VIII. Письменно ответьте на вопросы.

1. What is a planned economy?

2. What are the advantages of a planned economy?

3. Are there any disadvantages of a planned economy?

Вариант №7

I. Перепишите предложения, раскрыв скобки, поставьте глагол в требуемом времени и залоге. Выпишите глаголы и укажите их видовременную форму.

1. Snow (to promise) tomorrow by the forecast. If it (to snow) tomorrow, I (to stay) at home.

2. Horses (to introduce) into the Americans by Spaniards in the early fifteenth century. Spanish explorers (to bring) them in their ships and later most of the horses (to become) wild animals.

3. When I (to get) to the Parker family yesterday afternoon around two o'clock, Mr. Parker (to work) on his car. He said he (to get) in a road accident and the repairs (to take) him another day or two. .

4. - Where's Robinson?

- He (to prepare) for tomorrow's seminar. He just (to return) from the library.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

The buffalo is ... large animal living in ... North America. Many years ago ... people from ... other lands came to America. ... immigrants crossed ... country in ... Wagon trains. They killed ... buffalo for ... food. Today you can sometimes buy ... buffalo meat at a restaurant

III. Вставьте правильный предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

1. Who is responsible in your family... washing the dishes ... dinner?

2. Jane has been interested ... ancient history ... her first year ...college.

3. My coat is similar ... yours but different ... Ben's.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1. just/I/for/waiting/he/have/man/is/the/been.

2. understand/the/about/you/teacher/is/do/what/talking?

3. mother/to/take/me/advised/my/English/course/another.

V. Переведите на английский язык слова, данные в скобках.

1. There are (меньше) mistakes in your test than in mine.

2. He had two choices but he didn't want (ни один) of them.

3. Tim works (усердно) at school but Tom is a bit lazy.

4. Will you (сделать) me a favour?

5. I don't want (ничего) at all.

6. It isn't as (легко) as that.

7. The flag (поднялся) on the mountain peak.

8. Every evening he (рассказывает) a story to his son.

VI. Выберите правильный вариант.

1. a) The bill isn't such expensive as I thought it would be. b) The bill isn't so expensive as I thought it would be.

c) The bill isn't more expensive as I thought it would be. 2. a) I haven't been at the cinema for ages.

b) I wasn't at the cinema for ages.

c) I won't be at the cinema for ages.

VII. Прочитайте текст и письменно переведите 4-й абзац.

SMALL BUSINESS IN THE USA

Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans start their own businesses. A government agency, the Small Business Administration helps with information, advice, and, sometimes, loans and grants. Many large companies with many stores started as one-store operations.

The Coca-Cola company, which distributes its soft drinks around the world, began when a pharmacist mixed together the first Coca-Cola drink and began selling in the southern city of Atlanta, Georgia.

Blue jeans, the popular denim trousers known to teenagers around the world, were invented by a poor cloth peddler who sold his first pair to gold miners in California in the 1880s. His company, Levi Strauss, remains one of the largest clothing manufacturers in the United States.

One of the most significant changes in recent decades has been a shift away from the production of goods to the delivery of services as the dominant feature of the American economy. Where once most workers in the United States produced actual goods - from toothpaste to tires - most Americans today work in the sector of the economy that is broadly defined as providing services. Service industries include retail businesses, hotels and restaurants, federal and local government, office administration, banking and finance, and many other types of work. At the same time, as many traditional manufacturing enterprises in the United States decline or grow slowly, new companies spring up that are developing high technology computer, aerospace or biochemical products and services.

Business organizations in the US have been eager to spread the message of free enterprise to new generations of Americans. Through a variety of means, they carry their message into the schools and into the television screens of the nation. One of many activities sponsored by US businesses is a nationwide program called Junior achievement. Local business people help high-school-age «junior achievers» to organize small companies, sell stock to friends and parents, produce and market a product (key chains, perhaps, or wall decorations) and pay stockholders a dividend. The same young people act as company officers, sales people and production workers. The idea is to give young people a deeper appreciation to the role entrepreneurship plays in a capitalist society and to give them experience in business practices.