Keeping-track4
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3 Keeping Track
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a missed, say b catch, slow c understand, explain d ’m, go e follow, run f see, be
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a: a, b
b: c, d, e, f
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a 2 b 3 c 1
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Sorry?
a what b when c how much d who e where f how long
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1 American Budweiser is the world’s bestselling
2 brand of beer. The company that makes it is the biggest in
3 the world with 50% greater
4 output than its nearest
5 competitor, Heineken. By far its most successful advertising
6 slogan was ‘Budweiser: the King of Beers’. Czech Budweiser, on the
7 other hand, is one
8 of the world’s oldest and most
9 famous beers. With far
10 fewer resources than US Budweiser, it markets its product in more
11 than forty different countries. Its slogan is
12 simply: Budweiser: the Beer of Kings’.
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There are two comparatives (fewer, greater).
There are five superlatives (biggest, nearest, most successful, oldest, most famous).
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Didn’t I say that?
a Belgium? Don’t you mean the Netherlands?
b Japanese? Don’t you mean Korean?
c 1998? Wasn’t it 1997?
d Hardware? Shouldn’t that be software?
e Ford? Don’t you mean Tata Motors?
f America? Shouldn’t that be Finland?
g News? Don’t you mean music?
h Yahoo? Isn’t that Google?
i The Petronas Towers? Shouldn’t that be the Taipei 101?
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Sentences a, c and d are correct.
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b Overall, sales are up by 6.2%.
e Last month was July.
f Jim Monroe is head of Northern Europe.
g Munroe is not in Scotland. He is playing golf.
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a sure b mistake c right d sound
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Speaker A
a Dublin is in Ireland, not Scotland.
b Bordeaux is a French wine, not a German wine.
c Ulrike can’t be one of the speaker’s closest friends if he or she only met her yesterday.
d Someone who smokes as many as 30 cigarettes a day cannot be said to have nearly given up smoking.
e If the woman is the speaker’s wife, he cannot introduce someone to her husband as that is himself.
Speaker B
a One of each means one of each sex. There are only two sexes, male and female, so if the speaker has three children they can’t be one of each sex. Two of them must be the same sex.
b Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, so the French negotiating team would not have their headquarters there.
c Dutch is the language of the Netherlands, not Denmark.
d If the managing director is 70, then his grandfather is unlikely still to be alive, let alone running the company.
e A company called Network Software is more likely to make computer software than domestic appliances.
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The brief meeting
a Daniel Cash
b VP for corporate finance
c Hall
d in charge of corporate loan department
e White
f mergers and acquisitions specialist
g Sellers
h interpreter
i Empire House
j leading the negotiations
k two o’clock tomorrow
l 13th
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Language links
Vocabulary: Business phrasal verbs
a on
continue = move on; accept = take on; rely = count on; wait = hold on
b out
say = point out; discover = find out; do = carry out; solve = sort out