Skólaskýrsla 1995 - Verzlunarskóli Íslands

20 Form an ADJECTIVE from decision ______________.
21 Their colleagues would expect this practice to be reciprocated _______________.
22 Other Europeans found them hedonistic ______________.
23 It was under investigation for possible violations of the US anti-trust _____________
law.
24 Full ownership enables them . . . to maximize economies of scale _____________.
25 Give in one word the opposite of maximize ____________.
26-28 Replace the blanks with the most suitable words from the list below:
annotation; concessions; conditional; convertible; curb; identify; obliged; observe;
obtain; penalize; scrutiny; strategy; subject; violation.
The new code which the banks had agreed to _________ made the opening of
numbered accounts _________ to much closer _________than before.
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
Supply the missing prepositions:
29 Martyrs are people who suffer ____________ their beliefs.
30 I have warned him of the dangers involved in competing _______________ this event.
31 We must allow _____________________ considerable delays in delivery.
Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the most suitable phrasal
verbs selected from the following list:
bear out; beat up; blow over; bring off; draw up; hold up; iron out; keep on; make
off; make over; put up; run through; strike off; take off; tell off.
32 Charles used to mimic him _____________.
33 He says that he will persevere ____________ with it until he reaches examination
standard.
34 Several people are prepared to corroborate _____________ what she says.
35 The scandal was ___________ soon forgotten ____________.
36 The contract has been prepared ____________ at last.
NEWSBRIEF
37 Mohammed strove ____________ to overcome opposition.
38 See you again, Mrs Gorbachev’s interpreter ____________ said to the Duke of
Edinburgh.
39 Even the traditional photo opportunity at the Great Wall had to be curtailed
__________.
40 This marked a formal end to the former dissident’s ___________ years of persecution.
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Translate into English:
Allir hafa heyrt um þjóðareinkenni. Jafnvel fólk sem hefur varla farið til útlanda er
reiðubúið að dæma eða hrósa íbúum annarra landa. Bretar eru sagðir hafa góða
kímnigáfu, Þjóðverjar eru iðnir og stundvísir, Frakkar kunna jafnt að elda sem elska og
hverjum mundir þú frekar treysta fyrir peningum þínum en Svisslendingi Þótt svona
fullyrðingar hljómi vel eru þær alhæfingar sem endurspegla fordóma og fáfræði þeirra
sem trúa þeim. Það er hins vegar vel þekkt staðreynd að góð þekking á siðum og
menningu ólíkra samfélaga er líkleg til að efla frið og gagnkvæman skilning.
Ein af smásögum Somerset Maugham ber nafnið The Unconquered. Hún lýsir örlögum
franskrar stúlku sem er nauðgað af þýskum hermanni. Sögusviðið er Frakkland í síðari
heimsstyrjöldinni, skömmu eftir að Þjóðverjar hertóku landið. Höfundurinn leggur
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