1. Complete the words in the right-hand column.

a rich person who buys and sells	m__________
a ship that transports oil	t__________
a large number of ships	f__________
something that makes a lot of money is	l___________
absolutely necessary	e_________
a lower price	r__________
a serious or dangerous situation	e__________
to seem likely to harm	t__________
a formal expression of something	s___________

2. Fill each gap in the following passage with an appropriate word.

The Armenian _____ wants to make a _______ with Achmed Onasti, a foreign oil _____, for 10m barrels of ____ oil. This oil is to____ used to provide power for _____ industries such as country’s ______ supply. Onasti owns the world’s biggest _____ of oil tankers, as well ___ dozens of other highly profitable _______. He also owns an airline ____ uses the main airport _____, the Capital City, a great _____.

Onasti buys most of his ___ in the Middle East and ___ transports it all over the ____ with his fleet of tankers. ____, as well as his other _____ interests, has brought him from the ____ streets of Cairo to _____ one of the world’s richest _____.

3. Provide, supply and deliver.

“Provide”,” supply” and “deliver” have similar meanings:

provide

We can supply } all the oil you need

deliver

provide

We can } you with all the oil you need.

supply

NOT We can deliver you with all the oil you need. !!!

Note also: Our company supplies your company (with oil).

We delivered the oil to Amsterdam on the 20^th.

Fill in the gaps with “provide”,” supply” or “deliver”.

1. A woolen mill will ________ us with the wool we need.

2. Onasti ____________ a lot of European countries with oil.

3. The oil will be _____ on March 15^th.

4. Can you _________ us with enough furniture for our office?

5. Haulage Ltd. are _______ RSA with lorry transport.

6. Haulage ________ the printers to Eastern Europe.

7. The oil ________ the energy for Armenian electricity supply.

8. The money will _________ us with more computers.

9. The raw materials were ___ to us by an American transport firm.

10. We hope that you can ________ the materials before next week.

4. Prepositions.

Fill in the gaps with prepositions on, at, in, with, to or for.

The Armenian government is hoping that Onasti will supply Yerevan ___ oil. They are also hoping for a reduction ___ the normal price. The oil is to be used to provide energy ___

Armenia electricity supply. Onasti delivers oil __ a lot of European countries. He will probably ask for an increase ___ the price before he will provide Yerevan ___ any oil at all. The oil should be delivered ___ March 15^th. It will probably be delivered ____ Amsterdam and then ____ the Armenian capital city.