Пояснения к тексту. 1) per capita – на душу населения;

1) per capita – на душу населения;

2) mortality rate – уровень смертности.

Ответьте на следующие вопросы к тексту.

1. What problems does development economics study?

2. How are Third World countries named?

3. What countries are known as "developed countries"?

4. When was the fastest growth of Third World countries?

5. Are developing countries independent politically or economically?

6. What countries belong to "newly industrialized countries"?

7. Are all developing countries uniform in their development?

8. What are the common characteristics of all developing countries?

2. Составьте предложения из каждого набора слов:

1. The company, exported, to European countries, before, its, never, has, goods.

2. Such a high level, the NICs, as now, reached, in trade, never, have.

3. Their goods, to Africa, yet, exported, they, have?

4. Have, new machines, we, the productivity, already, increased, of.

5. Reached, most African countries, the living standards, have not, yet, of developed countries.

6. The European Union, Lithuania, a member of, recently, has become.

3. Заполните пропуски, используя слова под чертой (слова даны в нужной форме):

1. Brazil has recently increased the exports of..., one of which is coffee.

2. As the education of … is not very good in developing countries, the … is low.

3. There is a wide … of problems which Third world countries have in their economics, but economic … is common for most of them.

4. This factory uses the most … technologies in processing agricultural products into foodstuffs.

5. He has been interested in the problems of development economics … he started work there.

6. Less developed countries are … from each other by means of analysis of their … income … capita.

7. Developing countries got political … more than 50 years ago, but they have not … a high level of living standards of developed countries.

8. Newly industrialized countries have … the productivity of light manufacturing industry ….

9. The development of different areas of the economy is not …. Some areas are more developed, others are less developed.

Labour productivity, uniform, since, foodstuffs, advanced, independence, variety, population, per, increased, distinguished, lately, average, reached, dependence.

Выберите подходящее по смыслу слово из предлагаемых в скобках вариантов.

1. Economies of Western Europe, North America, and Japan are (developing/developed) economies.

2. Third World countries are called (developing/developed) countries.

3. The most advanced Asian and South American countries are sometimes called ("newly industrialized countries"/ " less developed countries").

4. Many countries became politically (dependent/independent) after World War II.

5. Brazil and Mexico have also increased their share in the world market mainly by means of (foodstuffs/clothes) exports.

6. (Developed/developing) nations have high mortality rate and fast population growth.