Английский язык для экономистов

TEST

1. 
   Read the extract from the article from the BBC News Online and complete the extract with the expressions listed.
   

Russian guru upbeat on economy

2. 
   After filling in the gaps read the extract once more and decide which of the statements are TRUE and which are FALSE and write T for True and F for False.
   

1. 
   Russia’s officials are very pessimistic on the prospects for the country’s economy.
   
2. 
   Russia is returning to its best communist years.
   
3. 
   High oil and gas prices are one of the reasons for economic growth.
   
4. 
   Boris Fedorov said that things are almost perfect.
   
5. 
   The main Russian export product is gas.
   

3. 
   Give Russian equivalents and make up your own sentences.
   

1. 
   inspection team
   
2. 
   “comprehensive health check-up”
   
3. 
   rampant money laundering
   
4. 
   handle economic shocks
   
5. 
   plunge into chaos
   

4. 
   Translate the following sentences into Russian.
   

1. 
   He has headed efforts by a new team to clean up Gazprom’s murky books and banish remnants of the old management that were “milking the company.”
   
2. 
   He urged the company to get rid of non-gas businesses accumulated in the past.
   
3. 
   Mr. Fedorov proposed that Gazprom should sell-off its media assets and avoid the involvement in politics which characterized its past.
   
4. 
   Certainly some foreign investors have accused PwC of hiding Gazprom’s financial wrongdoings in attempt to keep the contract.
   
5. 
   Indeed, Russia is not longer an “insider’s market”, he said, comparing today’s country to that of the days when the government would sell off profitable state enterprises for a fraction of their value, in return for financial support in presidential elections.
   

5. 
   Render the extract from the article using the active vocabulary.
   

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2. 
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3. 
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4. 
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5. 
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6. “This Manufacturer Isn't Moving to China”, BusinessWeek November 20, 2003

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8. 
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11. 
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12. 
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13. 
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14. 
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15. 
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17. 
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18. 
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19. 
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21. 
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22. 
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23. 
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24. 
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25. 
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26. 
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28. 
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29. 
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36. 
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38. 
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41. 
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42. 
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45. 
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46. 
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48. 
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49. 
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50. 
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52. 
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53. 
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54. 
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55. 
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56. 
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57. 
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58. 
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59. 
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60. 
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61. 
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63. 
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64. 
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65. 
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66. 
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68. 
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69. 
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