VIII. Выберите грамматическую форму, соответствующую условным предложениям 1 или 2 типа.

1. We … our order, if you don’t deliver the goods by Friday.

a. will cancel

b. cancel

c. cancelled

2. If you studied English at school, you ... a job with our office in Brighton.

a. will be able to get

b. would be able to get

c. are able to get

3. If they know their target audience, their profits ... .

a. would increase

b. will increase

c. increased

4. If he had good education, he ... a job quickly.

a. will find

b. would find

c. finds

5. If you pay now, you… a 5% discount.

a. would get

b. will get

c. get

IX. Выберите соответствующий глагол, вводящий косвенную речь.

1. Mike’s boss ... him he would get a pay rise.

a. said

b. told

c. asked

2. She ... she had been invited for a job interview.

a. said

b. told

c. asked

3. Margaret... she would help us with the promotion campaign.

a. asked

b. promised

c. requested

4. The HR manager ... that the company will make 100 employees redundant.

a. announced b. asked c. told

5. The accountant ... if I would take part in the company pension scheme.

a. said

b. asked

c. told

X. Прочитайте текст и укажите, верны (True) или нет (False) следующие за ним утверждения.

How to select the best candidates – and avoid the worst

Investing thousands of pounds in the recruitment and training of each new graduate recruit may be just the beginning. Choosing the wrong candidate may leave an organization paying for years to come.

Few companies will escape all of the following failures: people who panic at the first sign of stress; those with long impressive qualifications list who seem incapable of learning; people who avoid fulfilling their duties; unstable people and people late discovered to be thieves.

Less dramatic, but just as much a problem, is the person who simply does not come up to the expectations, who is not reliable, who never becomes “high-flyer” or even a usual performer.

The first point you should remember at the recruitment stage is that people do not change. Intelligence levels decline modestly, but change little over their working life. The same is true of abilities, such as learning languages and handling numbers.

Most people like to think that personality can change – especially such negative features as impulsiveness, low esteem or lack of emotional warmth. But data collected over 50 years give a clear message: still the same stable figures after all these years. Skills can be improved, and new ones introduced but at rather different rates. People can be sent onto training courses, lectures, or experimental weekends. But there is a cost to all of this, which may be much higher than the price of the course. Better to select for what you actually see rather than attempt to change it.

From the Financial Times

1. Recruitment and training are expensive processes.

a. True

b. False

2. Choosing the first available candidate may leave an organization paying for years to come.

a. True

b. False

3. Companies never face problems when recruiting new candidate.

a. True

b. False

4. People change easily and quickly.

a. True