Go for your Business English. Новосельцева Н.Н - 43 стр.

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13 Well-paid or badly-paid?
Put these phrases into the correct list:
hardly anything far too much a fortune next to nothing peanuts
1. Professional footballers are paid ...
...
2. Children in developing countries who make footballs are paid ...
...
...
14 Read these sentences and put the words and phrases in italics into the correct
column below:
1. The wedding’s at one of the best hotels in London. Her father’s a very wealthy
man.
2. They must be pretty well-off. They’ve just bought a six-bedroomed house.
3. I won’t be able to have a holiday this year. I’m a bit short of money.
4. My father’s got a very good pension so my parents have been quite comfortable
since he retired.
5. I can’t come out tonight. I’m broke.
Budget: A method for going broke methodically.
Although huge (1)..... has already been made in tackling
global (2)..... , there is still a widening gap between the
rich and the poor.
The unfair distribution of (3)..... means that while the
world as a whole is getting richer, many poor people are
excluded from their (4)..... of this wealth.
One sigh of hope is that rich nations are starting to
consider cutting Third World (5)..... . Governments now
recognise that without debt relief, there is little chance of
poor countries like Rwanda and Tanzania achieving the
growth necessary to lift their population out of absolute
poverty.
Charities now have the ambitious target of cutting the
world’s (6).... by half in the next 15 years. They believe
that this target will only be reached when governments
and development agencies work together to achieve it.

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