2. Read the text again to answer the following questions:

1. What is organized crime engaged in?

2. What do you know about organized crime in the USA and Canada?

3. What do British crime organizations deal with?

4. Crime syndicates in Australia deal with narcotics, cargo, theft and racketeering, don't they?

5. Do Japanese gangs specialize in vice and extortion?

6. What is known about organ­ized crime in many Third World countries?

3. Translate the following words and word combinations from English into Russian:

addition, underworld, independently, to engage, offenses, robbery, gambling, to exist, illegal, to contain, extremely high rates of interest, the profitability of supplying, tend to be, fraud, source of income, vice, extortion, principal form, organized crime, to develop, to reduce, relatively, to achieve a particular aim, corruption, license, to import goods, to export, armed robbery, cattle theft, maritime piracy, complicity.

4. Find the English equivalents for the following words and phrases:

взаимосвязанный, союз, снотворное средство, легальный, ал­коголь, наркотик, ростовщичество, убеждение, благотворитель­ность, милосердие, преступное подполье, порнография, гангстер­ское ростовщичество, выкуп, непрерывный, преступный синдикат, вымогательство, спекуляция на черном рынке, иностранная валю­та, морское пиратство, соучастие, наличие.

5. Match the words from the left column with their definitions from the right column.

legitimate	a person who lends money in exchange for its repayment at an interest rate that exceeds the percentage approved by law and who uses intimidating methods or threats of force in order to obtain repayment
ransom	to carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes
racketeering	system of trading inand converting the currency of one country into that of another
coalition	being in compliance with the law
loan shark	the illegal business of buying or selling goods or currency in violation of restrictions such as price controls or rationing
maritime piracy	to obtain the release of by paying a certain price
foreign exchange	an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea
black market	an alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.

6. Fill in the gaps using the necessary words from exercise 6.

1. Paying the …  did not mark the end of the company's problems.

2. Through deliberate acts or neglect or both, imperial tobacco is facilitating tobacco smuggling and managing the… in its products.

3. Killing to make a political, social or religious point can never be accepted as… .

4. And by vouching for Johnny boy with the local…, Charlie is caught in a no-win situation with disastrous consequences.

5. If you have been involved in a… incident.

6. Jordan did not join a US-led… that drove Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.

7. Office machinery and services which earn… should be allowed to benefit from investment grants.

8. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn arrested 27 men on…  and murder charges.