Контрольная работа № 7 Вариант 1

Задание 1. Выберите правильный вариант перевода словосочетания

Typically, corporation directors and managers own less than 5 percent of the __________.

a) com­mon stock c) goods and services

b) capital products d) interest rates

Задание 2. Выберите правильный вариант ответа

If the above circumstances ________ more than six months, each party shall have the right to refuse the fulfillment of the contract.

а) will last c) shall last

b) last d) lasted

Задание 3. Дополните микродиалог

Could you tell me about annuities? My insurance agent told me they're good. - ____.

а) There are six of us. c) Some partnerships may be appropriate.

b) Yes, they are. d) But our commissions are very competitive.

Задание 4. Выберите правильный вариант ответа

The Stock Exchange Council in ___________ has drawn up a code of practice to regulate takeovers to prevent some abuses.

а) United Kingdom c) London

b) United States d) British Isles

Задание 5. Прочитайте текст и определите основную идею текста

а) Two branches of economics: macroeconomics and microeconomics.

b) Scarcity, economic wants and productive resources.

c) Capital and productive goods.

Microeconomics is the study of how people choose under conditions of scarcity. Even when material re­sources are abundant, other important resources are certain not to be. At his death, Aristotle Onassis was worth several billion dollars. He had more material re­sources than he could possibly spend. And yet, in an important sense, he confronted the problem of scarci­ty much more than most of us will ever have to. He was the victim of a progressive neurological disease in which the body's immune system turns against itself. For him, the scarcity that mattered was not money but time, energy, and the physical skill needed to carry out ordinary activities.

Time and money are not the only important scarce resources. Every choice involves important elements of scarcity. Since most major economic problems arise from the fact of scarcity, an understanding of this con­cept is the stalling point for understanding economics. Scarcity is the condition that results from the imbal­ance between relatively unlimited wants and the rela­tively limited resources available for satisfying those wants. No society has ever had enough resources to pro­duce the full amount and variety of goods and services its members wanted. Scarcity necessitates choice. If we can't have everything we would like, we must choose those things we want most. Both individuals and societies must continuously make choices about how to use the scarce resources available to them. The con­cept of scarcity can be understood more clearly by ex­amining the sub-concepts of economic wants and pro­ductive resources.

In modern societies people have a wide variety of wants. Some, such as those for love and affection, can­not easily be classified as economic in nature. Others, such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and leisure time, are wants with major economic implications. Some wants are individual, whereas oth­ers are group wants. Many wants are private but oth­ers are public. We can say that economic wants are those that can be satisfied by the consumption of a good or service. We include the desire for leisure as an economic want because consumers need leisure time in which to enjoy the consumption of certain goods and services.

Productive resources consist of what is required to produce the goods and services that people want. There are three basic categories of productive resources. Human resources are the health, strength, educa­tion and skills of people. The number of people avail­able for work and the hours they work constitute only one dimension of human resources. Another dimension is the level of ability of people and their motivation. Natural resources are the gifts of nature that are used to produce goods and services. They include land, timber, fish, oil and mineral deposits, the fertility of soil, climatic conditions and so on. Capital goods are the buildings, equipment, roads and other manufactured and constructed things needed to produce or provide access to other goods and to supply services.

Задание 6. Выберите слова или сочетания слов для заполнения пропусков так, чтобы они отражали особенности оформления служебной записки

a) Appointment of a New General Manager

b) Brian Lockney, Personnel Director

c) Anthony Hiller will be retiring at the end of this year

d) All board members

MEMORANDUM

Trafalgar Products Ltd

Date: 25 - 09 - 2008

1. To: ____________________

2. From: _____________________

3. Subject: _________________________

4. I am sure you are all aware by now,______________________________ , which leaves us a little over two months in which to appoint a new General Manager.

The post is currently being advertised in both the national press and the leading trade magazines and I intend to begin the first round of interviews in mid October. The advertisements contain the following description of General Manager's duties:

• to have overall responsibility for the running of the plant;

• to coordinate the work of the management team so that the company's targets and objectives are met;

• to advise on new product development;

• to negotiate with trade union representatives;

• to accompany the Sales Manager on overseas sales trips, whenever possible;

• to represent the company when the Manager Director is unavailable.