12. Отработайте чтение числительных. а) В англоязычных странах в составных числительных после миллионов и тысяч ставится запятая. После сотен произносится союз and. Например: 8,861 – eight thousand eight hundred and sixty– one.
Прочитайте следующие числительные: 38; 179; 345; 29,633; 1,849; 211; 40,100; 74,203; 1,001,800; 49,641,788; 73,235,441
б) Цифры, обозначающие годы, читаются следующим образом: 1892– eighteen ninety-two; 1900 – nineteen hundred; 1802 – eighteen о two; 2000 – two thousand; 2002 – two thousand and two
Скажите по-английски: 1343; 1799; 2008; 1908; 1999: 1954; 1603; 3013
13.Найдите в следующих предложениях сказуемое и переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. For 43 years after 1941 countries in Eastern Europe had planned economies in which market mechanisms played only a small role.
2. The government plays an important role in allocating resources in the economy.
3. Goods are produced on farms or in factories. Goods of the both groups are consumed by the people who buy them.
4. A government planning office decides what will be produced, how it will be produced, and for whom it will be produced.
5. Resource allocation decisions are being made every day in every city, mostly through the mechanisms of markets and prices.
6. When there was a bumper coffee crop (очень высокий урожай кофе) in Brazil, much coffee was bought by the Brazilian government from farmers and then burnt.
7. Grain (зерно) markets have greatly changed over the last 25 years in the United States and Europe. Both have high levels of government intervention in their agriculture.
8. The ideas of Adam Smith, the famous Scottish philosopher and economist, have been studied by economists for over two hundred years.
14. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык. Обратите внимание на разные значения глаголаto beперед инфинитивом.
1. Prices are to regulate production and consumption in a market economy.
2. The problem with government regulation of markets is to control how government restrictions work in real life.
3. The aim of that book is to form a theory of the role of government in economic life.
4. The market is to decide how much to produce.
5. A building society is a financial organization whose purpose is to help people buy houses or flats.
6. When the authors of the textbook discussed examples, their intention (намерение) was to prepare students for future economic analyses.
7. Governments are to regulate or plan production and consumption. The former is typical of mixed economies, the latter is typical of command economies.