MINI GAME

SUBJECT: READING 6
GROUP 1

UNIT 7: FINANCE
Question 1: Mr Al-Sayed has not spoken
about the ''conslusions
drawn'' from the review,...

A. endings of

B. effects of

C. results of
Question 2: Meanwhile, while managers have
said they would like to
open a Harrods venue in
Shanghai...

A. store

B. concert hall

C. meeting place
Question 3: A move that would capitalize on growing
demand for luxury goods from Chinese
shoppers - no plans have been
announced.

A. exploit

B. amortise

C. invest in
Question 4: If you ________ someone when
buying something, you offer more for it

A. discount B. outbid

C. bargain D. rip-off
Question 5: A __________ is a collection
of different investment

A. Brochure B. Catalogue

C. Portfolio D. Magazine
 Question 6: If something is your swansong

A. It's the last time you do it B. It's your opportunity

C. It's the first time you do it D. It's the second time you do it
 Question 7: Match each of these definitions:

Expenditure Something that is available for sale

Extension When you improve the look or something

Refurbish / makeover
When you make something bigger

Investment When you put money into something for

profit

Offer When you spend money on something

 Question 8: Match each of these definitions:

a king or queen, or a person having the

refurbish power

sovereig
a sudden argument among a large group
n

prompt to decorate and repair something

surge to make something happen

fufore to suddenly increase

 Question 9:

She's very __________

concious of the problems involved.
 Question 10: Find definitions based on descriptions

1. An action that is very stupid and likely to have

serious result Folly

2. Felling of being publicy embarrassed because of

something wrong you did Shame

3. Unable to understand and use number in caculations

Inumerate

4. Part of company’s profit dividend between people

with shares in the company Divident

5. Felt or experience very strongly or in an extremely Profound

Question 11: The action or process of caculating or
estimating something

A. Estimate

B. Evaluate
dassess

C. Reckoning
Question 11: According to the way something appears
According to what you have heard
or read

A. Surely

B. Apparently

C. Certainly
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Question 12: Complete the sentences with the words above:

1. All business people know that you can carry on for a while if you make no profits, but
that if you ....................................... cash, you are toast.

2. Around the turn of the millennium, things began to ………………. and accelerated
rapidly after a pause in 2001- 03 - so that exceptionally high remuneration was
……………………. between 2004 and 2007.

3. How did the shareholders let them ...................................... this?

4. But, of course, they frequently make decisions with cash consequences, and in the
mid-noughties, they began to .................................
Question 13: True/False

1. If x is described as a force behind y, x is the cause of y. T

2. A surge is a large increase. T

3. A furore is a mild disagreement. F

4. Something prestigious is of high quality and is famous. T

5. The economic cycle is a means of transport. F

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