Английский язык для студентов экономических специальностей - страница 22

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At any time, the market price may not be the… leading to excess supply (…) or excess demand (…).

If there is a national food…, a government may… a ceiling price on food so that poor people can buy enough food.

Workers in poor countries having no resources for health and education are often less productive than workers using… technology in rich countries. Aid without higher productivity it is hard… investment in people… in machinery.

Japanese… pay as much as eight world prices for beef (говядина).


25. Вставьте в предложения слово жили сочетания с ним. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

The newly industrialized countries… Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, grew twice… quickly… the rich industrialized countries during the 1970s… a group, their share of world exports increased from 3 percent in 1960 to 7 percent in 1987. These countries now play a larger part in the world economy than… countries… Sweden and Australia.

Capitalism is an economic system in which capital belongs to (принадлежит) private persons who are free to carry on business… they wish without any government intervention.

Alfred Marshall (1842–1924) is known… an economist who played an important role in the construction of theories of consumer demand and contributed to many other areas of economics His Principles of Economics written in 1890 was a leading economics book for many years.


26. Сравните следующие статистические данные по выпуску отдельных видов продукции в России в 90-х годах XX века, используя образцы. Составьте как можно больше предложений по каждому образцу.

ОБРАЗЕЦ 1: Car production in 1995 was lower than in 1997.

ОБРАЗЕЦ 2: Sugar beet (сахарная свекла) production in 1998 was not so high as in 1997.

Economic Indicators in Russia

Note: 1. '000 – thousand; 2. mln/t – million tons; 3. bcm – billion cubic metres


27. Прочитайте текст, не пользуясь словарем. Ответьте на вопрос, следующий за текстом.

The Pope and the Price of Fish

It is interesting for a student of economics to learn how demand and supply analysis works in practice.

Until 1966 Roman Catholics were not allowed to eat meat on Fridays and ate fish instead. In 1966 the Pope (Папа Римский) said that Catholics could eat meat on Friday. What do you think happened to the average weekly price and average weekly quantity of consumed fish?