Test 2 Units 4-6 1READING } ee Read the article from a marketing magazine and choose the correct answer for each of the questions, 1-6, below, (1 mark for each correct answer) The pudding guy Airline companies and other businesses sometimes offer air miles with their products and services ‘Customers can collect these until they have enough, for a holiday. David Phillips was pushing his trolley round his local supermarket in Davis, California when he noticed an ait miles offer from Healthy Choice foods: ‘Buy 10 Healthy Choice products, and get 500 miles from the airline of your choice — 1,000 miles if purchased by June 1.” David then noticed they had individual chocolate puddings for 25 cents each, ‘T started calculating and realized that this was a great deal, he said, ‘I wanted to take ‘my family to Europe this summer, and this could be the way’ He decided to buy 12,150 chocolate puddings to start but then visited ten more stores. In the end he had 2,506 certificates, each good for 500 miles. That made a total of 1,253,000 miles ‘The strange thing is nobody seemed to lose on the deal. The airlines sold the air miles to Healthy Choice for the promotion for about two cents a mile so they did not make a loss and Healthy Choice probably even made a profit too because of the value of the publicity. ‘And what did he do with all the puddings? After filing his house and garage, he and his family had the idea of giving the whole lot to a focal charity apart from about 100 for himself, ‘Actually’ he said, ‘I really like the stuf? 1 According to the article. A... some products offer customers the chance to travel by ar if they buy their products. B. ... customers can buy air miles while they are on holiday. C .... some airline companies offer free products to customers who buy air tickets. TELE © Oxtort University Press Test2 6 2 Healthy Choice foods offered ... A... 500 air miles for 10 purchases after June. B_ .., 1000 air miles for 500 purchases before June. C... 500 air miles for 10 purchases before June. 3. David bought .. A... total of 12,150 chocolate puddings. B ... alot of chocolate puddings. C «more chocolate puddings in Europe, 4 According to the article A... the airlines bought the air miles from Healthy Choice. B ... Healthy Choice did not make a loss. C ... the airlines made a big profit 5 David decided to... AA... leave most of the products in his house and garage. B_... eat most of the products «1. give most of the products to charity. 6 The article is about somebody who A. ...won alot of money. B ... used @ company promotion to get free travel. © «. tised budget air lines to travel free. 2 VOCABULARY ‘Tom has just come back to the office after visiting customers abroad. Underline the correct word or phrase in italics. (mark for each correct answer) Maria: So how was your trip / travel, Tom? ‘Tom: Terrible! It was snowing when I left so there were traffic jams going to the airport — it spent / rook ‘two hours to get there. Fortunately T only had hand luggage / baggage with me but I nearly “ missed / lost my flight. Then when I arrived 1 didn't have any” foreign currency / foreign cash with me, I couldn' find a§ money machine / cash ‘mackie and the taxi driver refused to accept my credit card or a cheque / bank statement — so T had to give him my watch in the end Maria: Did he give you a bill/ receipt for it? Tom: No, of course he didn't!Test 2 3GRAMMAR Read the passage about recent changes in the private banking sector. Underline the correct word or phrase in italics (1 mark for each correct answer) Many things" changed / has changed / have changed in private customer banking in the last thirty years. Inthe 1960s the bank? was / were /has been always a busy place with lots of customers and lots of employees. Daring the late 1970s and 1980s the number of people ‘who actually? went / gone /have been into their banks * has begun / begun / began to fall. This * was / has been / hhave been mainly because ofthe introduction of cash ‘machines. Also, around this time the banks * have decided / has decided / decided to close some of their branches to save costs Since 1995, technology ? was / were / has been the main cause of change again. In 1995 a bank' offered /has offered / have offered the frst Internet banking service and other banks quickly followed. This is not surprising because the cost ofa transaction in the bank is about 1.05 while on the computer itis 1.5 cents. Internet banking is particularly popular in Europe where, in 2004, there” were / was / have been 57.9 million users compared to 22,8 million in the USA. The increas is still, continuing today; as more and more people use the Internet, the numbers opening online bank accounts grew / have grown / has grow steadily ‘Complete the chart with correct forms of the verbs. (0.5 marks for each correct answer) INFINITIVE PAST SIMPLE PAST PARTICIPLE 4LANGUAGE FOR Complete the telephone conversation below using the expressions in the box. There is one extra expression ‘you do not need to use. (1 mark for each correct answer) Kirsten: Good morning, Rex Electronics. Gerd: Hello, this is Gerd Fischer from Eastern Dairies. " ‘Alan Rossi please? Could you repeat itfor me, please? Gerd: Yes its Fischer. Gerd Fischer Kirsten: Thank you.? —____ Mr. Fischer. I'l Sam: Hello, shipping Gerd: Hello.* saci Sam? Sam: Speaking. Gerd: Its Gerd Fischer here, Sam. the meeting on Friday wondered if we could change the time. Sam: Oh, good morning, Gerd. Es ——__ "Alan's not in the office at the moment. Gerd: No, Pa beter speak to him about it Sam: Yes, of course. I'l tl him as soon as he comes in, Gerd: OK. Thanks, Sam. 5 WRITING ware ‘This graph shows the number of million-selling CD lost disc singles and albums sold in Japan from 1998 to a 2002, Write a short report describing these movements in sales. ate (10 marks in total) ihink Taken etune }© Oxford University Press