Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 50 стр.

    C The Guinness Book of Records annually presents an honours list                                      Text 7
      of achievements.
    D Beating rivals in every conceivable aspect of existence is quite    Directions:          Questions 1 through 5 are based on the text below.
      popular in modern society.                                          (Questions 1 – 5)    Choose the one best answer to each question on
                                                                                               the basis of what is stated or implied in the text.
2. It is only…                                                                                 Mark the answer on your answer sheet.
   A the Guinness Book of Records that gives the worker a chance to
         relax on Christmas.
                                                                                Experts have warned that heavy workloads of British managers are
   B 1 per cent of us who climbs the ladder.
                                                                         pushing their marriages towards divorce and turning the offspring of
   C a popular Christmas present that gives guarantees to weary work-
                                                                         wealthy parents into deprived children. Research has shown that British
         ers.
                                                                         managers work an average of 55 hours a week, in blatant disregard of their
   D 1 per cent of us that can reach the top.
                                                                         contracts, which specify between 35 and 40 hours. They fear that if they do
                                                                         not work so hard they will lose their £ 90,000 a year job. A survey of two
3. Most people in modern society
                                                                         hundred directors last year showed that nearly half started work before 8
   A should be ashamed of their abilities.
                                                                         a.m. and a quarter were still working after 6.30 p.m. About two-thirds
   B would be more healthy to learn to live without success, even to
                                                                         worked at least one weekend in four and more than half found that they
      take pride in it.
                                                                         could not take full holidays.
   C reach the top
                                                                                Most middle managers have taken on new tasks because layers of
   D would surely be more healthy and wealthy with luck on top.
                                                                         management have disappeared and there are fewer people to do the work.
                                                                         In many companies there are half the number of managers as before, paid
4. What did Stephen Pile investigate?
                                                                         twice as much and expected to be three times as productive. It leads to
   A Eminent success.
                                                                         stress. What makes matters worse is that two-thirds of managers have
   B People’s failures.
                                                                         wives who work and the day may have been equally stressful for them.
   C His heroic failures.
   D Heroism and failures.
                                                                         1. Which of the following is not true?
                                                                            A Making a living is a hard job for British managers.
5. The word ‘mediocrity’ means in the text:
                                                                            B Long working hours threaten a happy family life.
    A kind of natural power to do something well
                                                                            C British managers earn £ 90,000 a year.
    B inactivity
                                                                            D British managers are unhappy but willing workaholics.
    C quality of being second-rate
    D succeeding; the gaining of what is aimed at
                                                                         2. Why are managers suffering from overwork?
                                                                            A Because of the reduction of the workforce in many companies.
                                                                            B Layers of managers have disappeared: they didn’t cope with the
                                                                               problem.
                                                                            C They disregard their contracts.
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