Doing Business in Russia. Котова К.П - 34 стр.

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6) The threat of potential bankruptcy makes the owners resolve non-payment
situation. 7) Enterprising managers will be made seek hidden possibilities for
producing necessary products.
VII. Correct mistakes in the following sentences:
1) There will be not large numbers of bankruptcy. 2) The situation in defense
industry especially difficult. 3) If the enterprise will be declared insolvent labor
relations will be severed. 4) The government makes us to take another step.
5) Enterprising managers forced to seek hidden possibilities.
VIII. Replace the infinitives in brackets with a proper past tense.
1) When I (to leave) home it (to rain) fast. 2) I (to meet) him when he (to walk)
to the station. 3) What you (to write) when I (to come in)? 4) The telegram (to
come) just as I (to leave) the house for the office. 5) It already (to begin) to grow
dark; the cold autumn wind (to whistle); the clouds (to creep) over the sky.
6) On checking up his answers he found that he (to do) five examples wrong.
7) Before he (to read) half of the book he (to insist) he didn’t like it. 8) I (to
leave) home at 9 o’clock but I (not to go) far when I remembered that I (to for-
get) to lock the door. 9) It was nearly nine when the audience (to assemble) and
the conference (to begin). 10) I not yet (to fall) asleep when I (to hear) the sound
of the bell. 11) Although darkness (to fall) we still (to continue) our way.
IX.   Find key words in the text for rendering it in English.
X.    Make a short summary of the text in writing.


                                      UNIT 8
Pre-reading tasks
I.    Check up and transcribe the following words and collocations using a dic-
      tionary if necessary:
1) assessed resources; 2) exhausted deposits; 3) profitable oil resources; 4) to be
exploited; 5) participation of foreign capital; 6) state-owned enterprises; 7) to
lag behind other advanced countries by 2–5 times in per capita consumption of