X.
Преобразуйте предложения в косвенную речь, используя правила согласования
времен:
1. She said: “I will come with
you as soon as I am ready.”
2. His secretary asked: “Are
you leaving today or tomorrow morning?”
3. I said to him: “Whose car
did you borrow last night?”
4. “If the weather is bad, we
can’t go”, - he said.
5. “Does anyone want tickets
for the boxing match?” – said Charles. XI.
Раскройте
скобки, употребляя глаголы в страдательном залоге:1. She (to give) a box of
chocolates for her birthday last Sunday.
2. This article (to write) by
one of the most famous journalists.
3. When he came home, the
table (to lay) already.
4. The radio (to invent) by
Popov in 1895.
5. The work (to finish)
tonight. XII. Вставьте подходящее по смыслу местоимение:a) some, any, no или их производные:
1. Do you know if … of the
Browns are coming on Sunday?
2. Let me know if … happens.
3. Don’t sit idle. Do …
4. We haven’t got … time left. б) few, a few, little, a little; much, many, a lot of:
1. I’ve got … problems
at the moment.
2. The weather was
rainy, so very … people came to see the match.
3. They won’t win.
There is too … hope.
4. I saw Tom only …
days ago. David Ricardo and the Theory
of Comparative Advantage
David Ricardo, the greatest of the
classical economists, was born in 1772. His father, a Jewish immigrant, was a
member of the London stock exchange. Ricardo entered his father's business at
the age of 14. In
1793, he married and went into business of his own. The young Ricardo quickly
made a large fortune.
In 1799, Ricardo read Adam Smith's
"The Wealth of Nations" and developed an interest in political
economy (as economics was then called). In 1809, his first writings on
economics appeared. These were a series of newspaper articles on "The High
Price of Billion". In 1814 he retired from business to devote all his time
to political economy.
Ricardo's major work was "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation". This
work contains, among
other things, a pioneering statement of the principle of
comparative advantage as applied to international trade.
Ricardo showed why it was beneficial for both countries, for
England to export wool to Portugal and import wine in return, even though both
products could be produced with less labour in Portugal.
The book covers the whole field of economics as it then
existed. Ricardo held that the economy was growing toward a future "steady
state".
Ricardo's book was extremely influential. For more than half
a century thereafter, much of economics was an expansion of or a commentary on
Ricardo's work. Although Karl Marx eventually reached conclusions that differed
radically from any of Ricardo's views, his starting point was Ricardo's theory
of value and method of analyzing economic growth.
XIV. Поставьте письменно ко всему тексту по два вопроса
каждого типа (общий, специальный, альтернативный, разделительный).