7. Answer the following questions:

1. How is sterling protected against undesirable speculations?

2. What is the international market in essence?

3. What affects exchange rates?

4. What currency will always be in demand?

5. What factors can affect the foreign exchange market?

2 Семестр. Вариант 7

I. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в каждом из них видовременную форму и залог глагола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The normal movements of the arms, for example, are upwards and forwards.

2. The raising of the knee to a position that will bring the tight parallel to the ground will furnish a further example.

3. The division of the total height of the body into equal section will have impressed the ideas of the unity of the body and the proportion of its parts and sections.

2. Выделите обстоятельство (группу обстоятельства) в предложении и проанализируйте его влияние на время сказуемого. Переведите обстоятельство, не переводя предложения.

1. In the sixties of the last century electrical engineering was just making its first, rather timid, steps.

2. When the ball was touching the surface of the rod, some of the static electricity passed to it.

3. Nowadays the incandescent lamp has become the most common source of electric light.

4. By the beginning of the nineteenth century physicists had already been able to produce powerful “artificial” magnets.

3. Определите время сказуемого и переведите предложения.

1. The normal movements of the arms, for example, are upwards and forwards.

2. The raising of the knee to a position that will bring the tight parallel to the ground will furnish a further example.

3. The division of the total height of the body into equal section will have impressed the ideas of the unity of the body and the proportion of its parts and sections.

4. Выделите сказуемое в страдательном залоге и укажите, какие формальные признаки помогли вам это сделать.

1. Special instruments measuring cosmic radio signals are being installed in the observatory.

2. By the end of the year the production of women’s clothes will have been increased considerably.

3. The question involved is not connected with the subject, which is being discussed now.

4. Within the past few years great advances have been made in the techniques of programming computers.

5. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.

1. The recipient knew he was getting honest weight, nothing fanny.

2. The bank he works deals with money.

6. Прочтите и письменно переведите текст, предварительно вставьте пропущенные слова по смыслу (amounts, charge, record, transfer, security, surpluses).

Depositing Money with a Bank

There are two general reasons for using a bank account. The first and most common are the convenience and safety provided by a current account at a bank. The second is that small and perhaps regular … are available to be saved, and for this purpose a bank provides deposit accounts.

A deposit account will not offer a high rate of interest and would not be the best way to save large sums of money for any long period of time, but it is designed to make saving simple, convenient and safe. It is especially appropriate for those who may save small … from time to time without any planned regularity or for those who wish to save for a particular purpose in the immediate future, for example for annual holidays or for the purchase of a major item such as a car.

Most customers of a bank who have opened a deposit account will also have a current account and this makes the … of amounts of money from one to the other an easy matter. Regular payments into a deposit account can be made through a standing order to the bank that will automatically transfer the agreed amount according to your instructions. Other payment and provides a useful … if the depositor uses a paying in book. Interest is calculated every six months and added to the account. The rate of interest varies from time to time and is publicly advertised in any bank. Because the bank uses money deposited with them to lend to others it normally requires about seven days notice of intention to withdraw money from a deposit account, but unless there is a heavy demand for money they are not likely to insist on this and cash is often immediately available to those who wish to withdraw it. There is an assumption that such notice was given and you would lose seven day's interest on the money.

The increasing need for … and the use of computers in wage payments have combined to make it more common to have a bank account than to be without one. This kind of account is a current one and its most common use is a single regular payment in either a weekly wage or a monthly salary and regular payments out to meet the normal everyday expenses. Most payments are still made by cheque although the use of the standing order or the direct debit is becoming very common. It is normally expected that a current account will remain in balance and customers who regularly maintain an agreed minimum balance are often given the services of the bank without charge. In general, however, charges are made which vary with the size of the balance, the amount of use of the bank's services and the number of transactions. If the account is overdrawn a further …, which is interest on the overdrawn amount, is also made.