Ενδεικτικές λύσεις των 8 ερωτήσεων κατανόησης (A. Questions) και των 5 κλειστών ασκήσεων λεξιλογίου/γραμματικής (B. Exercises) της ενότητας (σελ. 330-331). Η άσκηση B.3 (μέρος του λόγου λέξεων με έντονη γραφή) σημειώνεται θελει_PDF=true — χρειάζεται οπτική επιβεβαίωση της ακριβούς λίστας boldfaced λέξεων στο τυπωμένο βιβλίο.
Ερώτηση: What kind of departments are there in big companies?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: There are departments such as marketing, finance, production, exploration or other departments.
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Ερώτηση: How would the graduate have felt if he had joined the big company mentioned in the text? Why?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: (ενδεικτική) He would have been both unhappy and unsuccessful, because it's almost certain that he wouldn't have had any initiative (he wanted to be a general "businessman", not a narrow specialist).
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Ερώτηση: Who do big companies tend to be staffed with?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: Big companies tend to be staffed with specialists.
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Ερώτηση: How must the business be organised?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: The business must be organised to allow new ventures to thrive and newcomers to work creatively.
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Ερώτηση: According to what must management rewards and plans be developed?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: (ενδεικτική) They must be developed according to the new venture, not as an extension of the existing practice.
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Ερώτηση: Have companies always fully succeeded when trying to do something like that?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: No, they haven't. Many companies have tried this with varying degrees of success, not always full success.
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Ερώτηση: Is it easy to separate the new ventures from the parent company's smothering embrace?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: No, it isn't. It's never quite easy to separate the new ventures from the parent company's smothering embrace.
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Ερώτηση: What do new growth markets and jobs deserve?
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: They deserve more consistent and energetic efforts to be developed.
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Ερώτηση: Find the words in the text which mean the following: a. the people employed by a company b. producing new and original ideas c. the ability to make decisions and act without help d. permit e. different f. the act against reason or common sense g. to be worth of h. cause to grow, increase
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: a. staff, b. creative, c. initiative, d. allow, e. varying, f. absurdity, g. deserve, h. develop.
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Ερώτηση: Say whether these statements are true or false. a. The graduate wanted to join the finance department of the company. b. If he had joined the company, he would have been happy. c. The business must be organised to allow newcomers to work creatively. d. Management rewards and plans must be developed according to the new venture. e. It's always easy to separate the new ventures from the parent company's smothering embrace.
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: a. False, b. False, c. True, d. True, e. False.
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Ερώτηση: Identify which of the boldfaced words is a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb (in the paragraph "The business must be organised to allow the new ventures to thrive and the newcomers to work creatively. Management rewards and plans must be developed according to the new venture... Therefore, it is right to point to the absurdity of leaving innovation to chance of the creative urge. All the new growth markets and jobs deserve more consistent and energetic efforts to be developed."). Use any three of them in sentences of your own so that their meaning is clear.
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: (ενδεικτική) Ενδεικτική κατηγοριοποίηση: organised/allow/thrive/developed/deserve = ρήματα· creatively = επίρρημα· rewards/venture/extension/practice/absurdity/innovation/chance/urge/growth/efforts = ουσιαστικά· existing/consistent/energetic = επίθετα.
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Ερώτηση: Match the following: a. manager b. graduate c. interviewer d. businessman e. specialist f. entrepreneur g. venturer h. newcomer — with: 1. a person in business, esp. as a director of a business firm 2. a person who makes the plans of a business 3. someone who controls a company or a department of a company 4. one who has recently come (or has begun coming) 5. a person who takes great risk 6. someone who asks questions (of sb.) in an interview 7. a person who has completed a University degree course, esp. for a first degree 8. (an) expert
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: a-3, b-7, c-6, d-1, e-8, f-2, g-5, h-4.
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Ερώτηση: Complete the following blanks (Verb → Noun): graduate, apply, interview, join, produce, explore, think, relate, assume, tend, innovate, create, organize, venture, develop, extend, practise, try, separate, embrace, grow.
Απάντηση:
Σύνοψη: (ενδεικτική) graduation, application, interview, joining, production, exploration, thought, relation, assumption, tendency, innovation, creation, organization, venture, development, extension, practice, attempt, separation, embrace, growth.
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