Министерство образования Российской Федерации

Ростовский государственный экономический университет

Факультет лингвистики и журналистки

Агабабян С.Р., Самарская С.В.,

Могильная Т.Р., Васичкина О.Н.

Контрольные задания по английскому языку для самостоятельной работы студентов I курса заочной формы обучения факультетов экономических специальностей

Ростов-на-Дону

2004

Печатается по решению кафедры иностранных языков РГЭУ (РИНХ)

Авторы – составители: Агабабян С.Р., Самарская С.В., Могильная Т.Р., Васичкина О.Н.

Рецензенты: Евсюкова Т.В., Локосова А.С.

Учебно-методическое пособие по английскому языку содержит контрольные задания и тексты для работы студентов I курса заочного отделения факультетов экономических специальностей. Контрольные задания выполняются в соответствие с учебным планом, каждый студент выбирает один из трех вариантов контрольного задания по указанию методиста.

Учебно-методическое пособие составлено в соответствие с современными методическими подходами на основе оригинальных материалов . Они содержат необходимую лексику и грамматические задания для проверки и закрепления знаний студентов по данным специальностям. Все материалы и задания подобраны согласно требованиям государственных стандартов.

© Ростовский государственный экономический университет (РИНХ), 2004.

© Агабабян С.Р., Самарская С.В., Могильная Т.Р., Васичкина О.Н.

Контрольное задание №1.

Вариант 1.

Задание 1. Переведите предложения и поставьте их в отрицательную форму. Задайте по одному вопросу с вопросительными словами, приведенными в скобках.

1. Prices have increased by over 10% for the first time since 1982. (What?)

2. Inflation is at its highest level for eight years ( How long?)

3. They were expecting a rise of prices.(What?)

4 Some ministers consider it a disaster for the Government. (Who?)

5. The worst forecast in the City was high level of inflation. (Where?)

6. The new official statistics from the Government are a shock. (What?)

7. In the twelve months to August, the Retail Price Index rose to some extent. (When?)

8. The figure will change Government policy. (What?)

9. The United Nations act together to secure world peace. (How?)

10. The Secretary General of the United Nations has agreed on a peace plan for Europe. (Who?)

Задание 2. Переведите предложения на русский язык. Вставьте пропущенные предлоги.

in, on, by, since, over, with, to, into, from, of.

1. Traditional highly industrialised areas have been badly affected …. the post-industrial recession.

2. The average company is fairly small …. 85 per cent employing fewer than 20 people.

3. The British wool textile industry has been important …. medieval time.

4. Oil is the main source …. power.

5. Britain is now the ninth largest producer of crude oil …. the world.

6. The North Sea oil and gas fields have a fundamental effect .… the economy of the country.

7. It converted .… a fashionable residential district.

8. The decisive role belongs …. the owners of the enterprises.

9. They are self-governing communities numbering…. 200 to 30 000 people.

10. …. half of Britain’s export are to countries in the European Community.

Задание 3.Переведите предложения на русский язык. Выберите правильный вариант.

1. It has kept its position as a great .… region.

a) produce, b) production, c) productivity.

2. Electrical techniques are of growing importance .…well .… instrument engineering.

a) as .… as, b) both …and, c) neither … nor.

3.There .… still a number of large companies.

a) to be, b) is, c) are.

3. It is the service industries that .… most of the British workforce today.

a) to employ, b) employs, c) employ.

4. Today some twenty per cent workforce .… in manufacturing, mining and building.

a) engage, b) are engaged, c) is engaged.

5. Unemployment is very .…

a) high, b) higher, c) highest.

6. .… years have also seen dole queues as it was in 1930s.

a) that, b) this, c) these.

7. It’s a smaller proportion than in .… other industrialized country.

a) some, b) any, c) many.

8. The electronics industry .… a significant factor in reviving Boston’s economic life since World War II.

a) to have been, b) was c) has been

9. This location and the state’s laws favoured …. investments and creation of corporations.

a) privacy, b) private, c) privately.

Задание 4. Переведите приведенные ниже предложения на русский язык.

1. Директор компании обычно сам подписывает документы.

2. Запасы непроданных товаров были так велики, что они не могли реализовать их за такой короткий срок.

3. Договор предусматривал покупку 5000 тонн пшеницы.

4. Это оборудование используется всё чаще и чаще в производстве.

5. Инженер одобрил проект, но указал на некоторые недостатки.

6. Количество товара также не изменилось.

7. Все было готово для начала научно-исследовательской работы.

8. Весь груз, кроме одного ящика, прибыл в неповрежденном состоянии.

9. Он удивился, как будто никогда раньше не видел такое устройство.

10. Им следует обсудить его проект детально.

Задание 5. Переведите текст на русский язык и ответьте на вопросы.

Economics.

Economics is a social science concerned with the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services. Economists focus on the way in which individuals, groups, business enterprises, and governments seek to achieve efficiently any economic objective they select. Other fields of study also contribute to this knowledge: Psychology and ethics try to explain how objectives are formed; history records changes in human objectives; sociology interprets human behaviour in social contexts.

Standard economics can be divided into two major fields. The first, price theory or microeconomics, explains how the interplay of supply and demand in competitive markets creates a multitude of individual prices, wage rates, profit margins, and rental changes. Microeconomics assumes that people behave rationally. Consumers try to spend their income in ways that give them as much pleasure as possible. As economists say, they maximize utility. For their part, entrepreneurs seek as much profit as they can extract from their operations.

The second field, macroeconomics, deals with modern explanations of national income and employment. Macroeconomics dates from the book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1935), by the British economist John Maynard Keynes. His explanation of prosperity and depression centres on the total or aggregate demand for goods and services by consumers, business investors, and governments. Because, according to Keynes, inadequate aggregate demand increases unemployment, the indicated cure is either more investment by businesses or more spending and consequently larger budget deficits by government

1. What is economics?

2. What other fields of study also contribute to this knowledge?

3. What are two major fields of standard economics?

4. What does macroeconomics date from?

5. What does Keynes’ explanation of prosperity and depression centre on?

Верны ли следующие утверждения?

1. Economics is a social science.

2. No other fields of study contribute to this knowledge.

3. Standard economics can be divided into four major fields.

4. Microeconomics assumes that people behave rationally.

5. Macroeconomics doesn’t deal with modern explanations of national income and employment.

Выберите правильный вариант ответа.

1. What is economics?

a) social science, b)an institution, c)a bank.

2. What fields of study try to explain how objectives are formed?

a) history, b)sociology, c)psychology and ethics.

3. How many fields can standard economics be divided into?

a) two, b)three, c)four.

4. What do consumers maximize?

a) income, b)pleasure, c)utility.

5. What does macroeconomics date from?

a) the experience, b) the book, c) the article.