2017BEC商务英语中级阅读真题精讲（九）

　　Personal Assistant of the Year

　　0 Anne-Marie Garrard was shocked when it was announced that she had won the

　　00 Personal Assistant of the Year award. ‘The other candidates seemed me

　　34 to be very strong, and I have to say I found that the selection procedure really

　　35 hard,' she says. 'I didn't think I had any chance of winning. When I heard my

　　36 name, my legs were so weak I could only hardly stand up,' she laughs. So

　　37 how is 'the best' personal assistant chosen from a group of so extremely good

　　38 and very different individuals? The final decision was reached after a

　　39 day-long session of the tests, interviews and exercises. Garrard believes

　　40 the skills she uses in her job helped her how to perform well. For instance, although

　　41 most of her work is for her company's Managing Director, she works for six bosses

　　42 in all, so she always tries out to be prepared for anything that might happen.

　　43 As for the future, her firm has closed for its summer break now; as soon as

　　44 they will open again, there is a pay rise waiting for her. But Garrard is not

　　45 going to be relax. She says, 'There's always room for personal development.You must keep trying to improve.

　　这篇文章讲的是一个女生获得个人助理奖后的情况。表达了一下激动了心情并且展望了未来。

　　34题，find后面直接可以接复合结构，例如find the story very interesting。如果是find that的话，that后面要接从句。所以这里that多余。

　　35题，正确的

　　36题，从意思上理解，说的是由于激动差点都站不起来，I could hardly stand up。Only多余。

　　37题，extremely是副词，直接用来修饰good，so在这里多余。

　　38题，正确的

　　39题，tests, interviews and exercises并不是特指，不需要用the。

　　40题，help sb.to do sth.固定词组，how多余

　　41题，正确的

　　42题，try out是试验，考验的意思，后面一般接for，这里应该直接用tries to be表示尝试。

　　43题，正确的

　　44题，as soon as，一…..就，后面从句通常用一般现在时表示将来时，所以will多余。

　　45题，be going to后面直接接动词，表示将来的动作，如果有be的话后面接形容词。relax是动词，所以be多余