Building Relationships

To do business with someone, first you should try to …………………. a good realtionship.

• improve

• establish

• promote

• severe

Their repeated interventions …………………. the whole meeting

• corrupted

• fostered

• broke off

• disrupted

Japan is trying to ........... a much warmer relationship with China.

• cut off

• improve

• cultivate

• jeopardise

China’s desire to …………………. a solid relationship with the US has been the anchor of its foreign policy for several decades.

• maintain

• strain

• undermine

• sour

Thanks to its sponsorship, the company …......... very good relations with the local community.

• resumes

• enjoys

• improves

• damages

In order to foster economic prosperity, the EU has launched an initiative to …………………. closer relations with ex Soviet states.

• establish

• break off

• disrupt

• undermine

Their firm has certainly managed to …… a good business over the years.

• severe

• sour

• disrupt

• build up

I’m afraid a lack of communication is now …………………. our relations.

• restoring

• fostering

• jeopardising

• building up

Getting rid of those trade barriers should …………………. the friendship between our countries.

• cut off

• cement

• break off

• undermine

I wonder why it took them so long to …………………. relations with such an unreliable distributor.

• maintain

• restore

• cut off

• encourage