8. Переведите на русский язык предложения с конструкцией «сложное дополнение».

1. When market conditions change, economists expect the price for land to vary.

2. Too high cost of imported cotton (хлопок) has made a lot of textile enterprises close down in Russia.

3. Economists believe the availability of labour to be an essential requirement for economic activity.

4. Private-sector producers consider profitability to be the most essential condition of their business.

5. Economists consider demand for non-essential goods to be particularly inelastic.

6. A decrease in prices for energy could let farmers improve technology rapidly.

7. High oil prices make consumers purchase substitute commodities.

9. Выберите подходящее по смыслу слово из предлагаемых в скобках вариантов.

1. (Provided / although) an economist knows of services which people (provide j purchase) not for money, he is not interested in these services.

2. On the labour market the seller may be (providing / looking for) a buyer as much as the buyer (provides / looks for) the seller.

3. Advanced economies may (be due / vary) greatly (to / in) the importance of their governments for economic development.

4. If an industry's demand for resources is (supplied j met) in (due / due to) time, we can expect the industry to develop at a rapid rate (быстрыми темпами).

5. The US economists expect agriculture (profitable /profitability) to grow rapidly in the near future.

6. The government feels housing in the (area / environment) requires improvement.

7. In the first years of perestroyka an enormous housing programme was adopted. The government pledged (торжественно обещать) to (provide / supply) a flat or house for each family by the year of 2000.

8. Trade unionists consider a minimum wage to be (an incentive / a disincentive) for employers to give jobs to workers with little human capital.

9. One knows firms to carry on (business /purchase) for the purpose of making profit.

10. а) Составьте предложения из двух подходящих по смыслу частей.

1. Economists believe the price of land

2. Economists expect the price of ore

3. We expect rising prices for mineral resources

4. Economists believe a low wage level

5. We expect farmers

6. We don't believe the rent in the area

7. Economists don't believe the present-day condition in mining

8. We don't believe cost of production in mining

9. Economists believe profitability of housing

10. We don't expect the farmer

a. to be a disincentive for potential investors.

b. to lease the land as he has enough money to purchase it.

c. to be high enough to scare off (отпугнуть) all potential tenants.

d. to meet the requirements of potential investors.

e. to be too high to make the industry profitable.

f. to change due to a change in its condition.

g. to rise as its supply reduces.

h. to apply fertilizers on this poor soil.

i. to be a disincentive for businessmen to look for capital-intensive technologies.

j. to be a strong enough incentive for people to look for their substitutes.

б) Образуйте предложения из частей А, В, и С. Вставьте в нужном месте глаголы make или let в соответствующей форме, образуя конструкцию «сложное дополнение».

A

1. The small rent

2. A large supply of raw materials and spare parts (запасные части)

3. Profitability of housing in areas near big cities

4. Used up supplies of mineral resources

5. An increased rent

В

the manager landowners tenant farmers the enterprise

С

work smoothly (зд. без остановок), make their farms profitable, transfer land from farming to housing, raise the price of the output.