EXERCISE 3 Find synonyms in the text. EXERCISE 4 Think of the nouns you can use with the phrasal verbs and make up sentences of your own. EXERCISE 5 What's the difference between. • To wind down, up;
• To put up with, up, down, together, down as, across;
USINESS
103 • To figure out, on, in;
• To pick up, out, at;
• To rip off, into;
• To give off, out, out with;
• To work out, into, up, on;
• To shut up, off?
EXERCISE 6 Retell the text. EXERCISE 7 Speak of the problems concerning a new project. L E S S О N 36 OUR BOSS Everyone looks on our boss as a good and honest guy.
Mr. Jones never talks down to his inferiors nor bears down
on them. There's no need to lean over backwards to please
or to shine up to him. He doesn't like to order his people
about or wear them out with an excess of work. On the
contrary, he can line you up with a good one, if you rate
with him (even set you up as the general manager), but
he never fails to see to everything. He'll never fake you
out with the salary and is quick to think out some trick to
wipe the competitors out drawing up a contract. There is
the only condition about him. When you put a request or
some project in or want to get something across you should
always check with him.
104 PART SEVEN Before he took office our former boss Mr. Smith always
asked the present one to sit in for him. When he grew
old and stepped down from his post, he turned everything
over to Mr. Jones. Then we all put him up for our new
boss and we don't want him to bow out, though he is now
at Mr. Smith's age.
