Vocabulary Study (Variant I)

Task 1. Match the words with their definitions.

1. behaviour

2. currency

3. career

4. discount

5. merchant

1. general course of action through life;

2. a way of acting;

3. money in actual use in a country;

4. a person who buys and sells wholesale or on a large scale;

5. the amount taken off the price

Task 2. Match the words in American English with their equivalents in British English.

1. baggage

2. gasoline

3. round trip

4. subway

5. line

6. vacation

1. petrol;

2. queue;

3. underground;

4. return;

5. luggage;

6. holiday.

Task 3. Choose the words in the box to complete the sentences.

Production sales stock vat tax

1. A company plans how much money it wants to make in the coming year by setting a … target.

2. To determine what a company actually has in its warehouse without physically counting the items, a company must keep … records.

3. The Inland Revenue authorities need to see a company’s … records, usually once a year.

4. The … target shows how many items a company intends to make in a given period of time.

5. HM Customs and Exercise Department inspect a company’s … records, which have to be kept for six years.

WRITING (Variant I)

Find a mistake in the following sentences and correct it. . If there is no mistake, put a () after the underlined word. . If there is an extra word that shouldn’t be there, put () after it.

1. Buying clothes are (A) often a very time-consuming (B) practice because the (C) clothes that a person likes are rarely the ones (D) that fit him or her.

2. Because (A) they had spent too many (B) time considering (C) the new contract the students lost the opportunity to lease (D) the apartment.

3. These (A) televisions are all too expensive (B) for we to buy (C) at this time (D), but perhaps we will return later.

4. After she had bought (A) himself (B) a new automobile, she sold (C) her (D) bicycle.

5 The next important (A) question we have to decide (B) is when do we have (C) to submit (D) the proposal.

6. George has not (A) completed the assignment (B) yet (C), and Maria hasn't neither (D)

7. John decided to buy (A) in the morning a new car (B), but in the afternoon he changed his mind (D).

8. Some of the plants (A) in this store require very little care (B), but this one needs much more sunlight (C) than the others ones (D).

9. After George had returned (A) to his house (B), he (C) was reading (D) a book.

10. Many (A) theories on conserving the purity of water has been (B) proposed but not one has (C) been as widely accepted (D) as this one.

11. The food (A) that Mark is cooking (B) in the kitchen is smelling (C) delicious (D).

12. After John eaten (A) dinner, he wrote (B) several letters (C) and went to bed (D).

13. The manager has finished (A) working (B) on the report (C) last night, and now she will begin to write (D) the other proposal.

14. Because (A) Sam and Michelle had done (B) all of the work thierselves (C) they were unwilling to give (D) the results to Joan.

15. Daniel said that if he had to do (A) another (B) homework tonight, he would not be able (C) to attend (D) the concert.