4. Complete the following sentences by pulling the bracketed verb into the right tense

1) Inflation (increase) steadily this year.

2) Unemployment (peak) last year and since then (go) down.

3) As the international debt crises (grow), the world economy (become) more unstable.

4) The IMF (carry) out a study last year. In this study they (project) a decline in GNP in most countries.

5) The world economy (seem) to be going into decline.

6) The state of international trade (remain) a worry. Projections for the rest of the nineties (bring) very little hope.

7) We (study) the effect of the fall in the dollar's value at the moment.

5. Complete the sentences with the correct comparative or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets

1) It's much (hard) to raise money on the Stock Exchange.

2) Increasing owner's capital is the (risky) way of raising money for investment.

3) The banks will be (cautious) than the securities markets.

4) Interest rates are (high) this year than last.

5) A fixed-term loan is (flexible) than a fluctuating overdraft.

6) On the other hand, a medium-term loan is (easy) to control than a fluctuating overdraft.

7) Venture capital is (difficult) to raise than we are led to believe.

8) The Stock Exchange rules are (formal) than the USM (Unlisted Securities Market).

6. Complete the following sentences with one of the time prepositions below: Over, ago, on, in, at, since, for

1) He's been off work three months.

2) He ought to have retired a year .

3) She's been with the company it began.

4) It's hard to gauge success just 2 months.

5) She left the country 14.00 Tuesday.

6) We didn't receive the delivery time.

7) the beginning of the year, prospects looked good.

8) There was a downturn the middle of March.

9) 1980 our prices have been falling.

10) We installed a new computer network two years .