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The Books That Can Change and/or Ruin Your Life in College

Welcome to the VICE Guide to Life, our imperfect advice on becoming an adult.

The best thing about being young is all the things you haven’t learned yet. As we age our perspectives tend to congeal and harden, like Gummi bears left in a glove compartment, and the world begins to look a little less fresh, a little less exciting. Adulthood is basically a long battle against being jaded, and the sad truth is most of us lose. Being receptive to new ideas is like a superpower, and everyone from the ages of around 16 to 24 has it.

The way you use this superpower is to throw yourself into the path of as many new ideas as possible. Read books, watch documentaries, actually listen to your professors, and you’ll find that the world is a much weirder and more interesting place than you realize. This time of your life is when ideas can matter to you the most, maybe too much—the right book will peel your old point of view away like a can opener, and before you know it you’re an entirely different person. Sometimes these new identities are temporary and easily shed (as any libertarian-until-graduation can tell you), sometimes they stay with us, but either way we’re never the same.

We’d tell you which books to read but that seems a bit patronizing. You never know what is going to strike you like a bolt of lightning, which is why you should read as much as possible. (Reading widely is also a good way to fight off being jaded.) So instead of a reading list, here’s a sampling of the books that changed our lives, for better or for worse:

All of Nietzsche

You’ve probably heard that famous quote, widely misattributed to Winston Churchill: “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.” Well, if you’re not an existentialist by the time you’re 20, you’ve never taken a philosophy class at a liberal arts college. If you’re still an existentialist when you’re 40, you’re probably really, really sad.

My indoctrination into existentialist philosophy came courtesy of one of the aforementioned colleges, and mostly via the works of one very sad German man in his 40s: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Nietzsche, who is perhaps best known for maybe having syphilis, going insane, and inspiring the Nazis, completely changed my outlook on the world. It was almost certainly for the worst. A world without objective truth in which heroic humans create their own moral imperatives sounded pretty cool when I was 20, but as I head into the second half of my 30s, Nietzsche’s ideas now cause me nothing but embarrassment, and, yes, sadness.

Relativism is a hard philosophy to kick, so I suggest you avoid getting too attached to it while you’re still young. Later you’re going to discover that not believing in anything actually kind of sucks. So skip Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and the rest of the Nietzsche canon. If you’re in a philosophy class, do the readings, but keep in mind that taking advice on how to live from someone with a ridiculous mustache who died mad and alone is a recipe for future sadness.

–Michael Bolen, Director of Content Strategy

‘RE/Search #11: Pranks!’ Edited/Published by V. Vale and Andrea Juno

This is a book of interviews with the greatest weirdos that 1987 had to offer talking about pranks. For a lot of people this book is tied with the Rocky Horror Picture Show in how it presents its audience with options that they didn’t know they had before. Joe Coleman describes going to a high school reunion pretending to be someone who died and then igniting all the fireworks strapped to his body at the moment when he’s discovered. Boyd Rice tells the story of a time he worked at Taco Bell and put a 29-cent item on the menu called a “bean Qhrqwhqhr” so he could hear people try to pronounce “Qhrqwhqhr.” Situationism is explained by an anonymous former member of Point Blank. Carlo McCormick talks about the links between pranks and the avant-garde. It’s equal parts fun entertainment about people breaking society’s rules and tricking people and thought-provoking, inspiration that can cure your boredom and despair. When my friends and I discovered this book, we’d spent the majority of our lives getting bullied by our parents, schools, and classmates. This book let us know that we were free to do anything that we wanted and that “getting in trouble” is a myth. This book can also inspire people to become unrelenting assholes. Remember to use the powers that this book offers to prank up and not to prank down.

–Nick Gazin, Art Editor

‘Heaven’s Net Is Wide,’ by Lian Hearn

My sister was obsessed with Lian Hearn’s Tales of the Otori books. She talked about the historical fantasy series constantly and would stalk around her room as if she was a samurai. Heaven’s Net Is Wide, the last in the five-book series, was really the only one to catch my eye at first. To be honest, my interest in the book had nothing to do with the description on the back detailing the plot about feudal Japan, royal blood, and magic, nor was it my sister’s earnest recommendation, but rather the beautiful cover.

