3 курс переводоведение

In the beginning Burton (22) …………………. 9employ) as a barman by night and (23) …………………. (make) snowboard prototypes by day. After constructing more than 100 models, he finally had a board he was pleased with. That hurdle overcome, ha had to (24) …………………. (convince) people to buy the things. One major stumbling block was the fact that snowboards (25) …………………. (ban) at virtually all ski areas. Finally, after 1983, when restrictions at many ski resorts (26) …………………. (loosen), snowboard sales (27) …………………. (climb). Now 95 % of the ski areas in the US (28) …………………. (allow) boarding, as do all ski areas in Europe. An international circuit of snowboard racing and freestyle events (29) …………………. (start) in ’86, and the sport (30) …………………. (make) its Olympic debut at the 1998 Winter in Nagano, Japan.

III. Find words in the grid below to match the following definitions.

1. the parts of a company that people can buy and own

2. money that is paid out to investors when a company makes a profit

3. total amount of business a company does measured in money terms

4. unable to pay debts

5. to make workers redundant because there is not enough work (2 words)

6. dismiss someone from their job

7. refuse to work because of a disagreement

8. a period of time away from work or duty

9. work schedule where workers can choose when to begin and end the working day

10. time in which an older person no longer works

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IV. Use words from the grid to complete this text.

It looks like the writing is really on the wall for Rambler. The board informed (1) ……………….. holders at a meeting on Tuesday night that yet again they would be unable to pay a dividend. (2) ……………….. is down 5% on last year and it seems inevitable that some 10,000 workers at their Morwell plant will be (3) ……………….. . The long and very acrimonious strike last spring over pay and conditions certainly didn’t help matters, though no one can deny that it was completely justified. Management’s unwillingness to even discuss the implementation of (4) ……………….. and repeated violations of the law in relation to maternity (5) ……………….. understandably provoke the workforce. The very real possibility of Rambler going (6) ……………….. also spells doom for its executives. Chief Executive Officer, Blair Paton Smythe, has already been (7) ……………….. while Sir George Manning has ‘chosen to take early (8) ………………..’, according to a spokesperson- very early, I might say, since he’s only 50!

V. Put in the missing word ‘up’ or ‘down’ in each of the following sentences. In same cases two positions are possible.

1. I missed some classes at the beginning of the course and it took me ages to catch with the others.

2. Trying to cut on the number of cigarettes you smoke won’t work. You should give up completely.

3. Would you like to use the bathroom to freshen before we go out?

4. I managed to track a copy of his first album in a second- hand record shop.

5. Would you mind speaking a bit? We can’t hear you at the back of the room.

6. I was only away for a week but the work has really piled in my absence.

7. The pickpocket must have sneaked behind me and taken my wallet while I was waiting in the queue.

8. They’re going to spend the money Tony inherited on having their house done.

9. Calm, will you! There’s no point getting angry about it.

10. I can’t keep with Anna. She’s got so much energy she never seems to stop to draw breath.

11. I thought the film was a rather watered version of the story in the book. It wasn’t nearly as powerful.

12. She’s gone to the hairdresser to have her highlights touched.

13. They had to interview everyone on the list, but they’ve managed to narrow it for five applicants.

14. I wish you’d liven a bit. You seem so miserable lately.

15. When Andrew was younger it was impossible to imagine him ever getting married and settling.

16. The police have managed to pin the time of the murder to between ten and ten –thirty.

VI. Read the text and then decide which word best fits each space. Put the letter of this word A,B,C or D into the correct box on your answer sheet.

Advertising losses its spark.

Fewer than a third of advertising executives believe their campaigns help to sell products, a(n) (0) ..D. has (1) … . Instead they are (2) … by self-doubt and insecurity and dream of (3) … it all up for another career. In spite of their ‘whiz-kid’ (4) … , the survey of 600 advertising employees from 50 agencies found the industry weary from (5)… . Forty per cent of women said sex (6)… was rife and 73 per cent described advertising as a ‘ terrible career’ for working mother, because of its unpredictability and 12-hour days. Although spending on advertising by (7) … companies has increased, only 28 per cent of a advertising employees were prepared to say that they (8)… believe the campaign were (9) … . Dominic Mills, editor of the industry’s trade magazine Campaign, which (10) … the survey, was shocked by the results. ‘It is (11) …to think that so many people in advertising believe their (12) … are falling (13) … of the mark but this is (14) … what people privately think,’ she said. Between 1990 and 1992 a fifth of people in the advertising industry lost their jobs. Asked what job they would most like to do instead, the (15) … said they would become barristers, writers, actors or artists.

0. A questionnaire B research C investigation D survey

1. A exposed B expressed C revealed D published

2. A plagued B pestered C pursued D published

3. A taking B putting C making D giving

4. A image B view C appearance D aspect

5. A overtime B overwork C overpay D overdose

6. A persecution B discrimination C oppression D domination

7. A greater B grander C major D leader

8. A genuinely B authentically C surely D certainly

9. A sufficient B capable C effective D proficient

10. A made B conducted C performed D executed

11. A shattering B smashing C striking D staggering

12. A tires B attempts C efforts D endeavours

13. A short B outside C beyond D off

14. A truly B clearly C rightly D deeply

15. A saved B rescued C blessed D survivors

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