Человек и общество. Часть 1

Выберите правильный ответ. Many companies are worried about losing good employees to their competitors; this is especially a problem in _____________.

• many high-technology industries
• service sector
• steel industry
• heavy industry

Выберите правильный ответ. A teacher would be classed as a professional in the ____________sector.

• manufacturing
• educational
• primary
• service

Выберите правильный ответ. Some people believe that ___________did not pay a lot of attention to the rights of common people.

• human rights’ activists
• human rights activists
• humans rights’ activists
• human’s rights activists

Выберите правильный ответ. A U.S. Senate investigation charged that Saddam Hussein ———-$21 billion violating UN sanctions by smuggling oil.

• did
• had
• made
• won

Выберите правильный ответ. CND is _________________________

• Campaign for Nuclear Disposal
• Committee for Nuclear Disposal
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Committee for Nuclear Disarmament

Выберите правильный ответ. A ‘proper job’ is one that __________

• provides useful work
• involves bringing up children
• serves the community
• provides a salary

Выберите правильный ответ.

• Russia has refused to sign a cooperation agreement with United Nation’s probe to possible corruption in the raqi oil-for-food program.
• Russia has refused to sign a cooperation agreement with the United Nation probes with possible corruption in the Iraqi oil-for-food program.
• Russia has refused to sign a cooperation agreement with a United Nations’ probe into possible corruption in the Iraqi oil-for-food program.
• Russia has refused to sign a cooperation agreement with the United Nation probe in possible corruption in the Iraqi oil-for-food program.

Выберите правильный ответ. Teacher is a _____________

• tenant
• worker
• servant
• civil servant

Выберите правильный ответ. At the meeting in Manchester the delegates agreed to establish the Trade Union ___________and to hold a meeting every year to discuss issues of importance to the labour movement.

• Congress
• Committee
• Council
• Movement

Выберите правильный ответ. Today women have actually overtaken men in the _____________.

• job market
• commodities market
• housing market
• securities market

Выберите правильный ответ. Independent agents lure __________ a company’s best employees with offers of better working conditions and benefits.

• in
• on
• away
• at

Выберите правильный ответ. Last year, this particular shop ___________ £26,000, but only £2,500 of that figure came from the sale of new goods.

• did
• made
• won
• gained

Выберите правильный ответ. For the first time in their histories, some unions have actually accepted lower pay to help save a company; this happened, for example, in 1980 with ________.

• Ford
• BMV
• Mercedes
• Chrysler

Выберите правильный ответ. ___________ pointed out if the work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it to themselves.

• Mark Twain
• Tony Blair
• Jack London
• Graham Green

Выберите правильный ответ. In the USA workshops turned into _________.

• factories
• houses
• offices
• shops

Выберите правильный ответ. Which organization tries to maintain peace throughout the world?

• United Nations International Children’s Fund
• UN
• World Health Organisation
• Oxford Committee for Famine Relief

Выберите правильный ответ. Working as a part of a team toward a common ________, gives people a sense of purpose.

• pass
• victory
• achievement
• goal

Выберите правильный ответ. Before the word «head hunters» referred to people who ——— criminals.

• tracked with
• tracked in
• tracked up
• tracked down

Выберите правильный ответ. A popular form for the __________ strike is the «Blue Flu.»

• teachers’
• policemen’s
• miners’
• schoolchildren’s

Выберите правильный ответ. In the automobile industry in the USA in the 1930s there were many violent confrontations and ________ before the companies accepted the fact that unions were there to stay.

• stand-up strikes
• calm strikes
• restless strikes
• sit-down strikes

Выберите правильный ответ. The people who have lost their work often _____________.

• take an interest in new activities
• develop a better self-image
• have difficulty coping with the change
• enjoy their leisure time

Выберите правильный ответ. In the USA workers in large numbers organized into labor unions in the _________.

• 20 century
• 17century
• 19 century
• 18 century

Выберите правильный ответ. A government’s refusal to sign memoranda of understanding is not necessarily a sign of _____________to cooperate.

• desire
• wish
• opportunity
• reluctance

Выберите правильный ответ. WHO is ____________________________

• World Healer Organisation
• World Headmasters’ Organisation
• World head boys’ Organisation
• World Health Organisation

Выберите правильный ответ. In 1886, several unions of skilled workers came together to form a central union, the____________.

• American Federation of Labor
• Fair Labor Standards Union
• American Union of Labor
• Social Security Union

Выберите правильный ответ. Which organization is concerned with controlling infections such as typhoid and cholera?

