1. The people who decide the general policy of the bank are:
a)
shareholders
b)
the board of directors
c)
the executive staff
2. The bank’s financial position can be discovered from:
a)
a
report
b)
an announcement
c)
a
statement
3. Bank profits kept back for later use are:
a)
withdrawals
b)
surplus
c)
retained profits
4. Earnings remaining after all expenses of a business activity have been paid are:
a)
dividend
b)
capital
c)
profit
5. Money which one person allows another to use for a specified time and which
will then be returned is:
a)
investment
b)
loan
c)
interest
Task 3. Grammar
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate passive form of the
verbs in the box.
accuse discuss estimate
found know own supply sell
1 A number of multinational enterprises taking advantage
of lower wages and
labour standards abroad . . .. . . . . . . . . recently .... . . . . . . . . . . . . of practising
unfair competition.
2 Arnontov's ' last painting, Crescendo, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at auction tomorrow.
Its value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at $lm-$1.5m.
3 Currently seven of the UK's airports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by a company
called the British Airports Authority.
4 Google . . . . . . . .. . by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998.
5 Liquid petroleum gas, which . . . . . . . . . . . also . . . . . . . . . . . . as propane, is
essentially for domestic users who . . . . . . . . . . . not . . . . . . . . . . . with energy
through pipes, or example because they live in remote areas.
6 There are rumours of a takeover. Apparently, the matter .. . . . . . . . . . currently . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at the highest levels.
