BEC商務英語中級考試歷年真題(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》，無紙化辦公室神話。講的是新技術對現代辦公的影響。

　　34題，meeting在這里不是特殊指代，只是敘述的一般情況。不需要使用定冠詞the。

　　35題，正確的

　　36題，和上面的部分聯系起來作為一個整體來考慮。paper, having already survived five thousand years of technological change, and has proved remarkably resilient.中間的部分是插入語，可以不考慮，所以完整的應該是paper has proved remarkably resilient。主謂賓非常齊全，and是多余的。resilient是適應力強的，有彈力的。

　　37題，used在這里是后置定語，修飾前面的paper，意思是每年使用的紙的總數，不需要for。

　　38題，持續增長，用rise，rise up是起義的意思。

　　39題，the amount consumed in the UK，consumed也是后置定語，表示英國的消費總量。it多余。

　　40題，正確的

　　41題，in most people’s eyes在大多數人的眼里，of多余。

　　42題，正確的

　　43題，might have done表示可能已經做了某事，而這里的意思是指電子郵件等可能會被刪除，不用have，去掉。

　　44題，Paul Blunt, a marketing manager for desktop products, who says there has been significant progress。中間的部分是插入成分，不予考慮。完整的是Paul Blunt (who) says there has been significant progress.主語是人，謂語是says，后面是賓語，成分齊全，who是多余的。

　　45題，the transition between has been more of an evolution than a revolution.依然是一個完整的句子，成分齊全，transition是主語，has been是謂語，between是多余的。