Контрольная работа по английскому

Контрольная  работа  по бизнес-курсу  английского  языка
(для студентов заочного отделения)
3 семестр


Practice 1 Complete the text with the following verbs:take,spend,grow,cut,leave,have,fall,become,sell,give,begin,build,find. Use the verbs in Past Simple.
Henry Ford, the son of farmer, was born in Greenfield, Michigan on 30th July, 1863. He school at 15 to work on his father's farm but in 1879 he moved to Detroit where he an apprentice in a machine shop. He returned to Greenfield after his father him 40 acres to start his own farm. He hated farming and returned to Detroit to work as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company. He his spare time trying to build a petrol-driven motor car. In 1896 he his first car in the garden. He named the Thin Lizzie, and it no reverse gear or brakes. Ford started two companies that ended in failure. Finally, in June 1903, he 12 people ready to invest $28,000 in a new company.  He production of the Model A car. The car well and by 1907 the profits reached $1,100,000. In 1909 Ford decided to manufacture only one type of car, the Model T. I At first it 14 hours to assemble a Model T car. Ford reduced this to 1 hour 33 minutes. This the overall cost of each car and between 1908 and 1916 the selling price of the Model T fell from $1,000 to $360. In the 1920s the Ford Motor Company rapidly, and in 1925 Ford produced 60 per cent of America's total output of cars. Henry Ford died on April 7th, 1947.


Practice 2  Complete the questions for this answers.
1. Why did Henry Ford leave school?
2.What did his father give him?
3.When did Ford build his first car?
4. What did Ford decide in 1909?
5. How long did it take to assemble a Model T car?
6. How much did the selling price of the Model T fall?
7. When did Henry Ford die?

Practice 3  What does it refer to in these sentences? Choose from the following words: money, the press, a product, advertising, the service, unsold stock, production, the group’s headquarters, the chain.

1. Don’t tell me how to make it now, tell me how we’re going to make it in five years.
money…………………………………
2. He founded it in 1995 and it now has 2,000 shops all over the world.
3. Most manufactures use a lot of it to help sell their products.
4. It is in small batches so there is no waste.
5. You can see their adverts in it.
6. Their shops never have it because they sell everything.
7. It is in daily contact with the stores all over the world.
8. If it doesn’t sell well, they stop making it and try producing something else.
9. If it is not good in a shop, than people do not buy things.

Practice4.Match the sentence beginnings a-h with the correct endings 1-8.
a  I’m phoning the hotel because…..5…..I want to change my reservation.
b  He’s working at home because…..4…..the trains are on strike.
c  We’re modifying the design because…..6…..the product has a fault.
d  He’s running because…..2……he’s late for the meeting.
e  We’re increasing production because…..7…..of the demand at this time of year.
f  They’re working at the weekends because…..8…..their project is behind schedule.
g  The company is losing money because…..1……our costs are too high. h  She’s living in a hotel because…..3……she hasn’t got a house in this country.