C) Find the proper answers in the answer box in the end of Unit 7 and use them to fill the gaps in the sentences below.

1) A joint initiative by foreign governments and international agencies was launched here on Monday to assist

China's ecologically fragile provinces to ________________to cope with the climate change.

2) The Philippine SNR Coalition started negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement between the Japan and

Philippine governments, protesting against piecemeal job creation for Filipino nurses which they believe to be ____________________ deal."

3) A bill adopted in late 2004 by Zimbabwe's parliament would require the ______________________________of

the nongovernmental organizations activities, causing many NGOs to adopt a "wait-and-see" approach in the

country.

4) To prevent nuke proliferation, NSG members were supposed to closely ___________________ of "trigger list"

items

5) The Asian Development Bank will help the Government of China __________________________ of NGOs to boost state-led poverty reduction efforts, through a technical assistance grant for US$1 million.

7.5 Translate the sentences:

1) Business ties with the US side in this field are rough-and-tumble.

2) Trade barriers restrict Russian customers to advanced US technologies.

3) Some Russian enterprises are penalized by restrictive and discriminatory measures.

4)Russia has yet to tap its full potential in high-technology exports overseas.

7.6 Are the adjectives lop-sided and unilateral synonyms? Explain the difference between them.

All these word combinations contain the same word

….turnover, ... cooperation, Russian …, US-Soviet …, high-technology …, …. barriers.

Guess the word and translate these word combinations.

In class

7.1Listen to the Webcast Russia Calls For … and do the exercises.

C – Comprehension Test 7

B – Comprehension Test 7

Part 1

_______________________between Russia and the United States last year _________________about 25 billion dollars. US and Russia trade officials have been __________________for joint actions to expand trade cooperation, which both sides believe has enough _______________________________________and diversification.

Russian trade and economy officials have long complained that trade between the two countries is _________________where Russian exports of raw materials prevail, while US exports of high technology to Russia remains affected by heavy __________________________and control, like in the old Soviet times. In those years each item of US exports to Soviet Russia was heavily _________________and US-Soviet trade remained largely _____________________business. These days, however, the pattern of US-Russian trade has changed considerably, although Russian raw materials still dominate in the overall exports from Russia to the United States. But now US companies are looking to expand technology investments in the Russian market, targeting primarily software development and information technologies.

Part 2

Russia’s first vice-premier Sergei Ivanov last month called for taking what he called political and economic steps to improve Russian-US partnership in high-technology trade. Sergei Ivanov told a government _______________________________that this country needs _______________________________at the government level to make Russian-American cooperation in high technology equal and ________________________in character.__________________, the Russian government official implied, such cooperation is ____________equal _________________mutually beneficial.

Sergei Ivanov ____________________________that the US high tech market is particularly important to Russia, not ______________from the point of_______________________, but more importantly from the point of helping Russia _____________an innovative economy, an issue that is being widely discussed in Russia and which spells _____________________________________

__________________________and technologies and their _____________________________

with the latest business trends

Part 3

The Russian government official noted that the ______________export of Russian high-technology _________________ to the United States alone amounts to a little more than 1.3 billion dollars. But business _______________with the US side in this field are___________________. In a number of specific areas, he said, they are seriously ___________________by various factors, occasionally of purely political nature. “Administrative trade barriers ________________in the United States that restrict Russian customers ___________________and some Russian enterprises are________________ by __________________and ____________________by the US government that are hard to explain from the point of international law,” Sergei Ivanov said.

These days Russian engineers ______________________________________their skills in the development of Boeing’s Dreamliner aircraft and Russia is exporting rocket engines for use in the United States. But Russia has yet to ______________________in high-technology exports overseas. The United States, ____________, has yet ______whatever ______________________it has on exports of its own high-tech products to Russia.

A – Comprehension Test 3

1) What plans are being mapped out by US and Russia trade officials?

2) What features of US-Russia trade have long disappointed Russia’s trade and economy officials?

3) What in particular has changed in the pattern of the US-Russian trade? What remains unchanged?

4) What did Russia’s vice-premier Sergei Ivanov tell the government commission on export control?

5) Why, according to him, is the US high-tech market particularly important to Russia?

6) What does the switch to an innovative economy entail?

7) What kind of business ties have existed between the two countries so far?

8) What are the main factors that hamper development of mutually beneficial trade in the sphere of high technologies?

9) What is Russia supposed to do to improve the situation?

10) What measures should be taken by the USA in the field?

Text 8.

Obama’s Landmark Cairo Speech

At Home

8.1 Find in the WWW information about the following:

a) On what grounds was Barack Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? What religion is the most common in Egypt? How and when did it establish in the country? What initiatives have been put forward to lessen the tension between the West and Islamic world?

b) What is the implicit message of the political cartoon above?

8.2 Look at the text title and complete the sentences trying to guess what endings they might have in the text

While he admitted one speech could not…

The band on his arrival in Egypt might have been….

Arab nations had been used as ….

There were also admonishments on democracy

8.3 a). Form abstract nouns from these verbs:

8.3 b). Fill in the gaps with the help of expressions above:

1. British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that the United Kingdom would double its current contribution to polio_____________ .
2. Nothing is as easy to make as a ____________ this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
3. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden soon became a dramatic ____________ between Europe and America.
4. Jefferson's opposition to judicial review has not been accepted by history, but it still serves as an __________ against confusion between judicial and political functions.
5. The ____________ between the two countries has improved.
6. Online ______________ cannot be made on same day of travel.
7. Today, people in Japan, and Tahiti, hold on to their dignity and don't want their _______ to be lost.
8. Germans and Finns who have a less but still strong level of uncertainty ________and a medium level of power distance have the need for clearly specified competence to avoid uncertainty.

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