Say if the statements are true or false. Prove your point

Answer the questions.

1. What is Rockefeller's contribution to American econ­omy?

2. What was Rockefeller's first job?

3. Why did Rockefeller choose oil-refining as his busi­ness?

4. In what way did Rockefeller try to boost his profits?

5. What is the key to Rockefeller's heady success in busi­ness?

6. How did he try to improve the quality of life for American people?

7. What is Henry Ford's role in American way of life?

8. Why Henry Ford's ideas were considered revolution­ary?

9. What qualities led Henry Ford to his success in busi­ness?

10. Why Model T was so popular with the consumers?

1. John Davison Rockefeller established an integrated system of production and distribution.

2. By 1913 Rockefeller amassed a fortune of $1,800 million and owned nearly one half of the nation's oil industry.

3. Rockefeller was among the first to set up oil-refineries in Cleveland.

4. Rockefeller decided that the only way to boost his profits was to stop production.

5. Capitalized at $1 million, Standard Oil eventually grew into a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

6. By the end of 1872, Standard had boosted its capacity twofold and was refining 10,000 barrels a day.

7. Rockefeller improved to a great extent the quality of life for millions of American people.

8. Ford's "universal car" Model T was the industrial suc­cess story of its age.

9. Henry Ford transformed the automobile itself from a necessity to a luxury.

10. In designing and making his automobile Ford relied only on his business plan.

11. Ford's universal car excited the public because it was simple, sturdy and versatile.

12. Model T went to the first customers in Highland Park, Michigan on June 4, 1924.

13. Between 1914 and 1916, the Ford Motor's profits dou­bled from $30 million to $60 million.

14. Model T became a crucial factor in recasting a growing American economy.

14* Complete the following sentences by choosing the one correct variant (a, b or c) that best completes the sen­tence.

1. John D. Rockefeller was born _____________ on a small farm in upstate New York.

a. in 1863

b. in 1839

с in 1859

2. Rockefeller decided that the best way to boost his prof­its was________________.

a. to borrow money

b. to stop production

с to raise production

3. John Davison Rockefeller established an____________

system of production and distribution.

a. integrated

b. oil refining

с versatile

4. In the mid-1860s Rockefeller recapitalized his firm, and began to buy out the_____________.

a. oil industry.

b. railroads

c. competition

5. Rockefeller devoted himself to charity.and provided the basis for one of America's greatest__________ foundations.

a. heady

b. philanthropic

с commodity

6. Model T Ford cars became a crucial factor in_______ growing American economy.

a. recasting

b. obsessing

c. embracing

7. Henry Ford transformed the automobile itself from a luxury to a_____________.

a. facility

b. scarcity

с necessity

8. Henry Ford was born _____________ in Dearborn, Michigan, on the farm operated by his father.

a. in 1872

b. in 1863

с in 1901

9. Model T Ford cars pervaded______________.

a. the assembly line

b. American culture

с the great multitude

10. On May 26, 1927 the

Model T Ford rolled off

the assembly line at Ford's factory in Highland Park,

Michigan.

a. fifteen millionth

b. ten millionth с one million

Unit 4. DISCUSSION

15 Study the expressions in the Useful Language box and the examples below showing different lexical and gram­matical ways of expressing one and the same language function.

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