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Unit 5
Answer all thirty questions. There is one mark per question.
LANGUAGE REVIEW: TIME CLAUSES
A Complete the conversation with when, while or before.
A I’m leaving in about ten minutes. Do you need help with anything (1)____ before__ I go?

B Actually, yes. I’m having some problems with this spreadsheet. (2)_______ when_____ I
enter new data on sheet 1, it doesn’t show up on sheet 2.

A Hmmm. Let me have a look.

B Thanks. (3)_____ while____you’re here, would you like a cup of coffee?

A No, thanks. (4)__________ before________ I make changes to this spreadsheet, let’s make
a copy. We don’t want to lose it!

B Great idea.

A (5)______ while _____ we’ve sorted this out, would you like to go for a drink?

B Sure.

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B Complete the conversation with after, until or as soon as.
A Are you doing anything (6)________ after __________ work today?

B No, why?

A Tomas and I are going for a meal. Would you like to come?

B Maybe, but I have to stay at my desk (7)________ as soon as __________ I get a call from
Aslan in Istanbul.

A Oh, right. Well, we’re leaving in about half an hour. We can go ahead and you can come
along (8)__________ until ________ possible – when you’ve finished with Aslan.

B OK. But he can’t call (9)________ after __________ seven o’clock.

A So he’ll call you (10)________ after __________ he finishes his weekly conference call
with New York?

B Right.

VOCABULARY: ECONOMIC TERMS

A Choose the correct words to complete the text about a small business.
When I started my own business, I borrowed about €10,000. I don’t pay a high (11)(borrowing /
interest) rate – only three per cent. I also benefit from tax (12)(incentives / increases). They’re
designed to encourage new businesses like mine. Only a few years ago, there was a lot of
government (13)(inflation / bureaucracy) that made it difficult to start a business. But the laws
have changed, and now it is much simpler. The (14)(unemployment / employment) rate in my
country is high, and the government wants to create new jobs. They’re also trying to encourage
foreign (15)(incentives / investment) to help build up the economy.

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B Complete the sentences with words from the box.
balance of trade exchange rate GDP inflation rate labour force
16 What was yesterday’s _______ exchange rate _____ between the dollar and the euro?

17 When did the _______ inflation rate ___ hit three per cent?

18 Isn’t the city’s _______ labour force ____ about a million people?

19 China’s _______ GDP ______ was about seven trillion dollars in 2011.

20 The ________ balance of trade __________ between two countries changes as their imports
and exports change.

SKILLS: DEALING WITH NUMBERS

A Write the numbers in words.
21 270,345 ___two hundred and seventy thousand, three hundre and forty-five_______

22 98% _____ninety-eight per cent_____________

23 0.845 ____one point eight four five______________

24 5/6 _________five sixths_________

25 650,456,910 ____six hundred and fifty million, four hundred and fifty six thousand, nine
hundred and ten__

B Write the numbers in digits.

26 two hundred and forty-five thousand, three hundred and sixteen ________245 316__________

27 three-quarters ________3/4__________

28 one point three five seven _______1.357___________

29 twenty-seven per cent _________27%_________

30 twelve thousand euros _________€12000_________

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