Задания № 1-9 на контрольную работу по дисциплине "Английский язык". Вариант 4 (Finish each phrase about careers with the best from the right-hand column. Complete the questions from a job interview)

2-nd studying-year

Test-paper in English

Variant 4

1. Finish each phrase about careers with the best from the right-hand column.

1. make a career                                       application

2. reach your long-term                              bonus

3. prefer money rather than job                      choice

4. learn new                                         experience

5. gain                                               goal

6. get a performance-related                            placement

7. send off a job                                      satisfaction

8. apply for a gap-year                                  skills

2. Fill in the missing letters in these words which all have a meaning similar to goal.

1. clear/ annual / production / sales t_ _ _ _ _          s

2. limited / clear / specific / business о_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _s

3. the overall / main / sole / underlying  _ _m

3. Match  each word in the box to its definition below, the words into your language.

1. Knowledge  that you need to be able to do something:______________________________________________________

2. Information that someone knows:__________________________________

3. An ability to do something well, especially because you have practised

it:____________________________________________________________          

4. Knowledge  or skill you get from being in different situations:_____________________________________________________

5. The type of education, experience and family that you

have:____________________________________________________________

6. A natural ability to do something well or to learn it

quickly:__________________________________________________________

4. The expressions in the box refer to losing your job.

1. Which three suggest it was your fault?

______________________ , _______________________ , ____________

2. Which  of these three is more formal?_________________________

3. Which two expressions suggest it was not your fault?

___________________ , ________________________

4. Which of these two is British English?_________________________________

5. Fill in the missing letters in these words about careers.

1. be sh_ _ _-li_ _ _d  for a second interview

2. re_ _ _n from a job because you have a better offer in another company

3. a_ _ _ _d  an interview on Friday morning

4. be  app_ _ _ _ _d  to a more senior position after some time in the company

5. be  h__ed  by a company after a successful interview

6. a_ _ _y for a job in a company

6. Put each verb into the correct form: present simple (do I does), present continuous (am I are I is doing), present perfect (have I has done) or past simple (did). Each form is used twice.

'I'm really busy this morning –I (1)______________________(interview) three

candidates for that sales job – the second one is outside now. Yesterday was even

worse. I (2)_____________________(interview) five candidates in two hours, and

none of them were any good. Let me see, over the last ten days I think  I

(3)_____________         (interview) sixteen candidates. Just imagine! And every time I

(4)_____________         (interview) someone there's a CV to read, questions to prepare,

records to keep. It just never ends. Right now, I (5)______________(need) a break.

(6)__________________         (anyone / see) that travel brochure about  holidays in the

Seychelles? I know I (7)________________          (put) it  somewhere. Wait a minute.

There's no-one here. I (8)_______________(talk) to myself.'

7.  Put each verb into the correct form: present perfect (have / has done) or present perfect continuous (have / has been doing).

1.       I______________________________         (write) my CV all morning, and

finally I_____________________________(finish) it.

2.       I_________________________         (write) four job applications this week. One

day I must get lucky – I______________________         (try) to find a job for ages.

8.  Make nouns from the adjectives and verbs below.

strong (adj): ________________________________

weak (adj):_________________________________      

responsible (adj):____________________________      

perform (v):________________________________

commit (v):________________________________

achieve (v):________________________________