17) Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What goods are called visible and invisible ones?

2. What is the main difference between domestic trade and international trade?

3. What are the most common ways of controlling international trade?

4. A quota is a tax imposed on imported goods, isn’t it?

5. What is GNP?

6. How long will trade barriers exist?

7. What international trade organizations do you know?

18) Найдите синонимы:

The market is easy, financial market, producer, the market is week, quantity, goods, money market, the market is flat, commodities, the market is off, amount, manufacturer.

19) Найдите антонимы:

The market is steady, flat market, buyer’s market, bear market, closed market, quantity, seller’s market, bull market, the market is unsettled, open market, quality, active market.

20) Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски соответствующими вариантами ответов.

The company (1) ___ in 1946 as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation and changed its name to Sony Corporation in 1958. In 1960 it (2) ___ the Sony Corporation of America in New York and Sony S. A. in Switzerland. In 1961 Sony became the first Japan-based company (3) ___ its shares on the United States stock market.

In the late 1970s Sony introduced the Walkman, a portable headset stereo system, and later the Watchman, a television small enough (4) ___ as a wristwatch. Sony’s Betamax was the first home videotape recorder on the market, but the system eventually (5) ___ by the VHS videotape format; the VHS format became the industry videotape standard. Sony’s Betacam system is now the standard in commercial broadcasting equipment, however.

Nowadays, after the acquisition of CBS Records and Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Sony (6) ___ a major force in the recording, motion-picture, and television production industries as well as the leading producer of computer games with advanced three-dimensional graphics.

For the last several years Sony actively (7) ___ innovation by its employees. The company (8) ___ an annual contest in which engineers show off their prototypes; bonuses (9) ___ to those whose prototypes (10) ___ for eventual manufacture and marketing.

1. a) established b) was established c) has been established d) has established

2. a) was established b) was establishing c) has been established d) established

3. a) offered b) had offered c) to offer d) was offered

4. a) to be worn b) wearing c) wore d) had worn

5. a) replaced b) to replace c) was replaced d) has replaced

6. a) become b) has become c) became d) had become

7. a) encourages b) are encouraging c) has been encouraging d) encouraged

8. a) holds b) is held c) has been held d) is being held

9. a) awarded b) are awarded c) award d) had awarded

10. a) had selected b) selected c) select d) are selected

5.5 Контрольные упражнения

1. Дополните второе предложение так, чтобы значение было таким же как в первом предложении. Используйте Passive Voice.

1. People in the west buy too much food.

Too much food ___ in the west.

2. We do not eat all the food we buy.

Not all the food we buy ___ .

3. Last year we threw away more than six million tones of food.

More than six million tones of food ___.

4. The “Love Food Hate Waste” organization started a campaign to stop waste.

A campaign to stop waste ____ by ___.

5. The campaigners persuaded thousands of people to waste less food.

Thousands of people ___.