X. Answer the following questions in writing

a) What do we mean when we say that the monarchy is hereditary?

b) Who are almost all the powers of the Crown used by today?

c) At what age may students legally leave school and start work?

d) What sectors do the governments intervene in France, Italy, and Sweden?

e) In what professional fields have partnerships long been the main form of business organization?

f) What ways have superpartnerships like the big accounting and law firms developed?

g) What are the advantages and disadvantages of partnerships?

Variant 3

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

artificial; central; constitutional; continuous; enormous; extensive; general; independent; local; main; national; particular; poor; public; rational; responsible; secret; separate; sufficient; supreme; virtual; wide.

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

to achieve; to appoint; to characterize; to cover; to decline; to include; to investigate; to prepare; to prohibit; to provide; to regulate; to supervise; to tend.

III. Put the following sentences in the Passive Voice

1. Each House member represents a district in his or her home state.

2. He made recommendations to the King or the Queen on many important public appointments.

3. The crown symbolizes the British monarch’s supreme power.

4. The federal government controls six percent of the education budget.

5. The “Fellows” teach the college students either one-to-one or in very small groups.

6. The Government may hold office for five years.

7. The monarch formally appoints all bishops on the advice of the Prime Minister.

8. The president appoints ambas­sadors and other officials.

9. The Treasury Department manages the nation's money.

10. They also sponsor ambitious programs in adult education.

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

1. Almost all of these (to own) by government water departments.

2. April's supplementary budget (to design) to boost only domestic firms.

3. Even in the field of education support (to skew) in favor of foreign students.

4. In some areas new modules (to write) to meet the needs of students seeking entry to higher education.

5. Local and national governments (to force) to renege on their own laws.

6. Primary education (to follow) by three years of middle school education.

7. Some of the schools (to convert) to new uses.

8. The Catholic church (to involve) in job creation, but they are not businessmen.

9. The new policies (to welcome) by people working in education.

10. These grants (to affect) later by cuts in government expenditure.

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. A special pros _ _ _ _ _ _ was appointed to deal with that particular case.

2. All children in the state have a right to public edu _ _ _ _ _ _ .

3. Most first year students live on cam _ _ _ .

4. Protection for the consumer is laid down by stat _ _ _ .

5. She received her doc _ _ _ _ _ _ in history last year.

6. Some Republican law _ _ _ _ _ s tried several times to kill it.

7. The judge sentenced him to three years' prob _ _ _ _ _ .

8. The killers will be brought to just _ _ _ .

9. The volume puts forward the case for a new dis_ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

10. There was an element of amb _ _ _ _ _ _ in the president's reply.