Open the brackets, translate the Russian verbs and/or Modal verbs into English. The Notes and Commentary will help you do it. Use the correct Tense Form. Write your English variant of the verb in the empty spacer the right-hand column.
| Looking backward, future historians (увидят) the twentieth century as a century of niche competition and the twenty-first century as a century of head-to-head competition.
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| The late 1920s and early 1930s(начались) with a seriesof worldwide financial crashes that finally(привели)tothe Great Depression. In order(сохранить) jobs, the dominant countries (вынуждены были)their imports. They (не следовало было делать) so becausewhen everyone (ограничили) trade,the pressures (возросли). Fewer imports eventually (привели) to fewer exports. Ultimately, those economic blocks (превратились) into military blocks, and World WarII (начались).
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| After World War II, the General Agreement on Tariffsand Trade, GATT (было заключено) in order (предотвратить) a repetition of these events. Trade restrictions and tariff barriers (были gradually сокращены).Under the rules, each country (должна относиться) all other countries in exactly the same way –«the most-favoured-nation principle». The best deal (должна быть предоставлена) to every country.
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| At that time America (могла выращивать)farm products that the rest of the world (не мог выращивать), and (могла поставлять) raw materials such as oil that the restof the world (не имел), and (могла производить) unique high-tech products such as the Boeing 707 that the rest of the world (не мог строить). America's exports (не конкурировали) with products from the rest of the world: they simply (заполняли) gaps that the rest of the world (не мог заполнить). In the jargon of today's economists, each country (имела) a non-competitive niche where it (могла быть) a winner. America (развивалась) rapidly; the rest of the world (развивался) even more rapidly.
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