RH TEST

BUSINESS Quiz

Business English language test.

Question #1 (1 point)

It was important that she did not.............her job because of incessant pressure.

                resign at

                resonate to

                resign from

                go for

Question #2 (1 point)

 .............is the period of your life after you finish your working life.

                Pension

                Retirement

                Retired

                The retirement

Question #3 (1 point)

 As a reward for good performance results she was given ...............

                a golden parachute

                an upgrade

                times off

                a promotion

Question #4 (1 point)

A .........accountant is someone who is qualified to check and validate  company accounts.

                top

                chartered

                renowned

                company

Question #5 (1 point)

 My salary before taxes also known as my .........income

                major

                gross

                brut

                basic

Question #6 (1 point)

 My company is downsizing and has asked me to take ...............

                Volunteer work

                voluntary work

                voluntary redundancy

                time away

Question #7 (1 point)

I can put this lunch on my ........account. My employer will pay for it.

                employer’s

                expense

Question #8 (1 point)

Duty ....... goods are luxury goods often bought in airports that do not cost as much because of a reduction in tax.

                freed

                less

                levied

                free

Question #9 (1 point)

 I..........the vacant position last week. I hope to hear from them soon.

                applied for

                responded for

                wrote for

                apply for

Question #10 (1 point)

Somebody who is employed by a company will receive a .............

                payroll

                pay-slip

                document

                bill of lading

Question #11 (1 point)

 The ............sheet is a statement that shows the value of the company assets and it’s debts.

                balance

                document

                accounting

                line

Question #12 (1 point)

 Barbara had a lot of important deadlines to meet so we ........ an intern to help her.

                took on

                take up

                taking in

                recruit

Question #13 (1 point)

The ........rate is the amount that shows what an average worker is to be paid  per hour.

                common

                going

                right

                good

Question #14 (1 point)

As our business is expanding, we are hoping to..........twenty graduates this month.

                recrute

                recruit

                employing

                hire up

Question #15 (1 point)

I was .............. when they downsized the company in the recession.

                laid off

                laid redundant

                lay off

                layered off

Question #16 (1 point)

 UK unemployment figures*

2017      2018

population 65,346,867   population 64,986,078

unemployed 4,476,865  unemployed 4,912,567

The number of people working .......however the population ........ a little.

* Figures are purely fictitious

                has risen, has dropped

                is rising, has fallen

                rose, has fallen

                is rising, is dropping

Question #17 (1 point)

 Current economic trends  seem to indicate that the .......rate will continue to rise across Europe.

                unemployed

                job

                unemployment

                working

Question #18 (1 point)

 A profit ........... is the difference between the amount of money that the company receives for a product and the amount which it has spent on it.

                tax loss

                line

                margin

                gain

Question #19 (1 point)

Petty...... is a small amount of money kept in the company’s office for buying cheap items.

                bank note

                cash

                money

                currency

Question #20 (1 point)

There are many candidates for the position ........Finance Director.

                as

                the

                for

                elected

4-8 POINTS PRE-INTERMEDIATE 9-12 INTERMEDIATE 13-16 UPPER INTERMEDIATE 17-20 ADVANCED

LOMEDIS PLACEMENT TEST B

LEVEL PRE-INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED

READING COMPREHENSION

Question #1 (1 point)

First contact with an influential person

What it comes down to is being able to talk to different types of people about all sorts of things. If you don’t seem interested or if you have nothing much to say then it can kill a conversation in a few minutes. “Ooh I must go and say hello to a friend I’ve just spotted, excuse me a moment” would be the sentence you might hear coming during some lifeless conversation. Here are the rules of making conversation: Find out about the other person’s hobby and let them talk about it. After speaking to someone who listened carefully, the reaction is positive “at last someone who is interested”. They will rate you as being patient, friendly and no doubt will be happy to talk to you again. The occasional nod or “yes absolutely” or even a chuckle or a smile can egg them on. Then keep up the conversation by adding to the same subject in a rational way, try to avoid being too off the wall; that is unless of course the conversation is a bit zany. You might meet a threshold of attention span and wish to break away from the situation so in this case have you business card at the ready in your top pocket. Spontaneously whip it out with a “nice meeting you” or then again “nice talking to you” and without further ado, off you go.

