Read the short talk or announcement and choose the

2.2. Read the short talk or announcement and choose the best answer to each question.
Good morning. My name is Bill Roberts. I work in the planning division. As you know, our section has been work-
ing with the problem of how to increase production without sacrificing product quality or plant safety. We are organizing
a committee to come up with an approach to recommend to management, and we ask that all work units send one person
from each shift to the twice weekly meetings. Section quotas plant wide will be reduced for the planning period.
A. What is the problem to be discussed?
B. Who comprises the group? C. What will happen during the planning period?
2.3. Analyze the graph and choose the appropriate answer
The following graph shows the percentage of male and female employees in the tourism industry for three countries
in 1955 and 2007.
A. The percentage of male employees working in tourism industry in China has ____ since 1955.
1. dropped to 2% 2. increased by 30%
3. increased by 28% 4. fluctuated between 2%-30%
B. The percentage of female workers working in tourism in Brazil ____ from 1955 to 2007.
C. The percentage difference between the Russian and Chinese female tourism workers in 2007 was ____
VARIATION D
Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1. I didn’t want my mother to see her present, so I held it_____ my back.
2. Fishermen earn____ living by catching fish from the sea.