Unit Test 5

Answer all thirty questions. There is one mark per question.

Language

1 Two sentences in 1-8 below don’t need a relative pronoun. The other sentences are missing one of
these words: where, whose, who, which, that

Decide which sentence is correct and write in the relative pronouns to complete the other
sentences.

      For example:

       which

      I work for Communic8, is a British firm.

1    There wasn’t just one man was responsible for the invention of the mobile phone.

2    The computer used to be on my desk is now in the office next door.

3    The main users this phone is aimed at are aged four to eight years.

4    The latest model, we launched last week, has had good reviews.

5    Proactive companies, offering more choice, are more likely to succeed.

6    More and more of our software can be downloaded as well as bought from retailers, reduces our
costs.

7    The management guru Peter Drucker, ideas influenced the world’s corporate elite, wrote about
40 books.

8    We’re based in Texas, we’ve been for the last five years.

Vocabulary

2 Complete each sentence with the appropriate form of a word below.

design / subscribe / generate / inform / cover / profit / saturate

9    I can’t keep up with all the changes in the ______________ technology industry.

10   Motorola hopes the new strategy will add _____________ to the large numbers of people already
using its services.

11   DaimlerChrysler has ______________ a vibrating accelerator pedal that alerts motorists to slow
down.

12   The mobile phones market is becoming ________________ with more phones than people who want to
buy them.

13   The new third-_________________ networks will have extra capacity and help the price to come
down.

14   The mobile phone industry is highly competitive but can also highly be _______________ with
reported revenues of billions.

15   Extending mobile ____________ so that people can make calls wherever they are, for example in
an aeroplane, is another tactic to encourage greater use.

3 Only two of the words normally appear with the underlined word. Delete the incorrect word.

16   stock, mass, profit market

17   market leader, margin, share

18   computer laptop, programmer, technology,

19   latest, standard, feature model

20   mobile phone, home, product

21   profit margin, access, share

Career skills

4 Read this extract from a briefing session. Put it in the correct order.

22   ___

23   ___

24   ___

25   ___

26   ___

27   ___

28   ___

29   ___

30   ___

a)   Secondly, we also need to come up with new colours and designs.

b)   The first thing we need to do is ask our engineers to improve picture and sound quality.

c)   OK, let me start by saying that what we need to achieve in this project is the update of the
design of our DVD recorder.

d)   Jill is here from engineering. I’d like you to make this a priority.

e)   Now, any questions?

f)    I want our design team to get on to that.

g)   It will involve engineers, designers and our marketing department all working closely
together.

h)   Probably the best way to do this is to organise some focus groups and questionnaires.

i)    While we’re waiting for the ideas from engineering and design, I suggest that the marketing
department starts by getting some more customer feedback.