Контрольная работа 2, Вариант 1

выполнены упражнения согласно заданиям варианта, точный текст заданий ниже

Лексика

1. Соотнесите словосочетания и определения к данным словосочетаниям. Номера соответствий внесите в лист ответов.

1. income distribution

2. money regulations

3. buying habits

4. mass market

5. profitability

6. red tape

7. upmarket

8. outflank

a) the macroeconomic policy laid down by the central bank

b) it is how the nation's total income is distributed amongst its population

c) bureaucracy

d) purchasing behaviour of consumers

e) the ability of a business to make money

f) non-luxury goods that sell in large quantities

g) to be more successful than another company, country etc

h) expensive compared to other products of the same type

2. Выберите слово, чтобы получилось словосочетание, которое используется в сфере экономики. Номера соответствий внесите в лист ответов.

9. launch

a) a rival b) a bid c) a partner

10. penetrate

a) a market b) a capital c) an investment

11. take

a) a merger b) a meeting c) a stake

12. reach

a) an agreement b) an expansion c) a take-over

13. set

a) a business b) a share c) a goal

14. look for

a) an ambition b) an apathy c) a partner

15. form

a) an alliance b) a turnover c) goods

16. risky

a) venture b) subsidiary c) company

3. Выберите английское словосочетание, соответствующее русскому. Номера соответствий внесите в лист ответов.

17.неограниченная ответственность

a) unrestricted access b) unlimited liability

18.стратегическое приобретение

a) strategic acquisition b) strategic concern

19.показатели доходов и расходов

a) company assets b) income and expenditure figures

20. дополнительная выгода

а) supplementary benefit b) additional payment

21. промышленный шпионаж

а) industrial sabotage b) industrial espionage

22. антидемпинговое соглашение

a) anti dumping agreement b) anti dumping regulation

23. рост цен

a) soaring prices b) astonishing prices

24. рекламные материалы

a) insulation material b) promotional literature

4. Сделайте реферирование текста A на английском языке (15-20 предложений).

 Text A

Building trust

Trust is the essential ingredient for successful teamwork. How can we avoid misunderstandings and build strong professional relationships?

Successful business requires collaboration and teamwork. For team relationships to work well, we need high levels of trust. But how we build trust can differ from person to person, culture to culture. Becoming aware of this can help us see how to improve trust with the people we work with.

When Valeria first met her international clients, she tried to bond with them by telling them about her family and her parenting style. She showed them photos of her children on her phone. Her clients felt that her behaviour was unprofessional and it was difficult for them to trust her.

During a team-building exercise, employees at a British firm were asked to share some personal facts. Kelly wanted to make a good impression on her new colleagues. She talked about how she was the top student of her year at high school and how she won a scholarship to university. The following day her colleagues spoke to each other about how uncomfortable they felt about her boasting.

On the first day of a course, trainer David aimed to reassure his new trainees that they were in good hands. He talked enthusiastically about the big corporations he had previously worked in and the famous clients he had trained. He mentioned the good feedback he'd received and showed the results he was able to provide for his clients. The participants on the training course found this information boring and irrelevant. They wanted him to begin the training and not waste time talking about his previous achievements.

There are many ways of building trust, and the approach we choose might depend on the relationship we are building, the culture we are used to and our personal preferences. However, if the methods we choose do not match the expectations of the people around us, it can lead to misunderstandings and negative assessments.

Let's consider different approaches to building trust. Author and speaker Richard Barrett suggests that there are two main components of trust: character and competence. One way of building trust is to show that we are caring, fair, open and honest human beings. In other words, we can build trust by showing our character. Another way to build trust is by letting others know that we are capable, experienced and have achieved excellent results. This way of building trust emphasises our competence.

It can be a useful exercise to analyse specific work relationships in terms of the character/competence model. You might think about the type of trust your relationship has and the type of trust your relationship lacks, in order to see how you can develop. Many of us use both approaches, depending on the context. For example, in a job interview, we might focus on establishing trust by demonstrating our competence through work experience. When we are working within a team, we might prioritise showing our character to form close professional relationships. By becoming aware of the context and how our conversation partners are responding to our trust-building efforts, we can adapt the way we build trust to better suit them.

When working at new professional relationships, it is important to remember that there is no one correct way to build trust. Making quick judgements about the speaker, like Valeria's clients, Kelly's new colleagues and David's trainees did, could stop trust developing and damage our chances of forming positive relationships. Instead, if we assume the best intentions behind what is being said and are generous in our judgements of other people, we create positive conditions for building trust at work.

5. Прочитайте и письменно переведите на русский язык текст В.

Text B

World environment day

On World Environment Day people from countries all around the world come together to take action to defend our planet. Find out about some of the things people are doing to celebrate this special day.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the article and do the exercises.

People celebrate World Environment Day (WED) in many different ways all over the world: planting trees, cleaning up local beaches, organising meetings, joining online protests. Each year the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) chooses a particular issue to focus on. One year it might be forests, another year it might be wildlife. And each year there is a new host; a city which is the centre point for all the celebrations. idea was to draw attention to the many problems that are facing our environment. They wanted the United Nations (UN) named 5 June as international World Environment Day at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. The to include as many people, organisations and governments, both local and national, as possible. They wanted to show that positive change is possible when people work together to fight for a common cause.

The first WED was celebrated in 1974 in the city of Spokane in the USA. The slogan for that first year was 'Only One Earth' and it was celebrated with the world's first world fair to be dedicated to the environment. The exhibition lasted for six months.

Since 1974 the WED has been hosted by 34 different cities in 25 different countries around the world, from Cuba to Korea, from Belgium to Brazil. Some countries have hosted the main celebrations two or more times, including Bangladesh, Canada and China. But that doesn't mean that all the celebrations take place in the host country. Every year people from all over the world take part in a huge number of different events to draw attention to the main issue.

Each year the celebrations focus on a particular problem. Over the last ten years key issues have included wildlife, forests and plastic waste, among other things. Each issue has a slogan. Past slogans include 'Think. Eat. Save.', which asked people to think about the issue of food waste, and 'Raise your voice, not the sea level', to focus on the effect that global warming is having on small island nations around the world. As well as slogans, hashtags have become important for the campaigns too. In a recent campaign the hashtag #WildforLife became a strong symbol for the fight against all kinds of illegal trading in plants and animals.