Academic vocabulary in use

1. Match the colours to the nouns given (one colour is used twice). Use the expressions in the sentences.

Blue	goods
Golden	ink
Green	chips
Red	knight
White	hello
	shoots

1. In spite of substantial investment, the company is still bleeding _________________________ and drastic action is likely before the year end.

2. Although we cannot report much that is positive, some encouraging_________________________ are starting to appear, particularly in certain export markets.

3. Even the ________ ICI and Guinness are beginning to suffer reverses of fortune, as recession bites.

4. Sales volumes of _____________________such as dishwashers and freezers are virtually static.

5. It is thought that top executive James Eagleton received a _________________ of around $2 million on joining the corporation.

6. Rumours that a __________________ was about to step in proved unfounded and the company was taken over within a matter of weeks.

2. Read the following text and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best fits each gap.

Title Race Tea boy? Do you mind, I’m a mobile lukewarm beverage resource facilitator. Human nature provides the most divine of comedies. …(1)… a recent study which has informed the nation that job titles are a prime cause of envy and unrest at work. A survey by a leading firm of recruitment consultants found that 90% of employers and 70% of employees admit that titles create …(2)… among colleagues. Most shockingly, the survey found that 70% of office workers would be willing to …(3)… a pay rise in favor of a more ‘motivational’ or ‘professional’ job title. If our vanity is …(4)… such proportions that even basic greed is being overwhelmed, we are indeed in dire straits. The truth is that these brave new days of the early twenty-first century, nobody is content to be …(5)… subordinate. The titles under discussion …(6)… the emphasis on ability (specialist, coordinator) but are, in fact, little more than euphemisms.
	1	A Corroborate	B Testify	C Confirm	D Witness
	2	A compartments	B demarcations	C divisions	D partitions
	3	A forgo	B revoke	C forbear	D resign
	4	A attaining	B reaching	C touching	D finding
	5	A defined	B marked	C labeled	D identified
	6	A place	B set	C fix	D allocate