Complexes with the Participle
Objective–with–the–Present–Participle после глаголов to feel, to find, to hear, to listen, to look, to notice, to see, to watch. Существительное или местоимение в объектном падеже + Participle I
I hear the phone ringing.
She watched the children playing in the yard.
I saw him crossing the street.
Objective–with–the–Past–Participle после глаголов to get, to want, to wish, to watch, to hear, to see, to find.
I want to have my hair cut.
I had my car repaired.
Subjective– with – the Participle – Construction
The students were heard speaking in the classroom.
He was seen crossing the street.
4) The Absolute Participle Construction. Перевод при помощи союзов так как, после того как, если, когда, если оборот в конце предложения, то переводим его самостоятельным предложением с союзами а, причем, в то время как.
The weather being fine, we went to the forest.
The manager was translating the telex, the secretary helping him.
Part IV. Final test
Section I. Listening Comprehension
Part 1
A/ For each problem in Part 1 you will hear 5 short conversations between speakers. At the end of each conversation there’ll be a question about what was said. The question will be pronounced just once. After you’ve heard the question, read four possible answers and decide which one is the best answer to the question. Mark you answer on the worksheet. For example 1A, 2C. Then you’ll listen to the text. Questions 6 – 10 are devoted to the contents of the text.
Time: 10 minutes.
1. a) at the restaurant
b) at the cinema
c) at the office
d) in the shop
2. a) 7.30
b) 8.30
c) 9.30
d) 10.30
3. a) human resource manager
b) marketing manager
c) president
d) finance manager
4. a) she is waiting for bank decision
b) her friends haven’t given her money
c) she doesn’t like the flat
d) she doesn’t like the district
5. a) vacation trip
b) business trip
c) excursion
d) apprenticeship trip
6. a) computer equipment
b) chemical equipment
c) office equipment
d) agricultural equipment
7. a) in 2005
b) in 2004
c) in 2003
d) in 2006
8. a) Opened Company “Agromag” and Mr. Lavrov
b) Limited Liability Company “Agromag” and Mr. Ivanov
c) Cooperative “Agromag” and Mr. Smirnov
d) Limited Liability Company “Agromag” and Mr. Gates
9. a) Limited Liability Company
b) Closed Joint-stock Company
c) Agricultural Consumer Cooperative
d) Opened Joint-stock Company
10.a) 70%
b) 90%
c) 85%
d) 80%
Section II. Reading Comprehension
In this section you will read several texts. Each text is followed by several questions about it. After each questions you are given four answers. You should choose the best variant (A), (B), (C), (D) to each question. Mark the correct answer on your worksheet.
TIME: 30 minutes
Text A. Questions №№ 11 – 15 are based on the following text.
Wellington hotel is one of the best and most expensive hotels in New York City. It provides courteous, warm, personal service. It is located close to the most prestigious addresses in New York City. It has been designed to meet the requirements of any traveler. The lobby of the hotel has a gift shop. The hotel staff can arrange sightseeing tours, airport transportation and taxi service and can help to make a laundry order. A coffee shop and a restaurant can be found not only in the lobby, but on the first floor also. They cook for their quests the most delicious food to any taste, except Chinese cuisine. If you are fond of national cuisine you may go to any restaurant not far from the hotel, as it is located close to the most magnificent restaurants, nightspots and cultural centers in New York.
11. Wellington hotel is one of _____________
a) the cheapest
b) the most expensive
c) the two-star hotel
d) the three-star hotel
12. Where is the hotel situated?
a) in the suburbs of New York
b) in Brooklyn
c) in the poor district of New York
d) in the prestigious district of New York
13. The visitors can have meals ___________
a) only in the lobby
b) only in the coffee shop
c) in the coffee shop and restaurant in the lobby and on the first floor
d) in the coffee shop and restaurant in the lobby and on the second floor
14. The visitors of the hotel__________
a) can buy souvenirs in the hotel
b) can not buy souvenirs in the hotel
c) can buy souvenirs in the coffee shop
d) can buy souvenirs in the nearest shop
15. At the restaurant you ________________
a) can try only Chinese cuisine
b) can try only national cuisine
c) can’t try Chinese cuisine
d) can try Chinese and Japanese cuisine
Text B. Questions №№ 16 – 20 are based on the following text.
Advertising is one of the most important parts of promotion. A monopolistically competitive producer may manipulate the consumer by advertising and sales promotion. Advertising adapts consumer demand to the product. The purpose of advertising to a monopolistically firm is to increase its share of the market and increase consumer loyalty to the product. There is considerable controversy as to the economic and social desirability of advertising. Some arguments in favor of advertising follow:
1. Advertising provides the information which assists consumers in making rational choices. In dynamic, complex economy there is an acute need for the consumer to be closely acquainted with new firms, new products and improvements in existing products.
