4. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, обратите внимание на перевод зависимого и независимого причастных оборотов.

1. Economic co-operation based on mutual benefit is expanding and deeping.

2. We have sent invitations to the parties participating in the agreement.

3. Negotiations began, with ten countries taking part in them.

4. The goods having been unloaded, the workers left the port.

5. Having looked through all the catalogues and prices-lists received on that day he

left the office.

6. The negotiations were conducted behind closed doors, measures having been

taken that no correspondent should receive any information.

4. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие сложные предложения. Обратите внимание на то, как переводятся условные предложения.

1. could get a job easily if I knew English.

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2. If these scientists had made the experiment m time, they would have got more information about this process.

3. It would be impossible to solve many problems without using computers.

5. If scientists use the new methods, they will have better results.

6. If computers had not been worked out, many important problems might not have been solved.

6. Прочтите и переведите устно текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2 и 5 абзацы текста.

1. Economics, social science concerned with the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services. Economists focus on the way in which individuals, groups, business enterprises, and governments seek to achieve efficiently any economic objective they select. Other fields of study also contribute to this knowledge: Psychology and ethics try to explain how objectives are formed; history records changes in human objectives; sociology interprets human behavior in social contexts.

2. Economics deals with the problems of scarcity and choice that have faced societies and nations throughout history, but the development of modem economics began in the 17^th century. Since that time economists have developed methods for studying and explaining how individuals, businesses and nations use their available economic resources. Large corporations use economists to study the ways they do business and to suggest methods for making more efficient use of their employees, equipment, factories, and other resources.

3. You will discover the economists deal with two worlds: the “world that is” and the “world that is to be”. Economists have developed and generally agree on basic economic principles and models that try to explain or describe the ’’world that is”.

4. Macroeconomics, branch of economics concerned with the aggregate, or overall, economy. Macroeconomics deals with economic factors such as total national output and income, unemployment, balance of payments, and the rate of inflation.

At the basis of macroeconomics is an understanding of what constitutes national output, or national income, and the related concept of gross national product (GNP).

5. Microeconomics, branch of economics that deals with small units, including individual companies and small groups of consumers. Economics is concerned with the allocation of scarce means among competing ends. People have a variety of objectives, ranging from the satisfaction of such minimum" needs as food, clothing, and shelter,' to more complex objectives of all kinds, material, aesthetic, and spiritual. However, the means available to satisfy these objectives at any point in time are limited by the available supply of factors of production (labor, capital, and raw materials) and the existing technology. Microeconomics is the study of how these resources are allocated to the satisfaction of competing objectives.