TUL A1BTM Summer Credit test 2010/11 A Student name and surname:_______________
100-60 pass, below = fail Mark ____________ Date:____________
Task 1 Write the words in bold next to their correct definition (12 marks)
Limited edition, Element, Just in Time, Outskirts, Aviation, Turnover, Organic, Waft, Role model, Carbon footprint, Entrepreneur, Convention
1. The industry to do with flying or making aeroplanes. ________________
2. Only ordering products when they are needed.______________
3. Made or grown without any chemicals or artificial ingredients ______________
4. The amount of product sold in a period of time e.g. 1 week ____________
5. A large meeting of people from a particular organisation or industry ____________
6. The total amount of carbon dioxide, CO2 or other greenhouse gases that a product or service makes. ___________________
7. The way a smell moves through the air: to ____________
8. A person whose behaviour is a good example for other people to copy e.g. Karel Gott on Ceskoslovensko ma talent. __________________
9. Someone who starts or runs a business, often with borrowed money._____________
10. The most basic part of a job or thing. Also a basic chemical atom. ______________
11. Something produced in small numbers on purpose, to increase its value to collectors, e.g. a Teddy Bear _________________
12. The edge of a town or city furthest from the centre __________________
Task 2 Write an arrow next to the following words to show if they mean go up or go down (3 marks)
1. Fall __ 2. Decrease ___ 3. Grow ___
Task 3 Write in the new amount (3 marks)
1. Sales will rise by 20% from $10 to $_____ 2. Costs will decrease by 40% from $10 to $_____
3. Quantity sold will shrink by 30% from 100 to ____
Task 4 Fill in the gaps with the gaps with the present simple passive, adverbs or the present continuous. (3 marks)
Wine growers 1. ________________ (grow) their grapes more 2. ____________(careful) than ever before these days. The grapes 3. _____________ (grow) on special farms called 'Vineyards'.
Task 5 Listening 1.38 Fill in the blanks with the missing words. (10 marks)
Good afternoon everyone. I'm glad you could all make it. My name's Sonia Padron Perez and I'm the sales manager here at DMC Wood. I'd like to 1. ________ by giving you a short 2.________ of today's presentation. 3. __________ ___ ______ we're going to look at the sales figures for last year. Then we'll see how our 4. ________________ did during the same period. 5. __________ _______ we'll look at how this has affected our share prices, and 6. ____________ we'll see what we intend to do about this in the future.If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them at 7. _____ _____ __ my presentation.Ok, so let's start with the sales figures. On the 8. ________ slide, you can see that our sales figures fell dramatically last 9. __________. As you can see, the 10. ____________fall was in June,
Task 6 Fill in the gaps with a word from the list (4 marks): attendee, showcase, logistics, freebies
1. Items given to visitors / guests that they do not have to pay for, often samples of a product.________
2. Someone who is present at an event or activity _______
3. An event that emphasizes the good qualities of someone or something ________
4. The practical arrangements that are necessary to organise something successfully, such as a show.________
Task 7 Fill in the gaps with a word from the list (3 marks): route, second-hand, short haul
1. Something that was owned by someone else before one bought it. ____________
2. The way that one travels from one place to another by road, rail, aeroplane or on foot _____
3. Short distance travelling, in particular by air. _____________
Task 8 Match a word from the list with its definition (5 marks)
sample, revolutionary, technique, to spill, fragrance, to pioneer
1. to be one of the first to do something ______________
2. completely new or different, e.g. a new product or method of production____________
3. a small amount of a product given to people for free. _______________
4. to accidentally pour a liquid out of its container _________________
5. a nice smell ________
Task 9 From unit 4.1 what is the idea that you can buy beauty? Each _ is one letter and / separates words (1 mark)
_ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ / _ _ _
Task 10 Write the opposite of these words (4 marks)
1. Stressed ____________ 3.Generous ______________
2. Cooperative _______________ 4 Organised _______________
Task 11 Pick an appropriate word or phrase to fill in the gap. (You do not need them all) (3 marks)
Dishonest, hard-working, unhelpful, lacking in drive, hands-off
1. John doesn't want to become a manager, he is really _________________
2. Michael is a very ____________________ employee he wants to become a manager
3. Robert lied about the money he stole, he is a very ________________ man
Task 12 Fill in the table with the correct form of the words (4 marks)
Noun Adjective Noun Adjective
1 __________ Decisive 2 __________ Financial
3 Flexibility __________ 4 Pioneer __________
Task 13 Fill in the gaps with the correct word from the table above. (4 marks)
A successful businessman is often a 1. ___________ with new ideas which make their business stand out from the crowd. If he sees an opportunity he will take 2. ____________ take action immediately. When trouble comes and the business has problems he has the 3. _________________ to change and adapt to the problem. Finally a successful business will have good 4. ________________ help from banks.
Task 14 Complete the text about Gravet bank using the correct form of the verbs in brackets: past simple or past continuous (10 marks)
Jan Czech 1. ________________ (found) Gravet bank in 1990, for 1 million Krowns, when he was working at CSOB in Czechoslovakia. He 2. ________________ (discover) that many small firms could not get credit and they 3._______________________ (struggle) to keep their businesses going. Jan, or Honza as he is known to his friends, said “I 4.________________ (meet) some businessmen who made glasses but were in danger of going bankrupt.“
The businessmen 5. _________________ (borrow) 1 million Krowns from him. Jan 6.___________ (lend) them the money and they 7. ____________(pay) him back 100,000 Krowns for the next 11 years. It 8. _________________ (be) a risk at the time, lending so much money to one firm especially because Jan 9. _________________ (not ask) for any security or collateral. Now Gravet bank is a thriving firm but Jan does not work there anymore, he 10. ________________ (sell) it in 1999 for 100,000,000 Krowns.
Task 15 Circle the 5 polite options to agrese or disagree politely. (5 marks)
No way! The problem is that. Absolutely not! I’m sorry but i can’t agree with you. That’s rubbish.
I agree with you up to a point but. I don’t really see it that way. Well maybe but I. You’re wrong.
Task 16 Task articles (11 marks) Complete the text with a, an, the or _ no article.
Many shops sell 1. _____ pens, for example 2. ______ Tesco’s. 3. _____ pens I want to talk about are 4. _____ pens sold in 5. _______ Tesco store in 6. ______ Forum shopping centre in 7. _______ Liberec in 8. _______Czech Republic. My friend 9. _______ Honza bought 10. ______ pen from 11. _______ Tesco store in Prague, one store out of twenty.
Task 17 Do these statements mean agree or disagree? Write AGREE or DISAGREE in the gap (3 marks)1 Oh definitely ___________ 2 Well no, not completely __________ 3 Absolutely. You sure are! ________ Task 18 Fill in the gaps with words from the list which mean the same as the first word: then, currently, furthermore, at the moment, (4 marks)
1. now __________ ________________2. Also __________ 3. Something happened next _________________Task 19 Write the report using appropriate linking words to join the notes in correct sentences. Change tenses and words as needed: (4 marks) 5 years ago Apple Computers – launch - new product - iPod. The iPod was a great success – encouraged further new products – iPad. 2011 - new products on the way – iPhone 2, MacBook Pro. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Task 20 Write 4 ways to improve a school or similar business which has these problems (4 marks) 1 the library is crowded 2 the computer room does not look very attractive 3 the computers are slow 4 the staff are not very well qualified
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