Online English Olympiad 2022

     All my life _____

•     I loved going to the movies

• I have loved to go to the movies

•      I’ve loved going to the movies

  He's had his car...

•    when he passed his driving test

• since he passed his driving test

• as he passed his driving test

I have never been ________ in all my life.

• such embarrassed

• so embarrassed

• such an embarrassed

You are _______ no obligation to go.

• to

• with

• under

• on

The house has been _____ the market for a while.

• in

• on

• to

• by

Choose the best option.

• That's a small Victorian round wooden table

• That's a Victorian small round wooden table

• That's a Victorian round wooden small table

It has become a common place to say that the world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Companies today are faced with a stark choice::___ or go under.

For example, four decades ago, companies typically tended to be __. They were built on a model which achieved a high degree of control, but in which ___ of communication were few and slow.

• adopt/economical/

  webs

• adapt/hierarchical/

  channels

• market/democratic/

  media

Another disadvantage of this type of organisation is that more junior ___ may not even know who the CEO is, or what ___ the decision-makers are trying to achieve. In order to try to solve this problem, many organisations have adopted a less ___ more flexible business culture in which frequent contact between the owner and the employees ensures that ___ is flowing smoothly.

• buyers/ goals/ bureaucratic/ information

• customers/ design/ caring/news

• staff/goals/market-driven/ information

A second difficult choice for a company concerns the extent to which it should go global or remain ___ . Global operations allow maximum ___ of scale, while localisation makes it possible to ___ quickly and to reach all market ___ .

• impersonal/ marketing/ demand/ leaders

• professional/production/ call/ shares

• local/ economies/ respond / sectors

In order to reduce the tension between global and local demands, many companies have adopted a ‘hub and spoke’ structure. They use several regional production and ___ ‘hubs’ where neighbouring markets are serviced from one single location.

• distribution

• manufacturing

• adertising