Сгруппируйте из следующих слов синонимические и антонимические пары.

To sell, by means of, slow, varying, however, to be due to, to cause, aggregate, to speed, quite, to accept, rapid, to expect, a little, to happen, a number of, constant, entire, to accelerate, if, though, to purchase, total, to be caused, by, to result in, to take place, rather, to some extent, to adopt, through, temporary, whether, to buy, to anticipate, several, to occur, steady.

7. Заполните пропуски в предложениях, употребив следующие слова и словосо­четания в соответствующей форме: temporary, tight, to account for, to mean, inflation rate, to adjust (2), djustment, to anticipate, indexation, to speed up, hyperinflation, to cope with, to argue, money supply

1. The incomes policy is known to be a... means of … … the... of wages to growing money supply.

2.... regulation of the Central Bank, it is argued, will prevent (предотвра­щать) sudden increases in … ….

3. The situation is referred to as..., provided the … … per month is about 50 percent for several months in succession (подряд).

4. Before 1971 banks rarely... interest rates on deposits. This... that a rise in inflation reduced the real interest rate on all deposits with fixed interest rate.

5. Even when inflation is perfectly..., and the economy is fully... to infla­tion, it is impossible to … … all its costs.

6.... cannot cope with all the costs of high inflation.

7. The rich industrial countries comprising the United States, Western Europe, Canada, and Japan … … 16 percent of world population.

8. The report... that many of the world's resources were in limited supply and would be used up within 100 years.

8. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на значение слова any.

1. Producing output, any firm use the cheapest available technique (технология).

2. If a company is in trouble, it will be happy to borrow at almost any interest rate the banks charge (назначать).

3. Modern markets are not normally located in any special place.

4. At any particular moment the demand for a company’s exports is at a given level, the latter changing when demand conditions change in the rest of the world.

5. Some unemployment is expected to occur at any time, even when the economic growth in the country is steady.

6. There are not any substitutes for everything, so people cannot avoid high-priced goods by means of buying something else.

7. Any person can find himself in one of three situations: employed, unemployed, or out of the labour force.

8. Almost the only products whose prices do not depend on their cost to any considerable degree are those with fixed supply, such as works of art, and those supplies are limited by monopolists, such as oil.