2. Advertising supports national communications. Radio, television, magazines are financed in part through advertising.
3. Advertising is said to be a stimulant to product development. Successful advertising is frequently based upon unique and advantageous features of a firm’s product, so the firm is obligated to improve its product to provide “sales points” for competing successfully the advertising sphere.
4. It is said that advertising promotes competition. By providing information about a wide variety of substitute products, advertising tends to diminish monopoly power.
The arguments against advertising
1. Critics say that the basic objective of advertising is to persuade, not to inform. Competitive advertising is often based on misleading and extravagant claims which confuse and insult the intelligence of consumers not enlighten them. Advertising may well persuade consumers in some cases to pay high prices for much acclaimed but worse products, forgoing better but unadvertised products selling at lower prices.
2. Advertising adds little or nothing to well-being of society, as it divers human and property resources from other more pressing areas.
3. Significant external costs come with advertising. Billboards blot out roadside scenery and debase the countryside.
4. Advertising promotes the growth of monopoly.
16. Advertising ___________________
a) is equal to promotion
b) is included into promotion
c) includes promotion
d) doesn’t deal with promotion
17. The purpose of advertising to a monopolistically firm is ______________
a) to increase its share of the market and increase consumer loyalty to the product
b) to decrease its share of the market and increase consumer loyalty to the product
c) to increase its share of the market and decrease consumer loyalty to the product
d) to decrease its share of the market and decrease consumer loyalty to the product
18. Advertising _______________
a) helps to support national communications
b) doesn’t deal with communications
c) destroys the communications
d) deals only with the newspapers
19. Advertising _________________
a) tends to increase monopoly
b) tends to diminish monopoly
c) doesn’t deal with monopoly
d) helps monopoly to be stable
20. Advertising ______________
a) is rather cheap
b) is not so expensive
c) is rather expensive
d) is free of charge
21. Put the parts of the business letter in appropriate order:
1) Dear Mr. James,
3) Thank you for your letter. I’m afraid that we have some problems with your order.
Unfortunately, the manufacturers of the part you wish to order have advised us that they can not supply it until December. Would you prefer us to supply a substitute, or would you rather wait until the original parts are again available?
5) I look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Bell
Sales manager
2) 6 Pine Estate, Bedford Road, Bristol, UB28 12 BP
Telephone 9045 123769 Fax 9045 123874
6 September 2007
4) Phillip Sawyer, Sales Manager, Electric Ltd, Perry Road Estate, Oxbridge UN54 42KF
a) 2, 4, 1, 3, 5
b) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
c) 1, 2, 4, 5, 3
d) 3, 5, 4, 1, 2
22. You see the envelope
Correlate the information on a definite number on the envelope with its meaning:
the street name in the mailing address
the ZIP Code in the mailing address
the addressee
the town the letter comes from
the addressee’s company name
the ZIP Code in the return address
F, D, B, C, A, E
D, F, C, E, A, B
A, B, C, D, E, F
F, E, A, B, C, D
23. Define what type of document you see:
a) Memo
b) CV
c) Contract
d) letter of enquiry/ request
Section III. Structure and written expressions.
PART A
In questions 24 – 43 you are to find the correct grammar variant:
Choose the best verb option from the list below to complete the text:
In the 1980s, the Japanese …………… (24) the world in manufacturing, particularly in cars and consumer electronic. During this period the just-in-time (JIT) stock management concept and total quality management (TQM) ……………. (25) everyday terms. In recent years, managers ……………. (26) that supply chain management (SCM) is an important issue if they want to improve their market position. And now they …………….. (27) to emphasis SCM by focusing on inventory, procurement and relationships with customers and suppliers. What …………… (28) a manager ………………. (29) by JIT, TQM, and SCM today? How can these concepts be interpreted in the context of trends?
24. a) leads
b) lead
c) led
d) have led
25. a) become
b) became
c) have become
d) are becoming
26. a) realize
b) are realizing
c) have realized
d) had realized
27. a) begin
b) are begin
c) began
d) had begun
28. a) do
b) does
c) did
d) is
29. a) understand
b) understands
c) understanding
d) understood
Choose the best option to complete the sentences:
