Английский разговорный язык. Практическое пособие по развитию устной речи

Exercise 3

Answer the questions:

1. What is capital flight?

2. What can the distinction between «flight» and normal capital outflows be compared with?

3. What is the most common cause of capital flight?

4. Why do people carry their money away from their home country?

5. What are the best vehicles for the capital flight?

6. When is the capital flight most likely to occur?

7. How did the term «capital flight» change in the eighties?

8. What measures can be adopted to prevent the capital flight?

9. Why were the capital controls inefficient in the US in the sixties?

10. How can a government make the domestic currency more attractive?

1

At a country-club party a young man was introduced to an attractive girl. Immediately he began paying her court and flattering her outrageously. The girl liked the young man, but she was taken a bit aback by his fast and ardent pitch. She was amazed when after 30 minutes he seriously proposed marriage.

«Look,» she said. «We only met half an hour ago. How can you be so sure? We know nothing about each other.»

«You\'re wrong,» the young man declared. «For the past 5 years I\'ve been working in the bank where your father has his account.»

2

A young banker decided to get his first tailor-made suit. So he went to the finest tailor in town and got measured for a suit. A week later he went in for his first fitting. He put on the suit and he looked stunning, he felt that in this suit he can do business.

As he was preening himself in front of the mirror he reached down to put his hands in the pockets and to his surprise he noticed that there were no pockets. He mentioned this to the tailor who asked him, «Didn\'t you tell me you were a banker?»

The young man answered, «Yes, I did.»

To this the tailor said, «Who ever heard of a banker with his hands in his own pockets?»

3

A man walks into a New York City bank and says he wants to borrow $2,000 for three weeks. The loan officer asks him what kind of collateral he has. The man says «I\'ve got a Rolls Royce – keep it until the loan is paid off – here are the keys.» The loan officer promptly has the car driven into the bank\'s underground parking for safe keeping, and gives the man $2,000.

Three weeks later the man comes into the bank, pays back the $2,000 loan, plus $10 interest, and regains possession of the Rolls Royce. The loan officer asks him, «Sir, if I may ask, why would a man who drives a Rolls Royce need to borrow two thousand dollars?»

The man answers, «I had to go to Europe for three weeks, and where else could I store a Rolls Royce for that long for ten dollars?»

Слова и выражения:

amaze – изумлять

ardent – горячий, пылкий

attractive – привлекательная

collateral – обеспечение займа, залог

fitting – примерка

flatter – льстить

immediately – немедленно

introduce – представлять, знакомить

marriage – женитьба

outrageous – возмутительный

pitch – решительность

preen – прихорашиваться

promptly – быстро

propose – предлагать (руку и сердце)

store

– хранить

stunning – ошеломляющий

country-club party – вечеринка в загородном клубе

pay court – ухаживать (за женщиной)

taken aback – ошеломленный, удивленный, озадаченный

a bit – немного

tailor-made suit – костюм, сшитый портным

got measured – был измерен

underground parking – подземная стоянка

safe keeping – хранение

regain possession – вновь принять во владение