BEC商务英语中级考试历年真题(18)

　　The Myth of the Paperless Office

　　0 The concept of a paperless office grew with the advance of technology. It was

　　00 widely been claimed that as email became commonplace, people would stop

　　34 writing memos, keeping bulky files and bringing piles of paper to the meetings.

　　35 But the reality has in fact been quite the reverse, and paper, having already

　　36 survived five thousand years of technological change, and has proved remarkably

　　37 resilient. Worldwide, the amount of paper used for each year continues to

　　38 rise up, although statistics now show a slight reduction in the amount

　　39 it consumed in the UK. So, has technology failed in its aim to end the use of

　　40 paper? Max Bray, a business lecturer, thinks office workers still distrust computers.

　　41 ‘Technology is unreliable in most of people's eyes,’ he says. 'If you are sent an

　　42 important email, you are likely to print it, because there is always the

　　43 fear that it might have get deleted.’ In contrast, Paul Blunt, a marketing

　　44 manager for desktop products, who says there has been significant progress in

　　45 automating a wide range of tasks, even though the transition between has been more of an evolution than a revolution.

　　《The Myth of the Paperless Office》，无纸化办公室神话。讲的是新技术对现代办公的影响。

　　34题，meeting在这里不是特殊指代，只是叙述的一般情况。不需要使用定冠词the。

　　35题，正确的

　　36题，和上面的部分联系起来作为一个整体来考虑。paper, having already survived five thousand years of technological change, and has proved remarkably resilient.中间的部分是插入语，可以不考虑，所以完整的应该是paper has proved remarkably resilient。主谓宾非常齐全，and是多余的。resilient是适应力强的，有弹力的。

　　37题，used在这里是后置定语，修饰前面的paper，意思是每年使用的纸的总数，不需要for。

　　38题，持续增长，用rise，rise up是起义的意思。

　　39题，the amount consumed in the UK，consumed也是后置定语，表示英国的消费总量。it多余。

　　40题，正确的

　　41题，in most people’s eyes在大多数人的眼里，of多余。

　　42题，正确的

　　43题，might have done表示可能已经做了某事，而这里的意思是指电子邮件等可能会被删除，不用have，去掉。

　　44题，Paul Blunt, a marketing manager for desktop products, who says there has been significant progress。中间的部分是插入成分，不予考虑。完整的是Paul Blunt (who) says there has been significant progress.主语是人，谓语是says，后面是宾语，成分齐全，who是多余的。

　　45题，the transition between has been more of an evolution than a revolution.依然是一个完整的句子，成分齐全，transition是主语，has been是谓语，between是多余的。