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Being a Manager 



Managers are not born overnight,
___1__ you rarely meet a manager fresh out of school or college or even
university. One ____2_____ gain a certain degree of life and work experience
before he ___3___ become a successful manager. Some people ___4___ come out of
university and get _____5____ a management role but they will usually be called
a management trainee and ____6___ on a graduate training scheme.

____7___ to get into a management
role is to work hard and take note of ___8___ a senior manager does and
remember what previous managers ___9___ before. A manager needs to manage his
staff, this doesn’t mean to order them around and expect them ___10____ all the
work. A successful manager never asks his staff to do tasks they would never do
or they are not capable of ____11____. If he doesn’t know ___12___ to do
anything himself, how will his subordinates be capable of doing this task?

People don’t just thrive on ___13___
a decent salary and earning bonuses. We all like ___14____ we’ve done something
well, to give a sense of pride in our accomplishments. Any manager would also
like to hear from his superiors that he ____15___ a project well or that he has
had good feedback from his team about his leadership skills.

Some people get to management level
and have difficulties ___16___ tasks which can be easily carried out by their
subordinates. One needs to learn to let ____17___ and trust his staff to
complete the work he ____18___ himself. 
___19___ type of manager is someone who hands an idea to the board and
pretends it was his idea when it was ____20____. 



1. A. because                           B. that’s why                       C. for                     D.
since

2. A. should                            B. may                                  C.
can                    D. need

3. A. should                            B. may                                  C.
can                    D. need

4. A. should                            B. may                                  C.
can                    D. need

5. A. at                                    B.
in                                     C.
into                   D. out

6. A. are                                  B. were                                 C. will                   D. will be

7. A. best way                         B. a best way                       C. the best way     D. in the best way

8. A. that                                 B. what                                C. which                D. how

9. A. done                               B. did                                   C.
were done         D. have done

10. A. do                                 B.
doing                               C. to
do                 D. have done

11. A. do                                 B.
doing                               C. to
do                 D. have done

12. A. that                               B. what                                C. which                D. how

13. A. paying                          B. being paid                        C. having paid       D. having been paid

14. A. to tell                            B. to be told                         C. telling               D.
having told

15. A. manage                         B. managing                         C.
has managed     D. had managed

16. A. delegate                        B. delegating                        C.
delegated          D. has delegated

17. A. go                                 B.
going                               C. to
go                 D. gone

18. A. used                              B. used doing                       C. used to do        D.
has used

19. A. worse                            B. worst                               C.
the worse          D. the worst

20. A. someone’s else             B. someone else’s                 C. anyone’s else    D. anyone else’s