6.3 Прочитайте текст и выберите правильный вариант ответа.

1. D.Ricardo made a fortune

   1. on the London Stock Exchange;

   2. in the Parliament’s House of Commons;

   3. serving the British government.

2. Ricardo developed the principle of

   1. competitive advantage;

   2. conspicuous consumption;

   3. comparative advantage.

3. Ricardo argued that it is more profitable for Portugal

   1. to produce both wine and cloth;

   2. to specialize in the production of cloth;

   3. to specialize in the production of wine and import English cloth.

4. The policy of free trade led to 70 years of

   1. economic recession;

   2. economic growth;

   3. stagnation.

6.4 Дополните выражения из текста предлогами.

1. famous ___in____ international economics ____for____ demonstrating

2. the advantages __of_____ free trade

3. tariffs and other barriers __to_____ trade _between___ nations are removed

4. exchange products ___with____ one another

5. x barrels of wine are equal __to____ y yards of cloth

6. to specialize ___in___ the production __of_____ wine

7. to obtain wine __in_____ exchange ___for____ 100 worker years of labor

6.5 Найдите в тексте слова со сходным значением.

1. to amass a fortune to make a fortune

2. noted famous

3. to manufacture to produce

4. product goods

5. to leave completely to abandon

6. fabric cloth

7. to accept a policy to adopt a policy

8. idea, principle a concept

6.6 Дайте развернутые ответы на вопросы в письменной форме.

1. How does the principle of comparative advantage work?

Comparative advantage demonstrates that one nation might profitably import goods from another even though the importing country could produce that item for less than the exporter.

2. What products that your region produces can demonstrate the principle of comparative advantage?

Our region has a huge number of such products. There are crops grown: corn, wheat, sunflower, millet, sugar beet, fruits and vegetables; technique: haul locomotives, steam boilers, electrodes, combine harvesters, heavy helicopter engineering; heavy metals (for example, steel) etc.

Тестовое задание по чтению №2

1. Заполните пропуски в предложениях данными словами.

Foreign, truck, monster, icon, firm, fuel, efficient, market, share, reduce, retire, own

1. An ___ icon _________ is a symbol that represents an idea.

2. People ___ retire _________ when they are by law too old to work.

3. ___ Truck _________ is the American word for ‘lorry’.

4. If something is ___ foreign _________, it is from another country.

5. If you describe something as a ___ monster _________, you mean it is very,

very large.

6. When you ___ own _________ something, you have it legally, usually

because you have bought it.

7. A company’s __efficient __________ is its percentage of the total sales of a

product.

8. A _____ fuel_______ car doesn’t use much petrol.

9. __ Reduce __________ is the opposite of ‘increase’.

10. _____Firm_______ is another word for ‘company’ or ‘business’.