Name __________________________________________ Class ______________________________

Intelligent Business Progress Test 1 (Units 1─3)

Complete all seven sections. There are seventy marks in total.
SECTION 1: VOCABULARY
1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of these words.
For example: manage ─ manager
employ / produce / manufacture / China / promote / manage / retail

1 Mr Yang is ________________. He’s from Beijing.

2 The company has more than 10,000 ________________.

3 Mr Petrov is the project ________________.

4 We are a big ________________ and our shops sell many different things.

5 We sell many of our ________________ in other countries.

6 We are a ________________ company. We make plastic boxes.

7 The marketing department ________________ the new services.

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2 Choose a word to complete the paragraph.
network / challenge / conference / multinational / members

We work for a (1) ________________ company. Its headquarters are in New York. New
technology is always a big (2) ________________ for everyone. All our IT team (3)
________________ usually attend the international (4) ________________ so they can learn
what is new. There they can (5) ________________ and make contact with a lot of possible
new customers.

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SECTION 2: LANGUAGE
3 Underline the correct word.
1 The CEO arrives/arrive at six o’clock this evening.

2 They makes/make cars in Korea.

3 He don’t/doesn’t work for an American company.

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4 Does/Do the employees work hard?

5 Do/Does you have John’s address?

6 She works as a/the designer.

7 I always leaves/leave the office at 5.30pm.

8 He sometimes have/has lunch in a restaurant.

9 We are/is interested in sports.

10 Are you Isabel? Yes, I are/am.

11 Does he live/lives in Paris?

12 I work for a/the big company. It’s called Hewlett Packard.

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SECTION 3: READING
4 In which paragraph are the following things mentioned?
1 the location of head office _________

2 a personal opinion _________

3 the journey to work _________

4 modern technology _________ and 5 _________

6 types of teams _________

7 the owner of a company _________

8 sales of products _________

a) We sell less than 10% of our goods in the home market country. We make clothes for
other companies, who sell them in different countries.

b) The founder of our company is fifty years old. He owns 85% of the company and is the
chairperson.

c) We are a multinational company with headquarters in Paris. Many staff work with people
from different countries on our projects. Good communication is very important. Some people
live in one country but regularly commute to another country, especially in Europe.

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d) I think I spend too much time away from home. I travel all the time for my job and I miss
my family. I think we can use things like video conferencing for many of my meetings.

e) Our employees work in teams so they need to understand each other and communicate
well. Our teams are formal and all the members are from this company. Other companies have
international teams.

f) Teamwork is important for many companies today, especially in multinational companies.

This is easy today because of the internet and mobile phones.

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SECTION 4: CAREER SKILLS

5 Complete the conversation with one of these phrases.
type of company / is it /do you / How many / are its / It’s a / does it / I’m / are you / What’s

1 Hello. _________________ your name?

Fritz Scheiner.
2 What company _________________ with?
AR Geissling.
3 What _________________ is it?
4 _________________ manufacturing company.
5 What _________________ make?
Electronic products for the home.
6 What _________________ do?
7 _________________ the sales manager.
8 _________________ employees does it have?
About 600.
9 Where _________________ based?
In Zürich.
10 Where _________________ factories.
In China.

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SECTION 5: WRITING
6 Underline the correct word.

To: Design team

From: Sabrina Binden
Subject: New team manager
Dear colleagues
My name (1) is/are Sabrina Binden and I’m the new manager of (2) the/a design team. I’m (3)
charge/responsible for all the company advertisements. My (4) job/title is to design and produce
good advertisements for our products.
Let me tell you something (5) about/for myself. I’m thirty years (6) age/old and come (7)
to/from Frankfurt in Germany. I (8) am/have more than ten years’ experience in design with a
big company.
When I am not at work I like to (9) play/make sport and read newspapers. I hope to (10)
meet/speak some of you soon!
Best wishes
Sabrina

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SECTION 6: LISTENING
Track 1

7 Listen to first Katya and then Graham. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?
1 Katya works for a bank. _________
2 She doesn’t like big teams. _________
3 She likes to meet every week. _________
4 Her team has people from different countries. _________
5 Graham is an international manager. _________
6 He thinks it’s important to listen to people. _________
7 He thinks formal meetings are best. _________
8 He doesn’t like emails. _________

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SECTION 7:SPEAKING
8 Talk about yourself. Say:

 Who you are.

 How you spell your name.

 What nationality you are.

 How old you are.

 What job you do or want to do.

Your teacher will mark your presentation using the scorecard below. The teacher circles one
mark if a student includes the area, and circles two marks for communicating it accurately and
effectively. There is a maximum of ten marks.

The students said:

 Who they are. 1 2

 How they spell their name. 1 2

 What nationality they are. 1 2

 How old they are. 1 2

 What job they do or want to do. 1 2

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TOTAL / 70

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