Ex.12. Составьте предложения из двух подходящих по смыслу частей и переведите полученные высказывания.

Ex.10. Перепишите и письменно переведите 3 и 4 абзацы текста.

Ex.11. Ответьте на поставленные вопросы, выбрав правильный вариант(ы).

1) When did the name of OPEC suddenly become a household word?

a) when this oil cartel was founded in 1960

b) when it increased the price of crude oil by 70 percent in 1973

c) when OPEC imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the USA

2) Why did five Middle East nations establish the Organization of Petroleum Exporting

Countries?

a) in order to increase world’s oil prices

b) in order to take the petroleum production in their hands

c) in order to coordinate the petroleum production and distribution

3) Why did the Arab members of OPEC impose an embargo on oil shipments to the USA

in 1973?

a) because the USA had invaded Iran

b) because the USA had supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict

c) because these countries wanted to reduce their dependence on the USA

4) What was the result of increasing oil price by 70 per cent?

a) large oil companies in the USA and Western Europe amassed great wealth

b) OPEC nations made enormous profits

c) the cost of gasoline greatly increased in many countries

5) What measures had Western nations takento reduce their dependence on OPEC?

a) these countries started developing their own oil fields

b) these countries strengthened relationships with such oil-producing nations as Iran, Iraq,

Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela

c) these countries began using other energy sources such as coal and nuclear power

6) Why did OPEC have to cut petroleum prices in the 1980s?

a) because OPEC wanted to help Western nations to cope with inflation and recession

b) because there was oil overproduction all over the world

c) because oil demand among Western nations greatly lowered

1) OPEC is a multinational organization a) bringing oil production and pricing under

setting the official price for crude oil… control.

2) Eleven member-countries of OPEC b) by setting limits on the amount of oil

possess… produced by each member.

3) Before 1960, the system of petroleum c) about three-fourths of the world's proven

production and distribution was controlled… oil reserves.

4) OPEC was founded in Baghdad in 1960 d) in Iraq's invading Kuwait and in setting

for the purpose of… off the Persian Gulf War.

5) Beginning in the 1980s, OPEC's influence e) internal dissents, the development of

on the world oil market has been reduced alternative energy sources in the West and

because of… the exploitation of oil sources in non-

OPEC countries.

6) In early 1990, OPEC tried to stabilize f) that can determine world price level.

petroleum prices…

7) Kuwait’s refusal to cut oil production g) by large oil companies in Western Europe

resulted… and the United States.

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