Short test Businesss English

"Don’t make any changes without talking to Peter. He’s the one calling the shots on this project."

• a) communicating with the supervisor

• b) making the important decisions

• c) working very hard

"We showed the president 20 ideas for new products, but she didn't like any of them - so we had to go back to the drawing board."

• a) ask other people for advice

• b) start again from the beginning

• c) reuse a good idea from the past

"Laura didn’t go to the meeting. Could you send her a summary of the discussion to bring her up to speed?"

• a) help her work faster

• b) give her the most recent information

• c) find out what her perspective is

"Our sales estimates were way off the mark. We'd projected sales of $15M, but the actual numbers were closer to $9M."

• a) too optimistic

• b) higher than average

• c) very wrong/inaccurate

"Yesterday's meeting lasted four hours... but in a nutshell, we decided to close our office in India and open a branch in China."

• a) in an argument

• b) in the end

• c) in summary

"The text for the article is almost perfect. I just want to tweak one or two sentences."

• a) remove

• b) make small adjustments

• c) make longer

"That program never produced any significant results, so the director finally decided to pull the plug."

• a) get personally involved

• b) improve the technology

• c) stop, discontinue

"I need to submit a weekly report on this project, so please keep me in the loop."

• a) informed / updated

• b) working hard

• c) in the office

"We have until December to prepare these documents, so let's put them on the back burner for now. We have other, more urgent projects

• a) send them back to their origin

• b) give them low priority

• c) finish them quickly

"Three people from my department are on vacation, so I've got a lot on my plate at the moment."

• a) I have a lot of responsibilities

• b) strict limit

• c) general practice