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WorksheetsShort test Businesss English
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 18mins
"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
"Bob said I missed the deadline, but I want to set the record straight – I submitted my work on time, but he didn’t check his e-mail."
a) correct a mistake and say the truth
b) express a different opinion
c) get permission
"The rule of thumb is to reinvest no more than 30%, but it's OK if you go over that number occasionally."
a) minimum amount
b) strict limit
c) general practice
Diane: I’ve been away for the past couple weeks – can you (1) (a) on this project?
Bill: All the specifications are in the shared folder… but (2) (a) , the client wants us to create an e-commerce site.
Diane: That sounds pretty straightforward. How’s it going? Bill: It’s taking forever! They keep wanting to (3) (a) the design, and they never seem satisfied
Diane: But you must be getting close, right? At least they haven’t made you go (4) (a)
Bill: Actually, they did that last month. I had to come up with a whole new design
Diane: Why are they being so picky? Who’s (5) (a) on this project in the client’s company?
Bill: I’ve been working with the marketing director, but the problem is that she’s been keeping the CEO (6) (a) , and he makes suggestions that are (7) (b) He doesn’t know a thing about websites
Diane: What kinds of things does he want?
Bill: Here’s an example – the (8) (a) in web design is to use font size 14 or greater, but he wants the text as small as possible so more can fit on the page.
Diane: Sounds like you’ve got (9) (a) Anything I can do to help make things easier?
Bill: You’ve got a way with words – maybe you can talk to them and explain that if this site doesn’t get done soon, I’ll have to put it (10) (a) We have other clients who need our help, too.
