PRACTICE 18 Talking about books and films Complete the
book review.

One of my favourite novels is The Blind
Assassin. It is Au Margaret Atwood, one of my
favourite writers. It is long but it is never
and I could not stop reading it. The story Que
place in a town in Canada. It is
two sisters,
Iris and Laura. Laura meets a young man, falls in
love with him and dies mysteriously.​

1. With money supply (growing) relatively slowly (much less than four or five percent per year), this (is interpreted) as a result of a tight monetary policy. A relatively rapid growth in the money supply (is considered to be) a result of an easy policy.
2. The difference between the real rate of interest and the nominal one is that the former (is adjusted) for inflation whereas the latter (is not).
3. A great number of people (cannot increase) their wages rapidly and largely enough (to compensate) for price increases because they (work) under long-term contracts.
4. Lenders (are likely to be hurt) by inflation.
5. A two-percent increase in the rate of inflation (is found to have caused) a reduction in the real income of elderly households by about 10 percent.
6. In periods of inflation the value of money (to know) (to reduce).
7. Good results (are known to have been achieved) in Soviet economy during the early 1960s due to (decentralized) decision-making and emphasis on profit rather than carrying out plans.
8. For the past fifty years, the price level in the United States (has been  moving) only one way - up. In practically all years during this period, prices (have been rising). Since 1955, there (has not been) any year when the price level (was falling). This (was not ) a hyperinflation, but it (resulted) in a very large erosion in the value of the dollar. Like a beach is slowly (worn) away by the ocean, the dollar (was) gradually losing a considerable share of its value. Prices now (are) over five times what they (were) fifty years ago. Although a creeping inflation (is) much less harmful than hyperinflation, it (has) a number of social costs.

1 Will you have dinner at home today ?
2 Will she have a car in ten years' time ?
3  Will they get a job during summer holidays?
 4  Will I speak English very well in flve years' time?
 5 Will  there be an air pollution in  the next century?
 6 Will children study online in the next decade?
 7 Will there be wars in the next century?
8 Will all young people study at universities in the next decade?
 9 Will  there be dangerous illnesses in the next century?
10 Will there be only solar cars in the next decade?