Вариант 1
I. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в каждом из них видовременную форму и залог глагола-сказуемого (см. образец). Переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. The main objective has always been maximizing profits and minimizing losses.
2. The policies will be generally established by the board of Directors.
3. When we telephoned on 23rd of May we were assured by your Chief Buyer, Mr. K. Innis that a cheque would be forwarded to us that day.
4. The shares of ownership are represented by stock certificates.
II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения слов it, that, one.
1. It is proved that business can raise enormous sums of money by selling shares of the company to members of the public.
2. One must work hand in hand with our financially responsible people so that we might be in the know of what is going on at our financial front.
3. It goes without saying that the financial director bears full responsibility of what has happened.
III. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения глаголов to be, to have, to do.
1. You have to come to Mr. Robertson’s office for a business meeting.
2. Officials from industrial countries did not reach agreement on reforms to export credit rules.
3. The Marketing Manager’s main job is to sell the product.
4. The meeting of stockholders was to start in the morning.
IV. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.
1. We know agriculture produces nearly two – thirds of Britain’s food requirements.
2. The ownership of the company the shareholders made was of great importance.
V. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимания на функцию инфинитива.
1. It is very important for a manager to have a skill in human relations which has become an important part of effective management.
2. To increase the productivity of goods one must use the methods offered by the company.
3. English businessmen were the first to discuss the prices for different goods, terms of payment and delivery.
4. Our idea was to provide shipping facilities and sell our goods on CIF terms.
VI. Прочитайте и переведите с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 5-й и 6-й абзацы.
What is Business?
1. Business is not an easy thing. It's rather a difficult kind of human activity. It has many important elements such as money, taxes, customers, transport banks and others. There are two general types of business: small business and big business.
2. Why do people do business? Why do they like small business? People do business by producing goods or providing services. They buy and sell goods. They do business for a profit. There is no business without a profit. If you ask me "What business is good?", my answer will be: "All businesses are good".
3. Production of goods is very profitable, provision of different services is profitable too. Communications are a good business too, for example, telephone, telegraph and mail services. Financial services, for example, banking and insurance, work very well, too.
4. So, people do different types of business for a profit. Doing business has become very popular everywhere. For example, the whole families in America run small businesses now. At present it is very popular to be a businessman or a businesswoman. It should be noted that women, like men, successfully run a firm or a company, they prove to be good bank managers or shop keepers.
5. Briefly speaking, doing business is a comparatively new and perspective tendency in modern life.
6. There are three main types of business: a sole trader (you alone have responsibility for the business and you take all profits after paying income tax on them); a partnership (a group of between 2 or twenty people trade, as one firm, and share responsibility for debts, decision-making and the profits); a limited company/Ltd./ (a company formed by two or more shareholders who put money into the business in return for a share of the profits).
Прочтите 4-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос.
What is new and perspective tendency in modern life?
People do business by producing goods or providing services.
Doing business is a comparatively new and perspective tendency in modern life.
At present it is very popular to be a businessman or a businesswoman.