Business English Advanced: Test 5

  1. n. Since the announcement of the telco’s poor first quarter growth margin, ………… had set in among the company’s unhappy workers.
    a. accelerations
    b. amicability
    c. apathy
    d. activity

  2. v. The sales pitch needed revision as it was confusing. The team was asked to ………. its ideas more clearly.
    a. collaborate
    b. erradicate
    c. elucidate
    d. collocate

  3. v. The bank manager held monthly consultations with his staff in order to ………… responses to customer suggestions.
    a. elicit
    b. implicit
    c. imply
    d. divulge

  4. n. The charge of credit-card fraud contained not a ………… of convincing evidence.
    a. scene
    b. scintilla
    c. segment
    d. sense

  5. v. The market analyst …………… the commentator’s argument that the textile industry was on the decline.
    a. refused
    b. refuted
    c. decided
    d. resolved

  6. adj. The motoring sector had proven very ………… and had withstood several market fluctuations.

a. resilient
b. advanced
c. acceptable
d. resolved

  1. adj. The manager considered the recent request for a coffee machine a(n) ………… request in comparison to the call for a childcare facility.
    a. vital
    b. convivial
    c. trivial
    d. amicable

  2. adj. The new mobile phones may be very trendy, but their weight and small screen size mean that they were hardly ideally built for …………… purposes.
    a. utilitarian
    b. busy
    c. useful
    d. humane

  3. n. Behind a ………. of profitability, the company was in fact sinking into greater and greater debt.
    a. wedge
    b. veneer
    c. blanket
    d. glass

  4. n. The investor bought the shares on a ………, without any knowledge of the company’s market history.
    a. strategy
    b. calculation
    c. whim
    d. conclusion

  1. n. Since the announcement of the telco’s poor first quarter growth margin, ………… had set in among the company’s workers.
    a. accelerations
    b. amicability
    c. apathy
    d. conservation-- 3 'A’s and one ‘C’. ‘angst’? ‘conservation’ + ‘condemnation’?

  2. v. The sales pitch needed revision as it was confusing. The team was asked to ………. its ideas more clearly.
    a. collaborate
    b. calculate
    c. elucidate-- 3 'C’s and one ‘E’. ‘elucidate’ and ‘emanate’?
    d. collocate

  3. n. The charge of credit-card fraud contained not a ………… of convincing evidence.
    a. scene
    b. scintilla
    c. lot-- I think that C is a possible answer.
    d. caution

  4. adj. The manager considered the recent request for a coffee machine a(n) ………… request in comparison to the call for a childcare facility.
    a. vital
    b. convivial
    c. trivial
    d. amicable

  5. n. The investor bought the shares on a ………, without any knowledge of the company’s market history.
    a. strategy
    b. calculation
    c. whim
    d. premonition-- D may be a possible answer, too.