1．The Business English Certificate (BEC) test is gaining ever-increasing popularity in China, even surpassing the TOEFL test in some respects.
商务英语证书考试在中国越来越受到人们的欢迎，在有些方面其影响已经超 过了托福考试。
2．The BEC, an English proficiency test administered throughout the world under the supervision of the Examination Committee of Cambridge University, offers successful parties a language ability certificate accepted in many countries.
商务英语证书，是在英国剑桥大学考试委员会监管下，在全球范围内实施的 一种英语水平测试，凡通过考试者都可以得到议长为许多国家认可的英语语 言能力证书。
3．Three year ago, Cambridge University contacted China’s State Education Commission concerning a cooperative effort to establish the BEC in China.
三年前，剑桥大学与中国国家教委一起共同合作在中国建立 BEC 测试的适 宜。
4．Initially, the commission was hesitant about allocating the investment necessary to introduce the unknown entity.
起初，这个委员会对拨款引进这个鲜为人知的测试项目一事上，迟而不绝。
5．However, their fears were quickly dispelled when over 5,000 people in 29 cities, including 3,000 people in the Beijing area alone, applied to take the first exam.
但是他们的担忧很快就烟消云散了。29 个城市的 5000 多个人申请参加首次 测试，仅北京地区的考生究达到 3000 人。
6．The BEC exam tests one’s specialized vocabulary needed to draft official business letters, as well as spoken language for telephone communications.
BEC 测试考查人们起草官方商务信件所必需的专业词汇以及电话交谈的口 语能力。
7．It focuses on listening, speaking, reading and writing, especially on spoken English and practical business vocabulary.
它注重于听、说、读、写特别是英语口语以及使用的商务词汇。
8．In the wake of introductory exam, a BEC training network has been established in some 10 universities and institutions such as Beijing University, Beijing Normal University and Beijing Foreign Studies University.
第一次考试实施以后，BEC 培训网在北京大学、北京师范大学、北京外国 语大学等 10 来所高等院校建立起来。
9．High demand has resulted in the rapid enlargement of the network.
对接受 BEC 培训的高需求导致了网络的迅速扩大。
10．At present, some two-thirds of those people involved in training for the exam are either employees of joint ventures, high-tech companies or hotels, and the rest are students.
参加应试培训的学生中约有三分之二属于合资企业、高科技公司或宾馆的职 员，其余都是学生。
11．Shanghai International Studies University, for example, has become a major and successful training center for the BEC test in Shanghai.
全国各地越来越多的院校也开办了深受欢迎的 BEC 培训班，例如上海外国语大学已经成为上海地区成功主办 BEC 测试的一个主要培训中心。
12．China has opened its doors ever wider in recent years.
中国近几年来越来越开放。
13．Business activities and economic exchanges and cooperation in this country are gaining in frequency.
商务活动和经济交流以及合作变得非常频繁。
14．There is a substantial rise in the number of entrepreneurs and financiers flocking to China to establish factories and companies.
蜂拥而入中国开场办公司的企业家和金融家，其人数急剧增长。
15．These companies seek for prospective Chinese employees with adequate certification of their English proficiency.
这些公司需要招募有合格英语能力的中国雇员。
16．As a matter of fact, many institutions and companies such as the Beijing Diplomatic Personnel Service Bureau, Motorola (China) Corp., and NEC of Japan have already accepted the BEC as the criterion for the English level of their applicants, and are currently offering their employees training in BEC programs.
