I Banked cloze. Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words from the word bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. Word bank A completely B figures C worse D adequately E applicants F inexperience G reduce H candidates I barrier J skills K increase L ignorance M employers N illogical O unrealistic The unemployment rate of the youth is set to rise even further this autumn, a survey of the UK's biggest companies suggests. Two thirds of those surveyed said the job market would get 1 for young workers. Twenty-seven of the 50 largest 2 in the UK completed a survey about the economy and job market. Asked what policy would best 3 youth unemployment, almost half said the government needed to do more to train young job seekers. Most said many young people were leaving school or college without the basic 4 they needed to find work, like math and English. The latest official 5 show that almost a million 16-to- 24-year-olds are now looking work. One large, international firm said young 6 lacked “basic presentation and communication skills as well as simple budgeting”. Another said, “Young people have 7 expectations of the work that they will be doing and this is made worse by the lack of skills coming out of school.” But more than half of the firms which completed the survey said the education system was not 8 preparing young workers for a job at their organization. When asked to name the biggest single 9 to hiring more young people, the most common answer was the lack of basic skills followed by 10 . As a director of skills policy said, “Employers don’t expect young people to leave school ‘job ready’, but they do need to have the essential skills on which they can build their careers.”