WorksheetsTHE DIFFERENT SECTORS OF ECONOMY
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
The housewife, switching on her electric kettle to make another cup of tea, gave no thought to the immense complex of operations that made that simple action possible: the building and maintenance of the power station that produced the electricity, the mining of coal or pumping of oil to fuel the generators, the laying of miles of cable to carry the current to her house, the digging and smelting and milling of ore or bauxite into sheets of steel or aluminium, the cutting and pressing and welding of the metal into the kettle's shell, spout and handle, the assembling of these parts with scores of other components - coils, screws, nuts, bolts, washers, rivets, wires, springs, rubber insulation, plastic trimmings; then the packaging of the kettle, the advertising of the kettle, the marketing of the kettle to wholesale and retail outlets, the transportation of the kettle to warehouses and shops, the calculation of its price, and the distribution of its added value between all the myriad people and agencies concerned in its production.
Which sector is the underlined sentence part of?
Primary sector (basic production: manufacture, agriculture, mining, fishery, etc) and secondary sector
Secondary sector (production of goods, industries) and tertiary sector (services)
Primary sector and Tertiary sector (services)
The housewife, switching on her electric kettle to make another cup of tea, gave no thought to the immense complex of operations that made that simple action possible: the building and maintenance of the power station that produced the electricity, the mining of coal or pumping of oil to fuel the generators, the laying of miles of cable to carry the current to her house, the digging and smelting and milling of ore or bauxite into sheets of steel or aluminium, the cutting and pressing and welding of the metal into the kettle's shell, spout and handle, the assembling of these parts with scores of other components - coils, screws, nuts, bolts, washers, rivets, wires, springs, rubber insulation, plastic trimmings; then the packaging of the kettle, the advertising of the kettle, the marketing of the kettle to wholesale and retail outlets, the transportation of the kettle to warehouses and shops, the calculation of its price, and the distribution of its added value between all the myriad people and agencies concerned in its production.
Which sector is the underlined sentence part of?
Primary sector (basic production: manufacture, agriculture, mining, fishery, etc) and secondary sector
Secondary sector (production of goods, industries) and tertiary sector (services)
Primary sector and Tertiary sector (services)
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Farmers and their farms are part of the (a) sector of the economy.
Fill in the blanks!
A packaging and distribution company like J&T is part of the (a) sector of economy.
Choose the correct economic sector this picture is in!
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Choose the correct economic sector this picture is in!
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Choose the correct name for this economic area!
Forestry
Mining
Agriculture
Fishery
Choose the correct name for this economic area!
Banking
Consulting
Distribution
Auditing
Choose the correct economic sector this picture is in!
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Choose the correct economic sector this picture is in!
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Depending on service industries is dangerous after the financial crisis in 2008, New York and London: didn't only lose financial jobs, but also lots of jobs in all the related service industries: law firms, real estate, expensive restaurants, luxury jets, etc. Big cities need factories too.
Is this text in support of manufacturing or service industry?
Manufacturing
Service
Manufacturing industry will inevitably decline in advanced countries and be replaced by services, because labor costs are too high. Companies will delocalize their manufacturing to low-cost countries.
Is this text in support of manufacturing or service industry?
Manufacturing
Service
Millions of tourists travel to major cities, and millions of people choose to live in them, because of the arts and entertainment - theatre, music, museums, sport, etc. Manufacturing and heavy industry can and should be done elsewhere
Is this text in support of manufacturing or service industry?
Manufacturing
Service
Both
property: buildings such as offices, houses, flats (BrE) or apartments (AmE)
What word describes this definition?
Real estate
Delocalization
Exported goods
Labor
to use other companies to do work your company previously did itself
What word describes this definition?
Real estate
to outsource
Exported goods
Labor
