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From: Sabrina Tan
Date: October 22
Subject: Your delivery service
Dear Julia Davis,
We have just received the inventory we were waiting for, and would like your company to deliver it to our retail outlets. The merchandise is still at our warehouse at the port, and if possible, we would like to have you deliver approximately 25 percent of it to our Prime Outlet on Wednesday.
I will wait for your reply before I give our warehouse the go-ahead.
Yours truly,
Sabrina Tan
Where is the merchandise that needs to be delivered?

At the port
B. At Julia Davis' warehouse
C. At the retail outlets
D. At the Prime Outlet

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A. Pressures of work have a negative effect on social relationships.
B. Poor communication can create an atmosphere of doubt.
C. Keeping records of employees should be a high priority.
D. Communicating effectively can take up a lot of time.

•Choose the best word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the opposite page.
•For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
The bank with ideas
with several hundred years of history behind it, the APL Bank has few problems in convincing businesses that it is a reputable and secure (19) of a range of banking services. Now, it is demonstrating to business customers that it is flexible and responsive enough to (20) their changing needs in the 21st century.
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Together, these (32) in banking have achieved excellent results. The customer (33) is growing fast, and last year the bank gained 36,000 new business accounts.
(19)

A. producer
B. supplier
C. provider
D. giver

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