Quick Progress Test 3: Grammar & Reading
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Name __________________________________ Date ___________
QUICK PROGRESS TEST 3 (UNITS 10 - 14)
Section 1: Grammar and Lexis
Part A
Choose the best answer in italics and underline it.
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Stella Liebeck ordered the coffee at a / the / an McDonalds drive-through
restaurant.
Id like a / the / an smallest, most economical vehicle you have please.
Can you give me five minutes and then I ll call / be calling / m planning to call
you back
I sat / was sitting / d been sitting at the boarding gate for over an hour when they
announced the flight was being cancelled.
It isnt a question of time, its a question of wealth / money / income.
In a crisis a bad manager would blame / involve / deny everything.
Part B
A union leader is talking to a colleague. Complete the text with phrases ae.
a
in their court
in with a real chance
to the crunch
to everything
in out of your mind
We shouldnt even think about changing our position. Were (7)
_______________________ of winning. The ball is (8) _______________________ and
by far the most sensible thing to do is to wait for them to get back to us with a decision. I
agree that theres an outside chance they might not accept our demands at all and theres a
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fair chance they wont agree (9) _______________________ . But the management
know theyre under pressure and our members want this pay rise. So put any ideas of
giving (10) _______________________ and give the members your full backing. And if
it comes (11) _______________________ , well go on strike.
Part C
Complete these sentences by adding vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the spaces.
12
B_nchm_rk_ng is a process of identifying best practice.
13
Good c_st_m_r s_rv_c_ will mean better communication.
14
C_st c_tt_ng is the only way to improve our financial situation.
15
What are the l_ _d t_m_s on this? When can we begin?
16
Br_nd str_tch_ng will mean going into industries we may not be familiar with.
17
Its not just about quality, but about pr_d_ct _nn_v_t_ _n coming up with new
ideas.
18
D_v_rs_f_c_t_ _n will involve getting experts in to research new markets and
new products.
Section 2: Reading
Quotes 1924 were made by people connected to texts AD. Match the quotes to the
texts.
19
Oh, dont worry. This is on the company. ___
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Why wont younoI dont want tocontrol, alt, delete?Ive done thatnot
again!
___
21
Just time for another dessert I think.
___
22
Hi there! Just calling to checkoh you did. Thats great. Bye.
23
But why did you hit it? All you had to do was restart it.
24
Worth every penny Id say.
In 1997 a London banker made the headlines when he was sacked for taking a
___
___
___
five-hour lunch break from 11.30am to 4.30pm! He won back his job after an industrial
tribunal ruled that he had been unfairly dismissed. The courts decided that five hours is
not an excessive amount of time to conduct business over a meal.
B
Youve heard of road rage: where people get so angry in traffic that they crash
each others cars or shout at other drivers. Well, now IT technicians are reporting
increasing cases of computer rage. According to one survey nearly three quarters of us
abuse our desk tops. It is believed that some companies lose up to 25,000 a year on
damaged computers with the mouse receiving the worst treatment. One IT support
manager said: If more people received appropriate training with new software, business
could reduce a great deal of the stress, anxiety and cost.
C
The world record for the most expensive business lunch ever is held by six
Barclays Bank employees, who in July 2001 ate at the Ptrus restaurant in London. The
three bottles of vintage claret alone which they consumed during the meal set them back
a staggering 33,410 (charged to expenses, of course), bringing the total bill to just under
44,000!
D
There was a business man who was so tired with all the spam or junk e-mails
he was receiving he turned off his e-mail for a month. Then, one day he decided to check
his e-mail. He discovered that, out of nearly a thousand, only about ten were relevant to
his work. And for the e-mails that were vital, the people who had sent them had also
telephoned to check hed received their messages.
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Section 3: Listening
(Class Audio CD3 tracks 19-20)
Here are some newspaper headlines about Coca-Cola. They are not complete. Listen
and write the missing words (one word for each line) to complete the headlines.
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Coca-Cola executives in no rush for expensive product _______________
26
Nothing unusual at Belgium bottling _______________
27
Rivals Pepsi and Virgin _______ the Coca-Cola gap on _______________
shelves
28
Public confuses Coke with Perrier and _______________
_______________ disease.
29
Coke finds strange fungicide on _______________
30
Coke to offer _______________ bottle to Belgiums _______________
______________ citizens
Section 4: Speaking (31 35)
You are sitting next to someone on a plane. You want to start a conversation but
he/she is reading a book.
- Try to start a conversation.
- Talk about the flight and travel in general.
- Ask him/her about his/her book.
- Talk about your line of business and ask about his/hers.
- Try to end the conversation politely (as youd like to sleep).
Your partner or teacher will be the other person and give you one mark for each of
the following:
Did the person
use an effective conversation starter?
introduce discussion about the flight and travel?
ask about the book?
discuss his/her line business and ask about yours?
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end the conversation politely?
TOTAL MARKS =
