Методические указания и контрольные задания для студентов 1-2 курсов заочной формы обучения по специальности

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1. 
   Имя существительное. Образование множественного числа. Притяжательный падеж существительного. Выражение падежных отношений с помощью предлогов. Существительное в функции определения и его перевод на русский язык. Существительные исчисляемые и неисчисляемые.
   
2. 
   Артикли, их значение и употребление, отсутствие артикля.
   
3. 
   Имя прилагательное. Степени сравнения имен прилагательных. Сравнительные конструкции типа as...as..., not so...as..., much more interesting, twice large as..., the more...the less.
   
4. 
   Числительные. Количественные, порядковые, дробные числительные. Чтение хронологических дат.
   
5. 
   Местоимения. Личные местоимения в именительном и объектном падеже. Притяжательные местоимения в зависимой и абсолютной форме. Указательные местоимения this - these, that - those. Неопределенные местоимения some, any и отрицательное местоимение nо. Производные от some, any, no, every.
   
6. 
   Грамматические функции и значение слова one.
   

8. 
   Наречия. Наречия неопределенного времени (usually, sometimes, etc.) и их место в предложении. Наречия many / much, a lot of, a great deal of; a little / a few, some-, little / few и их употребление.
   
9. 
   Глагол. Форма настоящего (Present), прошедшего (Past) и будущего (Future) времен группы Indefinite/Simple действительного и страдательного залога изъявительного наклонения. Спряжение глаголов to be, to have в Present, Past, Future Indefinite. Речевой оборот there is/are во временах Present, Past, Future Indefinite.
   
10. 
    Способы перевода страдательных конструкций на русский язык. Инфинитив страдательного залога после модальных глаголов. Страдательный залог непереходных глаголов (глаголов, требующих после себя косвенное или предложное дополнение).
    

11. 
    Модальные глаголы must, can, may и их эквиваленты have to, be to, should, ought to, be able to, be allowed to.
    
12. 
    Простые неличные формы глагола Participle I (Present Participle), Participle II (Past Participle) и их функции в предложении (функция определения, обстоятельства). Зависимый причастный оборот.
    
13. 
    Простое распространенное предложение. Прямой порядок слов повествовательного предложения, обратный порядок слов вопросительного предложения. пять типов вопросительных предложений: общий вопрос, специальный, альтернативный, разделительный, вопрос к подлежащему. Структура отрицательного предложения.
    
14. 
    Придаточные обстоятельственные предложения времени и условия. Выражение будущего времени в придаточных предложениях времени и условия.
    
15. 
    Определительные и дополнительные придаточные предложения (союзные и бессоюзные).
    
16. 
    Безличные предложения. Усилительная конструкция "It is ... that ..."
    
17. 
    Побудительное предложение. Отрицательная и вежливая формы повелительного наклонения.
    

Вариант 1

1. 
   Each region of the United States of America has characteristics of its own due to the differences in climate, landscape and geographical position.
   
2. 
   Nowadays English is the world's most important language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations.
   
3. 
   This was one of the reasons for expanding the business.
   
4. 
   The waste gases cause acid rain; this leads to forest damage and therefore reduces the resources of forestry industry.
   
5. 
   What’s your sister’s name?
   

1. 
   It is more expensive to study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities than at one of the other universities.
   
2. 
   The income per head was lower in Egypt than in the USA in 2005.
   
3. 
   The greater a person’s income, the more he will usually buy.
   
4. 
   If, with a change of price, the supply increases by less than one per cent, it is called inelastic.
   
5. 
   Every firm wants to sell as many goods as possible.
   

1. 
   A foreign company in Great Britain must give certain information about itself to the government offices. It must also write its name and country of registration on all its documents.
   
2. 
   Did you translate this text yourself?
   
3. 
   Is there anything interesting on television tonight?
   
4. 
   Have you got any problems with your visa?
   

1. 
   These houses were built last year.
   
2. 
   A change in the price of input, price of alternative output, technological factors, and the number of firms will result in a market supply change.
   
