Методические указания и контрольная работа по английскому языку №4 для студентов 2 курса заочного обучения экономических специальностей. Бидагаева Ц.Д. - 23 стр.

    4. The National Chicken Council, an American trade group, estimates        there are no right Bush legs on the market, only left ones. It means they
that Russians consumed a record one million tons of chicken from the           don't eat them themselves, but send them over to us. "Bon appétit!"
United States in 2001 - in appendage terms, about 1.28 billion legs.
    "Leg quarters are our big items of export," said Richard Lobb, the
council spokesman. "Overseas markets prefer dark meat, and U.S. markets                                                           By MICHAEL WINES
prefer the white meat."                                                                                                            The New York Times
    One million tons is 8 percent of the entire United States chicken pro-                                                               March 2, 2002
duction, and 61 percent of all the chicken eaten in Russia. More important,
it is a 75 percent increase over the American chicken exports to Russia in                                    // The English Russian World, July 2, 2002
2000, a statistic that has sent shivers of alarm through Russia's young
poultry industry.                                                              XI. Read the text once more and get ready to select the letter of the best
    5. The Russians worry that an American chicken juggernaut threatens        choice to complete the statement:
to wipe out a domestic poultry industry that was just starting to recover      1. Agriculture Ministry stopped __________ licenses to import American
after the financial collapse of 1998.                                              fowl.
    Russian chickens, which not so long ago resembled underfed robins,         a) publishing
have vastly improved in both weight and quality in the last few years, but     b) issuing
producers find it hard to compete on price. In part, that is because the       c) printing
farms are inefficient: the Agriculture Ministry says fewer than 20 percent
of the chicken farms run at capacity, and nearly 80 percent need recon-        2. Others suspect the official may be reacting to pressure from Russian
struction.                                                                        farmers, who are struggling against _________ American chicken.
    6. Ukraine and Estonia, laboring under the same disadvantage, have            a) expensive
moved to ban American imports in recent months. Russian farmers have              b) tasty
complained bitterly to the agriculture minister about foreign competition,        c) cheap
and there has been talk of a five-point increase in tariffs for imported
chicken of all kinds.                                                          3. Other regard the matter as the international ________ of the Russian
    Something of a propaganda campaign against the evils of American              government.
chickens has also emerged. The Web site www.pravda.ru, an extension of            a) strategy
the newspaper, reported acidly on Wednesday that "Bush legs" are hardly           b) politics
known for their tastiness.                                                        c) policy
    "But the majority of Russian people like their inexpensive price, though
they understand that cheap products - especially if they are of American       4. The only reason why Russian chickens cannot compete the American
origin - are not likely to be good for your health," the article said.            ones if that our agricultural production is __________.
    7. That was a windup for the coup de grace: "Have you noticed that            a) efficient
they only sell left Bush legs?" Mr. Elizarov told the camera. "That's be-         b) competitive
cause all the injections are made into the left leg. It's true! That means        c) inefficient

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