Менеджеры и менеджмент (Executives and Management). Коломейцева Е.М - 89 стр.

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Alessandro: I enjoyed my time there a lot. And (10) _____________ I was there I learnt a lot of techniques for fi-
nancial analysis, and important skills like teamwork, you know. But I wanted the chance to do something more chal-
lenging in an international environment ... .
Interviewer: Uh, huh.
Alessandro: It had been my dream to work in an international company (11) _____________ leaving school.
Interviewer: Well, you've applied to the right place. So what did you do then?
Alessandro: Well, I decided to take a risk and move to London. That was about two years (12) _____________ .
Interviewer: Did you have a job to go to in London?
Alessandro: No. (13) _____________ I left Italy I sent my CV to a lot of different agencies, but I thought that it
would be easier to find a job (14) _____________. I was actually living in London. Hah. I only realized (15)
_____________ how much competition there was!
Interviewer: Well, yes.
Alessandro: Anyway, eventually, (16) _____________ some months, I found a job at a bank in the City. That's
where I'm working now.
Exercise 14
Write: Put in any suitable adverbs of degree (any, many, much, fairly, quite, etc.).
CAN WE GO HOME PLEASE?
It was
1
quite late. The restaurant clock showed 1.30 a.m. The waiters
were feeling
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___________ tired and were beginning to yawn. There was one
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________ middle-aged couple left. They had clearly had
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___________ a good
meal. Now they were looking at each other across the table and were
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___________ unaware of the world around them. The waiters wanted to go
home. One of them asked the couple if they wanted
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__________ more to eat or
drink. He didn’t get an answer. It clearly wasn’t
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___________ use-asking ques-
tions! One of the waiters had
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________ a good idea. He began staking chairs
upside-down onto the tables. The others joined in. Another waiter turned off the
lights. In the end, the restaurant was
9
__________ dim. The chairs were
stacked on the tables round the couple that just sat and sat and sat!
Exercise 15
Write: Use suitable words to complete this story. Don’t use the
same word more that twice.
JUSTLY PUNISHED
There were
1
too many people on the bus for comfort and passengers were standing in the aisle. A young woman
carrying a baby was
2
________ grateful when an old man offered her his seat. The baby was
3
___________ asleep and
she could now rest him on her lap. She thanked the old man
4
________ and was just going to sit down when a rude
young man sat in the empty seat. Everyone was
5
_____ embarrassed, and the young mother was
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_________ surprised
to say anything. All the passengers’
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___________ disapproved of the man’s
action. They were
8
______ angry with him, but he paid no attention.
9
______
late, the rude man wanted to get off the bus and tried to push past the pas-
sengers. They all stood closely together and wouldn’t let him move. He was
made to stay on the bus till it reached its terminus, a punishment he
10
_________
deserved.
Exercise 16
Write: Put in the right verb form
and these adverbs: according to,
agreeably, however, in brief, moreover or ultimately.
DON’T ASK FOR A ROOM WITH A VIEW!
So high (be)
1
is the price of land in Tokyo,
That its land area probably costs as much as the
whole of California. Never, in any place in the
world, (there be)
2
_________ such a demand for
space!
3
_________ a newspaper report, this lack of space has led to ‘capsule hotels’.
The rooms are just capsules, measuring 1 metre. high, 76 cms. wide and 2 metres. deep.
4
________, you will be
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___________ surprised to hear that they are equipped with
phones, radio and TV.
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___________, they are less expensive than ordinary hotels.
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___________, they provide you with all you need for a comfortable night’s sleep, even
if they don’t give you an automatic wash and dry as well!
8
___________, some people

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