3. 
   Our activity is based on high level of technology and on close contact with our clients.
   
4. 
   The machines will be inspected next month.
   
5. 
   Economy does not usually rely on planning.
   

1. 
   Products can be distributed to consumers in many ways.
   
2. 
   Provided additional inputs are to be obtained, producers must have smaller risks of a fall of price between the time of making a decision and the time of selling their products.
   
3. 
   Planning has to be undertaken at all levels of management.
   
4. 
   The economist should be able to say which factors affect the allocation of resources for producing a particular good.
   
5. 
   He was not allowed to enter the concert hall after the third bell.
   

1. 
   All the engineers working at the Ministry of Foreign Trade must know foreign languages.
   
2. 
   The government can regulate monopolies controlling the prices or supplying the products itself.
   
3. 
   Exports are goods and services sold to other countries.
   
4. 
   The quantity demanded is influenced by changes in consumers’ incomes.
   
5. 
   Studying advertising materials, our managers found out many interesting things.
   

1. 
   If you agree to our terms we’ll give you a discount.
   
2. 
   It is new system of management that gave the best results.
   
3. 
   You can easily bring the people you need together electronically.
   
4. 
   I don’t believe these contacts are necessary.
   
5. 
   It is this method of analysis that yielded best results.
   

1. 
   What is the central economic problem of a society?
   
2. 
   What is the market?
   
3. 
   What is the function of the market in an industrial country?
   
4. 
   How are decisions made in a command economy?
   
5. 
   In what way does a free market economy differ from a command econ­omy?
   
6. 
   To which type do most economies in the West belong?
   
7. 
   What is a mixed economy?
   
8. 
   To which type does the economy of present-day Russia belong?
   
9. 
   Is the level of government regulation growing or falling in Russian econ­omy now?
   

1. 
   Russia has vast mineral resources which include oil and natural gas, coal, iron, zinc, lead, nickel, aluminium, gold and other non-ferrous metals.
   
2. 
   Three-quarters of the republic’s mineral wealth is concentrated in Siberia and the Far East.
   
3. 
   One never knows what may happen.
   
4. 
   The government plays an important role in allocating resources in the economy.
   
5. 
   This engineer’s research work is of great interest.
   

1. 
   Russian grammar is more difficult than English grammar.
   
2. 
   Two heads are better than one.
   
3. 
   The higher the labour productivity, the lower the production cost.
   
4. 
   The most important Federal Reserve instrument stems from its authority to purchase and sell government securities (государственные ценные бумаги) in the so-called open market.
   
5. 
   The number of men working in the United Kingdom was not as high as in Germany in 2004.
   

1. 
   May we have your specifications (технические характеристики) for turbines? We’d like to study them before our visit to the plant.
   
2. 
   Any engineer working in this field can give you this information.
   
3. 
   To know everything is to know nothing.
   
4. 
   I’ve got some video cassettes in English?
   

1. 
   The secretary was sent for.
   
2. 
   We bought these machines at a good price last year.
   
3. 
   Money received from selling goods or services is called the turnover.
   
4. 
   Supply is the amount of a good that will be offered in the market at a certain price and time.
   
5. 
   In a command economy, a central planning office makes decisions on what, how, and for whom to produce.
   

1. 
   Not all partners in a firm must take an active part in management.
   
2. 
   They will be able to despatch the goods next week.
   
3. 
   You ought to have the firm re-registration as soon as possible or you may have trouble.
   
4. 
   The buyers have to reconcile what they want to do and what the market will allow them to do.
   
5. 
   Making a decision, the economist should rely on all the information that he can find.
   

1. 
   The world economy produces mostly for the people living in the industrial countries.
   
2. 
   The government can influence for whom goods are produced, taking income away from some people and giving it to other.
   
