Choose the correct pronoun and complete the sentence.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 658.

Exercise 1

Fill in the blanks. Complete the sentences using the following quantity pronouns (Some of them can be used twice.):

1. After graduation from high school _____ young people choose to go to college; _____ want to get full-time jobs, _____ decide to obtain a technical job training.

2. What are _____ considerations in making a choice?

3. You can't make a choice between two possible uses of your resources without _____ opportunity cost.

4. _____ decision school graduates make affects the rest of their lives.

5. I know that you've got _____ money. Could you lend me _____?

6. Young people have _____ opportunities today to earn their living, but they don't always make the most of them.

7. _____ of us has any chance for research in our new jobs.

8. _____ the concepts of opportunity costs and tradeoffs are used to explain how the economy works.

9. If a person has _____ choices then more than one opportunity cost exists.

10. The capital resources these people use include _____ a variety of tools _____ machines.

11. If you spend _____ time watching TV you cannot spend the same time at the library.

Exercise 2

1. People and societies don't have much / many natural resources and must be aware of all the trade-offs.

2. Every / each opportunity cost is the value of time, money, resources and labour.

3. All / every people make choices about what they want most.

4. We have got all the / the whole information about the construction of this plant.

5. Another / other natural resources are available and used by construction workers.

6. Unfortunately, a few / few economic models help economists to analyse economic problems and solve them.

7. Nothing / noneof the decisions were correct and justified.

8. Don't you have little / a little money to lend me?

9. There are hardly some / any students in your group who need financial help to attend college.

10. One can't make a choice between two possible uses of resources without some / anyopportunity cost.

11. No / neither of these economic models fits our goals. Try to find a better one.

12. The managers made quite a number of promises before the meeting, but haven't kept either / kept none.

13. The two workshops look very much alike but frankly speaking I don't like both of them / either.

14. I have telephoned Mr. Grant three times this week and I reckon I've mentioned Mr. Macpherson's reference every / each time.