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1. How many vehicles will there be on the world's roads in the near future?

2. What problems does environmental concern grow over?

3. Does vehicle air-conditioning affect environment?

4. Is A/C standard on most new vehicles in the U.S. now?

5. What will vehicle makers have to determine to manage total vehicle emissions?

Вариант 5

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THE AUTOMOBILE DILEMMA

If there is one common problem which most industrialized countries face today it is that of growing traffic congestion, and nowhere is the problem older that in the United States. Today it has more than 100 million cars and trucks on the road, and the world's largest automobile industry. And what is perhaps even more interesting, about 85 per cent of all travelling that is done in the USA is done by car.

Public transportation systems had never been very well organized in many US cities, and after World War II even the existing ones could not compete with the flood of new cars and the new highways. Fewer and fewer passengers used trains and buses, which meant that many train services were shut down and bus services reduced. One important reason for this was that the average American, whose dream was to buy a home of his own, could only afford to do so in one of the new suburbs, which were far away from existing railroads and bus lines. In order to get to work and back again he needed a car. And so did his wife who could do her shopping only by car. And if she urgently had to go to the doctor's or suddenly felt like visiting a friend, again it could only be done by car. Not surprisingly, public transportation was used less.

Nowadays almost every American has at least one car and he doesn't believe in walking anywhere if he can go in a car.

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1. What is the common problem which most industrialized countries face?

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3. What happened to many of the public transportation sys­tems in America after the Second World War?

4. Had ever public transportation systems been well organized in the USA?

5. Does an average American get to work and back again by bus or by car?

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080100.62 "Экономика", 080200.62 "Менеджмент" вариант 1

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET

Investors buy stock for one simple reason: to make money. The surest way to earn money from investing is to create as diverse a portfolio as possible and hang on to it for a long time. To succeed at making money investors need good sources of information.

Much information is supplied by stockbrokers. They study market reports and get information on the forecasted financial performance of companies. Brokers usually recommend opportunities or provide special services such as newsletters. For this brokers charge additional fees.

Sometimes investors prefer to avoid high brokerage fees. They implement their own investment strategy. Serious investors subscribe to investment newsletters and carefully study the stock market.

A simpler investment strategy is to choose some reliable blue chip stock and stick them. This strategy is safe and can earn money over the long run. Investors should avoid making common mistakes, which are: failure to diversity, paying too much for a stock, which would not go up, not knowing when to sell a stock going down, paying too much attention to rumors and tips.

There are also several techniques of predicting the stock prices. Most investors begin with fundamental analysis, which is the process of comparing a company’s current financial position and future prospects with those of other firms in the same or different industries. Some investors usually called “chartists” try to identify a specific stock’s behavior charting it over time and then predicting its future price movement. Other investors believe that prices are random. The random walk theory is based on the assumption that future stock prices are independent of past stock prices. They choose stocks at random. A group of investors has adopted an unusual approach, which holds that the market will move in the direction opposite to that predicted by general public. In other words, these investors do the opposite of what the general public does.