If you have an AT&T BusinessDirect account, you can have your telephone bill paid

A.earn an interest from a bank account

B.make the first month's payment only

C.pay your telephone bill automatically

D.enjoy all the available banking services

A.earn an interest from a bank account

B.make the first month's payment only

C.pay your telephone bill automatically

D.enjoy all the available banking services

Task 1

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.

If you have an AT&-T BusinessDirect account, you can have your telephone bill paid automatically each month. You can make payments online with a bank account or use one of the following credit cards (信用卡): Visa , Master Card, Discover Network or American Express. When you make an online payment, please follow the instructions given below.

Instructions

1. To make your payment online, click (点击) the "Pay Now" link under the "Account Overview (概览) summary.

2. If your business has more than one registered account, first select the account you need from the "Account Number" menu, and then click the "Pay Now" link.

3. If you have never made an online payment before, you will be asked whether you want to make a payment by using a bank account or credit card. Select either "Bank Account" or "Credit Card" from the "Select Payment Method" menu.

The online payment system is available Monday through Saturday, from 7:00 AM to 12:00 AM (Midnight) Eastern Time.

An AT&T BusinessDi red account helps you______.

A．earn an interest from a bank account

B．make the first month's payment only

C．pay your telephone bill automatically

D．enjoy all the available banking services

A.Iraq

B.Japan

C.Syria

&8226;Look at the statements below and the information about cards on the opposite page.

&8226;Which card (A, B, C or D) does each statement 1-7 refer to？

&8226;For each statement 1-7, mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.

&8226;You will need to use some of these letters more than once.

A

Visa Gold Card

A Visa Gold Card guarantees you'll be welcomed at more than 10.5 million establishments in 247 countries. It gives you access to more ATMs around the world than any other cards. It assures you of unsurpassed travel, legal and medical assistance, with just one phone call, and emergency cash if you lose your card. And it offers you Visa's unmatched range of special cardholder services, from reserved concert seats to the Visa Restaurant Club.

B

MasterCard Pocket Teller

It can now tell you how much money you have on your chip, as well as how much you spent in each of your last ten transactions and when. How？ With this Utile gem of new technology, the MasterCard Pocket Teller, available for the very first time in the world right here in Plymouth. It's like having a mini Automatic Teller Machine in your pocket.

C

Smart Object

Smart Object has got all the benefits of object-oriented technology without the drawbacks. Without the time it takes to learn. Without the money it takes to train. Without the long lead times and high development costs. These and cue-cards define clear, repeatable paths to build and assemble highly reuseable application components. And its best-of-breed applications are integrated with Visual Basic on the PC, yet scaled to support hundreds of users on all manner of client, server and database platforms.

D

AT&T Global Corporate Calling Card

If you want to get somewhere fast, it pays to travel with the new AT&T Global Corporate Calling Card. It offers competitive international rates so that you can count up savings on every card call you make around the world. It increases productivity for your people who travel on business and offers comprehensive management reports that show you exactly who has spent what each month. And there's no enrollment fee whatsoever.

You will know how much money is left on your card.

AT&T's new services have been declined by ______.

A．Iraq

B．Japan

C．Syria

Task 2

Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.

As the cost of "v-mail" (video mail) service drops, an "I miss you" message from a far away sweetheart or a "Happy Birthday" serenade(小夜曲) from Grandma could soon be winging its way to your mailbox. A variety of companies have recently introduced cheap video-mail offerings that manage to force a one-minute multimedia(多媒体) message to the size of a one-page Word document. And the prices of web cameras—ranging from $25 to $150—are dropping fast. According to a recent Forrester Research study in the US, 94% of Internet users send an e-mail at least once a week, and 41% send pictures through e-mail once a week, which shows a huge market.

A number of Internet service providers believe that consumers will be eager to use voice and video e-mail. AT&T WorldNet, Microsoft Corp's WebTV, Yahoo, to name a few, have all jumped on the v-mail bandwagon(乐队花车). All that's required is a standard web camera and video-mall software, some suppliers charge a monthly fee for either an unlimited or set amount of v-mails. But while the technology is predicted to make in-roads in one's mailbox, it will likely be a while before it becomes a favored tool of advertisers.

v-mail service may provide a mail service together with ______.

