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Раздел IV

Контрольные задания

and aerospace industries, for example, to private enterprise.

3. The working population is just over 26 million (in a total population of 56 million) of which 7 per cent are self-employed. Just under 40 per cent are women. Unemployment has risen to around 3 million.

Britain exports over 30 per cent of its GDP. Machinery and transport equipment account for about one-third of exports while finished manufactures comprise over one-third of imports. A recent trend has been the large fall in oil imports and the emergence of a significant export trade. The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States are Britain's leading trading partners. Britain's fellow members in the European Community accounted for 43 per cent of its exports and 41 per cent of imports in 1990, compared with 30 and 32 per cent respectively in 1972.

Earnings from invisible exports, including financial and other services, are about half as much as those from visible exports.

The Government aims to defeat inflation through firm fiscal and monetary policies, increasing competition, reducing the rise in public expenditure and restoring incentives to industry, particularly small businesses.

П. Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1. What is the fundamental importance to the economy

of Great Britain?

2. What natural resources is Great Britain rich in?

3. What branches of industry in Great Britain do you know?

4. What does Great Britain export?

5. Which countries are Britain's leading trading partners?

3. Найдите в тексте слово value и уточните его значение в данном тексте.

3. Вместо пропусков вставьте подходящее слово.

1. The economy of Great oil Britain is ... largely on sterling private enterprises. account

2. Britain has become self- based sufficient in ... with the public development of resources in

the continental shelf under the North Sea.

3. The external value of ... is partially influenced by the position in the international oil market.

4. Petroleum and natural gas ... for 4 per cent of GDP.

5. The Government is reducing the size of the ... sector.

V. Найдите производные слова от следующих слов: to employ, to develop, economy, to adjust, part.

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