Answer Key

Business and profit – Practice 1

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