в) Ответьте на вопрос:

What are lower water supplies in some areas of the USA due to?

24. Прочитайте текст и озаглавьте его. Кратко передайте содержание текста по– английски.

The rising efficiency and profitability of agricultural technology in the USA is due to three essential conditions.

First, the improvement in capital inputs. Farm machinery has grown larger and more complex. Each unit of capital can produce a larger output with about the same labour, which shows growing capital efficiency. The new equipment lets farmers both raise efficiency of their business and use less labour.

The second condition is improved fertilizers, insecticides and chemicals for livestock (домашний скот). In recent decades, much more and better fertilizer has been applied to soil, which resulted in better crops and let farmers have more crop cycles during the year. We know chemical insect and bacteria killers to be widely used for ground and tree crops. Higher efficiency of livestock farming is due to heavy doses of medicines and specially prepared chemical feeds (корма).

The third essential condition is better breeding (селекция). Since the 1920s, there have been genetic improvements in crops that have given faster growth, better resistance to insects and diseases, and larger yields (урожай) per plant. Livestock breeding has also become more efficient and profitable and produced better animals.

Грамматика и лексика:

1. Инфинитив в функции определения

2. Вводящее слово there

Задание на дом № 1

1. В разделе «Грамматика и словообразование» проработайте § 16 и 17.

2. Переведите на русский язык следующие предложения с инфинитивом в качестве определения.

How much more efficiently than the government the private sector uses resources remains a problem to be discussed.

To keep the economy as close as possible to full employment is an essential aim to be reached by the government.

Larger investments in production expansion result in smaller amounts to be saved and to be distributed as dividends.

Durable goods are goods to be used in production in future or to be consumed over a long period of time.

A person starting his own business should have some financial capital to be used for buying needed inputs.

Farmers normally attract additional labour force to be used at harvest time.

3. Переведите на русский язык предложения с вводящим словом there.

Since the 1960s there has been an increasing tendency for population to move from city centres to the countryside.

Although in a perfect market there should always be a variety of sellers, large numbers of sellers are not always available in the real life.

There must be equilibrium between demand for and supply of goods.

In the United States, there live at present over two hundred million people.

There is clearly seen a tendency to put less weight on the government's role in an economy than in the past.

There have recently been offered nationwide schemes providing incentives for industrial investment.

4. Переведите текст Circular Flow of Payments and National Income и отработайте его чтение.

5. Найдите в тексте:

инфинитив в функции определения (второй, третий, пятый и седьмой абзацы);

инфинитив в функции подлежащего (первый абзац);

инфинитив в функции обстоятельства цели (второй и пятый абзацы).

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Circular Flow of Payments and National Income

To have a glimpse in the working of the economy as a whole may be of use to a student of economics.

In every economy there are lots of households to supply labour and capital to firms that use them to produce goods and services. Firms provide incomes for households, who in turn