Exercise 8. Remake the sentences using Passive Voice like shown in the example: We often speak about him – He is often spoken about.

1. They thought about Martin all the time. 2. The doctor will operate this old woman in a week. 3. They looked for the newspaper everywhere. 4. Nobody slept in this bed. 5. The neighbor asked for the telegram. 6. Everybody listened to the lecturer with a great attention. 7. The senior students laughed at the freshman. 8. The young mother looked at her little baby with great care. 9. Nobody lived in that old house. 10. They told him to prepare a report on that subject.

Additional study: Economics’ study

I. Read and translate the text

One of the things that people discover every day is that you can't have everything. You are reminded of it every time you go shopping. Although you may see twenty or thirty items that you would really like to buy, you know that you will have to limit your selection to one or two. Everyone goes through life having to make choices.

Every business, even sports teams, must pick and choose from among the things they would like to have because they cannot have everything. Governments, too, cannot have everything. Every year the most important political debates concern questions about spending taxpayers' money.

Neither individuals nor societies can have all the things they would like to have. There simply is not enough of everything. Economists note that there is no limit to the amount or kinds of things that people want. There is, however, a limit to the resources, things used to produce goods and services, available to satisfy those wants. Once that limit is reached, nothing else can be produced. In other words, when nation's resources (all its workers, factories, farms, etc.) are fully employed, the only way it will be able to increase the production of one thing will be by reducing the production of something else.

To summarize: human wants are unlimited, but the resources necessary to satisfy those wants are limited. Thus, every society is faced with the identical problem, the problem of scarcity.

Vocabulary

to discover – открывать

to remind – напоминать

to limit – ограничивать

debate – дебаты

to concern – беспокоится, касаться

amount – количество

available – доступный

resource – источник

to increase – увеличивать

production – производство

to summarize – обобщать

scarcity – нехватка, недостаток

II. Make up your own examples with the vocabulary given above

III. Answer the questions

1. What do people discover every day?

2. What does everyone have to go through?

3. Do governments have everything? Why?

4. What do economists note?

5. Are human wants limited?

IV. Explain the following statements using the information from the text and your own opinion

• In our life we can't have everything.

• We have to go through life having to make choices.

• There simply is not enough of everything.

V. Put all questions to the sentence