B2 midterm review 2025

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Employee performance is something that all companies try to quantify. So organisations usually have regular staff _____ to encourage two-way feedback and staff development.

• rewards

• guarantees

• appraisals

• achievements

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This also helps companies to decide as objectively as possible who to _____ to a higher position and to justify what pay _____ they might deserve.

• reward / guarantee

• recognise / appraisal

• succeed / reward

• promote / rise

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Getting _____ for their hard-won _____ is important for employees, helping to motivate them and rise through the _____ of an organisation.

• pay / appraisals / positions

• recognition / achievements / ranks

• guarantee / failures / performance

• success / evaluations / advances

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Fashion is big business, and some clothing companies have been accused _____ not being as _____ as they could be.

• for / healthy

• of / ethical

• against / tough

• on / moral

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There have been several scandals where workers are working in very _____ and even dangerous conditions for extremely low _____.

• fair / fee

• weak / salary

• low / money

• tough / pay

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Consumers like to buy inexpensive fashionable clothes, but increasingly they are more aware _____ where their clothes are made and are concerned about the working conditions of the people who made them.

• at

• of

• for

• on

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_____ the staff worked very hard, it was only the managers who had a pay rise last year.

• However

• Even though

• Nevertheless

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Productivity has increased over the last quarter _____ the fact that we reduced staff numbers.

• despite

• in spite

• although

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On the one hand sales increased in China, but _____ they fell dramatically in Australia.

• in spite of

• on the other hand

• though

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_____ giving staff more training, productivity did not improve very much.

• Despite

• In spite

• Although