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TOEIC-style: Text completion and comprehension

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Independent practice in the TOEIC reading style, not an official test: complete a company announcement and a follow-up email, then answer questions about both texts.

Notice: third-floor renovation

To: All staff

From: Facilities Department

Work on the renovation of the third floor is (1) ___ to begin on Monday, 6 May, and should take approximately three weeks. During this period, the third-floor meeting rooms will be closed, and employees who normally work on that floor will (2) ___ to temporary desks on the first floor.

(3) ___ These rooms can be reserved through the usual online booking system. Because space will be limited, we ask that meetings be kept short and that rooms be released promptly if a meeting is cancelled.

The contractors will carry out the noisiest work early in the morning or after 6 p.m. wherever possible. We apologise for any disruption and thank you for your (4) ___ while the work is carried out. Questions about the renovation should be (5) ___ to Daniel Osei in the Facilities Department.

Email: moving day

To: Customer Support team

From: Mariam Haddad, Office Manager

Hello everyone,

As you will have read in the notice from Facilities, our team will be working on the first floor for three weeks from 6 May. To make the move as smooth as possible, please pack the items on your desk into the boxes provided (6) ___ the end of the day on Friday, 3 May. Label each box clearly with your name and desk number.

Laptops and other (7) ___ equipment should not be packed; please take them home with you on Friday. (8) ___ The IT team will check that the phones and printers are working before you arrive on Monday morning.

Thank you,

Mariam

Text completion

Choose the best option to complete each numbered gap in the two texts.

Gap 1
- a) schedule
- b) scheduled
- c) scheduling
- d) schedules
Gap 2
- a) relocation
- b) relocated
- c) relocate
- d) relocates
Gap 3
- a) The renovation was completed ahead of schedule last week.
- b) Please send your annual leave requests to your manager by Friday.
- c) The cafeteria will offer a new menu from next month.
- d) Two additional meeting rooms will be available on the ground floor during this time.
Gap 4
- a) patience
- b) patient
- c) patiently
- d) patients
Gap 5
- a) direct
- b) directing
- c) direction
- d) directed
Gap 6
- a) until
- b) by
- c) since
- d) within
Gap 7
- a) valuable
- b) value
- c) valued
- d) valuation
Gap 8
- a) The third-floor meeting rooms are open again from today.
- b) Your temporary desks will be ready for you from 8 a.m. on 6 May.
- c) Please send your holiday requests to Human Resources.
- d) The renovation of the first floor finished last year.

Reading comprehension

Choose the correct answer according to the notice and the email.

What is the main purpose of the notice?
- a) to invite staff to a meeting about office design
- b) to ask staff to choose new furniture
- c) to inform staff about arrangements during building work
- d) to announce that the company is moving to a new building
How long is the renovation expected to take?
- a) about three weeks
- b) about one week
- c) about two months
- d) until 3 May
What are staff asked to do if a meeting is cancelled?
- a) inform Daniel Osei
- b) release the room promptly
- c) book a room on the third floor
- d) send an email to all staff
When will the contractors try to do the noisiest work?
- a) at lunchtime
- b) only at weekends
- c) on Friday afternoons
- d) early in the morning or in the evening
What is suggested about the Customer Support team?
- a) It usually works on the third floor.
- b) It is moving to the ground floor.
- c) It will work from home for three weeks.
- d) It is responsible for the renovation.
What should staff do with their laptops?
- a) pack them in the boxes provided
- b) leave them on their desks
- c) take them home on Friday
- d) give them to the IT team

Answer key

Text completion

b) scheduledBe scheduled to do something is a passive form meaning it is planned for a certain time.
c) relocateAfter will we need the base form of the verb: will relocate.
d) Two additional meeting rooms will be available on the ground floor during this time.The next sentence begins These rooms can be reserved, so the missing sentence must introduce some rooms. It also replaces the closed third-floor rooms.
a) patienceAfter your we need a noun. Thank you for your patience is a common polite phrase; patients are people who see a doctor.
d) directedThis is a passive form (should be + past participle): questions should be directed to someone.
b) byBy means no later than a time. The packing must be finished before the end of Friday.
a) valuableWe need an adjective before the noun equipment: valuable equipment.
b) Your temporary desks will be ready for you from 8 a.m. on 6 May.The email is about the move, and the next sentence talks about phones and printers being ready when staff arrive on Monday, 6 May.

Reading comprehension

c) to inform staff about arrangements during building workThe notice explains what will change while the third floor is being renovated.
a) about three weeksThe notice says the work should take approximately three weeks.
b) release the room promptlyThe notice asks that rooms be released promptly if a meeting is cancelled.
d) early in the morning or in the eveningThe noisiest work will be done early in the morning or after 6 p.m. wherever possible.
a) It usually works on the third floor.The team is moving to the first floor during the renovation, so it normally works on the third floor.
c) take them home on FridayMariam says laptops should not be packed and staff should take them home on Friday.