Контрольная по английскому

Контрольная работа по английскому языку
(специальность «Финансы и кредит»,
I курс, заочное отделение)

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Nature of American Business Today

Not all people who start businesses dream of huge multimillion- dollar corporations with inte
ational sales. Many just want to sell things- fruits and vegetables, home appliances, clothes or computers so that they can be “their own bosses”. These small businesses are important part of the US economy.
Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans start their own businesses. A gove
ment agency, the Small Business Administration, helps with information advice, and, sometimes, loans and grants. Many large companies with many stores started as one-store operations. That is the kind of success that can be found throughout American history.
The Coca- Cola company, which distributes its soft drinks around the world, began when a pharmacist mixed together the first Coca-Cola drink and began selling it in the southe
city of Atlanta, Georgia.
One of the best known food companies in the United States is the H.J.Heinz Co., which specializes in pickles, mustard and ketchup. It had its beginnings when a teenager started to sell various food items door to door and on the street.
Blue jeans, the popular denim trousers known to teenagers around the world, were invented by a poor cloth peddler who sold his first pairs to gold miners in Califo
ia in 1850s. His company, Levi Strauss, remains one of the largest clothing manufactures in the United States.
The many laws and regulations of mode
American capitalism have not prevented people with ideas and dreams from starting new businesses. One example from the 1970s is that of two young men who thought they could built a new and better computer. They worked for months building a new machine, and then began gathering money to pay for its production on a large scale. One of them sold his car to get the needed...