2015年12月高职高专英语应用能力A级真题

2) provide powerful and unique Additional feature: an online community with 40,000+ artists

Task 4

Directions: The following is a list of terms related to Stocks and Shares. After reading it, you are required to find the items equivalent to those given in Chinese in the table below. Then you should mark the

corresponding letters with a single letter through the center in order of the numbered blanks, 51 through 55, on the Answer Sheet.

A —— Bear market J —— Earnings per share

B —— Bull market K —— Price per share

C —— Closing price L —— Market value

D —— Opening price M —— Volume of trading

E —— Primary market N —— Ordinary share

F —— Secondary market O —— Composite Index

G —— Individual investor P —— Account balance

H —— Annual report Q —— Annual return

I —— Cash flow

51、 （ ）每股股价 （ ）年回报

52、 （ ）开盘价 （ ）熊市

53、 （ ）二级市场 （ ）交易量

54、 （ ）资金流 （ ）普通股

55、 （ ）每股收益 （ ）市场价值

Task 5

Directions: Read the following passage. After reading it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions (No. 56 to No. 60) that follow. The answers (in no more than 3 words) should be written after the corresponding numbers on the Answer Sheet.

Are you searching the Internet to find the best place to book a room for your family vacation?

Here are some of our tips for you.

Getting Started

Years ago searching for a hotel required a lot of phone calls to hotel chains. Today, there's no shortage of quality online hotel booking websites. Just locate your favorite online hotel booking site, enter your travel destination, the date of your trip, and the number of hotel guests.

Narrowing the Hotel Search

So now what? You've found a list of hotel rooms online ordered by hotel star rating (等级), guest scores, or price. What's most important to you? If it's price, sort the list by lowest price first. If it's the star rating of the hotel, then click to sort by rating.

Read Guest Scores and Reviews

Always read the guest scores. Keep in mind that hotels with a high number of highly rated guest scores and written guest reviews will increase your confidence that you'll have a good experience at that hotel. Always consider the guest scores when you book a room online in a hotel. Your experience is likely to be similar.

56、What did people have to do to search for a hotel in the past?

They had to make a lot of ______.

57、What should people do after they have found their favorite hotel booking site?

Simply enter their ______, the date of their trip, and the number of guests.

58、How are hotel rooms ordered in a list online?

They are ordered by star rating, ______, or price.

59、What should people do if they think the star rating is most important?

They just sort by ______.

60、Why should people take the guest scores into consideration?