A n s w e r k e y test 1, Paper 1, Reading

Part 3: Take as much holiday time as you want
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B: The main topic of the paragraph is how greatly the holiday policy 
at Netflix differs from what normally happens with regard to 
holidays in organisations and companies.
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C: They said that the standard holiday policy was ‘at odds with’ (did 
not fit logically with, did not make sense with) ‘how they really 
did their jobs’ because sometimes they worked at home after 
work and sometimes they took time off during the working day.
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D: The company decided: ‘We should focus on what people get 
done, not how many hours or days are worked.’
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A: Rules, policies, regulations and stipulations are ‘innovation killers’ 
and people do their best work when they are ‘unencumbered’
by such things – the rules, etc. stop them from doing their
best work.
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B: One ‘regard’ in which the situation is ‘adult’ according to the 
writer is that people who aren’t excellent or whose performance 
is only ‘adequate’ lose their jobs at the company – they are 
‘shown the door’ and given a ‘generous severance package’ 
(sacked but given money when they leave).
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D: Nowadays, ‘Results are what matter’. How long it takes to 
achieve the desired results and how these results are achieved
are ‘less relevant’.
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A: If companies have lots of rules for the workforce because they 
don’t trust them (they ‘assume bad faith’ – they believe that 
their employees are dishonest and not willing to do what is 
required), the employees will try to break those rules or avoid 
obeying them. If companies ‘assume good faith’, this encourages 
employees to have the right attitude.
Part 4: Seeing through the fakes
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E: ‘Anyone can label a picture a fake or a copy.’
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F: ‘museums and galleries constantly question, revise, reattribute 
and re-date the works in their care.’
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C: ‘All became clear when art historians did further research’. The 
research explained why the painting used a pigment that was 
not available to artists until later.