A．pictures and sound

B．letters and documents

C．an "I miss you" message

D．a "Happy Birthday" serenade

ave jointly set the rates for international calls. Now a handful of nimble, privately owned telephone discounters are using loopholes in regulations written to protect national telephone monopolies to undercut the cartels high prices. Eventually, that could lead to the break-up of the cartel itself.

The small firms leading the trend are interesting for the way they do business rather than for the amount of business they do. But because their activities expose monopoly overpricing so dramatically, they could help to bring about changes that are vastly out of proportion to their size.

The American market for international calls is more open to competition than those of most other countries, so calls out of America are usually far cheaper than the calls into it. The discounters exploit this difference by routing calls from foreign subscribers to computerized switches in America, undercutting normal rates by a third or more.

One technique, known as ring-back, involves giving a customer in, say, Paris a free telephone number to a computerized switch in America. When the customer calls, the switch automatically calls him back and puts him through to his American destination. Since the call technically originates with the switch, France Telecoms monopoly on outgoing calls remains unbroken but the caller in Paris is charged American rates. A second technique, called third-country calling, involves routing international calls via America to take advantage of cheap American rates on the second leg of the journey. On intercontinental calls the saving is usually so great that it more than makes up for the extra distance traveled.

One of the best-known discounters, 2(1/2)years old International Discount Telecommunications (IDT), uses third-country calling to provides calls between countries whose own telephone companies are not on speaking terms, such as Syria and Israel , and Iraq and Kuwait. Today's small discounters may be short-lived.

But if the small discounters do go out of business, it will be because they have launched a trend. This year, American established international carriers have started touting for business from overseas customers themselves. In April American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) launched a third-country calling service of its own. Dubbed World Connect, the service lets customers use a personal identification number to call from 45 different countries of the world via switches in America. Customers pay call charges in dollars, along with their normal domestic bills. In June AT&T's biggest rival, MCI, launched a similar service, called World Reach. Both products supplement the firms long-establishes call-home services, which make it easier for traveling Americans to call home. Though AT&T and MCI both hotly deny selling international calls to foreigners explicitly, some foreign carriers certainly fear this. Neither AT&T nor MCI has been allowed to offer its new services in Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina or Mexico. The small discounters have run into similar problems.

？You will hear a talk given by, a spokesman of the U. S. International Communication Department. He talks about a number of privately owned telephone discounter attacking the cartel of national telephone monopolies that keeps the price of international calls high.

？For each question 23--30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.

？You will hear the recording twice.

The price of international calls into America is ______.

A．higher than that of the calls out of America

B．far lower than that of the calls out of America

C．is the same as that of the calls out of America as it is decided by the cartel

people with nothing to sell are creating their own Websites to announce wedding plans, show off pictures of their kids or just have communications. It's not as hard as you think and it can be a lot of fun. Carol Masser has some tips on building your own Website. "Like my living room, or my study, it's where I put mementos (纪念品) , collectibles (收藏物) , books and paintings and things that I would like to show to my friends and relatives. "

Renne Tubegeihan uses his own Website to invite people into his virtual home. While John Marashod designed his own Website to attract other parents of disabled children, " I'd say the goal of this site is to basically link parents in the same situation with disabled children and exchange ideas with one another. "

Renne and John are part of a growing number of surfers who have established their own Websites. If you want to weave a Web yourself, it's easier than you think. The first step is to get your own Web address. They're sold by Web service providers like Microsoft, AT&T, and other local companies. You are expected to pay between 15 and 25 dollars every month to rent space for your site. But some companies, like Tripod and Geocities, issue the site for free if you agree to allow their advertising on your page.

Before you get into setting up your own Website, you should go around and do some surfing and check out other sites. Once you know what you want to do, it's time to build. If you just want the basics, you can use Microsoft's free Internet Assistant; or if you want to get a little fancier, you can buy a software program like Adobe Page Mill for 100 dollars, or Microsoft's FrontPage Editor for 150 dollars.

According to the passage, some people create their own Websites in order to______.

A．sell their personal things

B．set up family business

C．communicate with others

D．show off their Website building skills