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2. Find other ways to describe the terms used in the exercise above

and match them below :

a. Shot up
b. Rose slowly
1. Remained constant

2. Fell gradually c. Peaked and then fell a

3. Declined sharply bit

4. Reached a peak d. Was up and down

5. Rose sharply e. Was steady

6. Leveled off f. Dropped like a rock

7. Fluctuated g. Moved up slowly

8. Increased gradually h. Eased off
i. Dropped off a bit

Reading

1. Read the following information about a car dealer’s presentation.

Thank you everyone for coming. I’d like to talk about the

latest sales figures for March this year compared with last year.

As you can see from the chart, there are big difference brand
and different models. First of all, I’d like to show you the figures for

Toyota. If you look at the figures for the Prius, you’ll see that sales

went up from 100 to 130, so they rose by 30%. That’s quite

impressive. As you know, people want greener cars and that’s why

the Prius is very popular and these are it’s best sales figures ever.

The other Toyota models were OK., but sales of the Camry fell by

about 5%. They went down from 60 to 57 this year. Now let’s take a

look at the Hyundais. The Elantra went down to 36, while the Coupe

one rose to 97. Also the Suzuki rose sharply to 170.