Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "MARKETS AND INTEREST RATES"

I. Раскройте скобки, употребив глагол в нужном времени и залоге.

1. Our engineers (to take part) in the inspection of the goods lately?

2. An agricultural exhibition (to hold) in Vladivostok one of these days.

3. As soon as we (to come) to the factory, they (to take) to the shop where machines usually (to test).

4. The room (to reserve) before you last (to go) to London?

5. When we (to go out) it (to rain).

II. Переведите предложения из прямой речи в косвенную, обращая внимание на согласование времен. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. She said: You can see all models at the exhibition and then we’ll meet and discuss our contract.

2. Dad said: I am beginning a new project tomorrow.

3. The teacher asked my mother: Did your son get up late yesterday?

4. The sales manager asked: Send us your machines as soon as possible, please.

5. The Head of laboratory said: We must get the results of your research today.

6. The Professor asked: How do banks function?

7. The Chief Engineer added: You may also see our new site.

III. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

MARKETS AND INTEREST RATES

For each type of investment and for many of their derivatives there is a market. There is a market in money in London. It is not a physical marketplace: dealings take place over the telephone, and the price a borrower pays for the use of money is the interest rate. There are markets in commodities. And there is a market in government bonds and company shares: the stockmarket. The important thing is that no market is entirely independent of the others. The linking factor is the cost of money (or the return an investor can get on money). If interest rates rise or fall there is likely to be a ripple of movement through all the financial markets. Money will gravitate to where it earns the best return, commensurate with the risk the investor is prepared to take and the length of time for which he can tie up his money. This is the most important mechanism in the financial sphere. As a general rule:

The more money you have to invest, the higher the return you can expect.

• The longer you are prepared to tie your money up,
  the higher the return you can expect.

• The more risk you are prepared to take, the higher the return you can expect if all goes well.

In either type of market, the buyers and the sellers may deal direct with each other or they may deal through a middleman known as a marketmaker. If they deal direct, each would-be buyer has to find a corresponding would-be seller. If there is a marketmaker, a seller will sell instead to the marketmaker, who buys on his own account in the hope that he will later be able to find a buyer to whom he can sell at a profit. Marketmakers make a book in shares or bonds. They are prepared to buy shares in the hope of finding somebody to sell to or sell shares (which they may not even have) in the expectation of finding somebody from whom they can buy to balance their books. Either way, they make their living on the difference between the prices at which they buy and sell. Marketmakers (in practice there will normally be a number of them competing with each other) lend liquidity fluidity to a market. A potential buyer can always buy without needing to wait until he can find a potential seller, securities can readily be turned into cash.

IV. Замените синонимами выделенные слова.

money will move to where it earns the best return; investor can tie up his money; who buys on his own account.

V. Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующим выражениям.

рынок товаров; рынок акций; лежать в основе; перемещаться; вложить деньги;.....
 

VI. Ответьте на вопросы

1. What are different types of investment and what are the corresponding markets? Describe them.

2. What is a marketmaker? How does he make the market?

VII. a) Найдите предложения со словом return, переведите предложения. Какой частью речи является это слово? Придумайте 2 своих предложения с этим словом.

b) Образуйте разные части речи от слов to own, to compete, to produce, используя суффиксы и приставки. Переведите слова на русский язык.

VIII. Переведите на английский язык, используя активную лексику.

1. Вкладывая деньги в различные банки и инвестируя их в различные фонды, инвестор всегда преследует цель получить наибольшую прибыль, соизмеримую с риском.

2. Фондовая биржа — это посредник между потенциальными покупателями и продавцами государственных облигаций, акций компаний и других ценных бумаг.

3. В основе любого рынка, в т.ч. рынка ценных бумаг, лежит принцип равновесия между теми, кто хочет продать, и теми, кто хочет купить акции.