Which sentence best describes this text?

 This applies to every-time you meet a possible business contact.

 People in general like to meet someone who lets them speak.

 Business cards can help but spending time writing down your name is better.

 This will only match situations with people who are in a hurry.

Question #2 (1 point)

I was coming back from the Airport and a couple were nattering away, they didn't stop going on. In the beginning I thought it was......................... but then I remembered that I do that sometimes as well.

 amusing

 boring

 annoying

 confusing

Question #3 (1 point)

Which of the following four verbs is possible?

One answer only.

The first reaction to the riots was to................. .

 sort out

 deal with

 crack down

 stand for

Question #4 (1 point)

Con artists often try ..................... the mark with "get rich quick" schemes but this involves........................................from close friends and family who might know better.

 and bait, to keep him/her

 by baiting, keep him/her

 to bait, having kept him/her

 to bait, keeping him/her

Question #5 (1 point)

If looks do in fact matter, what does this rampant litter problem say about the state and its flagship city? The prevailing response might be that it reflects a careless disregard on behalf of the people who live here. But those leading the anti-litter fight note the problem runs deeper and speaks to the innate culture of Louisiana.

Research suggests litter has more to do with the place than the people, says Wesley Schultz, a psychology professor at California State University and Keep America Beautiful board member who studies litter. People are more likely to litter in dirty areas lacking trash disposals and less likely to litter in a clean space with nearby garbage cans.

“Some say people just don’t care, but that’s not what we find at all,” Schultz says. “Our estimates are about 15 percent of litter behavior is due to the person, which leaves 85 percent due to the context. Cities that are clean have made an investment in beautification and infrastructure that make disposal easy.”

Annie Ourso Landry article

Which of the following definitions explain what Rampant means.

 widespread

 everywhere

 everywhere and out of control

 out of control

Question #6 (1 point)

Giving up smoking is good.

Giving up hope is bad news.

Give it up for MC Hammer means.......

 stop listening to Hammer

 you need to give Hammer a break

 make some noise for Hammer

 You can't get enough of Hammer

Question #7 (1 point)

What does the trickle-down effect refer to?

 The way people abuse the system by never paying people.

 Communism benefits everybody from the top to the bottom of the social scale.

 Money does reach poorer people in spite of the fact that it is from wealth generation intended initially for making a few people wealthy.

 Society is biased towards making rich people rich whilst forgetting poorer people.

Question #8 (1 point)

HOAXES

It’s no hoax, Tim Bowen’s back with another look at these handy collocations!

A hoax is a dishonest trick. As such, it can be cruel, as in ‘The promise of a free holiday turned out to be little more than a cruel hoax’, elaborate, as in ‘It appears that we have all been the victims of an elaborate hoax’, or spectacular or gigantic, as in ‘The Piltdown Man turned out to be a gigantic hoax and one that fooled a large number of eminent scientists’.

The verb that mostly collocates with hoax is to perpetrate, as in ‘The letter was later found to have been a hoax perpetrated by pupils at the school’. Likewise, the noun perpetrator can be used to describe those behind a particular hoax, as in ‘Once it was established that the alleged incident was little more than an elaborate hoax, the search began for the perpetrators’.

Hoaxes can be revealed or exposed, as in ‘The hoax was only revealed after a series of bogus emails to the local newspaper’ or ‘He once exposed a spectacular hoax solely through publishing the transcripts of a series of phone interviews’.

Various kinds of hoaxes can be perpetrated, notably hoax bombs, phone calls, emails, messages and warnings, as in ‘It can sometimes be very difficult to identify a hoax email or a fake offer’ or ‘Hoax bomb warnings have to be taken seriously and buildings are often evacuated as a precaution’. The perpetrators behind such hoaxes often use telephone calls, as in ‘The emergency services waste a lot of time and resources dealing with hoax callers’.

Choose the sentence which is true.

 A hoax is just harmless fun without any pre-meditated consequence.

 Hoaxes never lead to prosecution

 A hoax can be harmless fun but it can also be serious and lead to terrible things.

