and work are becoming mixed and older workers are losing power in their companies. The most important reason for this is (51) which has allowed fresh-faced youths to enter the workplace and make changes. A second reason was the changes made to company (52)
in the 80s and 90s which emphasized (53)
over seniority. The final reason is that values Another
have changed. Today’s workers want opportunity more than (54) effect is that older people are behaving like younger people with society’s average age between 20 and 30 in some US cities. At Microsoft the manager’s role is not to give workers orders but to (55)
from their way and help them discover solutions to business problems.
Read the text below and use ONE word which best fits each gap of the following questions from 56 to 65. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
Britain has gone mad for bananas. Over the past 12 months Britons have consumed an unprecedented 3.5 billion pieces of the tropical fruit, forcing the (56) ______________ apple into second place. The nation’s banana boom is one of the most remarkable nutritional trends of recent years, a guide not only to the growing (57) ________________consciousness of the British people but also to the country’s economic health. (58)_____________ is amazing is that bananas were virtually unheard of during the 19th century and even up until the end of the 1920s (59) _______________ anyone in Britain had tasted or (60)
seen
them. Early attempts to introduce them to northern countries had met with failure because by the time they had been shipped to Britain, they had rotted (61)
recognition. However, thanks to the development of refrigerated shipping, all this changed. Refrigerated shipping meant that then, as now, bunches of imported bananas could arrive in good condition at (62) ___________houses in dockyards where they were stored. The first commercial refrigerated shipment arrived 100 years ago, triggering an enthusiasm from (63) _________________ Britons have never looked back.
“The banana has everything going for it”, says Jeanette Scott of the Banana Group marketing organization. “It’s easy to open, it is packed (64) _____________energy and vitamins and is low in calories. It is also a first-class cure for upset stomachs and it stabilises blood (65)
