same way, for example in combinations such as free enterprise and private enterprise.
Business is also referred to as commerce. This word, and its related adjective commercial, are often used to distinguish the business sphere from other areas such as government or the arts, or to distinguish it from non-money-making activities.
注释:
Business 商业;生意;公司 Company 公司;商号
Firm (合伙的)商号;商行 Concern 康采恩(垄断企业形式之一)
Commerce 商业; 商务 Commercial 商业的;商务的;商用的
Enterprise 企事业单位 Free Enterprise 自由企业
Private Enterprise 私人企业
二、From multinationals to small firms 从跨国公司到小型企业
Large companies are referred to as corporations, especially in the United States. Corporate is used to describe things relating to a corporation, or to corporations in general, in expressions like the ones in the next exercise. Large companies operating in many countries are multinationals.
Big business can refer to large business organizations or to any business activity that makes a lot of money. Small companies are referred to as small businesses or small firms.
Unlike some languages, English does not have an everyday term for small and medium-sized companies, apart from this rather clumsy expression.
注释:
Corporation 大公司;股份有限公司 Corporate 法人;团体
Multinational 跨国的;多国的 Big business 大型企业;大公司
Small and medium sized companies中小规模的公司
Small business 小公司 Small firm 小公司
三、Industries and sectors 工业及其部门
Businesses may be classified according to which industry they are in: for example construction, oil, banking, food.
Sector is sometimes used to mean industry in the same way, particularly by specialists such as financial journalists, but it is more often used to talk about different parts of the economy in combinations such as public sector and private sector, or about types of business in expressions like service sector and manufacturing sector.
注释:
Industry 工业;产业 Sector 部门;部分
Public sector 公共部门 Private sector 私营部门
manufacturing sector 制造部门 Service sector 服务部门
四、Public sector and private 公共部门和私营部门
When a private company is bought by the state and brought into the public sector, it is nationalized in a process of nationalization. A nationalized company is state-owned. When the state returns a company to the private sector in a sell-off, it is privatized. This is privatization.
The first to be sold off in a privatization program are often the companies responsible for the public supply of electricity, water and gas: the utilities.
注释:
Nationalized 国有化的 Nationalization 国有化
Privatized 私有化的 Privatization 私有化
State-owned 国有的 Sell off 廉价出清
Utilities 公用事业;公用事业部门
五、Stakes 份额;股份
If Company A owns shares or equity in Company B, A has or holds a stake, holding or shareholding in B. If A owns less than half the shares in B, it has a minority stake in B.
If A owns more than half the shares in B, it has a majority stake or controlling stake in B. If you have shares in a company you are a shareholder.
注释:
Shares/stake 份额;股份 Equity 股份;产权;普通股票
Holding 持有;股票额 Shareholding 持有股票数
Shareholder 股东 Hold a stake 持有份额
Majority stake 大股东(50%以上) Controlling stake 大股东
Minority stake 小股东