Reading

1. The fact is: their turnover is huge, being greater in some cases than the national income
of countries such as Switzerland or the Netherlands.
2. Those benefits are: providing capital for economic growth; sharing the technologies with
local businesses; increasing worker’s productivity; solving unemployment.
3. They accused multinationals of using money from local banks and investors without
returning capital back to the country
4. Multinationals bring new technologies that reduce labour needs, such as cranes,
bulldozers in building industry and tractors in agriculture. Therefore, many workers are
unemployed again
5.
a) A hoe: used for digging soil
b) An ox-plough: used for digging and mixing soil
c) A tractor: used for digging soil even more quickly and efficiently than hoe and plough
d) A crane: used for lifting heavy objects
e) A bulldozer: used for straightening roads

Exercise:
Exercise 1:
1. Set up
2. Incentives
3. Employ
4. Prosperity
5. Attitude
6. Dominate
7. Bring out
8. Investors
9. Equity
10. Levels
Exercise 2:
a. Subsidiaries, agents, tariffs, quotas
b. Economic boost, joint venture, share, registered
c. Legally effective
Exercise 3:
a. Enterprising
b. Differentiate
c. Basically
d. Tense
e. Threat
f. Richness
g. Marketable
h. Worrying
i. Indecisive
j. remotely
k. Intrusive
l. Involvement
m. Strategic