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Test 8

1. Customers pay premium price for ______ products because the quality of the products is higher than that of similar products or they are heavily advertised.

(A) branded (B) branding (C) brandish (D) brandy

2. The higher the price, ______ for producers to produce and sell. So a rise in price increases the quantity supplied.

(A) the higher incentive (B) the incentive is higher (C) the higher the incentive (D) when the incentive higher

3. Sales promotion is intended to give a short boost ____ sales, such as offering discount vouchers, free gifts, and better value offers.

(A) for (B) to (C) with (D) at

4. The color of the packaging and its design need to reflect the image of the product _______ to give any information required by law.

(A) yet (B) as well as (C) but (D) neither

5. Sony is one of the companies throughout the world, which uses an ______  assembly line to produce digital cameras and varied video products.

(A) automation (B) automating (C) automated (D) automaton

6. The United Colors of Benetton, __________, has come to stand for up-market casual but smart clothes.

(A) which an Italian company

(B) is an Italia company

(C) that it is an Italian company

(D) an Italian company

7. Because the market cannot always prevent _______ their customers or supplying inadequate goods, governments have to step in to pass consumer protection laws.

(A) misled (B) mislead (C) misleaded (D) misleading

8. _____ a loan, where interest has to be paid, dividends to shareholders don’t have to paid if profits fall or the company makes a loss.

(A) Like (B) Unlike (C) Dislike (D) Likely

9. Balance sheets are used by other businesses and individuals to judge whether the business is safe enough _______in or to buy out.

(A) so that to invest (B) investing (C) to invest (D) and invests

10. The train across the English Channel connecting England and France speeds through the underwater tunnel ____ rates of 90 to 180 miles per hour.

(A) with (B) for (C) in (D) at

11. The Internet, a backbone for the so-called data superhighway, ________computer networks, cable TV, interactive phone services and other technologies.

(A) consists of (B) consisting of (C) was made of (D) made up of

12. _____ corporate America comes to terms with the antismoking fervor, more and more companies are regulating their use of tobacco in the workplace.

(A) As (B) Although (C) Whereas (D) Since

13. Research around the world points to a recipe for _______ - a low fat, high fiber diet with calories coming from the grains and legumes.

(A) be well (B) being good (C) well-being (D) good-being

14. Ethnocentrism is the view that one’s own culture is better than all the others; it is the way all people feel about themselves as _________outsiders.

(A) compared to (B) comparing to (C) are compared to (C) they compare to

15. Wherever you go, garbage, plastic bags, and bottles are thrown ________without regard.

(A) everywhere (B) nowhere (C) anywhere (D) wherever

16. Many things can happen and make the actual outcome different from ______ was budgeted.

(A) which (B) what (C) that (D) whether

17. In American football, two teams ______11 players attempt to score points by kicking goals or by putting the ball behind their opponents’ goal line.

(A) with (B) have (C) which has (D) to have

18. Sales turnover is equal to the average price of the product sold _____ the number sold.

(A) time (B) timing (C) times (D) timely

19. If the government ________ value added tax (VAT), then taxes on goods and services bought will be lower.

(A) will cut (B) cut (C) cuts (D) has cut

20. Mr. Buffalo insists that his secretary _______ weekly updates on each project and report them in the weekly meeting

(A) provides (B) to provide (C) provided (D) provide

21. The Market is like a vast voting machine with buyers and sellers being the market forces which determine price and quantity __________ in a market.

(A) buy and sell (B) bought and sold (C) buying and selling (D) bought and selling

22. The company makes traditional men’s shoes that will look good with a suit or __________.

(A) and more causal clothes

(B) with more casual clothes

(C) wear more causal clothes

(D) to wear clothes causally.

23. Sara’s ran up debts of $50,000 in the first year and it will ________business unless it increases sales to 4,000 personal computers in the second year.

(A) go out of (B) go off (C) go for (D) go through.

24. Helen prefers to wander around the open air market, _______ there are numerous stalls with traders selling everything from food to clothes.

(A) which (B) that (C) where (D) what

25. Primary industry, including fishing, mining, farming, and oil extraction, is the sector, where raw materials are extracted, _____ and cut down.

(A) growing (B) grew (D) grown (D) grow

26. Changes in _____ is being produced in the economy are bound to lead to changes in where and how people work.

(A) that (B) which (C) whether (D) what

27. The Manufacturing industry ________ over the past thirty years, causing the manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment fell by 17 percent.

(A) was revolutionized

(B) has revolutionized

(C) revolutionized

(D) had revolutionized

28. Tesco, one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK, employing up to several hundred full time workers, ______ wealth and prosperity in the local community.

(A) creating (B) creates (C) create (D) have created

29. The size of population in a local area would affect businesses; _____ what happens to business could well affect the size of population.

(A) similarly (B) therefore (C) consequently (D) even though

30. The _______ of a city, such as roads, telephone networks, water, gas and electricity supply, has an important impact on local economical development.
(A)從缺 (B) infrastructure (B) environment (C) policy (D) construction

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