Контрольная работа № 1 Вариант 1

Для выполнения контрольной работы необходимо усвоить следующий грамматический материал:

• Модальные глаголы can, must, may, needn't.

• The Present Continuous Tense и The Simple Future Tense для выражения будущего времени. Конструкция to be going to + инфинитив.

• Косвенная речь (Reported Speech).

• Степени сравнения прилагательных (Degrees of comparison of adjectives).

Повторить: времена группы Simple, The Present and Past Perfect Tenses, The Present and Past Continuous Tenses.

Рекомендуемая литература: Учебник английского языка для делового общения: в 6 т. / Г.А. Дудкина [и др.]. – М.: ИОСО РАО, 2001. – Уроки 1–6 (вводно-фонетический курс); уроки 1–9 (основной курс).

Деловой английский. English for Business: учебник английского языка: в 2 ч. / Т.К. Алексеева, В.Г. Дарская [и др.].– М.: Вече, 2000.

I Прочитайте и письменно переведите текст. Foreign Trade in Belarus

In order to create a favourable international trade and investment climate for the national economy the Republic of Belarus has signed 23 agreements on mutual protection of investments.

The basic criteria in concluding bilateral agreements are:

1 The needs of Belarus which can be satisfied through improving external economic relations.

2 Working out a conceptual perspective of development and establishing economic relations with foreign countries with regard to the blocks of countries (EC^, East Europe, the USA, Canada, the CIS, South-East Asia, etc), the level of economic integration with them.

3 Basic areas of trade and economic cooperation.

Special attention is paid to the conclusion of the bilateral agreements on mutual protection of investments. The expansion and improvement of the legal base can play a positive role in effective attraction of foreign capital in case of appropriate economic conditions. It is proved by figures: investors from Germany, the USA and Poland are putting their resources into the Belarus economy most dynamically – investment agreements with these states were signed in the first place.

Ties of Belarus with the World Trade Organization (WTO), the multilateral structure, which occupies a central place in regulating the contemporary system of international trade and economic relations, are of the uppermost importance for the Republic.

The period from 1997 to 2000 was decisive in including the Republic of Belarus into the WTO. Of particular importance for the future of Belarus is the step-by-step development of mutual relations in all fields – in politics, trade, finance, science, education, culture – with the European Union (EU). The beginning of the legal realization of wide scale cooperation with the EU was laid down in 1995 by signing an agreement on partnership and cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the European Union.

The Republic of Belarus regards the European Union as its closest neighbour and major trading partner.

Foreign trade in Belarus traditionally develops in two basic perspectives: eastern – with the CIS, and western – with distant foreign states.

The regional structure of foreign trade in Belarus is fairly diverse.

Слова и словосочетания:

1 to create – создавать

2 trade – торговля

3 to sign – подписывать

4 agreement – соглашение

5 to improve – улучшать

improvement – улучшение

6 to work out – разрабатывать

7 cooperation – сотрудничество

8 to conclude – заключать

conclusion – заключение

9 to expend – расширять

expansion – расширение

10 legal order (base) – законодательный порядок (база)

11 to protect – защищать

protection – защита

12 foreign capital – иностранный капитал

13 multilateral structure – многоуровневая структура

14 decisive – решающий

15 partner – партнер

partnership – партнерство

16 diverse – разнообразный

17 the CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States) – СНГ (Содружество Независимых Государств)