English for Masters in Economics. Маркушевская Л.П - 91 стр.

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Task 1.
a) Explain how do you understand the meaning of the text title?
b) In order to fully understand the text, make a short web
investigation. Find out the following using the Internet:
1. “If you want to keep your guns, your property, your children and your
god, then sustainable development is your enemy!” – Whose quote is it?
2. What is «the Green Room»?
3. What is a Stern review? When was it made?
4. How would you explain the NIMTOF attitude?
Task 2. Answer the following questions according to the text.
1. The author calls Sustainable Development a threat to American way
of life, what does he mean by «American way of life»?
2. How does the author estimate the activity performed by the UK in the
light of Sustainable Development?
3. What contributions are made by the UK public and private sectors?
4. Who commissioned the Stern Review?
5. What did Stern call «the greatest market failure»?
Task 3. Browse once again the description of Sustainable Development.
Sustainable development focuses on improving the quality of life for all of
the Earth’s citizens without overusing natural resources beyond the ca
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pacity of the environment. It requires understandingthat we must nd
innovative ways to change policies and practices at all levels. Around the
world we see signs of great stress on our interlocked global economic,
environmentalandsocialsystems.Wearefacedwithfull-scaleemergen-
cies through massive migration, poverty, unemployment, overpopulation,
freshwater shortages, forest destruction, species extinction, urban air pol
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lution, and climate change. Some key actions are needed to ensure a good
quality of life for people around the world, these measures are: to meet
essential needs and aspirations for education, jobs, food, energy, water
and sanitation; to ensure a sustainable level of population; to conserve
and enhance resources; to reorient technology; to include and combine
environmentandeconomicsconsiderationsindecision-making.
Task 4. Fill in the following table according to the task 3.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
What should we sustain? What should we develop?
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Task 3. Give your own explanation of the following terms
1. Checkbook
2. Phone banking
3. Home banking
4. Balance
5. Customer’s user ID
6. Banking transaction
7. PIN number
8. Banking sector
Task 4. Match the synonyms.
1. operate
2. execute
3. prompt
4. promote
5. restrict
6. implement
7. suggest
h) keep
i) implement
j) remind
k) propose
l) conne
m)fulll
n) manage
o) refer
p) stimulate
Task 5. Translate the following text from Russian into English.
Onlinebankingпозволяет:
• слюбогокомпьютераполучитьдоступквашимбанковскимдоку
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ментамчереззащищенноесоединениевсетиинтернет;
• получатьинформациюобостаткахидвиженияхсредствнаваших
счетахвБанке;
• направлятьнаисполнениевБанкплатежныеииныепорученияи
контролироватьпроцессихисполнения;
• отзыватьранеенаправленныепоручения;
• осуществлятьобменданнымисвашейбухгалтерскойсистемой
илисистемойуправленияпредприятием.
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