Answer Key
Business and profit – Practice 1
Choose the correct answer:
- The continuous increase in the price of things is called [inflation] .
- Oil [industry] is very profitable.
- The president wants to [reduce] taxes from 22% to 18%.
- Our company [supplies] furniture to luxury stores.
- We made big [losses] last year because the oil prices increased.
- The company [expanded] to new markets.
- Our production [fell] from 1,000 units to 870 units a month.
- We need to [decrease] our labour costs to have bigger profits.
- Which word is different from the other two? [to fall]
- [Foreign] investment, especially from Asia and the US helped to improve Czech economy.