LANGUAGE PRACTICE
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Ex.1. Match the terms with their definitions and learn them.
| 1)The Fugitive Slave Act | 1) An economic doctrine of governmental non-interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights. |
| 2)Self-government | 2) An arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled in a mechanically efficient manner. |
| 3)Laissez faire | 3) A US federal law providing for the return of escaped slaves to their owners regardless of where the slaves were captured. |
| 4) Industrial revolution | 4) The cost of wages paid to workers during an accounting period on daily, weekly, monthly, or job basis, plus payroll and related taxes and benefits. |
| 5) Mass production | 5) Government under the control and direction of the inhabitants of a political unit rather than by an outside authority. |
| 6) Labor cost | 6) The complex of radical socioeconomic changes, brought about when extensive mechanization of production systems results in a shift from home-based hand manufacturing to large-scale factory production. |
| 7)Assembly line | 7)The manufacture of goods in large quantities, often using standardized designs and assembly-line techniques. |
Ex.2. Translate the words and phrases in brackets to complete the sentences. Make necessary grammatical changes.
1) The United States turned its attention to (укреплять) the federal government and (принимать законы) that (отменять, упразднять рабство) and (проложить путь) for civil rights.
2) The (воюющие стороны) in the American Civil War were 24 northern states of the Union, on the one hand, and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that (провозгласить независимость) and (добиваться права отделения, выхода из состава) from the Union, on the other.
3) The Union (одержать решающую победу).
4) The war produced more than 970,000 (потери – убитые и раненые), including approximately 560,000 deaths.
Ex.3. Complete the text by adding the words from the box. What economic doctrine is described in the text?
| welfare, illegitimate, competitive, interfere, favor, regulation, laissez faire, scarce, intervention |
____ is an economic doctrine that a government should not ____ in the economic or social ____ of society unless absolutely necessary. Laissez faire assumes that the ____ system of free markets is the best means of allocation of ____ resources between alternative uses. Government ____ in the market place to regulate economic activity is seen as ____ and inefficient. The Laissez faire doctrine lost popularity in the middle of the twentieth century, with the rise of the ‘____ state' and extensive public ownership of parts of the economy, but has regained ____ in the 1980's and 1990's.
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