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University of Economics, HCMC
School of Foreign Languages
Division of English for General Purposes
End of Unit Test.U2.M2
EXAM IN ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (75 minutes)
Read the instruction carefully. RECORD your answers on your answer sheets.
Section 1: Language knowledge (40 marks)
I. Choose the words that best fit the gaps in the following passage.
Jim Lawrence runs a firm with a turnover (1) …………… over $3 million. Yet only fifteen years ago he
owned a farm (2 ) …………… was struggling to (3) …………… a profit. For a few years in the 80s, he
worked (4) …………… an estate agent to earn some extra money. In 1993, Jim was asked to make an iron
candlestick. He (5) …………… $50 to get started and soon had a new business. He received lots of orders and
decided to (6) …………… his farm buildings to workshops.
“I have had no formal training in iron work”, says Jim, “but I have always liked making things”. These days
he (7) …………… thirty-two people to help him and he has a very successful business. It is a mail-order
company and Jim has (9) …………… invested a lot of money in IT to maximize (9) …………… . During the
last 15 years, he has won two very important prizes for business, one in 1996 and (10) …………… in 2002.
1.
a. for
b. of
c. at
d. on
2.
a. who
b. whom
c. whose
d. which
3.
a. take
b. do
c. make
d. invest
4.
a. for
b. in
c. as
d. of
5.
a. lost
b. spent
c. threw
d. found
6.
a. consist
b. transfer
c. convert
d. invert
7.
a. employ
b. was employing
c. employs
d. employed
8.
a. recently
b. yet
c. never
d. seldom
9.
a. efficient
b. inefficient
c. efficiently
d. efficiency
10.
a. another
b. other
c. the other
d. others