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Worksheets"Cold start problem" Vocab test 1
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Amid the vast, monochromatic corridors of Uber's San Francisco headquarters at 1455 Market Street—two football fields' worth of *gleaming* /ˈɡliː.mɪŋ/ LED lights, light woods, concrete, and steel—the office was still mostly occupied at 8 p.m.
a)
сияющие
b)
отражающие
c)
яркие
2.
Amid the vast, monochromatic corridors of Uber's San Francisco headquarters at 1455 Market Street—two football fields' worth of gleaming LED lights, light woods, *concrete* / ˈkɒŋkriːt /, and steel—the office was still mostly occupied at 8 p.m.
(a)
3.
The global culture *seeped into* the naming conventions for conference rooms: …
a)
протечь
b)
впитаться
c)
просочиться
4.
It was in my role at Uber that I really came to *viscerally* / ˈvɪsərəli / understand
networks, supply and demand, network effects, and their immense power to
shape the industry.
a)
спонтанно
b)
инстинктивно
c)
бессознательно
5.
Scheduled to start at 7 p.m. and run into the night, the urgent meeting was booked on everyone's calendar as “NACS,” which stood for the North American Championship Series, an *oblique* / əˈbliːk / reference to its agenda
focusing on operations, …
a)
косвенный
b)
косой
c)
очевидный
6.
I was there to represent the Driver Growth Team—a critical team responsible for recruiting the *scarcest* /skersəst/ asset in the entire business, Uber drivers.
a)
дефицитный
b)
многочисленный
c)
густой
7.
At the sight of the numbers, he *sprung up* /sprʌŋ ʌp/ from his chair and walked up
close to the screen.
a)
вырос
b)
присел
c)
подскочил
8.
At the sight of the numbers, he sprung up from his chair and walked up close to the screen. He *squinted* /skwɪntɪd/, staring intensely at the
numbers.
a)
прищурился
b)
уставился
c)
взглянул
9.
Folks in the room began to *chime in* /ʧaɪm ɪn/, answering questions and raising their
own.
a)
начинать общий разговор
b)
встревать в общий разговор
c)
вступать в общий разговор
10.
… he said, smiling and *nodding* / ˈnɒdɪŋ /.
a)
соглашаясь
b)
колеблясь
c)
кивая
11.
This *decisiveness* was informed by years of fierce in-the-trenches competition— companies like Flywheel, Sidecar, Hailo, and many others that were vanquished—driven by lightning-fast responses in situations like
this.
a)
нерешительность
b)
решительность
c)
доверчивость
12.
This decisiveness was informed by years of fierce in-the-trenches competition— companies like Flywheel, Sidecar, Hailo, and many others that were *vanquished* / ˈvæŋkwɪʃt /—driven by lightning-fast responses in situations like
this.
a)
разоблаченный
b)
подверженный
c)
побеждённый
13.
We took note of a number of other follow-ups due from the meeting, and we all decided to *reconvene* / ˌriːkənˈviːn / the group again next week.
a)
вновь собраться
b)
разойтись
c)
разделиться
14.
At the NACS meetings, we shifted our attention *nimbly* / ˈnɪmbli / each session from network rebalancing on the West Coast, to prioritizing product features to increase revenues, to launching new regions, and everything in between.
a)
эффективно
b)
проворно
c)
неумело
15.
The company had a *tumultuous* / tju(ː)ˈmʌltjʊəs / few years, a complete changing of the guard, and a new set of priorities that were less entrepreneurial than in the past.
a)
бурный
b)
трудный
c)
изнурительный
16.
My blog would be read by hundreds of thousands, and due to this as well as the natural *serendipity* / ˌsɛrɛnˈdɪpəti / of the startup ecosystem, I came to become acquainted with a broad community of entrepreneurs and builders.
a)
понимание
b)
знание
c)
интуиция
17.
The work was very different from Uber's day-to-day as well—rather than going very deep into one sector, like rideshare, instead my *purview* / ˈpɜːvjuː / was extremely broad.
a)
ответственность
b)
компетенция
c)
заблуждение
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