E.g.: long holidays, a comfortable office, a good salary...
► 6. Complete the sentences with the words and expressions from the box. Write about your working conditions:
| - companies
| - salaries
| - human resources
| - means
|
| - prices
| - rich
| - in charge of
| - lights
|
| - business
| - building
| - prices
| - difference
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| - employees
| - whatever
| - unemployed
| - machinery
|
| - to keep
| - called
| - working conditions
| - wealth (2)
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Paula Armstrong's office is high up in a beautiful 1 ___ in the city center of Dallas, Texas. From her window she can look down at the street far below, and out past the skyscrapers to the endless flatness of Texas. It stretches for hundreds of miles in all directions, hiding the 2 ___ below its dusty fields. Here and there a piece of 3 ___ sticks out of the grounds, on top of which a metal arm nods up and down. It's a "nodding donkey", the top of an oil well, pulling the 4 ___ of Texas up above ground and into the hands of one of Dallas's many oil 5 ___.
Paula is Hunt Oil's senior vice-president of information and 6 ___. Translated into plain English, that 7 ___ she is 8 ___ her company's computers. She also runs the personnel department, and is in charge of the 9 ___ welfare: their 10 ___, medical insurance, 11 ___, etc.
Hunt Oil, where Paula works, is an old family 12 ___. “Black gold”, as oil is sometimes 13 ___, has made more millionaires than yellow gold ever did. When oil 14 ___ are high, Texans are 15 ___. But when they fall, the Texans are the first to feel the 16 ___. Stores close down and many people become 17 ___. But 18 ___ happens to the oil 19 ___, Americans need not worry yet. The country's natural 20 ___ is so great that the U.S. will be able 21 ___ the 22 ___ turned on for many years to come.
► 7. Paraphrase, explain or translate:
| 1)paraphrase:
| It may take a lot of hard work to do well in America...
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| 2)explain:
| I have a degree in accounting.
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| 3)translate:
| Some even hold two full-time jobs at the same time.
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| 4)paraphrase:
| Men who started out with nothing and built up huge fortunes are national heroes.
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| 5)explain:
| … the actual number of jobless is many times higher.
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| 6)translate:
| A young man with... very little education
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| 7)paraphrase:
| …. gave feedback to staff on their performance.
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| 8)explain:
| The minimum monthly cost-of-living standard rose by 7.5%.
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| 9)translate:
| ...home-made pizzas
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| 10)paraphrase:
| ...those who manage to get adapted to the new technologies find their way in the new world of business.
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| 11)explain:
| EURO coins and bank notes have been in consumers’ pockets since 2002.
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| 12)translate:
| ... five years later he makes his first million dollars.
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| 13)paraphrase:
| Boston... was then becoming one of the most exciting areas for "hi-tech" industry in the U.S.
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| 14)explain:
| The support programme is due to last until 2012.
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| 15)translate:
| the chance to get wealthy or even rich is there for everyone, however poor...
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| 16)paraphrase:
| The American admiration for business success is as strong as ever.
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| 17)explain:
| The stream of brilliant scientists going to America became a flood.
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| 18)translate:
| ...she is still moving up in her career.
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| 19)paraphrase:
| Mr. Johns has got ten employees who report to him.
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| 20)explain:
| The progress made in computer technology has led to new forms of cashless payments.
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| 21)translate:
| After several different jobs, she moved to an American firm...
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► 8. Translate into English:
| 1)работать в государственном секторе,
2)представлять интересы акционеров,
3)высокий уровень безработицы,
4)государственные служащие,
5)правительственный заказ,
6)возможность заработать миллион долларов,
| 7)«утечка мозгов»,
8)руководить,
9)по высокой цене,
10)исследование и развитие,
11)взять отпуск,
12)дважды в год,
13)трудолюбивый сотрудник
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► 1. Match the headings with numbers on the envelope:
| a) addressee’s name
b) zip code in the mailing address
c) addresser’s city name
| d)zip code in the return address
e) addressee’s city name
f) addresser’s name
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(1) Gary J. Marshal
Pacific Electronics
1325 Ocean Boulevard
(2) Santa Monica, CA (3) 90415 (4) Ms. Eleanor R. Fleming
246 Shasta Avenue
(5) Redding, CA (6) 96001
