Unit 1 test

Name: __________________________________________

Date: ___________

Match words 18 to definitions ah.

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balance
IPO
acquisition
manufacturing
retailing
merger
takeover bid

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)

securities

h)

Choose the correct words in italics.

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Banks make sure they will get their money back when customers borrow / lend from them.
When you buy shares and sell them at a higher price, you make a profit / loss.
Retail companies try to buy from / sell to customers.
When there is a heavy supply of / demand for something, the prices are usually high.
When a company wants to raise capital, it can issue shares / underwrite securities.
Customers interested in buying a company usually go to a(n) retail bank / investment bank
for help.

Complete these sentences with the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs
in the box.
be

have

an offer to buy another company

the part of the economy selling goods
the amount of money in your account
financial investments such as stocks or bonds
the part of the economy producing goods
two companies joining together
something a company buys, such as land, buildings or
another company
the first time a company sells shares to investors

help

make

not get

not open

pay

withdraw

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Every month my employer ____________ my salary into my bank account.

I have a current account but I ____________ interest on it.
He needs cash and ____________ money from his account at the moment.
He has a current account and ____________ payments from it.
She is busy right now because she ____________ a customer.
____________ (you) a mortgage?
Our branch ____________ open from 9 to 5.
We ____________ our safety deposit box now because we have nothing to put in it.

Choose the correct words in italics.

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I am bank employee / a bank employee. What do you do?

He works at Citibank / the Citibank.
She wants to work at the new branch / a new branch in Dubai.
Are you investment banker / an investment banker?

Put these words in the correct order to make sentences and questions.

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or make investments / never / to arrange mergers / helps / she / customers

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do / get to work / how / usually / you / ?
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offering / on new deposit accounts / is / the bank / good interest rates
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work / from Monday to Friday / normally / at our branch / employees
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