 Hoaxes are never used to extort money from organizations

Question #9 (1 point)

Margaret Thatcher once said:

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's ..................".

 finance

 money

 support

 patience

Question #10 (1 point)

Someone proposes to waive admission charges.

You should.......

 get your money ready

 celebrate because you are in for free

 get angry because they just hawked up the price

 raise your hand and make a sign

Question #11 (1 point)

A figure is a number.

A figure is a woman's shape: she's got a great figure.

To figure is to understand.

To figure out is to find a solution.

"Go figure" means that it's hard to................

 do

 imagine

 see

 get there

Question #12 (1 point)

Blablacar is a great way of getting somewhere, you can meet a lot of different types of people.....................................

 and it's a great way for savings

 who save money

 who drop you off and save you money

 who are into saving money

Question #13 (1 point)

Which statement is false.

 People who are tight aren't stingy.

 A bee can sting you so it's good to see a doctor.

 Stinging feelings in your hands can be appeased by putting your hands in cold water.

 Stinging nettles sting you and you should use a doc leaf.

Question #14 (1 point)

I am heading back to my crib, feelin' pretty wack cuz my dawg Donny gave me the 411 that one of the crew be talkin' 'bout bonin' out.

 This is talking about someone throwing the towel in.

 The person who is speaking is heading to his favorite haunt.

 The people mentioned can't know each-other very well.

 The situation seems to be good news.

Question #15 (1 point)

GAZUMPING

Not illegal and generally misunderstood; gazumping is a common (though unpleasant) tactic in the property ‘game’ facilitated by anomalies in the British legal system. Although the term is now mistakenly applied to anyone who outbids another person on a property (‘the other buyer gazumped me’, ‘we were gazumped’), in reality gazumping occurs when a ridiculously high, BUMPED UP bid is placed on a property with the condition that the property is then TAKEN OFF the market immediately (in Britain, properties usually REMAIN ON the market until contracts have been exchanged and the purchase becomes legally binding, usually 6-8 weeks into the process), only for the offer to be drastically reduced, or BROUGHT DOWN, moments before contracts are due to be exchanged. The buyer will threaten to PULL OUT of the deal unless the price COMES DOWN dramatically. Because the seller (the person selling the house) is often dependent on the sale to fund his or her purchase and ............................................, he or she will usually (though unwillingly) accept the lower bid. As some estate agents in Britain act on behalf of (or have close ties with) ruthless property developers, this practice is still common. The estate agent is sometimes (though not always) the ‘middle man’ in this process and (because he or she is likely to receive a ‘bung’ or ‘backhander’ from the developer) can be extremely persuasive.

In the following possible answers which fits the blank space best?

 not wanting it FALL THROUGH

 is unwilling to see the sale FALL THROUGH

 of course wants to see it FALLING THROUGH

 hopefully it might FALL THROUGH

Question #16 (1 point)

HOTEL ROOM

client : "I've been in hotels all around the world and this one is frankly speaking just not good enough, the carpet is ..............

Front desk : "I am terribly sorry, please accept my apologies, I will have somebody come up to your room"

 scruffed

 scruffy

 shabby

 shambles

Question #17 (1 point)

To plug means many things.

What is a record plugger?

 A promoter

 a show stopper

 an engineer

 songwriter

Question #18 (1 point)

The con artist has to BUTTER UP the mark by STRIKING UP a close, trusting and intimate friendship.

Which sentence means the above?

 The confidence trickster must be chummy with the victim to be.

 The victim is most likely to be a friend prior to becoming close to the con artist.

 Con artists try to keep the victim at distance.

 It's preferable to be nice but never flatter the victim

Question #19 (1 point)

Wide width ............

Strong strength strengthen

High height heighten

Long length lengthen

Deep depth .....................

 widthen,deepen

 widen,depthen

 widen,deepen

 widen,depthen

Question #20 (1 point)

I had my doubts when I first met him, but he's .....................a very nice person.

 currently

 rather

 actually

 now

4-8 POINTS PRE-INTERMEDIATE 9-12 INTERMEDIATE 13-16 UPPER INTERMEDIATE 17-20 ADVANCED