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has lesumed stronger growth
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:
November 18, 1996
the eighteenth of November
nineteen ninety six
• Example
May 1, 1997 April 1,1999
December 25, 1998 July 4,
• Example
2%
two per cent
7
• Example
1.692
one point six nine
1.55
1
1.68
2
1.68
3
1.67
9
• Example
0.5
о point five
0
0
• Example
50
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.