Variant № 6

I. Match the words with the definitions

1) auction

a) used in homes or relating to homes

2) property

b) someone who buys goods and uses services

3) taxation

c) objects produced for sale

4) sale

d) more than is needed

5) goods

e ) buying and selling of property through open public

bidding

6) surplus

f) something owned, a possession

7) consumer

g)

the process of selling goods and services for money

8) household

h) the system

that a government uses for collecting money

from people in the form of taxes

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II. Complete each sentence with a word from the box

taxation	sales	poverty	production
product	cash	campaign	packaging

1. Huge numbers of people in today's industrial societies live in relative .......

2. .......is one of the main sources of revenue for governments.

3. How do you pay for things you buy: in.........., by cheque or credit card?

4. If we don’t get another order soon , we’ll have to cut ........and maybe close a factory.

5. One way to inform people about your........is to advertise it on TV.

5. And you get a special bonus if the company’s ........ go up by more than 15 per cent in the year.

7. One recent advertising ……. lasted for over a year

7. The…….of a product is very important: the company has to think carefully about how the product should look.

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