BEC即剑桥商务英语证书考试，是剑桥大学考试委员会(UCLES)设立的。很多人误认为BEC考试针对是那些学与商务有关的专业人员的，其实不然。因为无论你学的专业是什么，都要在某个特定的商务环境中运用，BEC考查的正是这种普遍存在的商务环境中应具备的通识与能力。剑桥大学考试委员会设立BEC考试的目的是在全球范围内建立一个测试商界雇员英语水平的统一标准，使BEC证书被跨国公司和非英语国家的大公司用作商务英语测试标准，以评估在真实商务环境下雇员的英语水平，使人力资源部门能准确评估雇员商务英语的运用技能。因此，与我国的四、六级考试相比较，BEC考试更侧重对英语实际运用能力的考查。换句话说，BEC中的考查内容都是可以马上拿到实际工作中去的，不会出现所谓高分低能现象。

　　A friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. He drew the horses very well,but he always began the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly(肚子) or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people’s rule.They make their own rules. Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar(奇特的) to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy to work in that way.

　　Now the very same thing is true to literature(文学). And the question, "How shall I begin?" only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you are not yet experienced(有经验的) enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more experienced you will

　　never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail --that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.

　　1. A friend of the writer’s drew the horses ____.

　　A. very well

　　B. in the way of western rule

　　C. in the way of his own rule

　　D. all of the above

　　2. The writer was surprised because ____.

　　A. the artist began to draw at the head of the horse

　　B. the artist began to draw at the tail of the horse

　　C. the artist made his own rule

　　D. the artist did not follow other people’s rule

　　3. You are not yet experienced because ____.

　　A. you don’t know where to begin

　　B. you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail

　　C. you always asked question

　　D. you do not trust to your own powers

　　4. When you become more experienced you will ____.

　　A. never ask question

　　B. often begin at the tail

　　C. should write the end of the story

　　D. should think of the beginning

　　5. The topic of the passage is ______.

　　A. How to draw a horse

　　B. How to write a story

　　C. How to make your own rules

　　D. Trust to your own powers

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