X. Answer the following questions in writing

a) What is the State System of any nation?

b) What do state organs of the U.K. include?

c) How many systems is British education divided into? What are they?

d) Who plans the goods and services produced by a country in a pure market economy?

e) What form of business organization is the most common one in many western countries.

f) What are the legal procedures for starting a proprietorship limited to?

g) What service industries in the USA are likely to be a sole proprietorship?

VARIANT 2

I. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following adjectives and their comparative and superlative

ancient; basic; conservative; diverse; evident; flexible; general; important; liberal; local; middle; national; particular; primary; private; prosperous; public; secondary; significant; substantial; various; vital.

II. Give the meaning of the following verbs and their four forms

to apply; to challenge; to claim; to coordinate; to cope; to exist; to invest; to issue; to nurture; to operate; to provide; to search; to summon.

III. Put the following sentences in the Passive Voice

1. Ap­pointed secretaries who collectively make up the president's cabinet head the major departments of the government.

2. Many parents cannot afford private education for their children.

3. State organs of the U.K. include the monarchy, the legislative, executive and judicial organs of Government.

4. The big firms, who have branches all over the country, eat up small shops.

5. The British call their government “Her Majesty’s Government”

6. The judicial branch interprets the laws.

7. The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent.

8. The Prime Minister consults the Monarch on government business.

9. The states establish their own school systems.

10. They also proposed bilingual education in schools.

IV. Replace the infinitives in brackets by the proper tense forms

1. All that (to suppose) to end with the new democratic government of 1994.

2. Although private transport is also subject to government policy, it (to affect) more slowly.

3. Around about eighty percent of UK electricity (to generate) from fossil fuels.

4. Honours programmes (to offer) by the institutions that award the Bachelor's degrees.

5. In a pure command economy, the goods and services (to plan) by the government.

6. In the school, children (to expect) to receive the education of the book.

7. Not long ago she (to face) with a problem over her official duties.

8. Private ownership of health care operations (to restrict) in both countries.

9. Production (to determine) by the interaction of supply and demand.

10. Since the 1980s, many state enterprises that (to nationalise) in the 1940s (to privatise).

V. Fill in the gaps in the sentences below. The first letter or letters of the missing words are given, and the dashes correspond to the number of missing letters

1. All bra _ _ _es of government are having to cut costs.

2. All new staff should be given computer tra _ _ _ _ _ .

3. Languages are an essential part of the school cur_ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

4. Low prices give the farmers little in_ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

5. Nigeria is our principal trading par _ _ _ _ in Africa.

6. Schools will be given cash al_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s per student.

7. Se _ _-gov _ _ _ _ _ _ status was simply not on the agenda.

8. She took early reti _ _ _ _ _ _ last year.

9. Students on the course learn about all aspects of bus _ _ _ _ _ .

10. The new assemblies will have no leg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ power.