Cambridge BEC Vantage — All Questions

Choose the correct form: 'We ___ the contract by the end of next week.'

• a.will have finalized✓
• b.are finalize
• c.finalize
• d.will finalizing

The future perfect 'will have finalized' expresses an action that will be complete by a point in the future ('by the end of next week').

Complete: 'The invoice ___ to the client yesterday.'

• a.is sending
• b.was sent✓
• c.sent
• d.has sent

A past passive is needed: the invoice received the action. With 'yesterday', the past simple passive 'was sent' is correct.

Select the correct option: 'If we ___ the shipment today, the goods will arrive on time.'

• a.dispatched
• b.would dispatch
• c.will dispatch
• d.dispatch✓

This is a first conditional about a real future possibility. The 'if' clause uses the present simple 'dispatch', and the result clause uses 'will'.

Choose the correct modal: 'You ___ submit the expense report by Friday, or it won't be processed.'

• a.may
• b.must✓
• c.might
• d.could

'Must' expresses a strong obligation, which fits the consequence that the report won't be processed otherwise.

Complete: 'The CEO, ___ presentation impressed investors, will visit our office.'

• a.whose✓
• b.which
• c.who
• d.whom

'Whose' is the possessive relative pronoun linking the CEO to the 'presentation', giving 'the CEO, whose presentation...'.