NAMA ANGGOTA KELOMPOK :
- Dwi Julianti (22211244)
- Fitri Oktaviani (22211922)
- Putri Chelline Syari (25211638)
- Selvi Andeslin (28211853)
- Suri Putri Pertami (26211948)
Most people
work to earn a living, and produce goods and services. Goods are either
agricultural (like maize) or manufactured (like cars). Services are such
things as education, medicine and commerce. Some people provide goods;
some provide services. Other people provide both goods and services. For
example, in the same garage a man may buy a car or some service which
helps him maintain his car.
The work
people do is called economic activity. All economic activities taken
together make up the economic system of a town, a city, a country or the
world. Such an economic system is the sum-total of what people do and
what they want. The work people do either provides what they need or
provides the money with which they can buy essential commodities. Of
courcse, most people hope to have enough money to buy commodities and
services which are non-essential but which provide some particular
personal satisfaction, such as toys for children, visits to the cinema
and books.
The science of
economics is based upon the facts of our everyday lives. Economists
study our everyday lives and the general life of our communities in
order to understand the whole economic system of which we are part. They
try to describe the facts of the economy in which we live, and to
explain how it works. the economist's methods should of course be
strictly objective and scientific.
We need food,
clothes and shelter. We probably would not go to work if we could
satisfy these basic needs without working. But even when we have
satisfied such basic needs, we may still want other things, such as the
toys, visits to the cinema and books mentioned above. Our lives might be
more enjoyable if we had such things. Human being undoubtedly have a
wide and very complex range of wants. The science of economics is
concerned with all our needs with the desire to have a radio as well as
the basic necessity of having enough food to eat (Taken from A Rapid Course In English For Students Of Economics by Tom McArthur).
COMPREHENSION :
9. what are our basic needs?
answer : our basic needs are food , clothes and shelter.
10. what is the meaning of the sentence " human beings undoubtedly have a wide and a very complex range of wants (line 26-27)?
answer : the meaning of the sentence " human beings undoubtedly have a wide and a very complex range of wants" is even when we have sansfied such basic needs, we may still want other things.
