Cambridge BEC Vantage Practice Test
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- 1. Business Grammar
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
Answer: a
Explanation: 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').
- 2. Business Grammar
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
Answer: d
Explanation: This is a first conditional about a real future possibility. The 'if' clause uses the present simple 'dispatch', and the result clause uses 'will'.
- 3. Business Grammar
Complete: 'The CEO, ___ presentation impressed investors, will visit our office.'
- a.whose
- b.which
- c.who
- d.whom
Answer: a
Explanation: 'Whose' is the possessive relative pronoun linking the CEO to the 'presentation', giving 'the CEO, whose presentation...'.
- 4. Business Vocabulary
Select the correct term: 'Our company hopes to ___ into the Asian market next year.'
- a.extend
- b.expand
- c.enlarge
- d.increase
Answer: b
Explanation: 'Expand into a market' is the standard business collocation for entering a new market. 'Extend' and 'enlarge' do not collocate with 'market' this way.
- 5. Business Vocabulary
Choose the best word: 'Please find the agenda ___ to this email.'
- a.attach
- b.attaching
- c.attachment
- d.attached
Answer: d
Explanation: 'Find the agenda attached' uses the past participle as an adjective, the standard formula for referring to an email attachment.
- 6. Word Formation
Complete: 'Our supplier delivered the components ___.'
- a.prompted
- b.promptness
- c.prompt
- d.promptly
Answer: d
Explanation: An adverb is needed to describe how the components were delivered. 'Promptly' is the adverb form.
- 7. Word Formation
Choose the correct form: 'The merger led to a significant ___ in staff numbers.'
- a.reduce
- b.reducing
- c.reduced
- d.reduction
Answer: d
Explanation: A noun is needed after the adjective 'significant'. 'Reduction' is the noun form of 'reduce'.
- 8. Linkers & Prepositions
Select the best connector: 'Sales rose sharply; ___, profits remained flat.'
- a.however
- b.thus
- c.hence
- d.therefore
Answer: a
Explanation: 'However' signals a contrast between rising sales and flat profits. The other options all indicate result.
- 9. Linkers & Prepositions
Select the best linker: '___ to increase efficiency, we introduced new software.'
- a.In order
- b.Because
- c.Due
- d.So that
Answer: a
Explanation: 'In order to' + infinitive expresses purpose: the software was introduced to increase efficiency. The other options do not fit this pattern.
- 10. Business Usage Errors
Identify the error-free sentence.
- a.The staff is been consulted about the changes.
- b.The staff are being consulted about the changes.
- c.The staffs are being consulted about the changes.
- d.The staff are been consulted about the changes.
Answer: b
Explanation: 'Staff' is a collective noun with no plural 'staffs' in this sense, and the present continuous passive is 'are being consulted'.