30. Tuition in an American university runs ___________ several thousand dollars a semester.
a) high as
b) as high as
c) as high to
d) as high then
31. Would you mind ____________, please?
a) to open the window
b) open the window
c) opening the window
d) to the opening window
32. By the time you get home, I ____________ analyzing the company results.
a) will have finished
b) will finish
c) am finishing
d) finish
33. I’m sorry I _____________ with you. I think this strategy is better.
a) agree
b) am agree
c) am not agree
d) don’t agree
34. If the managers were studying, ____________ you disturb them?
a) will
b) would
c) won’t
d) wouldn’t
35. Being a manager entails ______________ responsibility to other members of staff.
a) deploying
b) commissioning
c) delegating
d) nominating
36. You ____________ your seats beforehand if you want to go to Paris by train.
a) had better to book
b) had better book
c) had to better book
d) had to book better
37. Either Director or her manager _____________ to speak to me.
a) is going
b) has been going
c) are going
d) have been going
38. Neither Jim nor Jack ___________ to the conference.
a) was invited
b) was been invited
c) were invited
d) were been invited
39. You ____________ me your report, but you didn’t.
a) could
b) could have sent
c) could be sent
d) could had sent
40. I had to idea of the time because my watch ___________.
a) was repairing
b) was repaired
c) was being repaired
d) is repairing
41. I __________ my keys in the car, but I really don’t know where they are.
a) might leave
b) could leave
c) must have left
d) might have left
42. I wouldn’t have bought you a lap top if ___________ you already had one.
a) I know
b) I would know
c) I would have known
d) I had known
43. We’d ___________ this work until he asks us for.
a) rather not do
b) rather not to do
c) not rather do
d) rather not doing
PART B
Questions 44 – 50 are incomplete sentences. You are to open the brackets and put down your own variant
44. How long you (to work) as the financial manager in Blake and C0?
45. We (to attract) already financial resources and now we (to issue) new stock certificates.
46. If you (to analyze) their financial condition carefully last month, you (not to invest) in their corporation.
47. The decision (to make) by the board of directors last year.
48. By 12 o’clock tomorrow he (to prepare) the balance sheet and income statement.
49. If I (to be) you, I would not hire this applicant, he seems to be incompetent.
50. You (should, to tell) about his bankruptcy before.
Section IV. Translate the sentences into English:
TIME 10 minutes.
5 sentences
1. Они не подпишут контракт до тех пор, пока не будут изучены все финансовые документы.
2. Как только прибыль будет получены, она будет инвестирована в покупку оборудования.
3. Кредитоспособность клиента внимательно изучается сейчас нашей фирмой.
4. Если ты планируешь начать собственный бизнес, тебе потребуется первоначальный капитал.
5. Предполагается, что кредитная линия – это минимальное ограничение, которое банк устанавливает для предприятия.
Section V. Write a composition: “If I were a financial manager”.
TIME 30 minutes.
Amount of words: approximately 200.
KEYS
Section 1. Listening Comprehension.
PART A
1. – I’d like to know the prices for your equipment.
– Yes, sure, here is the pricing list.
– Do the prices include delivery?
The question: Where does the conversation take place?
2. – What is the time of departure?
– It’s 10.30. And you should arrive at the airport three hours in advance.
– Thanks.
The question: What time should a passenger arrive at the airport?
3. – John, I know that you are the office manger at the “MDM” bank.
– No, I am not. I’ve got a promotion to Financial Department.
– Congratulations!
The question: What is the position of John now?
4. – Jane, I’ve heard you are going to buy a new flat?
– Oh, yes. I’m waiting for the bank to give a loan for me.
The question: Why hasn’t Jane bought a flat yet?
5. – Hi, Jack! I haven’t seen you for a long time. Where have you been?
– I have business partners in Australia, so I went to discuss the terms of new contract on wool import.
The question: What kind of trip was it?
Questions №№ 6 – 10 are based on the following text.
I’d like to say a few words about our company which is holds one of the leading positions on Krasnoyarsk market of agricultural equipment. The name of it is “Sibselprod”. One of the main goals is to deliver reliable highly productive equipment into the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Limited Liability Company “Sibselprod” was registered on the 4th of October, 2005. The founders of the enterprise are – Limited Liability Company “Agromag” (Saint Petersburg) and Mr. Ivanov the candidate of technical science, docent from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. Limited Liability Company “Sibselprod” deals with selling agricultural machines of John Deere, Lemken and spare parts for them. Besides Limited Liability Company “Sibselprod” performs starting of exploitation, guarantee and post guarantee servicing of the delivered equipment. The enterprise has got an office and the storehouse for spare parts. The main competitors are - Opened Joint Stock Company “Agromachholding” from Krasnoyarsk and Limited Liability Company “Agrotechnics”. The share of competitors supplying domestic equipment on the market is 80%. The also supply spare parts. Companies supplying imported equipment are opening dealer representative offices.
The competitors sell imported equipment and spare parts, take part in regional exhibitions, organize the demonstration of equipment on the seminars “The Field Day”, and make guarantee and post guarantee machine servicing according to their opportunities.
The questions:
What equipment does the company sell?
When was it established?
Who are the founders of the company?
What is the type of the “Sibselprod” company?
What is the competitors’ market share?
Correct variants:
1 c
2 a
3 d
4 a
5 a
6 d
7 a
8 b
9 a
10 d
11 b
12 d
13 c
14 a
15 c
16 b
17 a
18 a
19 b
20 c
21 a
22 b
23 d
24 c
25 b
26 c
27 a
28 b
29 a
30 b
31 c
32 a
33 d
34 b
35 c
36 b
37 a
38 c
39 b
40 c
41 c
42 d
43a
44 have you been working
45 have attracted, are issuing
46 had analyzed, wouldn’t have invested
47 was made
48 will have prepared
49 were
50 should have told