2 Переведите на русский язык следующие английские словосочетания:

1) a less seductive investment; 6) government's funding agen­cy;

2) personal loans; 7) a huge stocks-funds-and-insurance house;

3) fund managers; 8) a stand-alone business;

4) well-hailed investment banks; 9) a credit-rating agency;

5) mutual funds; 10) a sprawling collection of businesses.

3 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

1) инвестиционный банк; 6) дух академического сообщества;

2) страховая компания; 7) дополнительное финансирование;

3) коммерческий банк; 8) финансовый рынок;

4) финансовые фирмы; 9) требования высочайшего уровня;

5) многовековая традиция; 10) налоговая система.

4 Найдите в тексте слова, имеющие общий корень с данными словами. Определите, к какой части речи они относятся, и переведите их на русский язык: stock, a share, to invest, to write, to govern, to justify, to graduate, to assess, to administrate, to consider.

5 Задайте к, выделенному в тексте, предложению все типы вопросов: общий, альтернативный, разделительный, два специальных: а) к подлежащему, б) к любому члену предложения.

This, in turn, has supplied ample motive for investment banks to diversify out of their own business.

6 Выполните анализ данных предложений, обратив внимание на следующие грамматические явления: формы и функции инфинитива, инфинитивные конструкции (сложное дополнение, подлежащее), существительное в роли определения, функции слов one (ones), that (those), условные предложения:

1) If they want to hold on to this business, bankers argue, they must follow their customers.

2) This, in turn, has supplied ample motive for investment banks to diversify out of their own business.

3) The reason is that the government seems intent on removing the extra funding, of around £1,700 a year for each student, paid to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge to help them to maintain their centuries-long tradition of personal tuition, their well-stocked libraries and their air of scholarly community.

4) The universities say that, without these extra fees, which provide around 5% of their total income, they would have to either give up trying to stay in the world's premier league of higher education or start charging entry fees to their students.

5) The government has asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England to report by early next month on whether there is any justification for these college grants, which cost the taxpayer around £35m a year.

6) But some ministers seem to have already made their minds up: at the Labors Party conference, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, complained that half of the places at Oxford and Cambridge went to pupils from private schools even though these educate only 7% of British children.

7) Britain needs to have world-class universities.

8) But the case for retaining the college fees would be bolstered if a wider audit of the college system were to be carried out.