Exercise 2 Complete the sentences with the gerund forms of the verbs in brackets.

Model: I don’t enjoy (laugh) at by other people. → I don't enjoy being laughed at by other people.

1. I’m angry at him for (tell, not) me the truth.

2. Sometimes adolescents complain about not (understand) by their parents.

3. Jin Won had a narrow escape. He was almost hit by a car. He barely avoided (hit) by a speeding automobile.

4. Jack Welles has a good chance of (elect). I know I’m going to vote for him.

5. You must tell me the truth. I insist on (tell) the truth.

6. I feel guilty about (write, not) to you sooner, but I’ve been swamped with work lately.

7. You know Jim Darcy, don’t you? – Jim Darcy? I don’t think so. I don’t recall ever (meet) him.

8. Mr. Gow mentioned (injure) in an accident as a child, but he never told us the details.

9. I’m annoyed about (lose) all that money.

10. I appreciate (tell) the news yesterday by someone.

READING

1 Read the text: Growing role of China and other countries with developing and transition economies

	After centuries of economic and technological stagnation, China now has the world’s most rapidly growing economy following the adoption of political reforms and trade liberalization policies. China’s industrial and economic growth is the result of careful, targeted planning which is focused on the development of labour-intensive industries. One of the industries singled out for attention by Chinese planners is the wood products industry, and the hardwood products segment in particular (furniture, mouldings, flooring, kitchen cabinet components and paper and fibre products). As China has relatively little forest cover and much of it is off limits to harvesting, the country has turned to massive importation of both hardwood and softwood logs and timber as well as waste paper to supply the growing wood products industry. Other countries are losing market share to Chinese manufactured wood products and are likely to continue to do so.
The extensive development of fast-growing tree plantations, for the most part in developing countries, is creating new supplies of industrial wood (shown, poplar plantation in Chile)
	While China is assuming an increasing role as an exporter of products of all kinds, per capita income within China is rising, and along with it consumption of a wide range of products, including various wood products. For example, wood use associated with housing is increasing – particularly its use in mouldings, doors, partitions and furniture. Interest in wood framing as a method of construction is slowly gaining acceptance and momentum. Rapid construction of new housing units is occurring in China, with the average unit five to six times larger now than only a few decades ago. The impact on China’s wood products consumption is substantial. This market growth provides a solid foundation for China’s developing wood products industry. Growth of the Chinese market also provides an export opportunity for manufacturers worldwide, at least in the short term. The Russian forest sector is beginning to recover from near total collapse following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Based on the enormity of Russian timber supplies and an improving investment climate, substantial investment is currently flowing to the Russian Federation to support forest-sector development. At present, investments are largely focused on development of basic production capacity, such as production of logs and timber for export.
New technologies are making it possible to use small-diameter wood from fast-growing plantations in composite products of great strength (shown, Norway pine plantation in the United States)
Longer-term development is likely to turn to production of value-added pro­ducts. A current effort to establish large-scale wood processing facilities along the Russian-Chinese border provides an indication of what the future may hold. Other countries that are currently building capacity in the forestry and wood products sector include several countries in the Asia and the Pacific region, a number of countries in eastern Europe, and several countries in Latin America, most notably Brazil and Chile. The key producing countries in the Southern Hemisphere (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand and South Africa) have slowly but steadily raised their contribution to global wood products exports over the past four decades, from under 6 percent to more than 16 percent. In tropical countries there is a clear trend towards development of capacity for production of primary pro­cessed and secondary processed products, with most of the output intended for export markets (Johnson, Adams and Miyake, 2003).

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