What does business do?

1. Business is a difficult thing. It has many important elements: money, taxes, customers, transport, banks. Why do people do business? Why do they like small business?

2. People do business, provide services, buy and sell goods for a profit. There is no business without a profit. What business is good? All businesses are good. Production of goods is profitable, different services: for example, at hotels, motels, are profitable, too.

3. Communications are good business, too. For example, telephone and mail services. Financial services, for example, banking and insurance, work very well, too.

4. So, people do different businesses for a profit. They do what they like to do. For example, many families in America run small businesses now.

5. It is very popular to be a businessman or businesswoman. Women like to do business: to run a firm, to be a bank manager, or a shop keeper.

It is a new and very interesting tendency in modern life.

2. Найдите в правой колонке русские эквиваленты английских слов и словосочетаний:

1) good(s) 2) tax(es) 3) customer 4) profit 5) banking 6) insurance 7) to run a business 8) a shop keeper 9) to provide services 10) to make money

a) прибыль, доход b) страхование c) товар(ы), изделие d) руководить предприятием e) зарабатывать деньги f) оказывать услуги g) владелец магазина h) банковское дело i) налог(и) j) покупатель, заказчик, клиент

3. Переведите на русский язык интернационализмы, встречающиеся в тексте "What does business do?"