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Outsourced production & Writing Skills

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does 'boosting the economy' mean?

a)

Helping the economy to grow stronger

b)

Slowing down economic activities

c)

Ignoring the economy

d)

Making the economy smaller

2.

What are 'labor practices'?

a)

Games people play at work

b)

The type of clothes people wear to work

c)

The way people are treated at work

d)

Training for a job

3.

Which of the options below is a term used to describe staying poor continually?

a)

a boost to the economy

b)

the cycle of poverty

c)

low wages

d)

poor working conditions

4.

What does 'outsourcing' mean in the context of manufacturing?

a)

Sending work to be done in another country

b)

Making products within the company

c)

Buying products from other companies

d)

Selling products to foreign countries

5.

What does 'detrimental' mean?

a)

Helpful and good

b)

Causing harm or damage

c)

Not important

d)

Very large and strong

6.

In the following sentence, what is used after the multiword preposition? Claire loves reading as well as swimming.

a)

noun

b)

noun phrase

c)

pronoun

d)

gerund

7.

Which word describes something that is not morally correct?

a)

unethical

b)

ethical

c)

fair

d)

labor

8.

Which of the options below would be considered poor working conditions?

a)

Working overtime to catch up

b)

Travelling to work every day

c)

Sitting at a desk for an hour

d)

Working somewhere very noisy and dangerous

9.

In the following sentence, what is used after the multiword preposition? Ploy really enjoyed the celebration at the park, yesterday. She attended along with her sister.

a)

noun

b)

noun phrase

c)

pronoun

d)

gerund

10.

In the following sentence, what is used after the multiword preposition? In spite of this, the clothing company has continued to use factories in Bangladesh and China.

a)

noun

b)

noun phrase

c)

pronoun

d)

gerund

11.

In the following sentence, what is used after the multiword preposition? There are many supporters of outsourced manufacturing owing to the beneficial effects it has on local economies.

a)

noun

b)

noun phrase

c)

pronoun

d)

gerund

12.

In the following sentence, what is used after the multiword preposition? After a lot of thought, the family decided to go to France instead of America.

a)

noun

b)

noun phrase

c)

pronoun

d)

gerund

13.

The party was cancelled due to the roads are flooded.

Which option makes this sentence correct?

a)

The party was cancelled due to the roads are flooded.

b)

The party was cancelled due to the flooded.

c)

The party was cancelled due to the roads areing flooded.

d)

The party was cancelled due to the roads being flooded.

14.

May was feeling unwell as a result of eat too much cake.

Which option makes this sentence correct?
CHOOSE BOTH OPTIONS

a)

May was feeling unwell as a result of eating too much cake.

b)

May was feeling unwell as a result of too much cake.

c)

May was feeling unwell as a result of eat cake

d)

May was feeling unwell as a result of she eats too much cake.

15.

“Caesar, who is the emperor of Rome, leads his army.”

Identify each part of this sentence.

a)

Caesar leads his army.

1.

independent clause

b)

who is the emperor of Rome

2.

embedded clause

c)

who

3.

relative pronoun

d)

Caesar

4.

Main subject