Section g Test (Time limit - 45 minutes)

Task 1. Read the text below and write out the correct answers on a separate sheet of paper. The first answer is given as an example.

Model: 1-b

Human Rights Violation

____(1) few ____ people would disagree ____(2)____ the right ____(3)____ racial equality, but what about sexual equality? In 1990, a group of women in Saudi Arabia deliberately ___ (4)____ the law by ____(5)____ cars in a country where only men ____(6)_____ to drive. They ____(7)____ and only ____(8)____ from prison when male members of their family ___(9)___ to ''keep them out of trouble''. Political and legal ____(10)____ against women includes lesser voting rights (in parts in Switzerland); official ____(11)____ from entering politics (Singapore); and ____(12)____ for a wife too get her husband's ___(13)____ when she ____(14)____ for a passport (Egypt). In Japan, where only seven of the nation's 1257 ____(15)____ centers have any female ____(16)____, there have been reports of women being strip searched even for traffic ____(17)____. Many women arrested in Japan are ___(18)___ foreign workers, and this makes it ____(19)____ likely that their human rights ____(20)___. Women also ____(21)____ economic and social ___(22)____ throughout the world, either ____(23)____ less paid work than men or ____(24)____ less for doing the same work.

A	B	C	D
1. many	few	lots of	little
2. in	of	with	to
3. to	in	of	within
4. crushed	broke	opposed	made
5. using	driven	driving	having driven
6. were allowed	could	would	are permitted
7. were arrested	were imprisoned	were caught	were apprehended
8. kept	coming	released	let go
9. promised	said	allowed	informed
10. assaulting	offence	discrimination	law
11. ban	restriction	prohibition	discouragement
12. the want	the wish	the need	oblige
13. consent	approval	assent	permission
14. goes	applies	turns	asks
15. defection	jailed	law	judge
16. convicts	protecting	securities	guards
17. offences	breach	disturbance	violation
18. strange	black	illegal	unlawful
19. more	most	much	less
20. are followed	will be observed	will be violating	are kept
21. have	undergo	suffer	see
22. inequality	cruelty	coercion	violence
23. making	have been fulfilling	doing	will perform
24. being given	being paid	received	have got

Task 2. Fill in the gaps choosing the correct word. Only one word is correct.

25. Amnesty International is one of many organizations which put pressure on governments to______ human rights.

A follow

B observe

C keep

D protecting

26. Amnesty International helps to speed up the release of political prisoners thus _____ the concept of human rights all over the world.

A promoting

B helping

C will be moving

D followed

27. A professor asked his students when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights _____.

A appearing

B was adopted

C come to life

D have existed

28. Organizations ______ human rights insist that prisoners of conscience should be released.

A will be dealing with

B helping

C have been watching

D protecting

29. Human rights are basic minimum _____ of freedom and security for all.

A standards

B to point

C ruling

D principle

30. A very large area of human rights law ____ with refugees.

A stand

B reads

C is concerned

D are described

31. Most Constitutions describe the fundamental rights of citizens which usually include general declaration about freedom and equality, but also some specific ______: such as the one which exempt a witness from answering a question in court if his answer might reveal his own criminal guilt.

A point

B conditioned

C provisions

D item

32. The comparison of the legal freedoms of countries with different cultures and economic levels is possible since many have similar constitutional provisions and _______ similar aims.

A demanded

B put in

C asserts

D claim

33. Most countries of the world have signed international agreements concerning _______ of individuals.

A behaviours

B discussion

C treatment

D application

34. Torture is defined in the 1949 Geneva Convention as the deliberate, systematic or wanton _______ of physical or mental suffering.

A cause

B infliction

C bring

D damage

35. The American Court of human rights held that the government of Honduras _______ of the UDHR and should pay compensation of $ 75000.

A violated

B infringed

C was in breach

D were disturbed

36. Human rights groups work to ensure that all trials are....

A independents

B well-worked

C fair

D perfection

37. Judges and juries should be independent and _________.

A honesty

B prejudiced

C biased

D unbiased

38. Suspects should have access to _______ legal advice.

A positively

B will be good

C adequate

D be corresponding

39. Prisoners should not be _______ for too long before a trial takes place.

A prosecuted

B held in jail

C tried

D torturing

40. Amnesty insists that trials be held in public and that observers from independent countries be allowed _______ the proceeding.

A observing

B followed

C to supervise

D to watch

41. The _______ claimed before the Commission that the facts of his case constituted the breach of Article 3.

A prisoners

B suspected

C witnessing

D applicant

42. The exact effect of the statute depends on the way it is ______ by the judiciary.

A made

B have seen

C interpreted

D given

43. In some countries smoking in public places is _______.

A improperly

B imperceptible

C prohibited

D amoral

44. States must not _______ from their international obligations.

A destroy

B detracted

C suffering

D derogate

45. Several different ______ were presented in favour of the plaintiff.

A arguments

B questions

C issued

D moment

46. International law _______ that the basic human rights shall be protected.

A helped

B provides

C is thinking

D makes

47. The exact meaning of ''torture'' in the European Convention was defined in the ________ of Ireland v.UK 1978.

A noted

B decree

C judgement

D provisions

48. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life ______.

A serviced

B conclusion

C inference

D imprisonment

49. To ________ damages the court will consider the exact nature and extent of the injury suffered.

A define

B assess

C appraisal

D determined

50. Some people believe that only the death penalty will really ________ terrorists.

A deter

B holding

C kept

D repression