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2.Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner, will continue to consider whether the duopoly distorts the French banking market.

3.Jean-Paul Bailly is the boss of La Banque Postale.

4.Deposits channeled to the Caisse de Dépôts et Consignations are to finance social housing.

5.Savers get 2% interest but cannot pay in or take out money as they wish.

6.The pensions of the new bank's employees will be subsidized by the state.

7.The minimum deposit in the La Poste being €15,300, there is no maximum one.

9.Find in the text sentences describing the following:

1.Положительный сдвиг, наконец-то намечающийся в работе банков.

2.Заполненность банковского рынка до предела.

4.Нецелесообразность запрета банкам рекомендовать населению наиболее популярные виды вкладов.

5.Размер минимального и максимального вкладов.

6.Способ сбережений, используемый каждым пятым французом.

7.Государственное пенсионное обеспечение банковских работников.

10.Divide the text into paragraphs and entitle each of them.

FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL…

THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER — ТРИДЦАТЬ СРЕБРЕНИКОВ

The phrase Thirty pieces of silver (a Judas kiss) comes from the Gospel story about the betrayal of Jesus by one of his disciples, Judas. Judas was the twelfth apostle. Judas' object in betraying Jesus is regarded in the Gospel as due to selfishness based on avarice. The story runs as follows: Judas was present with the other apostles in the room of the Last Supper. But he quitted the room before the other disciples left and hurried to the chief priests. He offered them his assistance in arresting his master without tumult, without anyone raising a cry. The chief priests eagerly agreed and promised Judas to pay him thirty pieces of silver. They went through the dark streets of Jerusalem. There was to be no mistake in the darkness. "Whomsoever I shall kiss", said Judas, "that same is Jesus". When they came up to the place in the garden where Jesus was standing, Judas ran to Jesus and kissed him. The guardsmen arrested Jesus and led him away.

When Judas realized that his master, whom he had betrayed, might die, he hurried back to the chief priests and offered to return the money, saying that he had betrayed an innocent man. But the priests only said: "What is that to us"? Then Judas flung the money down into the temple, went and hanged himself. The priests could

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not take the money into the treasury because it was the price of blood, so they bought with it a field for a cemetery.

The expression "thirty pieces of silver" symbolizes a payment for an act of betrayal. The words "a Judas kiss" denote a treacherous action disguised as kindness.

Pronunciation and stress:

Jesus ['dʒI:zǝs], Judas ['dʒu:dǝs], Jerusalem [dʒǝ'ru:sǝlǝm], betrayal [bI'treIǝl], treacherous ['treʧǝrǝs], disciple [dI'saIpl], apostle [ǝ'pƆsl], tumult ['tju:mǝlt], priest [prI:st], innocent ['Inǝsǝnt], avarice ['ævǝrIs], cemetery ['semǝtrI], symbolize ['sImbǝlaIz], disguise [dIs'gaIz].

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL — КОРЕНЬ ЗЛА

The root of all evil is that which causes misfortune, sorrow and distress; the source of various vices. It is derived from the Bible. The biblical legend says that the root of all evil is the love of money and drunkenness.

He would not have thought it enough to say that money is the root of all evil; he thought the desire for money, the appetite for money, was the mainspring of human action.

W. S. Maugham. Ten novels and their authors.

Pronunciation and stress:

Bible [baIbl], biblical ['bIblIkǝl], evil [I:vl], legend ['ledʒǝnd], vice [vaIs], misfortune [mIs'fƆ:t∫ǝn], source [sƆ:s], desire [dI 'zaIǝ], drunkenness ['drΛŋkǝnnIs], appetite ['æpǝ ֽtaIt].

Translate into English:

Библейское выражение ''корень зла'' употребляется для обозначения первоисточника всего дурного и порочного. В Евангелии [Gospel] говорится, что корень всякого зла – это страсть к деньгам и пьянство.

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