The Adventures of Lola Badiola

TEST YOUR COMPREHENSION

Choose the correct answer to the following questions about the story.

1. How does Cayetano react when Lola fires him?

A. He cries
B. He laughs
C. He apologises
D. He threatens the team

2. How much is TechSpania willing to pay for control of JBlock?

A. 3 euros per share

B. 6 euros per share
C. 9 euros per share
D. 12 euros per share

3. What does Guzman Zunzunegui believe happened to Lola’s father in Peru?

A. Involved in corrupt business

B. Blackmailing the government
C. Died under suspicious circumstances
D. Planning to run for president

4. What does the agent intend to do after he has completed the mission in North Korea?

A. Apply for a full-time job at Interpol

B. Emigrate to China
C. Find a new career
D. Retire and play golf

5. What does James Buck do when he finds out that the North Korean defector is not Kim Dae-
won?

A. He becomes furious
B. He refuses to accept the “package”
C. He refuses to pay the agent
D. All of the above

Answers: 1.D, 2.B, 3.C, 4.C, 5.D

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TEST YOUR BUSINESS ENGLISH

Complete these sentences with the common business expression used in the story.

1. Lola spent the next four hours on the phone mixing ______ ______ with sales pitches and
relationship building chats. It was what she did best.

A. Cold calls
B. Cool calls
C. Hot calls
D. Fire calls

2. “I’m setting up a meeting with the guy who ______ the ______.” replied Cayetano,
maintaining his 5000-euro smile but lowering his voice a semitone.

A. Brings the bullet

B. Loads the gun
C. Pulls the trigger
D. Hits the target

3. “Some foreign companies take a cynical approach. They say: “When in ______ do as the
______.” Others take a moral stand; they simply refuse to enter markets where the standards
of regulation are lower than their own.”

A. When in France do as the French

B. When in Rome do as the Romans
C. When in Egypt do as the Egyptians
D. When in Mars do as the Martians

4. After thirty years of interrogating ______-______ ______, he understood the psychology of

the professional mind.

A. White-collar criminals
B. Black-collar criminals
C. Red-collar criminals
D. Blue-collar criminals

5. Everything he was experiencing - the sights, the sounds and smells – must have been a
______ ______.

A. Political shock
B. Economic shock
C. Culture shock
D. Social shock

Answers: 1.A 2.C, 3.B, 4.A, 5.C

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