6. Переведите цепочки существительных. Назовите существительные, выполняющие функцию определения.

- crop: crop growing, root crops, root crops growing, grain crop, grain crops cultivation;

- market: market system, world market, consumer market, consumer market development, food market, food market survey;

- tax: income tax, tax advantages, income tax advantages, tax strategy, state tax strategy, tax strategy development;

- food: food supplies, sea food, sea food supplies, food purity, food purity control, Food Program, the World Food Program;

- price: food price, consumer price, market price, market price equivalent, commodity price, commodity price index, cost and price difference, price control, price control system;

- balance: trade balance, balance cost, balance sheet, balance sheet analysis, zero balance, year balance, zero year balance, balance budget.

7. Образуйте сравнительную и превосходную степень от данных прилагательных и наречий:

a) high, small, late, cheap, large, easy, slow, tender, fast, early, hard, soon, nice, happy, long, big;

b) profitable, expensive, important, substantial, serious, effective, successful, useful, resistant;

c) bad, far, good, old, little, many, badly, much, well.

8. Поставьте прилагательное или наречие в скобках в сравнительную или превосходную степень сравнения:

1. For (far) information, please write to the above address.

2. You know much, but you know (little) than your teacher.

3. This is (important) information, we have ever received.

4. You studied hard, and as a result you passed the exams (good) of all the students in your group.

5. We were disappointed as the price of wheat was (expensive) than we expected.

6. Actually, the weather today is (bad) than it was yesterday, so we have harvested (few) tons of grain.

7. The government is going to provide (many) tax advantages for agricultural enterprises.

8. My (old) brother studies economics of agricultural enterprises at the Agrarian University.

9. Заполните пропуски подходящей формой глагола to be. Сделайте предложения вопросительными и отрицательными:

1. My mother … an economist, and my father … a food technologist. My friend’s parents … technologists, too. 2. Where … you from? – I … from Belarus. – And where … your friends from? – They … from Russia. 3. … your friend at the University at the moment? – No, he … not at the University, he … at home. 4.What … the weather like today? – It … cloudy, the sky … grey. I think it will rain today. 5. Our students … fond of chemistry. 6. It … difficult to begin learning languages. But to learn the second language … much easier. 7. People who know several foreign languages … polyglots. 8. The knowledge of foreign languages … very useful. 9. Our University … the initiator of regular events in the life of the students. They … students’ festivals, sports and athletics meetings, tourist programs. 10. The Belarusians … very educated people.

10. Переведите:

1. There are 5 foreign students at in our group. 2. There are many Candidates of Science at our University. 3. There is a well-equipped a printing room in the main building of the University. 4. There are always very many students in the reading-room. 5. There is a nice building of the University in our street. 6. There are a lot of interesting subjects in our schedule (расписание). 7. There are three universities in our city. 8. There are 340 students per 10,000 residents of Belarus. 9. There is only one Institute in our republic, all the rest are universities and academies. 10. There is a year’s preparatory Russian language course for foreign students at our University.