V. Fill in prepositions, where necessary

1. Bill Gates carved … an empire so profitable that … the late nineties, his company was taken … court and accused … intimidating rivals.

2. … the dawn … the twentieth century, cars were replacing carriages and people were flying … airplanes.

3. Coal was found … abundance … the Appalachian Mountains … Pennsylvania south … Kentucky.

4. Frederick Taylor plotted the functions … various workers and then devisied more efficient ways … them to do their jobs.

5. Henry Ford adopted the moving assembly line, … each worker doing one simple task … the production … automobiles.

6. Most American business leaders … today serve … boards … charities and schools.

7. Often their success lay … seeing the long-range potential … a new service or product, as John D. Rockefeller did … oil.

8. The crucial change came … the emergence … the corporation, which appeared first … the railroad industry.

9. The rise … the corporation triggered, … turn, the rise … an organized labor movement.

10. They are concerned … the state … the national economy and America's relationship … other nations.

VI. Fill in articles where necessary

1. As … American economy matured in … twentieth century, … freewheeling business mogul lost luster as … American ideal.

2. Bill Gates, … head of Microsoft, built … immense fortune developing and selling computer software.

3. Ford enabled many of his workers to buy … automobiles they made, helping … industry to expand.

4. Gates also established … charitable foundation that quickly became … largest of its kind.

5. Henry Ford adopted … moving assembly line, with each worker doing one simple task in … production of automobiles.

6. In what turned out to be … farsighted action, Ford offered … very generous wage, five dollars … day, to his workers.

7. Most Americans, living in … society with … more fluid class structure, enthusiastically embraced … idea of moneymaking.

8. Parallel to these achievements was … development of … nation's industrial infrastructure.

9. … rapid economic development laid … groundwork for … modern U.S. industrial economy.

10. … rise of … corporation triggered … rise of … organized labor movement.

VII. Complete the following sentences filling in appropriate words from the box

achievements; corporations; emergence; entrepreneurial; explosion; foundation; groundwork; in abundance; industrial economy; industrial infrastructure; mineral resources; railroad industry; rapid; raw materials; rich in; technocrats; tycoons.

1. Business barons were replaced by … high-salaried managers who became the heads of … .

2. Coal was found … in the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania south to Kentucky.

3. Gates also established a charitable … that quickly became the largest of its kind.

4. Mills thrived in places where these two important … could be brought together to produce steel.

5. Parallel to these … was the development of the nation's … .

6. The crucial change came with the … of the corporation, which appeared first in the … and then elsewhere.

7. The … of new discoveries and inventions took place, causing such profound changes that some termed the results a "second industrial revolution."

8. The … economic development following the Civil War laid the … for the modern U.S. … .

9. The technological revolution brought a new … culture that echoes of the age of … .

10. The USA, a highly developed industrialized country, is … natural and … .