Прочтите и переведите текст А. 2. Заполните пропуски, используя следующие слова:

2. Заполните пропуски, используя следующие слова:

incentives, output, objective, usage, values, increase, rates, resources, revenues

1. In general... economic growth is taken to mean any
... in the Gross National Product.

2. GNP is measured in terms of money....

3. The problem of economic growth is how to increase
... when all... are fuily employed.

4. Growth is an important... of economic policy.

5. Economic growth brings in increasing... from a given
structure of tax....

6. The... to increase capacity and output will clearly
depend upon the level of aggregate demand.

3. Найдите синонимы среди следующих слов:

attain, desire, revenue, widen, merely, steadily, obvious, fast, affluent, damage, relate, deplorable, furthermore, rapid harm, connect, poor, rich, besides, wish, income, increase, only, constantly, achieve, evident.

4. Найдите антонимы среди следующих слов:

opponent, growth, better, easy, less, wide, supporter, decline, worse, difficult, more, narrow.

5. Образуйте антонимы от следующих слов:

lead, agreement, proportionately, increase, compose, desirable, popular, efficient, attainable.

6. Переведите следующие сочетания слов на англий­
ский язык:

более высокий уровень жизни, более высокие тем­пы экономического роста, ведущая цель экономи­ческой политики, в денежном выражении, обосно-

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ванное сравнение, соответствующие изменения, показатель повышения уровня жизни, использова­ние ресурсов, изнурительный труд, не прибегая к непопулярным мерам, удвоение реальных доходов, относительно небольшая разница, уровень сово­купного спроса.

7. Образуйте 3 формы от следующих глаголов:

put, cost, take, mean, mislead, do, spend, show, arise, come, bring, give, raise, rise, grow

8. Составьте предложения,используя следующие
слова:

1. personal, is, held, in, wealth, forms, many.

2. distributed, reasons, for, is, wealth, unequally,
many.

3. people, generally, older, hold, younger, than, wealth,
people, more, people.

4. now, part-time, make up, workers, a, quarter, almost,
the, total, of, labour, employed, force.

5. investment, is, education, often, as, described,
people, in.

6. growth, demands, expenditures, research, on, eco­
nomic, large.

7. are, an, exports, injection, circular, the, into, flow.

8. imports, leakage, are, circular, the, flow, a, from.

9. Заполните пропуски предлогами:

 

1. Much depends... the type... the investment being
undertaken.

2. Increasing the amount... capital per worker is known
as 'capital depending' and this process should lead...
increasing labour productivity.

3. The extent... which new capital is used efficiently is
also an important consideration.

 

4. Changes... output per head are very much influ­
enced... changes... the distribution... the labour
force.

5. The lack... these facilities provides a serious barrier
... more rapid economic progress... the developing
countries.

6. As economic development takes place, there is a ten­
dency... secondary production and later... the ser­
vice industries.

7. In Britain and the USA,... the other hand, the ser­
vice sector has tended to grow much farther than the
other sectors.

10. Поставьте к каждому из предложений макси­
мальное число вопросов:

1. Comprehensive details of the distribution of income
and wealth in the UK become available for the first
time in 1975.

2. Marketable wealth consists of those assets which can
be bought and sold.

3. The income of a household depends to a large
extent on the number of economically active people
it contains.

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

l.The possession of wealth... (to confer) certain social advantages.

2. In order... (to get) people... (to work) harder, it... (to
be) usually necessary... (to offer) higher rewards.

3. Unemployment which... (to arise) from immobilities
in the labour force rather than a lack of demand for
labour... (to know) as frictional unemployment.

4. Private spending may... (to stimulate) by a relaxation
of any existing hire purchase restrictions.

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5. The natural rate of unemployment... (to associ­
ate) with an equilibrium situation in the labour
market,

6. The Enterprise Allowance Scheme... (to help)
unemployed people... (to set up) in business for
themselves.