Билет №14 Иностранный язык

Задание 1. Выберите правильный ответ.

Review of tenses
1) Complete the sentences with the appropriate form of the verbs in brackets.
1. The team regularly (meet) -------- to discuss progress.
2. We got the figures late and by that time we (already go) --------- over the budget.
3. They (have) -------- the results of the research in the next few weeks.
4.  Right now we (work) ---------- on the planning phase of the project.
5. We ( look) -------- for a strategic partner for months, but we just can’t find one.
6. The team generally (respect) ----------- deadlines.
2) Complete this text with the correct tenses: past simple, past perfect, past continuous, present perfect.

We like to think we are an ethical company, but we -------- (have) a problem last year when we --------- (launch) our new product. Let me give you the back ground to the problem. The new product --------- (sell) very well and we -------- (get) good feedback, and sales ----------- (increase) month by month. Everyone was happy. Then it all---------( go) wrong. In August we -------- (start) to get complaints from some doctors about one of our salesman. They ------------- (complain) about the methods that the salesman --------- (use) to persuade them to endorse the product. He --------- (offer) them expensive gifts and -------------( take) them to expensive restaurants. The doctors ------------ ( feel) under pressure to promote the product.
By the end of the year we ---------- (receive) over 30 complaints about the particular salesman. In December articles -------- (start) to appear in the press about our unethical sales methods. In the end we -------- (fire) the salesman. As a result of this, we ------------ (recently issue) guidelines to all sales staff about appropriate gifts.
3) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. If you offer us a 15 percent discount ----------- (we/give) you an order for 50,000bottles.
2. What discount ----------- (you/offer) us if we decided to spend 1 million a year with you.
3. If ---------- (we/improve) the payment terms, would you consider buying from us?
4. If we meet again next week, --------- (you/change) your position?
5. We could negotiate a better price if------------ (you/shorten) the delivery time.
6. --------- (you be able) to deliver next week if we ordered 100,000 units today?
7. If you ------- (not offer) such good terms, we wouldn’t do business with you.
4) Choose a, b, c to complete the sentences.
1. ----------------this law of mechanics one should know the theory well.
Задание 2. Сделать задание к тексту.
For any business, the cost of transportation is normally the largest single item in the overall cost of physical distribution. It doesn't necessarily follow, though, that a manufacturer should simply pick the cheapest available form of transportation. Many companies today use the total physical distribution concept, an approach that involves maximizing the efficiency of physical distribution activities while minimizing their cost. Often, this means that the (9) company will make cost tradeoffs between the various physical distribution activities. For instance, air freight may be much more expensive than rail transport, but a national manufacturer might use air freight to ship everything from a single warehouse and thus
avoid the greater expense of maintaining several warehouses.
When a firm chooses a type of transportation, it has to bear in mind its other marketing concerns—storage, financing, sales, inventory size, and the like. Transportation, in fact, can be an especially important sales tool.(18) If the firm can supply its customers' needs more quickly and reliably than its competitors do, it will have a vital advantage: so it may be more profitable in the long run to pay higher transportation costs, rather than risk the loss of future sales. In addition, speedy delivery is crucial in some industries. A mail-order distributor sending fruit from Oregon to Pennsylvania needs
(20) promptness of air freight. On the other hand, a manufacturer shipping lingerie from New York to assachusetts may be perfectly satisfied with slower (and cheaper) truck or rail transport.

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