1. Прочтите и переведите текст а.

2. Заполните пропуски, используя следующие слова:

land, long, path, presents, arise, solved, shares, similar, custom, distribution, tasks, used, as

1. Economic society ... itself a means whereby people are able to carry out the ... of production and ....

2. The basic economic problems do not... as problems to be discussed and argued about.

1. They have all been decided ... ago.

2. One follows the ... that one was born to follow.

3. The production problems are ... by using ... as it has always been....

3. The distribution problem is ... in a ... manner.

4. The elders will receive ... according to ancient....

3. Найдите синонимы среди следующих слов: receive, fixed, different, broad, common, fairly, selec­ tion, error, choice, constant, mistake, rather, basic, produce, wide, get, general, make, various

4. Найдите антонимы среди следующих слов: different, rigidity, broad, old, distant, long, receive, advanced, true, ancient, narrow, same, near, backward, false, lose, modern, young, short, flexibility

5. Образуйте антонимы от следующих слов, исполь­ зуя нужные префиксы:

appearance, usually, possible, common, legal, accept­ed, solved, familiar

6. Переведите следующие словосочетания слов с рус­ ского языка на английский:

механизм выживания, задачи производства и рас­пределения, наиболее распространенный путь ре­шения экономических проблем, в далеком про­шлом, основные экономические проблемы, таким

же путем, согласно древнему обычаю, в передовых странах, равная оплата труда женшин

7. Образуйте 3 формы от следующих глаголов:

to present, to carry out, to look, to exist, to develop, to tempt, to change, to discuss, to decide, to follow, to group, to describe, to argue, to provide, to share, to make, to become, to do, to find, to arise

8. Составьте предложения, используя следующие слова:

1. these, possible, to, group, is, different, structures, three, into, categories, broad, it, economic.

2. way, economic, the, oldest, solving, tradition, that, was, problems, of, of.

3. have, been, all, they, ago, decided, long.

4. in, son, footsteps, his, of, a, father, follows, the.

5. is. distribution, solved, problem, manner, in, similar, the, a.

9. Заполните пропуски предлогами:

1.... fact,... spite ... the appearance ... great variety, it is possible to group these structures ... four broad cate­gories

2. These types ... economic organisation are usually described ... Traditional economies, Market economies, Command economies and Mixed economies.

3. The oldest and until fairly recent times... far the most common way in solving economic problems was that ... tradition.

4.... traditional societies, people use methods... production and distribution that were devised ... the distant past.

5.... these societies we find that the division ... land ... the families ... the village or tribe, the methods and times ... planting and harvesting all all based ... tradition.

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6. Year... year, little is changed.

7. The basic economic problems do not arise ... prob­ lems to be discussed and argued....

8. There will be time-honoured methods .., sharing ... the produce ... the harvest and hunt.

9. ... Britain equal pay ... women did not obtain legal sanction... the 1970s.

10. Поставьте вопросы к выделенным словам:

1. In traditional societies, people use methods of pro­ duction that were devised in the distant past.

2. They have all been decided long ago.

3. A son follows in the footsteps of his father.

4. He uses the same ski/is and tools.

5. A caste system provides a good example of the rigidi­ ty of a traditional society.

6. The distribution problem is solved in a similar manner.

7. The heads of families will receive shares according to ancient custom.

8. In Britain equal pay for women did not obtain legal sanction until the 1970s.

11. Заполните пропуски, используя в нужной форме глаголы, данные в скобках:

1. Economic society... itself as a means whereby people are able to carry out the tasks of production and dis­ tribution (to present).

2. If we look at the very different political and social structures and the way in which these systems... (to develop) over the years, we are tempted to say that people ... (to make) use of and ... (to make) use of, a very great varieties of economic systems.

3. These basic types of economic organisation ... (to describe) as Traditional economies, Market economies, Command economies and Mixed economies.

4. In traditional societies, people ... (to use) methods of production and distribution that... (to devise) in the distant past and which ... (to become) the accepted ways of doing things by a long process of trial and error.

5. A change in working procedures may well ... (to regard) as an affront to memory of one's ancestors.

6. The basic economic problems do not... (to arise) as problems ... (to discuss) and... (to argue) about.

7. Traditional solutions to the economic problems... (to encounter) in primitive agricultural and pastoral communities.