NORA (A)HARDLY NEVER MISSES( B)AN OPPORTUNITY(C) TO PLAY (D)IN THE...

50.Nora (A)hardly never misses( B)an opportunity(C) to play (D)in the tennis tournaments

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to

indicate the correct word for each of the numbered blanks.

Everybody has heard about the Internet, do you know what an “intranet” is? It is this:

just as the Internet connects people around the world, intranets connect people within a (51)

_______ company. In fact, intranets make use of the same software programs as the

Internet to (52) _______ computers and people. This (53) _______ that you do not have to

buy a lot of additional programs to set up an intranet service. If your intranet is working

properly, it can link together a huge amount of (54) _______ which is stored in different

places in the company. In this way, people can get the information they need, regardless

(55) _______ where it comes from. A company intranet can, of course, be used for

unimportant information like office memos or canteen menus. But an intranet should (56)

_______ important information which people need to make decision about new products,

costs and so on. The intranet is (57) _______ to share their information with other people.

(58) _______, many departments don’t want to share their specialist knowledge with

others. Another problem which often occurs is (59) _______ top managers like to use the

intranet to “communicate down” rather than to “communicate across”. That is, they use the

intranet to give orders, not to (60) _______ information between themselves and others

working in the same organization.