BEC初级听力包括选择题，填空题。而填空又分为两种，一种是填数字、姓名等，一种是填单词。今天在网上找了一篇商业报道，请大家听一下，补充下文的空白部分，基本上都是数字或者商业性质的词汇。相对于初级考试来说，可能有点难度，但是平时训练时一般尽量做一些难度大一点的，考试时才可居高临下。（这是一部分高手经验！）

商业报道:美食品价格上涨

Felicia Padley and her youngest daughter Jenny Ella are picking up free helpings of pasta, vegetables and other essentials at a Food Bank in Brooklyn, New York . Padley holds down a fulltime government job but still finds it hard to feed her family of four. She needs the pantry’s help now more than ever as her weekly （ 1 ）soars

A year ago it's like about（2 ）I would spend at a grocery store and that would include meats, that would include vegetables, fruits, cereals stuff like that. But now I’m spending like （ 3 ）.

（ 4 ）are hitting families across the United States hard. Over the past year, egg prices have risen almost （5）, fresh milk （6）, and poultry and beef .

（7 ）say severe weather in the southern US and Australia is partly to blame for the （8）at food stores like this one behind me. But many are pointing to another culprit, energy, in particular the rising production of ethanol, a bio-fuel made from corn.

There are some 130 ethanol plants now in operation across the US churning out billions of gallons of this stuff each year. The US hopes ethanol will slash demand for oil, but to make all that ethanol you need a lot of corn that has sent prices （ 9）in the past year and a half. On top of ethanol there’s also the spike in the price of crude oil which makes it more expensive to transport and package foods. Some say demand for food and fuel are on a collision course that could have disastrous consequences.

What we are looking at in a sense is direct competition between the（ 10）people in the world who own automobiles and who want to maintain their mobility and the 2 billion poorest people in the world who simply want to （11 ）. Others say demand may be outpacing supply now but the market will eventually （12 ）.

We’ll continue to grow and really that’s a good thing. But people will also produce more. There’s an old saying at economics says the solution to high prices is high prices. What’s going to happen is that people are going to be provided an economic（ 13 ）to plant more.

That should help solve the increase in prices. For now though, families （14 ）. 30 new families are walking into this Brooklyn pantry each day in need of help. This upcoming winter could be a bitter one indeed for many across the United States finding it hard to （ 15 ） the food basics.

food bill ，50 or 60 dollars ，more than 6 percent，Rising food prices ，44 percent，21 percent，Economists， jump in prices ，soaring 50 percent ， 860 million ，survive，adjust，incentive， struggle，afford