English Reader. Мишустина В.Д. - 16 стр.

    b) the country producing foodstuffs - страна, производящая продукты
питания.

     Формула:     N + [V + (-ing)]

      - a farmer selling fresh vegetables …;
      - the country converting the yen value into US dollars…;
      - the Latin inscription "franconium rex" meaning "king of the Franks" …;
      - the ancient Chinese word "yiam" meaning "round" …;
      - the name of the currency referring to the round shape of the original coins … .

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    Manufactured goods; the best way to measure; to sum up the value; the
monetary value; The measure of economic activity; just as a speedometer is used;
When the international activities "of a country's residents"; In other words; purely
"domestic" production of goods and services; G.D.P. and G.N.P.; At each stage.

      Текст
      In every country - from Poland to Peru and from New Zealand to Nigeria - the
production of goods and services provides the food, clothing, and shelter that allow
its people to survive and prosper.
      Some countries produce an abundance of raw materials such as coal and timber
while others produce manufactured goods like steel and automobiles. Some countries
may concentrate on producing foodstuffs like rice and butter while others produce
services - movies, insurance, or banking. Whatever is not consumed in the country
itself can be sold to other countries as exports.
      The size of a country's economy is determined by the total amount of goods and
services that country produces. As more and more goods and services are produced,
the economy grows - and the best way to measure this growth is to put a monetary
value on everything bought or sold. Although money is not the only measure of an
economy's size, it is the easiest way to sum up the value of all the apples and oranges,
automobiles and computers, football games and college classes that a country
produces in the course of a given year.
      The monetary value of all these goods and services can then be added up and
compared with that of other countries. Since almost every country uses a different
currency, the totals from each country have to be translated - by using currency
exchange rates - to compare the size of one country's economy to another. For
example, the yen value of the Japanese economy can be converted into U.S. dollars to
compare it to the American economy.
      The measure of economic activity that includes all the goods and services
bought or sold in a country over the course of a year is called "gross domestic
product" (GDP). CDP measures a country's economic activity, just as a speedometer
is used to measure the speed of a car. When a country produces more goods and
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