我们在日常办公时需要处理各种各样的事情和应对突发情况，比如组织电话会议，解决电脑、打印机小故障，群发邮件等等。本期《英语小测验》测试你对办公室里常用语的掌握，来试试你知道多少个。

1. There is a meeting at 10.30 where we will have _________ with our counterparts in Europe and the Middle East.

a) a conference call

b) an instant message

c) cosy chat

d) launch party

2. Can someone call _________? The email network has gone down again.

a) lab technicians

b) marketing team

c) sales department

d) IT support

3. Oh no, the printer has run out. We need to order some more _________.

a) paint

b) paper clips

c) ink cartridges

d) hole-punches

4. My American colleague refers to office gossip as _________.

a) an appraisal

b) water-cooler chat

c) an interview

d) a pitch

5. I hate business jargon. Why do people say “think _________” instead of thing originally?

a) inside the box

b) outside the box

c) over the box

d) behind the box

6. My boss always asks me to _________ emails down instead of just saying pass this email on to the others.

a) flow

b) run

c) cascade

d) despatch

答案

1) a, 2) d, 3) c, 4) b, 5) b, 6) c.