B Understanding details

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 639.

A Understanding main points

Reading tasks

Read the text about how businesses will be organised in the future and answer these questions.

1. Which of these statements gives the best summary of the ideas in the article?

a. New communications technologies enable information to be shared instantly across the world.

b. In the future most people will be self-employed or will work as freelancers.

c. Companies are having to restructure due to developments in electronic communications.

2. What exactly do the authors mean by the term “e-lance economy”?

a. Most work inside large companies will be done using e-mail and computers.

b. In the future tasks will be done by individuals and small companies linked to the Internet.

c. Business between companies will increasingly be done through the Internet.

Mark these statements T (true) or F (false) according to the information in the text. Find the part of the text that gives the correct information.

1. Big corporations will soon go out of business. F

2. There is a move towards decentralisation of decision-making in many companies.

3. Many companies are now experiencing cash flow and similar financial problems.

4. No more than 10 per cent of workers in the US work for the top 500 companies.

5. ABB and BP Amoco have sold many parts of their businesses.

6. Large organisations can save money by centralising all transactions.

7. Computer companies have decentralised their decision-making process.

8. It is possible that the shape and structure of companies will be very different in the future.