9. Перепишите и письменно переведите последний абзац текста.

Вариант 4

1. Прочтите текст

London and finance

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is the political, cultural, commercial, industrial and financial centre of the country. At the same time London is one of the world's financial capitals. The business centre of London is the City, where numerous banks, various exchanges, insurance offices, shipping and other companies have their head offices.

At the heart of the City is the London Stock Exchange where millions of shares and securities are traded daily. There are stock exchanges in several other cities of the United Kingdom but the London Stock Exchange is the most important. The London Stock Exchange offers the largest range and number of securities quoted on any Stock Exchange in the world. In volume of business it ranks third to New York and Tokyo.

London is also the headquarters of many prominent international banking and insurance companies which deal in foreign shares, insurance and bonds and handle English investments in other countries.

The central feature of government finance is the Bank of England, founded under a royal charter as a private company in 1694 to provide loans to the Government. It was nationalized in 1946 by Act of Parliament. The Bank of England is the country's national bank, it carries out govern­ment monetary policies and acts as the "banker's bank" for privately owned banks. Most domestic banking operations of the United Kingdom are carried on by commercial banks. The main commercial banks are Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, Midland Bank and National Westminster Bank, often referred to as "the Big Four".

2. Напишите по-английски ответы на следующие вопросы:

a. How important is the London Stock Exchange in the world business activity?

b. With what purpose was the Bank of England founded?

3. Перепишите первый абзац текста, подчеркнув все подлежащие и сказуемые в предложениях.

4. Найдите в словаре следующие слова, перепишите транскрипцию и выпишите основные значения приведенных слов; расположите их в алфавитном порядке:

loan, to found, privately, to nationalize, domestic, volume, commercial, numerous, to quote, monetary

5. Переведите словосочетания:

government policy

bank operation

world trade

business volume

head office

6. Задайте 5 вопросов разных типов к выделенному предложению в 4 абзаце.

7. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательных:

- Could you sell these models at a lower price?

- Those engines are more expensive.

- Let us make a deeper analysis of the situation.

- The greater the variety of the goods the larger is the market share.

- It is necessary to use the latest technologies in the manufacture of such goods.

8. Переведите предложения с конструкцией There is\ are:

• There are a lot of operations done in this bank every day.

• There are large stock exchanges in Tokyo and in New York.

• Are there any insurance offices in this street?

• There are no British investments in this country.

• There are some head offices of the largest world companies in the City of London, aren’t there?