bec高级精讲班1-20讲讲义14.doc

考试吧(E)-第一个极力推崇人性化服务的专业考试培训网站！ 提供历年试题，模拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题下载，考试培训等。每日更新!!! ---！！！！！！----------------------------------精品文档，值得下载，可以编辑！！！-----------------------------！！！！！！----------- ---！！！！！！----------------------------------精品文档，值得下载，可以编辑！！！-----------------------------！！！！！！----------- 声明：本资料由  HYPERLINK / 考试吧（E） 收集整理，转载请注明出自 服务：面向较高学历人群，提供计算机类，外语类，学历类，资格类，会计类，工程类，医学类等七大类考试的全套考试信息服务及考前培训. BEC高级精讲班第14讲讲义 Homeworkreview I. Homework review l??????? Read this text from a business magazine. A successful businesswoman Laura Ashley’s multi-million pound success came about almost by accident when she was a young married woman, pregnant with her first child. She designed some scarves at home because she was bored.? 0 ?H? ?Ashley’s designs now decorate houses all round the world. ? H. Those simple home-made items represented the beginning of a business empire which is now well known to millions. ? She was born in Wales in 1925 but moved to London in 1949 when she got married, and at first she was content to take on the traditional housewife’s role. “The idea of having four babies, cooking, sewing and looking after the home suited me perfectly.” 9 ?????What began as a hobby quickly became a successful business as she began to receive orders from a number of large London shops. It didn’t stop there: in the 1950s, when most of society was looking forward to the space age, Laura Ashley made a fortune by looking back to past centuries, searching out old designs to decorate a variety of clothes and household furnishings. 10 ????Soon they were being shipped abroad in large quantities and she began to sell them from her own shop. ? C. All that changed when she became interested in printing fabrics. G. These traditional products created a huge wave of demand from the USA and elsewhere. ? In 1961 she moved her business to her native region of Wales, where the operation grew to dominate the town of Carno. 11 ?????A second one was establishing some