II. Подберите слова или выражения из раздела а, соответствующие значениям слов или словосочетаний из раздела в.

А a) job seekers f) doctorate k) Interviewees p) Initiative b) bonus g) job offer l) Candidates q) company car c) applicants h) advertisement m) Diploma r) independence d) confidence i) qualifications n) Interview s) pension plan e) shortlist j) enthusiasm o) Degree t) health insurance

В 1. fringe benefits 3. stages in recruiting 5. people looking for work

2. education 4. personal qualities

III. Дополните текст «Casualties of the Trade Wars» подходящими по смыслу предложениями, приведёнными ниже:

a) The 150 sweaters she sent off last week to Saks Fifth Avenue were the last order of the company's books.

b) As a result, Robertson has laid off her first worker in her production plant in the Scottish borders town of Ha wick, where more than half of Europe's cashmere goods are produced.

c) With the spring shows just around the corner, this is normally a busy time of year for Belinda Robertson, an Edinburgh-based producer of cashmere clothing for fashion houses, boutiques and department stores.

3.2 Casualties of the Trade Wars

If you think fashion is unpredictable, try world trade ^l _____.

Last year she did 60% of her $2.5 million annual sales in the United States, but this year is starting differently.² _____. "We're low on work at the moment," she says, because the mere threat of US trade sanctions has put American buyers in wait-and-see mode.

³ _____. Officials fear the loss there of as many as 700 further jobs. Hawick's fate is tied, bizarrely, to bananas. Because the US believes EU trade policy unfairly favours crops from ex-colonies in the Caribbean and Africa over those owned by US firms like Chiquita and Dole, it threatens more than $500 million in "cross-sanctions" against unrelated European exports from almost 20 product categories like plastics, sweet biscuits - and cashmere.

Washington won't introduce the 100% punitive tariffs until March at the earliest, depending on the outcome of negotiations at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. But the threat alone is enough to damage Hawick's cashmere industry. Clan Douglas Ltd., for instance, landed a $1.65 million order from an American department store just before Christmas. That price included normal duties of $100,000, but if the sanctions kick in they will rise to almost $800,000. "Our commitment to our contract could force us into bankruptcy," says finance director Jeff Gutteridge. There's no American cashmere to fill the gap. Top-grade weaves come from Scotland and from Northern Italy, whose industry faces the same US sanctions; next in line is China with whom the US already has an immense trade deficit. "If this goes through," says Gutteridge, "the Americans will be handing over our business to China and destroying the economic base of this town."