h.raise

i.call

Exercise 2. Choose the Russian equivalents to the English adjectives.

1.worthless share – никчёмная, никудышная, обесцененная

2.specific amount of money – характерное, определённое, специфическое

3.major financial center – важный, крупнейший, старший, большой

4.booming industry – развивающаяся, получившая внезапное развитие, шумно рекламируемая

5.reduced dividends – незначительные, ликвидированные, сниженные

LANGUAGE ACTIVITY

Exercise 1. Insert prepositions (to, between, of, on, with, in) if necessary.

1.I sold this picture … more money than I had paid for it.

2.The bondholders are paid off … shareholders.

3.The company should provide its shareholders … a high return.

4.Private business is allowed … almost every country.

5.Our business is limited … the sale of electronic equipment.

6.The shareholders get reward … the suppliers and the banks.

Exercise 2. Translate the sentences paying attention to the tenses of the predicates.

1.Goods sent by sea to Japan will take four weeks to reach the receiver.

2.– What are you doing here in the post-office?

- I’m posting a letter to our partners.

3.The organization of transport becomes of great importance for every business.

4.When you called to us we were discussing the terms of payment.

5.Only by the end of the working day the business partners had solved all problems.

6.Our enterprise will have borrowed money by the time of paying tax.

7.Next year we’ll be gradually reducing our contacts with small firms.

8.Mr. Smith has been working for our firm for 20 years.

Exercise 3. Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct forms.

1.My brother is not in Moscow now. He (to travel) abroad.

2.The earliest money (to serve) as a unit of account.

3.During the last year we (to trade) with the same company.

4.Every morning I (to drink) my coffee.

5.The workers just (to receive) the salary.

6.We were informed that the bankruptcy of the enterprise already (to become) the reality.

7.Economists predict that later our budget deficit (to result in) the trade imbalance.

8.By 1910 Henry Ford (to begin) a small enterprise.

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