Test your Business Grammar and Vocabulary. Новосельцева Н.Н - 44 стр.

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13. INNOVATION
Reading
Complete the text with the correct alternatives. (Not all the alternates are real
expressions).
People think they have a clear idea of the process of inventing something. The inventor
has a
is developed. There are difficulties and
at some point someone
shouts "Back to the
Eventually there is a
and the problems are ironed out. A
product is launched and its inventor is hailed as a
and
pioneer. He or she
the idea and becomes rich. Or the pioneer is overtaken by others who manage to
commercialise the idea more successfully.
But the process of invention is not as straightforward as it seems. Take the steam engine. It
was not
by James Watt - his contribution was to make key improvements to the original
design. It was not initially used to power locomotives, but to pump water out of coal mines.
The
for fax machines and photocopiers existed for many years before these inventions
were
in large numbers. Inventions are not always adopted as quickly as we imagine,
or for the
that they were originally intended for.
1 a) wavebrain b) brainwave
2 a) fore-type b) pre-type c) front-type d) prototype
3 a) back-seats b) setbacks c) let-downs d) outlets
4 a) floorboard b) draw board c) drawing board
d) hardboard
5 a) break-off b) break-out c) break-in
d) breakthrough
6 a) gate-crashing b) grate-filling c) ground-breaking d) floor-smashing
7 a) revolting b) revolving c) revving d) revolutionary
8 a) patents b) pastes c) patients d) parents
9 a) innovated b) invented c) inverted d) involved
a)
b) techniques c) technicians
d) technologies
a) adapted
b) added c) admitted
d) adopted
a) utilities b) uses c) utilisations d) usefulness
14. COMPETITION
Modals
In each of these sentences, one of the alternatives is not possible. Cross it out.
am absolutely certain that oil (are likely/is going
will) run out by 2050.
2. Other potential energy sources are limited, so nuclear power (must/will/couldn't)
be the answer.
Solar power is (unlikely/impossible/unable) to provide more than 20 percent of our
energy needs.
4. Wind power
certain
is probable) provide only a small part of our energy
needs on 2050.
The rising price of oil (ought
unable) make other energy sources more
attractive.
6. New forms of energy (might/may/won Y) be found, but this is not very probable.
7. A miracle solution (might/shouldn't to/is unlikely to) appear magically.
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