Question

2. Вставьте пропущенные предлоги и союзы, где это необходимо. 1. The more goods are swapped … other goods and services, the more effort is wasted to find those … whom these swaps can be swaps can be made.

2. … 1960 and 1985, UK exports as a share … the GNP is reported to have risen … 20 percent … nearly 30 percent.

3. Exchange may take the form … barter in which goods or services are traded directly … other goods or services.

4. The firm is known to have been trading … jewellery … over a hundred years.

5. Goods and services are sold … money and the latter is to its turn exchanged … other goods and services.

6. New forms … money are known to have been developed … the development … the banking system.
3. Выберите подходящее по смыслу слово из предлагаемых в скобках вариантов.

1. Pounds (фунт) and ounces (унция) were traditional measures widely used in Britain, often (alongside / besides) metric measures before 2000.

2. Barter economies are believed to be more (convenient / wasteful) than the ones based on money.

3. We (distinguish between / accept both) real and nominal GNP.

4. (The exchange rate / barter) is known to be regulated by the Central Bank.

5. Large firms are supposed to have a better chance of obtaining a loan from a bank than smaller firms, though there may be (exceptions / exchanges).

6. Plastic cards are reported to be (accepted / deferred) for payment only in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lipetsk, Chelyabinsk and a few other cities and there is no commonly (accepted / distinguished) standard.

7. Four Swedish ports are free trade zones where goods may be ... duty-free for an unlimited period of time.