- Câu hỏi 8081:
Text 1 Bad manners at work
Etiquette is the name we give to the rules for being polite in a social group. Business etiquette is important for people who often have to make new contacts and build relationships in their work. Politeness can also help to improve the working environment for people in the same office. Some cultures and situations are formal, which means that we have to follow rules; other cultures and situations are more informal.
Text 2 Office workers “admit being rude”
Most office workers say they are rude or bad-mannered at work. Two out of three workers regularly arrive late for meetings, most ignore emails and three out of four use bad language. In a survey of 1,000 workers, two-thirds say that pressure of work is the reason for bad manners.
Other common examples of bad office etiquette include ignoring colleagues and answering mobile phone calls during meetings. Using mobile phones in meetings is impolite and distracts others, research by the University of Surrey shows. If you respond to call when speaking to somebody, it means that the phone call is more important than the person, the survey said. If you answer a call during a meeting, it could mean that the meeting is not important.
Mr Jacobs, managing director of Office Angels, a recruitment firm say it is easy for people to forget their manners in the working environment, which is often very informal and very busy. Workers can forget proper etiquette such as introducing people at meetings, and this is often bad for working relationships.
Psychologist Dr Colin Gill believes that people are not as polite as they were twenty years ago. He said: ‘Courtesy is no longer something that is so much respected in our society.’ People think it is ‘stuffy to be polite or formal.’
Now some organisations are actually investing money in training their junior managers to be polite. Office Angels is encouraging people to arrive on time for meetings, turn off mobile phones and avoid bad manners at work is such a simple thing to do,’ Mr Jacobs says, ‘ and it can have a dramatic impact on improving your working environment and your relationships with others.’
The aim of the texts is to …………………………………….
A. encourage officer’s bad manners at work
B. reflect the fact of officer’s bad manners at work with illustrations
C. reflect the fact of officer’s good manners at work with illustrations
- Câu hỏi 21645:
Mô tả câu hỏi
since but so if when although or and
Fill in each blank with a conjunction given.
1. ...... pink was thought to be a stronger color, it was best suited for boys.
2. Blue was more delicate ...... dainty for girls.
3. Red ...... pink saris are the most popular colors for brides.
4. Most likely you feel good ...... you wear your favorite color.
5. ...... black symbolizes death in Western cultures, it is associated with powerful forces in many parts of the world.
6. ...... you see a young lady in violet, it is her, my mistress.
7. People think pink is for girls, ...... it isn’t always this way.
8. She wants to look stylish, ...... she decided to dye her hair blonde.
- Câu hỏi 21650:
Listen and chosse the main idea of the text.
A. A Game Show
B. A Sport Game
C. An Auction
- Câu hỏi 21651:
Mô tả câu hỏi
so when or although since but and if
Fill in each blank with a conjunction given.
1. ...... pink was thought to be a stronger color, it was best suited for boys.
2. Blue was more delicate ......[and] dainty for girls.
3. Red ......[or] pink saris are the most popular colors for brides.
4. Most likely you feel good ...... you wear your favorite color.
5. ...... black symbolizes death in Western cultures, it is associated with powerful forces in many parts of the world.
6. ...... you see a young lady in violet, it is her, my mistress.
7. People think pink is for girls, ...... it isn’t always this way.
8. She wants to look stylish, ...... she decided to dye her hair blonde.
- Câu hỏi 21653:
Mô tả câu hỏi
respectable masculine color wedding gown mourning strong color cultures delicate symbolizes
Complete each sentence with the correct one.
1. Amazingly, pink is considered a ...... in some parts of the world. Men wear it.
2. The ...... is very expensive.
3. I don’t like red. It is a ......
4. The kite is too ...... to fly safely.
5. Blue ...... peace.
6. In this country, people often wear black clothes in ......
7. Meanings of colors are different in different ......
8. The man in the grey suit is a ...... professor
- Câu hỏi 21659:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Read the text and decide if the following statements are T (TRUE) or F (FALSE)
We’re Living Faster, But Are We Living Better?
Not long ago people believed that in the future we would work less, have more free time, and be more relaxed. But sadly this has not happened. Today we work harder, work longer hours, and are more stressed than ten years ago. We walk faster, talk faster, and sleep less than previous generations. And although we are obsessed with machines which save us time, we have less free time than our parents and grandparents had. But what is this doing to our health? An American journalist James Gleick in a new book, Faster: the acceleration of just about everything, says that people who live in cities are suffering from ‘hurry sickness’ – we are always trying to do more things in less time. As a result, our lives are more stressful. He says that if we don’t slow down, we won’t live as long as our parents. For most people, faster doesn’t mean better.
1. ...... The writer wrote the article to encourage us to work more and relax less.
2. ...... People today are having a less stressful life than they did in the past.
3. ...... People are too busy to read newspapers.
4. ...... Slow sports have become unpopular.
5. ...... More time is spent on stories.
- Câu hỏi 21661:
Listen to the following talk and decide which its main idea is.
A. The Origins of Shaolin kung fu
B. Kung fu in China
C. ShaolinTemple
- Câu hỏi 21662:
Listen to the story. Choose the best title.
A. The Wrong House
B. The Old House
C. My Aunt’s House
- Câu hỏi 21663:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Put the verbs in the correct form of the Present Continuous.
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Mum
Sally
Mum
Jim
Mum
Jim
Dad
Mum
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Jim, can you help me?
Sorry, Mum. I (1)...... my homework. (do)
What (2)...... your sister (3)......? (do)
She (4)...... a shower. (have)
And what (5)...... Gary and Sam (6)......? (do)
They (7)...... football. (play). But Dad (8)......[is not doing] anything. (not do)
Yes, I am. I (9)...... the paper. (read)
Not any more!
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- Câu hỏi 21664:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Read the text and decide if the following statements are T (TRUE) or F (FALSE)
We’re Living Faster, But Are We Living Better?
Not long ago people believed that in the future we would work less, have more free time, and be more relaxed. But sadly this has not happened. Today we work harder, work longer hours, and are more stressed than ten years ago. We walk faster, talk faster, and sleep less than previous generations. And although we are obsessed with machines which save us time, we have less free time than our parents and grandparents had. But what is this doing to our health? An American journalist James Gleick in a new book, Faster: the acceleration of just about everything, says that people who live in cities are suffering from ‘hurry sickness’ – we are always trying to do more things in less time. As a result, our lives are more stressful. He says that if we don’t slow down, we won’t live as long as our parents. For most people, faster doesn’t mean better.
1. ...... The writer wrote the article to encourage us to work more and relax less.
2. ...... People today are having a less stressful life than they did in the past.
3. ......[T] People are too busy to read newspapers.
4. ......[T] Slow sports have become unpopular.
5. ...... More time is spent on stories.