Once I started reading, I realized that the book had this Game of Thrones-like ability to kill off all of your favorite characters without missing a beat and leave readers in total ruin. But more important than the emotional whiplash was how deeply this book immersed me in a culture that I didn’t know much about. While reading, I’d find myself needing to stop to google cultural moments that I’d never heard of. I absolutely adored the fact that readers are provided enough context to completely understand what’s going on, but not given enough background to parse together the intricacies of Asian culture. At the time, my 20-year-old self was so concerned with my own differences as a black woman living in a white world that I’d never even began to consider the beautiful, complex, and extremely different worldview that reading about another culture could provide. I will forever be grateful for the way Heaven’s Net Is Wide pushed me out of the bubble of my own world.

–Janae Price, Editorial Assistant

‘Citizen: An American Lyric,’ by Claudia Rankine

Citizen is unlike anything I have ever read—gripping, traumatic, gorgeously wrought. It is a mixed-form meditation on race in America told through prose, poetry, and photography. The cover is shock white, with just a black hoodie. It begins in the second person, putting you into the shoes of her subject, demonstrating how it feels to be black in America—to perennially live in the extremes of institutional invisibility and hyper-visibility—and tackles everything from daily microaggressions to police brutality to Serena Williams as an accomplished athlete and veritable force of nature. We studied it in a class called «Poetry and Poetics» where we unpacked the craft of Rankine’s writing—but I have read it and reread it as a piece of cultural criticism.

It was the first time I had ever been taught to think of racism or sexism as systemic rather than individual, though I had lived experiences of both, to a lesser degree, as a half-Taiwanese woman. It put into words the forces I saw on campus and in the world around me every day, the unconscious biases I had developed against others and even myself.

–Nicole Clark, Staff Writer

‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,’ by Dee Brown

There’s a famous old Mitchell and Webb sketch about Nazis discovering they were evil and asking one another, «Are we the baddies?» I had a similar shock when I read this history of the United States’ atrocities against Native Americans. I was just out of college and not totally naive about US history, and I had read about Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement, but seeing all of the horror laid out in front of me was remarkable. When you read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee you aren’t seeing the US as a shining city on a hill, or even a flawed nation attempting to right past wrongs, you’re forced to confront it as an invading force that committed genocide, broke promises, and seized land by any means necessary.

Naturally I felt outrage and disgust over the abominable treatment of indigenous people, and also guilt—the US wouldn’t exist in its present form if not for the crimes committed by white settlers and the government that backed them. For some time, it was impossible for me not to think of America as evil.

For better or worse, that sense of guilt and anger faded pretty rapidly, though of course I still consider the treatment of America’s indigenous people to be an ugly moral stain on the country. What really stayed with me was the idea that there are countless versions of history that can be told, and we tend to privilege the ones where our side looks the best. I think I became more skeptical after reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and that’s a good thing.

–Harry Cheadle, Senior Editor

‘Ender’s Game,’ by Orson Scott Card

I’ve loved science fiction since I was a toddler obsessively watching the Star Wars movies my parents recorded on our VHS player. I first read Ender’s Game, the most popular book by controversial Mormon author Orson Scott Card, when I was nine years old. It handily became my favorite book outside of Harry Potter. I had no clue about Card’s homophobic statements while reading his story of an Earth united by the threat of an imminent alien invasion. The characters were kids my age, wickedly smart, and they felt more real than the adult heroes in other books I loved.

I idolized the titular boy genius, Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, chosen at the age of six to save the world from the mysterious Buggers. I inhaled his progress through Battle School, where the military trained future leaders that would defend the planet. As I reread the book nearly a dozen times over the years, I grew to respect how Ender’s empathy was as great an asset as his intelligence. He tried to win without violence whenever possible, but when he fought, he never shied away from the cost. «In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him,» Ender says at a pivotal moment in the story. «I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.»

