1. Match the words from the box with the following definitions. Enterprises business venture background dropout merchant Settle for dropout merchant settle for cleric franchise Assets equity capital net residue commodity outlet Forerunner 1. A particular money earning activity or place (a store, a company, a firm). 2. A business in which there is some degree of risk. 3. A person who buys and sells goods. 4. Business firms. 5. A person who drops out of school or college without completing the course. 6. Profit after tax, rent, etc. Are paid. 7. A place from which goods are sold. 8. A special right given by a company to a person or group to sell that compa- ny's goods or services in a particular place. 9. To come to an agreement or make final arrangements about smth. 10. A clergyman, a Christian priest. 11. Smth that has value and that may be sold to pay a debt. 12. Part of the capital that consists of founder's shares, all of which together carry the right of ownership in the business. 10. a person's experience and education. 11. an article of trade or commerce, goods. 13. Someone that follows.
John Lennon was a (2) musician and composer who was a member of the
Beatles, the most successful rock band of the 1960s.
Francis Drake was an English (3) explorer who was the first Englishman
to travel round the world in 1577-1580.
Robert Baden-Powell was a British soldier who (4) founded the Boy Scouts
in 1908; and with his sister Agnes — the Girl Guides in 1910.
Alexander Fleming was a British scientist who (5) discovered penicillin in
1928, for which he received a Nobel Prize in 1945.
Alan Turing was an English mathematician who (6) researched
the possibility of computers.
Steve Redgrave is a British sportsman who won gold and bronze medals at five Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. For his (7) achievements, he is widely considered to be Britain’s greatest Olympian.
John Harrison was an English clock (8) designer, who developed and built
the world’s first (9) successful maritime clock.
Michael Faraday was an English (10) physicist and chemist whose experiments
(II ) contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism.
He (12) is recognized as one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century.