2. употребите глаголы, данные в скобках, в нужной форме.
a) 1. the volume of transported cargoes … (grow), new routs …
(appear), and the range of goods … (become) wider. 2. the company …
(transport) large consignments on the door-to-door principle. 3. at present new
transport routes by air, rail, road and sea constantly… (turn up). 4. next year
there … (to be) more employees at this factory. 5. we … (have) enough trucks
in stock at the moment. 6. since the second world war britain’s service
industries, especially banking and retailing, … (to expand). 7. the representative
of the manufacturing company said that they (to test) the new equipment and
the results of the test (to be) good enough. 8. we (to test) the equipment
when the inspectors arrived at the factory. 9. at present large companies … (to
invest) a lot of money in research and development. 10. we … (to study)
economics for two years. 11. international carriage of goods … (increase) from
year to year. 12. they … (sell) trucks for 10 years. they … (sell) more than
60 units last month. 13. how long your company … (to manufacture)
computers? 14. by the time he started his own car business, he … (to work) in
the car industry for ten years. 15. the company recently (set up) a branch
office in glasgow to serve the scottish market. 16. where you (to be) today?
i (to phone) you in the morning, but you (to be) in. – you see, in the
morning i … (to have) a meeting with our customers and … (to come back) only
10 minutes ago. 17. you ever (to do business) with krenzcargo & co? – yes,
we (to sell) them five trailers lately. 18. krenzcargo & co … (run) a transport
business. they … (operate) in the world market since 2005. now they …
(cooperate) with two german forwarders.
b) dear sirs,
we … (to receive) your letter of april 10th regarding cargo transfer.
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we … (offer) to run a joint service from minsk to hamburg and from
hamburg to minsk in cooperation with you starting with operations on once-aweek basis.
we … (be) ready to send a loaded trailer to you and receive a loaded
trailer from you with either a full load for one consignee or groupage cargo for a
number of consignees.
trailer turn round time in germany … (be) about two days.
it … (be) necessary to estimate together the operation costs for both
parties. in our opinion there … (be) great possibilities for both companies to
operate a very successful service.
we … (be) pleased to discuss the matter in detail with you at any time
convenient to you.