–Beckett Mufson, Staff Writer

‘Steppenwolf,’ by Herman Hesse

Steppenwolf, the Herman Hesse novel about a washed-up intellectual’s desperate craving for wisdom and a purpose in life, is in some ways a caricature of the bildungsroman, except imposed on a pretentious 40-something. The protagonist, Harry Haller, finds himself at a crossroads both generally and in his everyday life: He has a decent, normal, «bourgeois» half that takes part in normal society, boring but competent. And then he has a «wolfish» (or «wolf of the steppes») beast in him, lashing out at convention and full of passion and rage. The latter mostly manifests itself in him spending too much time at bars late at night—as you might expect, this part is also deeply depressed and vaguely inclined toward suicide.

Suffice it to say all of this appealed to me immensely when I was a third-year college student. I romanticized solitary depravity to no end at this time, and also fetishized the novel’s obsession with Jungian archetypes, like a woman named Hermine who serves as Haller’s anima, or a way into his own feminine side. In hindsight, the book is possibly sexist and massively narcissistic and silly, and sometimes feels like a college psych professor’s ideal of fiction. But it was a useful way to explain my own hermetic and asocial college years, though in hindsight I was probably distorting Hesse’s intent to suit my own lifestyle.

I still like Hesse, but am deeply ashamed that I actually likened myself to being an actual Steppenwolf as late as my 20s.

–Matt Taylor, News Editor

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Фф college or how to ruin your life

Lesson 8 college life

INTRODUCTORY READING AND TALK

The meny-go-round of college life is something that one never forgets. It’s a fascinating, fantastic, fabulous experience, irrespective of the fact whether one is a full-time or a part-time student.

Who can forget the first day at the university when one turns from an applicant who has passed entrance exams into a first-year student? I did it! I entered, I got in to the university! A solemn ceremony in front of the university building and serious people making speeches. Hey, lad, do you happen to know who they are? Who? The rector, vice-rectors, deans, subdeans. and what about those ladies? Heads of departments and senior lecturers? Okay. Some of them must be professors, some — associate or assistant professors, but, of course, all of them have high academic degrees. And where are our lecturers and tutors? Oh, how nice.

The monitors hand out student membership cards, student record books and library cards — onefeels like a real person. First celebrations and then days of hard work. So many classes, so many new subjects to put on the timetable! The curriculum seems to be developed especially for geniuses. Lectures, seminars and tutorials. Home preparations; a real avalanche of homeworks.

If one can not cope with the work load of college he or she immediately starts lagging behind. It is easier to keep pace with the programme than to catch up with it later. Everyone tries hard to be, or at least to look, diligent. First tests and examination sessions. The first successes and first failures: «I have passed!» or «He has not given me a pass!» Tears and smiles. And a long-awaited vacation.

The merry-go-round runs faster. Assignments, written reproductions, compositions, synopses, papers. Translations checked up and marked. «Professor, I have never played truant, I had a good excuse for missing classes». Works handed in and handed out. Reading up for exams. «No, professor, I have never cheated — no cribs. I just crammed».

Junior students become senior. Still all of them are one family — undergraduates. Students’ parties in the students’ clab. Meeting people and parting with people. You know, Nora is going to be expelled and Dora is going to graduate with honours. Yearly essays, graduation dissertations, finals.

What? A teacher’s certificate? You mean, I’ve got a degree in English? I am happy! It is over! It is over. Is it over? Oh, no.

A postgraduate course, a thesis, an oral, and a degree in Philology. The first of September. Where are the students of the faculty of foreign languages? Is it the English department? Oh, how nice.

1. Say a few words about your university: say what it is called, speak about its faculties and their specializations.

2. Would you compare college life with a merry-go-round or with something else?

3. What do you think of the first months at the university?

4. They say that it is a poor soldier who does not want to become a general. Name the steps of the social ladder which a student must pass to climb up to the position of the rector. Use the words from the list below, placing one word on one step.

Dean, assistant lecturer, head of department, vice-rector, associate professor, assistant professor, subdean, professor.

Ruth at College

(Extract from the book by A. Brookner «A Start in Life». Abridged)

The main advantage of being at college was that she could work in the library until nine o’clock. She was now able to feed and clothe herself. She had, for the moment, no worries about money. In her own eyes she was rich, and it was known, how, she did not understand, that she was not on a grant,’ did not share a flat with five others, did not live in a hall of residence, and took abundant baths, hot water being the one element of life at home.

