Who (to tell) workers where (to work) or what occupation to choose ? Who (to declare) how many cars should (to produce) and how many homes should (to build) ? Who (to specify) the predominant style of women’s dresses or men’s suits? The greater the degree of competition the more these matters (to decide) impersonally and automatically by the price system or the market system. This may (to view) as a system of rewards and penalties. Rewards (to include) profits for firms and people who (to succeed) . Penalties (to include) losses, or probably bankruptcy, for those who (to fail) . The price system (to be) fundamental to the traditional concept of market economy.
The price system basically (to operate) on the principle that everything that (to exchange) — every good, every service, and every resource — (to have) its price. In a free market with many buyers and sellers, the prices of these things (to reflect) the quantities that sellers (to make) available and the quantities that buyers (to wish) (to purchase) .
Thus, if buyers (to want) (to purchase) more of a certain good than suppliers (to have) available, its price (to rise) . This (to encourage) suppliers (to produce) and (to sell) more of it. On the other hand, if buyers (to want) (to purchase) less of a certain good than suppliers (to prepare) (to sell) , its price (to fall) . It (to encourage) buyers (to purchase) more of it.
This interaction between sellers and buyers in a competitive market, and the resulting changes in prices, (to be) what most people (to refer) to by the familiar phrase “supply and demand”.
Bob told me he had bought those novels the previous day.
Mary said she had to learn the rules for the test.
... said they would go on an excursion the Wednesday after.
I said Carolina was arriving that day.
They said she didn't know the news.
Tom asked Ann where she had gone the previous summer.
He asked me what my father's job was.
He asked Ann if she could give him her phone number.
He asked me when I would be there the next day.
She said she was reading an interesting thriller then.
Tom asked me how many pages I had read.
She said she always woke up early.
Task 1. Complete with the
question tag
1. You are a theatre goer, aren't you?
2. Kharkiv isn't the capital of Ukraine, is it?
3. Mary and Christy haven't visited the Downing Street yet, have they?
4. Your brother doesn't go to school, does he?
5. I acted in the perfomance well, didn't I ?
Task 2. Complete the sentence
with proper reflexive pronouns
1. My parents went on the guided tour by themselves.
2. Do you do your lessons by yourself?
3. Ann will make a cake by herself.
4. I do the washing up by myself.
Task 3. Complete the sentence
with who, which, where
1. Keanu Reeves is an actor WHO played the main part in the Matrix.
2. Downing Street is a street WHERE
the office of the British Prime Minester is situated.
3. Piccadilly Circus is the only
square in London WHICH is round.
Task 4. Make one sentence out
of two using the Past Perfect
Tense and the words in
brackets.
5. She walked outside after Mary had
felt better.
6. The children had cooked
supper before their mother came home.
7. I had taken a tablet of aspirin before
the doctor arrived.
8. After Tom had done his lessons, he
went to play football.