3. 
   As income rise, the quantity of food bought will rise but only a little.
   
4. 
   Knowing that their resources are limited, people make a decision how to allocate them in the best possible way.
   
5. 
   Consumers typically buy a smaller quantity of the good sold at a higher price.
   

1. 
   After we settle the price problem we’ll sign the contract.
   
2. 
   It was our director who spoke about the losses of our company.
   
3. 
   Have you still got the journal you showed me some days ago?
   
4. 
   The experts find the construction will cost an enormous sum.
   
5. 
   It is the accountant who prepares the balance sheet.
   

1. 
   each price – зд. любая цена
   
2. 
   other things equal – при прочих равных условиях
   
3. 
   normal good – товар стандартного качества
   
4. 
   inferior good – товар низкого качества
   
5. 
   are assumed – рассматриваются, принимаются
   
6. 
   input price – цена ресурсов, цена основных средств производства
   

1. 
   What is demand?
   
2. 
   What is supply?
   
3. 
   When are the demanded and supplied quantities of goods high?
   
4. 
   How are prices and the supplied and demanded quantities regulated by the market?
   
5. 
   Which factors influence demand? How do they work?
   
6. 
   Which factors influence supply?
   
7. 
   How can governments regulate demand and supply?
   
8. 
   How can prices for other goods influence the demand for a good? Sup­ply examples.
   
9. 
   What inferior goods can you name?
   
10. 
    What may be the result of imposing ceiling prices?
    

1. 
   The standard working day in the United Kingdom and the USA starts at 9:00 a.m. and lasts till 5:00 p.m. with lunch time from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
   
2. 
   The USA is the world’s leading producer of copper and the world’s second producer of iron and coal.
   
3. 
   The more one studies, the more one knows.
   
4. 
   This university trains engineers in more than 40 specialities.
   
5. 
   When there is a harvest failure, the producer’s supply will decrease.
   

1. 
   He is one of the most experienced managers.
   
2. 
   A worker in the United Kingdom earns more than the one in India.
   
3. 
   The greater is the number of sellers in a market, the better choice can a buyer make.
   
4. 
   The sooner they finish the construction of the plant the better.
   
5. 
   Only when demand equals supply, people can buy or sell as much as they want.
   

1. 
   Our products are in great demand in the world market. We export them to many countries of the world.
   
2. 
   I think there’s something very important in the letter.
   
3. 
   They made these experiments themselves.
   
4. 
   There is no signature on the cheque. Sign it, please.
   

1. 
   Such raw materials as coal and oil were used to make plastics.
   
2. 
   Prices regulate consumption and production in a market economy.
   
3. 
   Inputs are the factors of production (land, labour and capital, including materials) that are put into a business for producing output as a commodity or a service.
   
4. 
   The commercial documents will be sent immediately.
   
5. 
   No business will succeed unless it has a sound financial foundation.
   

1. 
   Plans may be long-term or short-term, depending upon the time period they are designed to cover.
   
2. 
   Managers have to decide what to produce, how it should be produced, and for whom.
   
3. 
   We are not able to make a reduction in price.
   
4. 
   A great increase in the supply of money in the form of bank notes and bank credit is to result in inflation, that is, a rise in the general level of prices.
   
5. 
   Government regulations should be in the interest of society.
   

1. 
   Income is money coming in regularly to a person, family or organization.
   
2. 
   Reducing our imports, we decrease the exports of others.
   
3. 
   For the great majority of goods, experience show that the quantity demanded will increase as the price falls.
   
4. 
   When translated, his article on chemistry was sent to the International Chemical Congress.
   
5. 
   While reading this book, I used the dictionary very often.
   

1. 
   We’ll sign the contract as soon as the secretary types it.
   
2. 
   It is the law of supply and demand that influences the retail price.
   
3. 
   We shall spend our holidays in the same village we visited last year.
   
4. 
   They realized they might be close to the discovery of a new material.
   
5. 
   It was the issued stocks (выпущенные акции) that allowed the company to accumulate the necessary money for the new project.
   