There was also the extreme pleasure of working in a real library, with access to the stacks. The greed for books was still with her, although sharing them with others was not as pleasant as taking them to the table and reading through her meals. But in the library she came as close to a sense of belonging as she was ever likely to encounter.2

She was never happier than when taking notes, rather elaborate notes in different coloured ball-point pens, for the need to be doing something while reading, or with reading, was beginning to assert itself. Her essays, which she approached as many women approach a meeting with a potential lover, were well received. She was heartbroken when one came back with the words «I cannot read your writing» on the bottom.

She bought herself a couple ofpleated skirts, like those worn by Miss Parker;* she bought cardigans and saddle shoes3 and thus found a style to which she would adhere for the rest other life.

* Miss Parker — Ruth’s teacher at school.

The days were not long enough. Ruth rose early, went out for a newspaper and some rolls, made coffee, and washed up, all before anybody was stirring. She was the neatest person in the house. As she opened the front door to leave, she could hear the others greeting the day from their beds with a variety of complaining noises, and escaped quickly before their blurred faces and slippered feet could spoil her morning. She was at one with the commuters at the bus stop.4 There would be lectures until lunch time, tutorials in the afternoon. In the Common Room there was an electric kettle and she took to supplying the milk and sugar.5 It was more of a home than home had been for a very long time. There was always someone to talk to after the seminar, and she would take a walk in the evening streets before sitting down for her meal in a sandwich bar at about six thirty. Then there was work in the library until nine, and she would reach home at about ten.

‘But don’t you ever go out?’ asked her friend Anthea. For she was surprised to find that she made friends easily. Needing a foil or acolyte for her flirtatious popularity, she had found her way to Ruth unerringly;6 Ruth, needing the social protection of a glamorous friend, was grateful. Both were satisfied with the friendship although each was secretly bored by the other. Anthea’s conversation consisted either of triumphant reminiscences — how she had spumed this one, accepted that one, how she had got the last pair of boots in Harrod’s sale, how she had shed five pounds in a fortnight — or recommendations beginning ‘Why don’t you?’ Why don’t you get rid of those ghastly skirts and buy yourself some trousers? You’re thin enough to wear them. Why don’t you have your hair properly cut? Why don’t you find a flat of your own? You can’t stay at home all your life.

These questions would be followed rapidly by variants beginning ‘Why haven’t you?’ Found a flat, had your haircut, bought some trousers. It was as if her exigent temperament required immediate results. Her insistent yet curiously uneasy physical presence inspired conflicting feelings in Ruth,7 who was not used to the idea that friends do not always please.

By the end of the second year a restlessness came over Ruth, impelling her to spend most of the day walking. The work seemed to her too easy and she had already chosen the subject for her dissertation: «Vice and Virtue in Balzac’s Novels». Balzac teaches the supreme effectiveness of bad behaviour, a matter which Ruth was beginning to perceive. The evenings in the library now oppressed her; she longed to break the silence. She seemed to have been eating the same food, tracing the’same steps for far too long.8 And she was lonely. Anthea, formally engaged to Brian, no longer needed her company.

Why don’t you do your postgraduate work in America? I can’t see any future for you here, apart from the one you can see yourself.

Ruth took some of Anthea’s advice, had her hair cut, won a scholarship from the British Council which entitled her to a year in France working on her thesis, and fell in love. Only the last fact mattered to her, although she would anxiously examine her hair to see if it made her look any better. Had she but known it, her looks were beside the point;9 she was attractive enough for a clever woman, but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive. She remained in ignorance of this; for she believed herself to be dim and unworldly and had frequently been warned by Anthea to be on her guard. ‘Sometimes I wonder if you’re all there,’10 said Anthea, striking her own brow in disbelief.

