Read the text again. Two of the questions don't have answers in the text. Find them. 1. Why does Jack like his town?2. Where does Jack buy vegetables?3. What does Jack's brother like to read?4. Why does Jack enjoy being in the libraries?5. What activities do children do in the parks?6. What fast food do Jack's friends like eating? помаги

The main difference between domestic trade and international trade is the use of foreign currencies to pay for the goods and services crossing international borders. Although global trade is often added up in U. S. dollars, the trading itself involves various currencies. Japanese videocassette recorder is paid for in German marks in Berlin, and German cars are paid for in U. S. dollars in Boston. Indian tea. Brazilian coffee, and American films are sold around the world in currencies as diverse as Turkish liras and Mexican pesos.

Whenever a country imports or exports goods and services, there is a resulting flow of funds: money returns to the exporting nation, and money flows out of the importing nation. Trade and investment is a two-way street, and with a minimum of trade barriers, international trade and investment usually makes everyone better off.

In a interlined global economy, consumers are given the opportunity to buy the best products at the best prices. By opening up markets, a government allows its citizens to produce and export those things they are best at and to import the rest, choosing from whatever the world has to offer. Some trade barriers will always exist as long as any two countries have different sets of laws. However, when a country decides to protect its economy by erecting artificial trade barriers, the result is often damaging to everyone, including those people whose barriers were meant to protect.

VIII. Подберите правильные русские эквиваленты английских слов, встречавшихся в тексте:

to consume - потреблять

difference - отличие

currency - валюта

flow - перемещение, перетекание

trade barrier - препятствия в торговле

artificial - искусственные

to erect - создавать

to retaliate - этого слова (отвечать) нет в тексте

to involve - участвуют

international borders - границы государств

It was 20 years ago and I lived in Paris. I earned very little and could keep hardly body and soul together. One of my readers, a lady wrote to me about one of my books she had read. She asked me if I would give her a little luncheon. I answered that I would meet her at the restaurant on Thursday 11.30. The next day when she came I was waiting for her for an hour. She was a woman of forty and not very attractive. When the waiter brought the menu, she said: "I never eat many things. I eat only one thing, a little fish, perhaps."