11. Complete the following text with the words and phrases listed below. Fill in the table with the letters of the corresponding lexical units:

21St Century Declares War on Globalizing Crime

Having lived through two world wars, the danger of a nuclear holocaust, and a series of (1) catastrophes in the 20th century, humankind has entered a new millennium — an era of globalization — but is still encumbered with its old social woes, among which crime, in particular terrorism, corruption, and (2) trafficking, has become a real scourge. These phenomena are the result of man's failure in the past century to address such problems as social and economic (3) and political, racial, ethnic and religious intolerance.

In the past 30 years the incidence of crime in the world has increased (4), including in the FSU and the United States, eight times; Great Britain and Sweden, seven times; France, six times; and Germany four times. According to UN statistics, in the late 1990s, crime in the world was growing at an average (5) of 5 percent a year, as compared to population growth at a rate of 1 percent.

In the past few decades of the 20th century, large sections of the world's population have ended up socially and economically unprotected and (6) at a time of sweeping changes and the information revolution, when capital, goods, and people are moving across the globe at a hitherto unheard of speed, world market development is resulting in cutthroat (7), and regional maps are being constantly re-carved owing to ethnic, (8), and political conflicts.

1. speed

2. drug

3. environmental

4. equal

5. fourfold

6. contest

7. insecure

8. inequality

9. four

10. competition

11. rate

12. communal

13. public

14. expansion

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12. Complete the text with the proper lexical units and fill in the table below:

The more (1) the world becomes, the more mutually vulnerable it gets. Globalization of the social and economic sphere (2) globalization of crime, making it increasingly organized, transnational, and ingenious. (3) communities are, much faster than state systems in different countries, taking advantage of new communications (4), any loosening of border controls, and any (5) of movement in the world.

This manifests itself above all in (6) migration, drug trafficking, and money (7). Every year, transnational criminal groups unlawfully organize the movement of 1 million illegal migrants (8) in excess of $3.5 billion. In the late 1990s, the drug business (9) stood at more than $500 billion a year. Approximately $90 billion received from drug trafficking is laundered and used as legal (10). In all, according to the IMF, about $600 billion in ill-gotten money is laundered in the world every year.

1. a) dependence b) interdependent c) dependent

2. a) bringing about b) has brought about c) bringing up

3. a) crime b) offender c) criminal

4. a) facilitate b) facilities c) facilitating

5. a) liberal b) liberty c) liberalization

6. a) legal b) illegal c) lawful

7. a) laundry b) laundered c) laundering

8. a) yielding b) yielded c) yields

9. a) turn over b) turnover c) turns over

10. a) invest b) investing c) investment

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