Деньги - Money. Невежина С.Б - 53 стр.

       6. We know means of payment to have varied over time from                    4. Сообщалось, что большинство европейских банков нача-
pebbles and oxen to money including credit cards and bank accounts.           ли предлагать счета в евро и начали торги по евро, как только бы-
       7. Though recently introduced, Euro can be used for purchases          ла введена новая денежная единица.
by credit cards and travellers' cheques nowadays.                                   5. Ссуды, представленные коммерческими банками, строи-
       8. The IMF officials suspect that much of the $4.8 billion loans       тельными обществами и т. п., должны рассматриваться как важ-
the IMF sent to Russia in the summer of 1998 may have been                    нейший источник кредита в стране.
transferred by oligarchs to Switzerland and other Western countries.
                                                                                  5. Раскройте скобки и употребите инфинитив в соот-
    3. а) Раскройте скобки, употребив глаголы в соответ-                      ветствующей форме.
ствующей форме.                                                                      1. All bank-notes and coins must (to accept) at their full nominal
       People use money because it is economical to do so. Actually, a        value without restriction.
barter economy is absolutely wasteful nowadays. Suppose a bootmaker                  2. Bank-note paper can easily (to distinguish) from ordinary paper.
wishes to obtain two shirts in exchange for a pair of boots that he has              3. We know a great variety of commodities (to use) at one time
just made. To handle such a transaction, he has to find a tailor who          or another as a medium of exchange.
wants to trade two shirts for a pair of boots. By the time our two find              4. Cheques and credit cards are known (to become) more popular
each other, they could (produce) another pair of boots or two shirts.         in recent years than paper money and coins.
The economy as a whole has lost one pair of boots and two shirts in                  5. New technologies are said (to allow) people with bank
the swap. Therefore, the more a man wishes to acquire for his personal        accounts to pay for their purchases in shops through videotext TV.
use, the less he has to work.                                                        6. The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange is known
       If used in the economy, money lets our bootmaker sell his boots        (to provide) a basis for determining the exchange rate of rouble against
to anyone and go directly to a tailor and buy his shirts. Time spent in       other currencies in the 1990s.
this transaction is minimal; our economy will not lose a pair of boots               7. The foreign exchange market may not (to regulate) by
and two shirts as a result of this transaction and, so, the GNP (to expect)   governments or it may (to intervene in) by them.
(to increase) by these goods through the use of money. Money (to say)                8. Russia's gold reserves were reported (to fall) constantly in the
(to use) because it is productive.                                            early 1990s.
      б) Напишите семь вопросов к тексту.
                                                                                     6. Соедините данные предложения парным союзом
      4. Переведите предложения на английский язык.                           the... the... в одно предложение:
      1. Говорят, что использование нескольких национальных                          Образец: A firm's assets are considerable. Its chances of obtaining
валют более расточительно для ряда стран, чем использование                   a loan from a bank are high. – The more considerable are a firm's
одной общей валюты.                                                           assets, the higher are its chances of obtaining a loan from a bank.
      2. Экономисты предполагают, что евро будет использовать-                       1. Real wage grew slowly in the late 1980s in Europe. Employment
ся в странах Европейского Сообщества наряду с национальными                   started to grow fast.
валютами до 2003 года.                                                               2. A product has to be transported far to the market place.
      3. Полагают, что из-за пособий по безработице временная                 Transportation expenses are high.
безработица превращается в постоянную.                                               3. The habit of the population to pay in cash is great. The
                                                                              possibilities for banks to develop new technologically advanced forms
                                                                              of money are restricted.

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