She did this when Ruth confessed that she was in love with Richard Hirst, who had stopped her in the corridor to congratulate her on winning the scholarship and had insisted on taking her down to the refectory for lunch. Anthea’s gesture was prompted by the fact that Richard was a prize beyond the expectations of most women and certainly beyond those of Ruth.11 He was one of those exceptionally beautiful men whose violent presence makes other men, however superior, look makeshift. Richard was famous on at least three counts.12 He had the unblemished blond good looks of his Scandinavian mother; he was a resolute Christian; and he had an ulcer. Women who had had no success with him assumed that the ulcer was a result of the Christianity, for Richard, a psychologist by training, was a student counsellor,13 and would devote three days a week to answering the telephone and persuading anxious undergraduates.

Then Richard would wing home to his parish and stay up for two whole nights answering the telephone to teenage dropouts,14 battered wives, and alcoholics. There seemed to be no end to the amount of bad news he could absorb.

Richard had been known to race off on his bicycle to the scene of a domestic drama and there wrestle with the conscience of an abusive husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister.

He was rarely at home. He rarely slept. He never seemed to eat. His ulcer was the concern of every woman he had ever met in his adult life. His dark golden hair streamed and his dark blue eyes were clear and obdurate as he pedalled off to the next crisis.

Into Ruth’s dazed and grateful ear he spoke deprecatingly of his unmarried mothers and his battered wives. She thought him exemplary and regretted having no good works to report back.15 The race for virtue, which she had always read about, was on.

So Ruth took more of Anthea’s advice and found a flat for herself.

Anita Brookner [@’ni:t@ ‘brUkn@] — Анита Брукнер

Miss Parker [mIs ‘p¸k@] — мисс Паркер

Brian [braI@n] — Брайан

British Council [‘brItIS ‘kaUnsIl] — Британский Совет

Richard Hirst [‘rI¶@d ‘hÆ:st] — Ричард Херст

Christian [‘krIstj@n] — христианин

2. But in the library she came as close to a sense of belonging as she was ever likely to encounter. — Но именно в библиотеке она, как нигде больше, ощущала себя на своём месте.

3. saddle shoes — двухцветные кожаные туфли

4. She was at one with the commuters at the bus stop. — Она вместе со всеми пассажирами стояла на автобусной остановке.

5. In the Common Room there was an electric kettle and she took to supplying the milk and sugar. — В общем зале был электрический чайник, и у неё появилась привычка приносить молоко и сахар.

8. She seemed to have been eating the same food, tracing the same steps for far too long. — Казалось, что она слишком долго занималась одним и тем же, слишком долго шла по накатанной дорожке.

Phonetic Text Drills

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.

Grant, to share, residence, access, to encounter, elaborate, ball-point pen, to assert, cardigan, blurred, commuter, foil, acolyte, flirtatious, unerringly, triumphant, reminiscence, ghastly, exigent, temperament, conflicting, dissertation, postgraduate, scholarship, thesis, ignorance, gesture, makeshift, unblemished, resolute, ulcer, psychologist, counsellor, abusive, battered, exemplary.

Pronounce the words and phrases where the following clusters occur.

Could work, it was known, hot water, at one, satisfied with, that one, would wing, battered wives, good works.

Able, pleasure, table, likely, couple, pleated, saddle, kettle, supplying, entitled, at least, good looks, blue.

Extreme, approach, greeting, electric, streets, would reach, surprised, protection, grateful, trousers, streamed, presence, oppressed, break, tracing, principally, attractive, striking, brow, congratulate, prize,undergraduates, drama, brother, crisis.

4. plosive + plosive

Bought cardigans, made coffee, front door, escaped quickly, would be, would take, had got, fact, refectory, would devote.

Comment on the phonetic phenomena in the following clusters.

1. Chosen the subject, did this, confessed that, all there, beyond those, assumed that the ulcer.

2. That she, greed for books, bought herself, could hear, blurred faces, slippered feet, asked her friend, found her way, had shed, had your hair, second year, don’t you.

3. Through, three.

Say what kind of false assimilation one should avoid in the following clusters.

1. Of being, of working, of belonging, of complaining, of triumphant, of boots, of his.

2. Was still, as taking, as close, as she, which she, like those, was stirring, was the neatest.

Transcribe the following words with negative prefixes.

