Ex. 2. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык. Обратите внимание на разные значения глагола to be перед инфинитивом

Prices are to regulate production and consumption in a market economy.

The problem with government regulation of markets is to control how government restrictions work in real life.

The aim of that book is to form a theory of the role of government in economic life.

The market is to decide how much to produce.

A building society is a financial organization whose purpose is to help people buy houses or flats.

When the authors of the textbook discussed examples, their intention (намерение) was to prepare students for future economic analyses.

Governments are to regulate or plan production and consumption. The former is typical of mixed economies, the latter is typical of command economies.

Ex. 3. Переведите следующие предложения, содержащие оборот to be + of + существительное.

1. Economists' recommendations may be of high value to governments but governments do not always rely on them.

The study of economics is of great use even to those students who have no wish to become professional economists.

Basic problems of economics are of great importance to every economist, while specific problems of farm economics are mostly of interest to economists who study agriculture.

Since economists cannot make experiments, collecting and using information from a large number of past years is of practical importance for analyzing and solving problems of today.

Professional marketing services are of great value to producers and sellers.

Economic statistics are of interest to economic policy decision-makers.

Ex. 4. Перепишите предложения, заменяя формы действительного залога на формы страдательного. Обращайте внимание на то, в каком времени употреблен глагол.

ОБРАЗЕЦ: In a command economy the government makes all decisions about production and consumption. -> In a command economy all decisions about production and consumption are made by the government.

The government made all resources allocation decisions in the Soviet Union.

Prices regulate consumption and production in a market economy.

In a mixed economy the government does not entirely regulate exchange of goods.

The economists are monitoring the prices and levels of consumption of different goods and services.

5.Economics analyses society's production and consumption levels.

The company has made a decision to start producing new machines.

Economists had studied and discussed the ideas of Karl Marx for over sixty years before Russians put them into life.