BEC商務(wù)英語中級(jí)考試真題(27)

When to Recruit?

0 In a small business, deciding when to take on new staff is a delicate calculation. On

00 the one hand, if you are increase your workforce, you might find it difficult to cover

34 for the increased costs straight away. On the other hand, extra staff could

35 enable you to spend more time on activities such as marketing, which in the

36 end should meanthe increased profits. A useful way of deciding when to increase

37 your workforce is to ask yourself if you can make enough of extra sales to meet

38 the cost of taking on with an extra employee. But even if you are not able to

39 increase your sales immediately you may still be able to employ someone.

40 In this such case, however, you must keep your business going until you have built

41 your sales up to the new level you need. If in the end you are clever enough to

42 get your timing so right, you will not want to throw away your advantage by

43 employing the wrong type person. The whole process of advertising and

44 interviewing can take around many months, so finding you made a mistake and

45 need to recruit again it can have a very serious impact on the future of your business.

《When to recruit?》，何時(shí)招人?文章是講的小公司招人的一些注意事項(xiàng)，應(yīng)該如何判斷招人的時(shí)機(jī)。

34題，cover是及物動(dòng)詞，后面直接接賓語，不需要用for。cover在此處的含義是“to be enough money to pay for something”。

35題，正確的。

36題，這句的意思是說招人可以反過來增加收益。mean (the) increased profits，意味著增加的收益。并不是特別指代，不需要使用定冠詞the。

37題，make是及物動(dòng)詞，直接后面接名詞，make enough extra sales，不需要of。

38題，take on是雇傭的意思?？错f氏詞典的解釋：If you take someone on, you employ them to do a job.后面不需要with。

39題，正確的。

40題，in this case: in this situation, if so, if we consider this situation 在這種情況下，such多余。

41題，正確的。

42題，timing是時(shí)機(jī)掌握的意思：the choice, judgement, or control of when something should be done。這個(gè)句子的意思是如果你夠聰明，把握好了正確的時(shí)機(jī)。直接用get sth. right，so是多余的。

43題，招到了錯(cuò)誤的人，形容詞wrong后面直接接名詞person，type是多余的。

44題，take在這里是及物動(dòng)詞，指耗費(fèi)了多少時(shí)間和精力，直接用動(dòng)詞take就能表示這個(gè)意思，around是多余的

45題，整個(gè)句子finding you made a mistake and need to recruit again(it) can have a very serious impact 成分很完整。finding you made a mistake and need to recruit again是主語，have是謂語，impact是賓語，it在這里多余。