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Exit Test
Listening Listen to the first part of a presentation. The presenter is Max Potter of Abacus
Ltd. Listen for the answers to the first two questions.
1 The presentation is about …
a) the company.
b) a new product.
c) Max Potter’s job.
2 The presentation will be …
a) in two sections.
b) in three sections.
c) in four sections.
Listen to the rest of the presentation and complete these notes about the
company. You will hear this second part twice.
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Vocabulary A Complete this extract from a company websitewith a word from the box.
Seeks
executive
Advertising ................
............... 16 £40,000 a year, plus generous
bonuses. We are a(n) ................ 17
advertising agency based in central London.
We are looking for a(n) ................ 18 person
to handle customer accounts. ................ 19
should have several years of ................ 20
in advertising, and must be able to work
under ................ 21 .
................ 22 to F G Dodson,
Human Resources Manager
C Complete this report of a meeting with four words or phrases from the box.
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Grammar A Read the letter of application for the job of sales representative in the
international sales department of a company. Choose the best word or
phrase to complete the letter.
Dear Mr Green
b)
I ................ about the new job vacancy in the international sales
department. The sales manager, John Hampshire, ................ 27 me I
should apply to you.
I ................ 28 in sales for five years: I worked for Allsops Ltd. for
three years and I ................ 29 this company two years ago.
................ 30 last November, I have been head of the regional sales
office. I often ................ 31 with important customers, and
sometimes I negotiate sales of up to i100,000. I ................ 32 to
move to international sales because I think it ................ 33 me a lot
of new experience. I enjoy ................ 34 and I ................ 35 two
foreign languages: French and Spanish.
EXAMPLE:
a) write b) am writing c) have written
27 a) tell b) have told c) told
28 a) am working b) work c) have worked
29 a) have joined b) joined c) join
30 a) Since b) For c) During
31 a) deal b) am dealing c) will deal
32 a) like b) will like c) would like
33 a) gives b) will give c) gave
34 a) to travel b) travelled c) travelling
35 a) speak b) am speaking c) do speak
B Read the e-mail. In each line, one word is incorrect. Underline the incorrect
word and write the correct word.
Hello Matt!
I’m planning a trip to Seoul in June. You know the city good. EXAMPLE: well
Can you answer a questions to help me to plan my trip? 36 ............
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C Read the memo about three models of photocopier. Complete the text with
one suitable word.
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Detlef OK. Our biggest competitor has reduced the price of their product.
e) decide: do we reduce our price too – or not? Marianne,
............
............ 55?
Marianne ............ 56 our price is already too high. We can reduce it by five
percent and still make a good profit.
Sakari ............ 57. We shouldn’t reduce the price. We have a high-quality
product. A low price gives the wrong message to our customers.
Gianni ............ 58 with Sakari. We can keep the high price because we have
the best product on the market.
Detlef ............ 59 we don’t know what our other competitors will do.
Perhaps all the prices will fall. Then we’ll be the only company with a
high price.
Sakari ............ 60. But do we have to decide now?
Gianni I have a suggestion. ............ 61 wait and see what our other
competitors do?
Over 60 years ago a British-born businessman, than two years old, and the family moved
Cecil H Green, helped to found Texas Instruments, frequently through the US and Canada as Charles
one of North America’s largest and most important looked for work.
electronics groups. The company introduced the 25 Green attended high school in Vancouver and
5 integrated circuit board — the device that made entered the University of British Columbia in
possible the microelectronics revolution. The 1918, completing his studies at Massachusetts
company today has a turnover of about $8bn, and Institute of Technology in Boston, with a Master’s
more than 40,000 staff. degree in electrical engineering.
Texas Instruments was established in 1941; it 30 His first job was to design steam turbine
10 grew out of an oil exploration group, Geophysical generators for the General Electric Company but in
Service. Green joined the company in 1932 and two years he left to join the Raytheon
spent several years looking for oil in Texas. With Manufacturing Company to work on small
the start of the second world war, the company’s electronics devices.
electronics division grew rapidly. Green and three 35 Between 1928 and 1932, Green worked for a
15 colleagues bought the business in 1941 for number of engineering groups before the final
$300,000. It was renamed Texas Instruments in move to Geophysical Service.
1951. Green was a director until his retirement in Cecil Howard Green died in 2003 at the age of
1975. 102.
Cecil Howard Green was born near Manchester, From the Financial Times
20 England. His engineer father, Charles, and mother,
Maggie, emigrated to Canada when Green was less
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Event Year
Cecil H Green was born. 64 (about)
Cecil H Green’s family moved
to Canada. 65 (about)
Cecil H Green began his university
studies. 66
67 1932
68 1941
69 1951
Cecil H Green stopped working for
Texas Instruments. 70
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Writing Listen to the telephone conversation. Rick and Bernd make arrangements to meet
in Frankfurt. You will hear the conversation twice. Make notes about the details of
the meeting in the box.
Day of meeting
Travel from airport by
Arrive at Bernd’s office
How long they will meet
What they will discuss
Rick will bring
Rick will send
You are Rick. You have booked your flight to Frankfurt and will arrive at 8:10 a.m.
Write an e-mail to Bernd to confirm the arrangements. Write about 70–100 words.
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