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Tell what is meant by the following:

1. strata

1. obligation b) class in a society c) responsibility d) citizenship

2. nominate

1. suggest officially that smb. should be chosen for a role, position.

2. find out or make certain of smth. c) give a document, proposal

4. to limit to certain obligation

1. dismiss

a) choose smb. by voting b) check c) officially remove smb. from their job

4. ascertain

1. The Us president is checked by

a) Parliament b) Prime Minister c) Constitution d) Congress

5. Monarchy are divided into …. types.

a) constitutional + absolute b) economic and mental

c) executive and legislative d) parliamentary + presidential

6. Who is the official head of the state of Great Britain?

a) President b) Prime Minister c) the King or Queen d) Chancellor

7. What body is the legislative power represented by?

a) Parliament b) Congress c) Cabinet d) Church

8. How is the Prime Minister chosen? He is appointed by …

a) House of Commons b) Cabinet c) King (Queen) d) House of Lords

9. Who are civil servants?

a) Lords Spiritual b) Lords Temporal d) Lords of Appeal d) permanent officials

10. What branch of the Government has the responsibility to carry out the law?

a) Legislative branch b) Executive branch c) Judicial branch d) the Senate

11. Who would you contact or call on in the situation below?

You want advice on investment or insurance.

a) architect b) solicitor c) travel agent d) vicar

12. He suffers from alcohol …

a) abusive b) abusiveness c) abuse d) abusively

13. State the syntactic function of the Gerund. The one lesson that emerges is the need to keep trying.

a) subject b) object c) predicative d) attribute

13. State the syntactic function of the Gerund.

At all times the Kazakh’s priority has been cattle breeding.

1. subject b) predicative c) a part of a compound verbal predicate d) attribute

13. When an inventor asks the authorities to officially recognize an invention as his / her property.

a) royalty payment b) licensing agreement c) intellectual property d) patent application

16. Match the sentence beginning with the correct ending. Banks are adding new types of accounts.

a) to their product mix b) of cigarettes in movies c) and deliver fewer but more competitive models d) of their using

17. What does “price hike” mean?

a) a reduction in price b) an increase in price c) government efforts to limit price increases

d) a company that is first to reduce or increase prices

18. What does “price tag” mean?

a) a good period for sellers, when prices are rising quickly

b) when competing companies reduce prices in response to each other

c) label attached to goods, showing the price; also means “price”

d) a small group of buyers.

19. Shareholders are …

a) who puts up money b) who lends money c) who borrows money d) who pays interest

20. What does “debt crisis” mean?

a) when a company fails to make a debt repayment b) a company’s debt, especially when considered as a person c) when a company has serious difficulty repaying its debt

d) repayment debts and terms