1. 
   commodity – предмет потребления, товар, продукт
   
2. 
   inputs – затраты, расходы (на производство)
   

1. 
   Which demand is called elastic?
   
2. 
   In what units is elasticity of supply shown?
   
3. 
   Why is the price elasticity of demand coefficient negative and the corresponding coefficient for supply positive?
   
4. 
   What supply is called inelastic?
   
5. 
   What is the difference between the inelastic and the perfectly inelastic supply?
   
6. 
   Why is agricultural supply usually inelastic?
   
7. 
   What is the tendency of agricultural supply development?
   
8. 
   Explain the relationship between demand and price.
   
9. 
   Can governments regulate demand and prices? How?
   

Вариант 4

1. 
   Economics is the science that analyses what, how, and for whom society produces.
   
2. 
   The transport sector makes a vital contribution to the European Community’s frontier-free single market.
   
3. 
   A worker in the United Kingdom earns more than the one in India.
   
4. 
   The University has laboratories and research institutes and other educational facilities.
   
5. 
   Economists analyze society’s production and consumption levels.
   

1. 
   If other things are equal, this firm will do the work more effectively than the others.
   
2. 
   New York City is the first biggest city of the States.
   
3. 
   Tennis and football are the games I like best.
   
4. 
   The more efficiently is the equipment used, the higher is the labour productivity and the more effective is the production.
   
5. 
   I do not get up so early on Sunday as on weekdays.
   

1. 
   Can you send us your catalogues? – I’ll post them to you next Monday.
   
2. 
   Any person can find himself in one of three situations: employed, unemployed, or out of the labour force.
   
3. 
   Is there anybody outside in the street? – No, there is nobody there, I think.
   
4. 
   He has got no information on this problem?
   

1. 
   The letter will be answered at once.
   
2. 
   I telephoned him yesterday morning.
   
3. 
   The price of the goods is fixed in US Dollars.
   
4. 
   These terms were confirmed in their letter.
   
5. 
   Exporting brings foreign currency into the country, so governments encourage export trade by giving assistance and incentives to exporters.
   

1. 
   Marketing managers should be in close touch with market conditions so that they can advise on the best price to charge for products.
   
2. 
   He was allowed to use the mobile equipment.
   
3. 
   He was to stay at the office until the report was ready.
   
4. 
   He ought to take a more active part in decision making on the exports strategy of the company.
   
5. 
   The entire quantity produced does not have to be sold at once.
   

1. 
   Resources can be a serious factor limiting production.
   
2. 
   Having the aim to maximize profit, the producer should make a decision how to reduce inputs.
   
3. 
   Production is the entire quantity of the goods produced.
   
4. 
   When reconstructed the theatre looked more beautiful than before.
   
5. 
   The developing countries hope that the industrial countries will raise imports from the less developed countries imposing tariffs on imports from other industrial countries.
   

1. 
   If you place your order before the 1^st of January we’ll give you a discount.
   
2. 
   It is Adam Smith who made economics a science.
   
3. 
   Real income is the amount of the goods and services a consumer can buy with his money income.
   
4. 
   It is a reduction in incomes that influenced the quantity of the goods consumed.
   
5. 
   A consumer is a person who consumes the products and services he buys.
   

1. 
   What are the types of management in economies?
   
2. 
   What are the main characteristics of a planned economy?
   
3. 
   What is the difference between a planned economy and a partially planned economy?
   
4. 
   How does the American government influence the economy?
   
5. 
   Why may the economy of the United States be called unplanned?
   
6. 
   How is the American economic system called?
   
7. 
   To which type do most economies in the West belong?
   
8. 
   To which type does the economy of present-day Russia belong?
   
9. 
   Is the level of government regulation growing or falling in Russian econ­omy now?
   

1. 
   Видовременные формы глагола: