9. Explain in English:

a trade-off; the law of diminishing returns.

Вариант 3.

Read and translate the following sentences. Make them first negative, then interrogative.

1. International organizations regulate tariffs and reduce trade restrictions between countries.

2. DX Communications has subsidiaries in Ireland and Holland.

3. Electrolux launched its new vacuum cleaner three weeks ago.

4. The secretary wrote this urgent business letter an hour ago.

5. We are looking for a Finance Manager with good communication skills.

6. They are discussing the price question at the moment.

7. The Bundesbank will continue to exist and fulfill all its current functions except setting interest rates.

8. Middle-sized banks will survive after the recession but small ones will have no chance.

2. Ask questions of 4 types (general, special, alternative, disjunctive) about each sentence.

1. She looks through catalogues every day.

2. This candidate has creative and entrepreneurial abilities.

3. The Colgate Company is improving the quality of goods.

4. The level of unemployment is increasing in some countries of Western Europe.

5. The Internet will revolutionize the way new employees are recruited.

3. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Indefinite Tense. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian.

1. Another branch, development economics, (to investigate) the history and changes of economic activity and organization over a period of time, as well as their relation to other activities and institutions.

Within these three major divisions there (to be) specialized areas of study that (to attempt) to answer questions on a broad spectrum of human economic activity, including public finance, money supply and banking, international trade, labor, industrial organization, and agriculture.

2. 1946 A German doctor Klaus Maertens, (to live) in Seeshaupt, near Munich, (to go) skiing and (to injure) his foot. He (to made) himself a pair of shoes from old tyres with air soles to cushion the foot. Dr Maertens and a friend, Dr Herbert Funck, an engineer, (to patent) and (to develop) the Doctor Maertens shoe.

1959 Maertens and Funck (to sell) the manufacturing rights to R. Griggs and Co., a traditional British bootmaker. 1 April 1960 the first British DMs (to go) on sale.

Mid 1960s British youth (to adopt) the DM as a symbol of their anti-establishment attitudes. 1970s Unemployed youth (to wear) DMs and (to behave) violently on football terraces. The Police (to wear) DMs to catch them. 1971 Rebels (to wear) DMs in Stanley Kubrick's violent film A Clockwork Orange. 1975 Elton John (to wear) giant DMs in the rock-opera Tommy. 1970s Punk rock fans (to adopt) them.

4. Complete each paragraph, using the verbs in the box. Translate.

amount decide employ run go

In 1989, Bell___ public. By now the firm______750 people and sales_______ to over $159 million. Then two years later employees______to celebrate in April by hanging a giant inflatable banana outside company headquarters, the first of many publicity stunts. On another occasion the CEO______the London marathon.