Variant 2

1. Put this or these

1. _____department

2. _____ managers

3. _____businessmen

4. _____technology

5. _____corporation

2. Fill in the correct modal verb.

1. All the companies ______ design their accounts in a way that reflects the nature of the business.

2. In order to increase their wealth owners _______ invest in a business.

3. It ________ be an excellent long-term investment.

4. You ________ make a profit on the sale.

5. I ________ several days for studying the company’s Annual Report.

6. Corporations _________ financing for the purchase of assets and the payment of expenses.

7. The corporations _________ issue shares in exchange for money or property.

8. A corporation _________ get capital by borrowing.

3. Translate the sentences. Name the type of the conditional sentences.

1. If I were you, I wouldn’t have got offended.

2. If I had been in your place, I wouldn’t have got offended.

3. If anything had been wrong with the car, they would have gone by train.

4. If he were not so absent-minded, he would not have forgotten it.

5. If the customer had taken part in the competition, he might have won it.

6. If he was displeased, we would notice it.

4. Translate the sentences:

1. Если бы я знал французский, я бы помог вам.

2. Если бы он был более пунктуален, с ним было бы легче иметь дело.

3. Если бы он получил ваше письмо, то бы приехал раньше.

4. Если бы вы не вмешивались, они, возможно, спорили бы долго.

5. Если бы он был более опытен, он не сделал бы такой ошибки.

5. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

1. I _______ (see) Sue in town yesterday but she ________ (not/see) me.

2. I _______ (meet) Tom and Ann at the airport a few week ago.

3. Next week they _______ (do) to Berlin and I _______ (go) to Madrid.

4. We ________ (have) a chat while we ________ (wait) for our flights.

5. How fast ________ (you/drive) when the accident ________ (happen)?

6. The vice president usually _________ (to set) objectives for the staff.

7. Don’t disturb me, please, I _______ (to work) with annual report.

8. This firm often ________ (to advertise) in different newspapers and magazines.

6. Define the tense of the verbs. Translate the sentences.

1. Tom burnt his hand when he was cooking the dinner.

2. I’ve drunk four cups of coffee today.

3. Have you ever eaten caviar?

4. Karen didn’t want to come to the cinema with us because she had already seen the film.

5. At first I thought I’d done the right thing, but I soon realized that I’d made a serious mistake.

7. Read and translate the text. Product develpoment and planning

The number of new products coming into the market of western countries every year is overwhelming. The major part of these products is not new; they are existing items to which a modification has been made. Only few products are really original or innovations. For instance a clock-television is an adaptation, but TV-set itself, the refrigerator – each was an innovation. A great number of innovations and adaptations are designed, produced and marketed by small businesses. Very often a new product a new product is formed on the basis of the new business. Sometimes there is a patent to make the businesses more successful. But it happens very often that market research hasn’t been done carefully.

Even in case larger scale producers do more research and testing there is no sure success. A promising new product may be also robbed of success by unreasonable prices, inadequate promotion and poor selling methods. Generally less than one fifth of all new products turn out to be profitable.