1. Прочтите и переведите текст.

2. Заполните пропуски, используя следующие слова:

Granted, convenience, monetary, commodity, money, direct, inventions, barter, valuation.

1. Money is one of man’s greatest …

2. In the absence of some form of money, exchange may take the form of …

3. If a … is generally acceptable in exchanging for goods and services, it is …

4. Such exchanges are taken for …

5. The … of goods for goods would raise all sorts of problems regarding …

6. It is a great … to hold wealth in the form of money.

7. A complex trading organisation based upon a system of credit can only operate in an economy.

3. Найдите синонимы среди следующих слов:

Means, form, tool, frustrating, obtain, useless, need, instrument, shape, get, medium, commodity, general, require, labour, store, common, article, work, stock, deteriorate, significant, spoil, essential, apparent, conduct, purchase, evident, carry out, buy.

3. Найдите антонимы среди следующих слов:

Absence, increase, major, spread, presence, same, reduce, minor, accumulate, different.

3. Образуйте антонимы от следующих слов, используя нужные префиксы:

Direct, adequately, advantage, efficient, convenience, acceptable, likely.

3. Переведите следующие сочетания слов с русского языка на английский:

Прямой обмен товарами и услугами, с ростом специализации, ряд подобных обменов, гораздо более удобное средство, основная сложность бартерной системы, в развитом обществе, предмет мебели, без использования денег, первый шаг, проблема обменных курсов, запас товаров, большое удобство, огромный недостаток, в период инфляции.

3. Образуйте 3 формы от следующих глаголов:

Take, prove, become, seek, need, find, set, spend, make, come, raise, give, store, fall, pay, spread, do.

3. Составьте предложения, используя следующие слова:

1. One, money, is, man’s, inventions, greatest, of.

2. Is, it, tool, essential, of, an, civilisation.

3. Take, the, exchange, of, may, barter, form.

4. Will, barter, requirements, quite, man’s adequately, serve.

5. Barter, the, system, very, and, inefficient, proves, frustrating.

6. System, very, becomes, exchange, of, cumbersome, this.

7. Upon, a, depends, it, coincidence, wants, of, double.

8. Discovered, a, arrangement, man, more, much, convenient.

9. Removes, the, it, of, the, barter, major, system, difficulty.

10. Exchanges, are, such, for, granted, taken.

11. Would, be, they, without, inconvenient, use, of, the, money.

12. Is, problem, exchange, the, rates, solved, of, easily.

13. Is, to, deferred, it, serve, payment, means, a, as, of.

3. Заполните пропуски предлогами:

1. Monetary policy is concerned with the cost … money.

2. Bank-notes and coins are not the most important form … money … developed economies.

3. Cheques didn’t come … general use … the second half of the seventeenth century.

4. A payment from one person … another merely requires that the banker reduces the amount … one deposit and increases it … another.

5. The transmission … payments … means … cheques creates problems when the person making the payment has an account … a different bank … the person receiving the payment.

6. Most countries have a central bank, which is responsible … the operation … the banking system.

7. Several merchant banks date back … the nineteenth century.

8. … recent years there has been a considerable extension … the range … financial services offered … building societies.