Write 120-140 words

SELF-STUDY 13
 Task 1. The graph below shows the levels of a country’s investment budget for the development of its railway and road infrastructure for the period 2001-2005 (in millions of euros). Using the information on the graph to summarize the changes in the transport infrastructure budget.
Write 120-140 words.

The bar graph shows the country’s investment budget levels for the development of its railway and road infrastructure for the period from 2001 to 2005. The data is given in millions of euros measurements for unknown country.
Overall, country had spent more investment on roads than railways in all years given. Moreover, there was a fluctuation in improving of railways infrastructure.
In 2001, 500 million euros spent on road infrastructure and the figure increased year by year and reached 800 million euros until 2004 in which amount of money spent on roads decreased to the same amount of the beginning year. After a year, separated money for repairing roads had doubled and reached its peak 1000million euros.
In case of railway infrastructure, numbers stood at 400 million euros at the beginning. In the following years, amounts decreased by 200 million euros in 2003 and remained unchanged 2004. By 2005, considerable amount of money supplied for improving railway infrastructure 500 million euros.
Task2. Match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8).

1. to let go of g	a. not being positively received
2. empathy e	b. a feeling of anger because you’ve been forced to accept something unfair
3. frustrated d	c. casual conversations about other people that might be unkind or untrue
4. to flatter f	d. feeling angry, upset or impatient because you cannot do something
5. resentment b	e. to praise someone in order to please them, sometimes in a way that is not sincere
6. gossip c	f. to control or influence someone to your advantage
7. to manipulate h	g. to stop thinking or worrying about something
8. not going down well a	h. the ability to understand other people’s feelings and problems