Exercises

1. Match English and Russian equivalents:

against the yen	повысить, вырасти
to come to an end	против (по сравнению с)
to gain	иеной
with trading thin	поскольку операции с бума­гами идут неактивно
GBP 50m worth of D-Marks	подойти к концу
	немецкие марки на сумму 50
to close at D. M. 1.557	млн. фунтов стерлингов
	Рынок закрылся на период
	праздничных дней.
The market closed for the	Курс марки на момент за­
holiday	крытия биржи составил 1.557
The dollar resumed its ad­	Курс доллара стал расти
vances	благодаря ...
The dollar was boosted by. .	Курс доллара снова стал рас­
	ти.
The sterling rebounded.	Курс фунта вырос.
It sent sterling higher.	Активность рынка ценных
	бумаг и облигаций снова
	возросла.
The stock and bond markets	Благодаря этому курс фунта
rebounded.	вырос.
It rose where a fall had been	Он возрос, хотя предсказали
forecast.	его падение.
The figures added to the evi­	Положение экономики США
dence of recent weeks.	снова стало улучшаться.
The American economy has lesumed stronger growth	Эти цифры говорили о том же, что и данные последних недель.

 

2. Find the sentences in the text with the following words:

• to rise to gain to resume its dvances to rebound from falls to be boosted

• to send the pound higher fall to lose deceleration

 

3. Insert articles:

Here is... item on financial news published by.. Financial Times.

dollar and.. pound resumed their advances.

US currency was helped chiefly by... US stock and bond mar­kets

... dollar was also boosted by US construction spending for November

... dollar rose where... fall had been forecast

The figures also say that... American economy has resumed stronger growth.

4. Read as in the examples:

• Example	November 18, 1996 the eighteenth of November nineteen ninety six
May 1, 1997 April 1,1999
	December 25, 1998 July 4, 1996

 

• Example

2% two per cent

 

3%

7%

10%

75%

100%

 

• Example

1.692 one point six nine two

 

1.557	1.5
1.6870	2.8
1.6860	3.3
1.6798	9.5

 

• Example

0.5 о point five

 

0.8

0.4.

0.7

 

• Example

one sale of 50 million English pounds sterling worth of Deutsch Marks

 

 

5. Insert prepositions:

The dollar gained 1.5 pfennigs... the D-Mark... and Y 0.5... the yen.

But the Tokyo market remained closed... the national holiday.

Sterling rebounded 2.8 pfennigs... the D-Mark after losing 3 pfennigs. . Thursday.

The pound closed. London... DM 2.635 .. the German currency. It gained... strong consumer credit data.

6. Make sentences:

	the news
• this is	the item
these are	the facts	published by
	the information	the Financial Times
	the figures	(FT)

 

• the pound		the USA
the yen	is the currency unit of	Germany
the dollar		Great Britain
the D-Mark		Japan
the franc		Italy
the lira		France

 

7. Give full words for the following:

UBS mth

GBP yr

FT prev. close

8. Underline the verbs and translate the sentences into Russian:

The dollar rose where a fall had been forecast.

The figures added to the evidence that the American economy has resumed stronger growth.

The US deceleration is coming to an end.

The dollar was boosted by US construction spending for November.

With trading thin it sent sterling about a pfennig high.

It gained on strong consumer credit data and rising oil prices.