Business English Test
Business English Test
Business English Test
I Read the text and then circle the words or phrases that best fit into the gaps. Write your
answers in the grid provided at the end!
Marks & Spencer suffered at home and abroad during the first half of its (1) _______________
year and the company admits that trading in recent weeks (2) _______________ no signs of
improvement.
The group (3) _______________ the vast majority of its profits in Britain and these fell 20.2% to
316.5 million pounds in the six months to 26 September. The figures were slightly boosted by
a good (4) _________________ from financial services, where profits (5) ________________ 19%
to 44.9 million pounds. Sales of home furnishings showed the biggest (6) _______________,
with a fall of 1.6% over the half year.
M&S is focusing on a (7) ______________ of initiatives in its food departments, including
butcher shops, delicatessen counters, bakeries and coffee shops. These are expected to be
introduced into 100 stores as quickly as possible.
Overseas, the Far East suffered the worst downturn, reflecting continuing (8) _______________
trouble in the region. The group (9) _____________ a 1.2 million pounds loss overseas,
compared with 10.8 million pounds profit in 1997.
Europe (10) ___________________, primarily by the impact of the strong pound.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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II (a) Add suffix to make a noun (b) Add prefix to make an opposite adjective.
A large international energy company is looking for a general manager to _________ its east
African office. Based in Nairobi, you will work closely with _____________ and operational
specialists and play a leading role in all the company’s ____________ activities in the region.
You should be a graduate with a working knowledge of English. You must also have excellent
communicative and ________________ skills.
In addition to a performance-related _________________, we provide an attractive benefit
package.
Please, reply with C.V. to:
Nicholl Executive Search, PO Box 1997, London, UK 5
IV In each of the following sentences there is one mistake. Find it and correct it by
rewriting the sentence.
1. The development in IT has resulted on enormous changes in the way people work.
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2. I don’t like my work a lot and I want to change it.
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3. The way he works is very similarity to ours.
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4. We have ordered some goods from them last month.
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5. They are an Ireland company with subsidiaries all over Europe.
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6. I am used to travel abroad a lot when I was younger.
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7. We selled our new car a couple of days ago.
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a) into passive:
b) into active:
VIII Complete the boxes with the words and expressions from the list below that are most
commonly associated with each theme
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