Business English Tests

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answer: (a) productive
A3 Although many people wanted to remain loyal to her predecessor, they soon started to respect her style of
managment.
answer: (d) loyal
A4 At the first series of interviews the question was whether to appoint a newcomer or promote a current
employee.
answer: (b) promote
A5 The decision was finally taken that appointments should be based purely and simply on merit.
answer: (c) merit
A6 There was a new spirit in the company and for the first time in ages staff at last felt they were being valued.
answer: (a) valued
A7 Employees were beginning to receive recognition for the hard work that they had been doing.
answer: (d) recognition
A8 It soon became apparent that under the new management people were also starting to contribute some of
their free time to the company.
answer: (c) contribute
A9 Some of the longest serving staff actually looked forward to coming into work.
answer: (d) forward
A10 At the end of her first year it was obvious to everyone that as the new boss she had been totally accepted.
answer: (a) obvious
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83. advanced-32
Business English / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 32 (Answer Keys)
Pay and Allowances
A1 On the basis of her ten years' service she immediately qualified for the extended annual leave of six weeks.
answer: (b) basis
A2 Although he knew it was a sensitive subject, his boss had to ask him the delicate question about his drink
problem.
answer: (d) delicate
A3 At the interview each applicant was able to negotiate the level of remuneration they would be expecting to
receive.
answer: (a) negotiate
A4 Under the new flexible arrangements coming into force soon all employees can decide what time to start and
when to finish.
answer: (c) flexible
A5 According to the contract you are not eligible for the new allowance until you have been with the company one
year.
answer: (d) eligible
A6 The only way you can hope to raise the level of your pay is to take on greater responsibility.
answer: (b) raise
A7 She is trying to get some form of compensation to make up for the poor working conditions she had to put up
with for all those years.
answer: (c) compensation
A8 Of course there is a little extra added to your salary because you will benefit from the inner city allowance.
answer: (b) benefit
A9 The hourly wage for all part time clerical assistants has gone up by 40% since 2000.
answer: (a) wage
A10 Remember when you stop work and retire, you will be able to receive the company pension.
answer: (d) retire
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84. advanced-33
Business English / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 33 (Answer Keys)
Internet Business (1)
A1 One of the great advantages of using the Internet is that people can interact more quickly.
answer: (d) interact
A2 It's no good spending a small fortune on new IT equipment as it's more cost effective to hire it.
answer: (c) effective
A3 One of the fashionable ways of saying you've been sacked is to say that your company is downsizing but
you've still lost your job.
answer: (a) down
A4 The important thing to realise is that your service is not a little island on its own because all the services in this
company are interconnected.
answer: (b) inter
A5 Whereas ten years ago we only dealt with customers in this country nowadays we are truly global with
branches all over the world.
answer: (d) global
A6 One of the most successful tools in your organisation is that of good communication because everybody
knows what's going on.
answer: (a) communication
A7 Let me just recap what we have agreed in the agenda so far if nobody minds me going over it all again.
answer: (c) recap
A8 You have to realise that not all your clients can reach you online because they don't have access to a
computer.
answer: (b) access
A9 There are times when you have to force yourself to improve your performance and that's simply called self-
motivation.
answer: (d) motivation
A10 You must think big in this business and not just think short term but what you hope to do in ten years' time.
answer: (a) term
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85. advanced-34
Business English / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 34 (Answer Keys)
Internet Business (2)
A1 It's all very well having a dream or an idea but you must know where you're going and what your goal is.
answer: (c) goal
A2 Her job in the company was to sort out the relevant information thereby filtering it so that only appropriate
material was sent to her directors.
answer: (b) filtering
A3 She told him to stop wasting time by coming up with tried and tested ideas and in this way simply re-inventing
the wheel.
answer: (d) wheel
A4 The product had been on the market for some years and was selling well but somehow the image was in need
of a face lift or enhancement.
answer: (a) enhancement
A5 In the hope of finding fresh ideas he used the internet to help him by using as many search portals as he could
discover.
answer: (b) portals
A6 You must increase the sale of this commodity by trying to interest a different age range and by tapping into
their society.
answer: (c) tapping
A7 You'll never make any more money or generate new income if you keep using that unimaginative marketing
logo.
answer: (a) generate
A8 Now that you've explained the scope and dimension of the market, we are very keen to inject some money
into your project.
answer: (d) dimension
A9 There is always a risk in any business venture when your scheme is based on an entirely new concept.
answer: (a) venture
A10 Get in there first and don't hesitate to act as the boss and take the lead.
answer: (b) lead
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86. advanced-35
Business English / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 35 (Answer Keys)
Verbal Communication Skills
A1 Remember that this happened first and was prior to the episode that happened afterwards.
answer: (c) prior
A2 As the police saw the accident themselves, the driver avoided the necessity of having to give a detailed report.
answer: (d) necessity
A3 It's a complete waste of time arguing over who was to blame, the main thing we have to do is decide what to
do next.
answer: (a) arguing
A4 It was easy to realise why the machine had stopped working since it was a direct consequence of his failure to
maintain it.
answer: (c) consequence
A5 I am completely confused as to why she did it and so it's not difficult to imagine why other people are
mystified, too.
answer: (b) difficult
A6 If you want to try and influence that political party it's best to become a member yourself and then you can
argue from the inside.
answer: (d) inside
A7 I have great sympathy for them at this time because I have had a similar experience.
answer: (b) sympathy
A8 Feel free to visit anything of interest to you in the exhibition and also you can partake of any of the
refreshments available.
answer: (c) partake
A9 Many of the people in the crowd were visibly crying because they all sympathized with those who had lost
relatives in the disaster.
answer: (d) sympathized
A10 I assure you that you will have no problem with the task because it's as easy as can be.
answer: (a) as
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87. advanced-36
Business English / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 36 (Answer Keys)
Corporate Policy (1)
A1 Since last year my workload has increased considerably.
answer: (b) considerably
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