Uneasy, unerringly, disbelief, unblemished, unmarried.

Transcribe and intone the questions. Compare the intonation pattern of a general and a special question.

‘But ‘donPt you ‘ever ‘go /out?’ | «asked her «friend An,thea. ||

‘Why donPt you ‘find a ‘flat of your own? ||

1. What was the main advantage of being at college?

2. Why did Ruth consider herself rich?

3. What did Ruth like about working in the library?

4. What did Ruth do while reading?

5. How did Ruth change her image?

6. When did Ruth leave for the university?

7. How did Ruth spend her day in the college?

8. Why did Ruth and Anthea become friends?

9. What sort of questions would Anthea ask?

10. What change took place at the end of the second year in Ruth?

11. What did Ruth do to find a new style of life?

12. When did Anthea say that she was not sure whether Ruth was all there?

13. What kind of gesture accompanied Anthea’s words and what did it imply?

14. What did Richard Hirst look like?

15. What kind of responsibilities did Richard have?

16. What kind of lifestyle did Richard have?

17. What did Richard speak of into Ruth’s ear?

18. What did Ruth think and do?

Find in the text words denoting:

— a short piece of writing on one particular subject that is written by a student;

— a class, usually at college or university, where the teacher and the students discuss a particular topic or subject;

— a long essay that a student does as part of a degree;

— financial aid that the government gives to an individual or to an organisation for a particular purpose such as education, welfare, home, improvements;

— a student at a university or college who has not yet taken his or her first degree;

— a person who has a first degree from a university and who is doing research at a more advanced level;

— someone who has left school or college before they have finished their studies;

— a long piece of written research done for a higher university degree, especially a PhD*;

— money given to a student to help pay for the cost of his or her education;

— a regular meeting in which a tutor and a small group of students discuss a subject as part of the students’ course of study;

— a block of flats where students live;

— a person who travels to work in town every day, especially by train;

— a large dining hall in a university.

* PhD — doctor of Philosophy (an academic degree, approximately equal to «кандидат наук» in Russia).

Make up all possible derivatives from the stems of the verbs below.

Share, assert, adhere, complain, bore, accept, require, inspire, oppress, prompt, absorb, wrestle, report.

Pronounce the words correctly and comment on the shift of meaning in the pairs of 1) one-stem nouns and adjectives; 2) one-stem verbs and nouns.

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Which type of money are paid to professional people such architects and lawyers?
Ответы
а) currency
б)fees
[в] bonus
[г] salary

2.The money paid for the use of house or flat
Ответы
[a] bills
[б]rent
[в] bonus
[г] coins

3Choose the synonym of social security
Ответы
[a]welfare
[б] tax
[в] apartment
[г] rent

4.What is a financial plan, showing how much money a person or organization?
Ответы
[a] commission
[б] recourses
[в]budget
[г] income

5.Money paid monthly by an employer
Ответы
[a] outgoings
[б] bills
[в] tax
[г] salary

6.The sum of money which we use to set up or start company is called…
Ответы
[a]capital
[б] investment
[в] shares
[г] liabilities

7.What is the interest?
Ответы
[a]the amount paid to borrow the money
[б] working capital
[в] liabilities
[г] the sum of money which we use to set up or start company

8.The sum of money that a business uses for everyday expenses is called…
Ответы
[a]working capital or funds
[б] credit
[в] capital
[г] debt

9.The synonym of shareholders
Ответы
[a] businessman
[б]stockholders
[в) bankrupt
[г] investor

10.All money coming into a company during a given period is…
Ответы
[a]revenue
[б] credit
[в] expenses
[г] profits

11.Translate into Russian: net income
Ответы
[a] импорт
[б] доход
[в]чистый доход
[г] чистый экспорт

12.Which document gives the information about financial situation in a company?
Ответы
[a]financial statement
[б] balance sheet
[в] assets
[г] income sheet
[д] accounting

13.Translate the professional term: accountancy
Ответы
[a] экономист
[б] финансист
[в]бухгалтер
[г] маркетолог

14. is the day to day recording of transactions
Ответы
[a]bookkeeping
[б] accounting
[в] banking
[г] auditing

