Exercise 16. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the words in capitals

Exercise 15. Put the collocations from Ex. 14 in the following sentences.

Exercise 14. Match the words marked with numbers to those marked with letters to make collocations.

Catalyst

Exercise 13. Fine the words hidden in the jumbles.

Exercise 12. Fill in the missing words.

Exercise 10. Answer the following questions.

1. What does the term “producer-consumer gap” mean? Characterize the two types of gaps recognized by economists?

2. When can we say that a good or service has been fully produced?

3. In what way has the development in transport influenced people’s everyday lives?

Exercise 11. Find the words in bold (1–7). What do they refer to?

VERB	NOUN	ADJECTIVE
example: centralise	a. centre b. centralization	central
mix
		productive
	consumer, consumption
secure
		satisfactory
	solution
		speedy
compare
	benefit
	entertainment

example: a substance that speeds up TAYTCLAS

a chemical reaction

1. make somebody pleased or content	AIFSYTS
2. failure	WRADBEOKN
3. look for	EKES
4. a company or business	EPENRIETRS
5. not organised or arranged according to a plan	AAZRHPHAD
6. easy to get, use or obtain	LLIVAAABE
7. one of the parts from which something is made	TOPENCNMO

example: 1e

1. to attain	a. to the consumer
2. raw	b. enterprise
3. free	c. a gap
4. to bridge	d. line/process
5. available	e. satisfaction
6. to satisfy	f. benefit
7. mutual	g. wants/needs
8. production	h. materials

1. The Citizens Advice Bureaux were set up to ………….. between the people and the bureaucrats.

2. The privatisation programme aims at restoring …………….

3. More frequent feeding will usually help to ……….. a baby’s ………….

4. The production process is not full until a good is …………...

5. …………… are in a natural state before being used in a manufacturing process.

6. The number of cars coming off the ………… at British Leyland has doubled.

7. What matter is the …………. of both partners.

8. They ……….. full ………… looking at the results of their work.

example: He performs magical tricks for …………… ENTERTAIN

entertainment

1. We believe in a strong ………… state.	CENTRAL
2. She had suffered progressive ……. of health.	DETERIORATE
3. Meat can be transported only in ….. vehicles.	REFRIGERATE
4. I think this government’s policy on higher ….. is a disaster.	EDUCATE
5. This film was refused a licence for public ……...	EXHIBIT
6. The problem has been ignored until very ……	RECENT
7. The Conservative government has extended its ………… programme.	PRIVATE

2.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle,
because bicycles could move though the crowd.
John Pomfret

Exercise 17. Read the Supplementary text 1 “A hundred years of transportation” (ST 1) quickly and answer the questions.

1. Why does the title of the text refer to 100 years of transportation when some vehicles had already been used hundreds of years earlier? 2. What were the three most important milestones in man’s progress according to the author of the text? 3. Can you think of any other discoveries or inventions that contributed to the development of our civilization? 4. What was the first recorded traffic regulation? Where and when was it introduced? 5. How fast did the first trains travel? 6. What contribution to the improvement of rail travel did the Americans have? 7. What were the first steam trains like compared with contemporary trains? 8. What has revolutionized transportation on land in the 20^th century?

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