Unit 5

Question 1

Academic (adj)

Answer 1

Relating to schools, colleges and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with pratical skills

Question 2

Commerce (n)

Answer 2

The activities involved in buying and selling things

Question 3

Consultant (n)

Answer 3

Someone who advises people on a particular subject

Question 4

Current (adj)

Answer 4

Of the present time

Question 5

Demanding (adj)

Answer 5

Needing a lot of time, attention or energy

Question 6

Duty (n)

Answer 6

Something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something you feel is the right thing to do

Question 7

Earnings (n)

Answer 7

The amount of money that someone is paid for the work they do

Question 8

Gain (v)

Answer 8

To increase in weight, speed, height or amount

Question 9

Graduate (n)

Answer 9

A person who has a first degree from university or college

Question 10

Highly (adv)

Answer 10

Very, to a large degree, or at a high level

Question 11

Institution (n)

Answer 11

A large and important organisation, such as university or bank

Question 12

Inventor (n)

Answer 12

Someone who has invented something or whose job is to invent things

Question 13

Lecturer (n)

Answer 13

Someone who teaches at a college or university

Question 14

Management (n)

Answer 14

The group of people responsible for controlling and organising a company; the control and organisation of something

Question 15

Manufacturing (n)

Answer 15

The business of producting goods in large numbers

Question 16

Motivated (adj)

Answer 16

Wanting to do something well

Question 17

Novelist (n)

Answer 17

A person who writes novels

Question 18

Operator (n)

Answer 18

Someone whose job is to use and control a machine or vehicle

Question 19

Overtime (adv)

Answer 19

(time spent working) after the usual time needed or expected in a job

Question 20

Position (n)

Answer 20

A job

Question 21

Production (n)

Answer 21

The process of making or growing goods to be sold

Question 22

Qualify (v)

Answer 22

To successfully finish a training course so that you are able to do a job; to have or achive the necessary skills, etc.

Question 23

Roughly (adv)

Answer 23

Approximately

Question 24

Seminar (n)

Answer 24

An occasion when a teacher or expert and a group of people meet to study and discuss something

Question 25

shortly (adv)

Answer 25

Soon

Question 26

Supplier (n)

Answer 26

A company, person, etc. that provides things that people want or need, especially over a long period of time

Question 27

Take on (pv)

Answer 27

To accept a particular job or responsability; to employ

Question 28

Take out a loan (exp)

Answer 28

To borrow a sum of money, often from a bank, which has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing

Question 29

Take over (pv)

Answer 29

To get control of a company by buying most of its shares

Question 30

Thesis (n)

Answer 30

A long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done for higher college or university degree

Question 31

Take up (pv)

Answer 31

To start doing a particular job or activity

Question 32

Tutor (n)

Answer 32

A teacher who works with one student or a small group, either at a British college or university or in the home of a child

Question 33

Unlike (prep)

Answer 33

Different from someone or something