15.Choose types of accounting:
Ответы
[a] management, standard
[б]financial, management
[в] management, profit
[г] financial, standard

16.Which type of audit is carried out by a company`s own accountants?
Ответы
[a] external audit
[б] internal audit
[в] creative audit
[г] true audit

17.Profit is the difference between revenue and …
Ответы
[a] income
[б] debt
[в]expenses
[г] earning

18.This is something that is intended to satisfy some wants or needs of a consumer and thus has economic utility:
Ответы
[a] money
[б]goods
[в] thing
[г] asset

19.Complete the following sentence:
In most European countries laws relating to accounting, established by ….
Ответы
[a] EBRR
[б] SEC
[в] ASB
[г]government

20.Complete the following sentence:
The rules in Britain are called…
Ответы
[a]standards
[б] laws
[в] sheets
[г] documents

21.Complete the following sentence:
Customers who owe money for goods or services purchased are called…
Ответы
[a] creditors
[б]debtors
[в] finances
[г] merchant

22.Complete the following sentence:
Substances and components used to make products are called …?
Ответы
[a]raw materials
[б] things
[в] fabric
[г] manufactured goods

23.Complete the following sentence:
Goods ready for sale are called….
Ответы
[a] material
[б] manufactured goods
[в]stock
[г] account

24.The system that records two aspects of every transactions:
Ответы
[a] audit
[б]double[a]entry bookkeeping
[в] creative accounting
[г] bookkeeping

25.Which type of Bank holds deposits and savings accounts, lends money and exchanges facilities?
Ответы
[a]Commercial
[б] Investment
[в] Merchant
[г] National

26.Which type of Bank situated in Europe (Germany, Austria) combines deposit and loan banking?
Ответы
[a] Investment
[б]Universal
[в] Supranational
[г] Supernational

27.Choose Supranational bank:
Ответы
[а] Halyk Bank
[б] ATF Bank
[в]European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
[г] Bank Centercredit

28.What is the “financial supermarket”?
Ответы
[a]finance conglomeration (combine banks, stockbrokers, etc.)
[б] national company
[в] money funds
[г] banks

29.Choose the money aggregates:
Ответы
[a]M0, M1, M2, M3
[б] L1, LM, M2
[в] M0, LM, M4
[г] M0, M3,M2, L1

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What is university life like?

University life differentiates / fluctuates / varies / alters based on the institution of higher education you attend, the whereabouts, the size and what courses you decide to take. To learn about what university life is like, you can talk with graduates and visit the college yard / hall / playground / campus before you are admitted to university. Some significant differences between secondary school and university consist / include / amount / compose class size, contact with professors and grades. The workload and expectations are different as well. You may have weekly reading assignments but fewer, larger projects to hand / give / book / fill in for the semester. Your grade may be based on only two tests for the
whole semester — meaning it is important to plan your study schedule and how you use
your time.

Simultaneously / actually / alternatively / equally important to differences in academics are the increased opportunities to have a social life, especially if you live in a dormitory. Your dorm or campus may suggest / propose / offer / submit weekend activities or you may be invited to go out during the week.

One of the biggest changes in college is that you have much more freedom (for example, to set your schedule, choose your major and go to class), coupled with more responsibility and the necessity of deciding on your course work and advocating for / of / in / to what you need.

What is university life like?

University life varies based on the institution of higher education you attend, the whereabouts, the size and what courses you decide to take. To learn about what university life is like, you can talk with graduates and visit the college campus before you are admitted to university. Some significant differences between secondary school and university include class size, contact with professors and grades. The workload and expectations are different as well. You may have weekly reading assignments but fewer, larger projects to hand in for the semester. Your grade may be based on only two tests for the whole semester — meaning it is important to plan your study schedule and how you use your time.

Equally important to differences in academics are the increased opportunities to have a social life, especially if you live in a dormitory. Your dorm or campus may offer weekend activities or you may be invited to go out during the week.

One of the biggest changes in college is that you have much more freedom (for example, to set your schedule, choose your major and go to class), coupled with more responsibility and the necessity of deciding on your course work and advocating for what you need.