ANGLAIS BTS 2005

SECTION ONE : GRAMMAR

A-Complete each gap with a word chosen from those in brackets

a) The workers promised to do all lay in their power to do (which,
what, those, that)
b) I haven˜t got.......................money (no, any, some, much)
c) The longer you work, the.......................you become (richer, most rich, richest, more rich)
d) The employers provided many services..................the employees (to, with, for, at)

B-Put the verbs in brackets in their correct tense

1- I wish, I (to find) a good job.
2- If she had known that, she (to write) her letter of application for a job.
3- This man (to look) for a job since 1998.
4- Sometimes mistakes (to make) It’s inevitable.

SECTION TWO : VOCABULARY

A-Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the underlined one

1- This is a transient employment : (very important, long lasting, momentary, painful)
2- Accuracy is essential in the work of air (efficiency, honestly, integrity, precision)
3- I can count on my friend to find a new job (trust, require, deceive, assist)
4- I recommend you to set about your business immediately (arrange, begin, carry out,
install)

B-Fill the blank spaces with appropriate words or phrases selected from the
list provided below
…………………….(1)is composed of from 2 to 50 members, while the ………………(2)
is composed of from 7 to an unlimited number of members. A (3) is a non profit
making realm organization composed of members we provide the capital and share the
trading profits in the form of a dividend.
……………………………..(4)is an artificial “person created by law and authorized to act
as an individual

List of words : corporation ; private limited company ; co-operative society ; public limited
company

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 SECTION THREE : TRANSLATION

A-Translation the following sentences into English

1- Moins il y a la corruption et le détournement des deniers publics, mieux sera la situation
économique de notre pays.
2- Tes employés ont-ils l˜intention de faire la gr£ve ? J˜esp£re que non !

B-Translation into French

Technological innovation can play an important role in the increase of level of employment
and the improvement of labour conditions. Special training programmes are necessary to
promote flexibility, mobility and adaptability of labour.

SECTION FOUR : COMPREHENSION AND SELF EXPRESSION

Read carefully the following passage then answer the questions which follow

Unemployment

A more human society than ours would adopt a positive approach to unemployment. The
Swedes, for instance, have not only avoided the level of unemployment that we are now
experiencing, but they are certainly no unoccupied. The greatest emphasis is placed on training
and retraining. A wised variety of programmes are provided for all types of workers unskilled to
highly qualified and they last from three months to two years. The philosophy is that if people
have general skills of the labour force. To operate such a policy, Britain would, in the first place,
require far more resources than our exiting employment service has ever had available to it. It
would also require a transformation of attitudes among those who operate the employment
service, and among the candidates for retraining.
Does our society’s handling of the problem of unemployment reveal a general falling back
in social attitudes, the values of independence, thrift and hard work were extolled, and necessarily
so, by the industrialiers, the laissez-faire capitalists, who needed a disciplined work force. Today
it is still useful to emphasise these virtues because this displaces criticism, which might otherwise
be directed at the functioning of the economic system itself. But there are indications that a
change is taking place. For instance, white-collar workers have traditionally expected security of
employment and they are far less likely than manual workers to adopt the fatalistic attitude that
“you are bound to be out of work . Even when they are anything but socialists they put the
responsibility for employment policy firmly upon the Government. A danger is that both blue
collar and while collar unemployed will turn with increasing hostility to the presence of immigrants
in order to explain their own predicament.

Questions:

1- Which policies did the Swedes adopt and what were their durations?
2- To which vertues is Dorothy reforming?
3- Why do people put the responsibility for employement policy firmly upon the government?
4- Why are Blue collar and white collar unemployed hostile to the presence of immigrants?

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