• UNICEF
• CND
• WHO
• OXFAM

Выберите правильный ответ. The military conflict has taken a heavy toll ___________human rights groups and liberal political parties, which were held in high public esteem.

• at
• on
• in
• with

Выберите правильный ответ. By early 1997 Labour had won so many seats in __________that the parliamentary majority of the Conservatives had been removed.

• by-elections
• on-elections
• above-elections
• in-elections

Выберите правильный ответ. The military and security forces lost the fight both on the ground and ___________public opinion.

• with
• on
• by
• in

Выберите правильный ответ. UN is________________________

• Union Nation
• United Nations
• United Nation
• Union Nations

Выберите правильный ответ. Some people believe ___________activists have largely lost their voice due to public disappointment in their ideas.

• labor
• liberal
• democratic
• social

Выберите правильный ответ. The most violent confrontation between labor and employers was the Great ______Strike of 1877.

• Road
• Motorway
• Railway
• Sea

Выберите правильный ответ. The industrial unions were most powerful in the period immediately following World War II.

• The industrial unions were most powerful in the beginning of the 20th century.
• The industrial unions were most powerful in the period immediately following World War I.
• The industrial unions were most powerful in the beginning of the 19th century.

Выберите правильный ответ.

• The American worker has usually fought for «a bigger piece of the pie,» better working conditions, and better health, rather than retirement benefits.
• The American worker has usually fought for «a bigger piece of the pie,» better working conditions, and better health and retirement benefits, rather than social status, or mobility.
• The American worker has usually fought for «a bigger piece of the pie,» better working conditions, and better health and retirement benefits, rather than social status.
• The American worker has usually fought for «a bigger piece of the pie,» better working conditions, rather than social status, or better health and retirement benefits.

Выберите правильный ответ. In 1994, __________became leader of the Labour Party, which he called ‘New Labour’.

• John Major
• Tony Blair
• George Bush
• Margaret Thatcher

Выберите правильный ответ.

• The rise of some industries, such as the steel industry, along with the decline in the number of blue-collar, technical and service jobs has also harmed white-collar unions.
• The decline of some industries, such as the steel industry, along with the rise in the number of white-collar, technical and service jobs has also harmed blue-collar unions.
• The decline of some industries, such as the heavy industry, along with the decline of in the number of white-collar, technical and service jobs has also harmed blue-collar unions.
• The increase of some industries, such as the steel industry, along with the decline of white-collar, technical and service jobs has also harmed blue-collar unions.

Выберите правильный ответ. Human rights activists said no one is ___________in this conflict.

• giving sides
• taking sides
• making sides
• having sides

Выберите правильный ответ. These shops were seen as the ideal solution for big organisations trying to raise money from the ___________ public.

• customary
• prevalent
• general
• common

Выберите правильный ответ. The Russian mission_____________the UN did not reply to requests for additional comment on

• With
• At
• In
• hursday.
• To

Выберите правильный ответ. What is not included in employment?

• working people
• self-employed people
• full-time people
• part-time people

Выберите правильный ответ. In addition to various __________ and pension plans, many corporations offer their employees the use of swimming pools and golf courses, , and free day-care centers for their children.

• profit-seeking
• profit tax
• profit-making
• profit-sharing

Выберите правильный ответ. Labor relations and unions have a somewhat different history in _________ than they have had in other western industrialized countries.

• the U.S.
• Germany
• Russia
• Great Britain

Выберите правильный ответ. Employment is also often divided into sections according to types of work and ________.

• social contacts
• social class
• social conditions
• education

Выберите правильный ответ. After the 1906 Genera! Election the LRC became known as the __________.

• Labour Party
• Liberal Party
• Conservative Party
• Liberal-Democratic Party

Выберите правильный ответ. President Vladimir Putin called ___________a war on terror and preventative strikes against Chechen rebel bases anywhere in the world.

• at
• on
• for
• in

Выберите правильный ответ. Which organization campaigned to persuade countries to get rid of their nuclear weapons?

• CND
• UNICEF
• WHO
• UN

Выберите правильный ответ. Which organization promotes children’s health and educational issues world-wide?

• Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• United Nations International Children’s Fund
• United Nations

Выберите правильный ответ. ______________ has significantly altered the world of work.

• State-of-the-art technology
• Information technology
• Technosphere
• High technology

Выберите правильный ответ. Which organization is concerned with educational, scientific and cultural matters across the world?

• OXFAM
• UNESCO
• UNICEF
• CND

Выберите правильный ответ. ____________ in all the major industrial areas and industries in the United States, union membership was required.

• In 1990s
• After World War I
• After World War II
• In 1980s