Question

Why do you need British Accent Training? With the growth in the number of employees from Egypt, Spain and China, organizations need to ensure that their workers are able to communicate effectively with customers and colleagues alike.

First Language Influence (FLI) can have a great effect on an employee’s accent. British Accent Training from Communicaid will help your overseas workers decrease the influence of their first language.

Whether through online training courses or face- to- face classes, Communicaid offers suitable training solutions for your organisation’s international business.

A Communicaid’s British Accent Training course will provide your workers with the ability to :

---increase their customer experience and satisfaction,

---communicate more effectively with customers and colleagues by decreasing first language influenced accent,

---strengthen relationships with customers and colleagues through more successful communication.

Course content

All Communicaid’s British Accent Training courses are designed to meet the specific needs of our clients depending on their specific situations.

Generally, a British Accent Training course includes:

---rhythm and stress patterns,

---pausing and breathing,

---relationship between spelling and pronunciation,

---accent familiarisation and listening practice.

Ways to learn

Training can be received worldwide through either face-to-face classes or one of our many online learning methods. Using a combination of published materials and those offered only by Communicaid, we design and offer programmes that will meet the need of our clients.

Our trainers

All Communicaid’s British Accent course trainers are native speakers with at least 3 years’ professional training experience in the field. A client’s British Accent trainer will be decided according to his goals and areas of focus.

1.We can learn from the article that Communicaid is a company that .

A .sells books

B .designs ads

C .offers communication skill training

D .offers language training

2.Who are the target readers of the article?

A .Overseas students.

B. Overseas workers.

C. Bosses employing workers whose first language is not English.

D. People whose partners come from a non- English-speaking country.

3.The article was written mainly to .

A .attract people to attend Communicaid’s courses

B .introduce the history of the company Commuicaid

C .give instructions on English pronunciation

D .tell the readers the importance of the British accent

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：文章大意：本文是Communicaid公司的一篇广告，目的在于推广该公司的“英国口音培训”课程。

1.推理判断题。Communicaid公司提供的是“英国口音培训”课程，故它是一家提供语言培训的公司，提高受训者的沟通技巧只是这些课程的成果而已，而不是该公司的主要业务。选B。

2.British Accent Training from Communicaid will help your overseas workers decrease the influence of their first language可知其目标读者是“海外工人”，选C。

3.作者意图题。全文主要内容包括：接受Communicaid公司提供的“英国口音培训”课程的原因及好处、课程的主要内容和不同选择、对培训者的介绍，因此全文的目的是为这些课程吸引客户。选D。

考点：考查广告布告类短文阅读