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  1. According to text are the following sentences true or false? If they are false, say why.

  1. Cameron is a leader of Liberals.

  2. