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Epsoc1103 Test A English Secretaries
Epsoc1103 Test A English Secretaries
Test a)
Test b)
Reminder:
Test a)
a) blather
b) prevaricate
c) confront
d) stutter
a) sensory
b) sentient
c) sensitive
d) sensible
a) associate
b) designate
c) demote
d) sublimate
a) ambiguous
b) ambivalent
c) unequivocal
d) incongruous
a) eminent
b) immanent
c) imminent
d) incumbent
a) practices, practice
b) practises, practise
c) practices, practise
d) practises, practice
a) two
b) four
c) five
d) nine
a) calls
b) chooses
c) selects
d) picks
a) forum
b) fori
c) fora
d) forae
a) rostas
b) rosters
c) rostra
d) rostres
a) heros
b) heroes
c) heroses
d) hereos
a) hoofs
b) hooves
c) hoofes
d) hoofses
a) dwarfs
b) dwarfes
c) dwarves
d) dwarvese
19. What is the plural of louse?
a) lice
b) louses
c) louces
d) lices
a) Secretary's-General
b) Secretaries-General
c) Secretary-Generals
d) Secretaries-Generals
21. Which of the following commonly used software programmes is not part of the Microsoft
Office package?
a) Windows
b) Word
c) Excel
d) Outlook
22. What do you do in order to insert a tab inside a table cell in Word?
a) a quarter
b) a half
c) double
d) one and a half
25. In a secretarial context what does the abbreviation “cif” mean?
a) formatting a document
b) creating a database
c) inserting headers and footers
d) reviewing a document
27. Starting from right to left what is the 11th icon used for?
a) insert table
b) split cells
c) insert shading
d) merge columns
28. You are authorised to sign a letter on someone else's behalf. After your signature, but
before their name, you would add?
a) p.p.
b) p.o.
c) p.q.
d) p.s.
29. Which is the correct way of writing five o´clock in the evening using a 12-hour clock?
a) 17h00
b) 5p.m.
c) 5 a.m.
d) 5 o'clock
a) HOME + PAGE UP
b) CTRL+ PAGE UP
c) ALT + HOME
d) CTRL + HOME
a) a calculator
b) a special effect, such as underline
c) a series of instructions to accomplish a task automatically
d) a close-up view of your document
34. You are correcting a revised document. What would you do with the following sentence?
methods
"As well as having a thorough knowledge of office systems and procedures secretaries need
to be excellent communicators and organisers."
a) PowerPoint
b) Excel
c) Word
d) Access
36. In a Word table, which command(s) would you use to move between cells?
a) TAB
b) ALT + TAB
c) CTRL+TAB
d) SHIFT + TAB
37. Which icon would you use to see the hidden text in a document?
a b c d
a) a
b) b
c) c
d) d
38. What is the conventional closing phrase to a letter beginning "Dear Madam”?
a) Yours truly
b) Yours sincerely
c ) Yours faithfully
d) Sincerely yours
a) agenda
b) minutes
c) review
d) summary
40. On an agenda for a meeting, what does the abbreviation "aob" stand for?
a) all on board
b) any other business
c) act of business
d) any observations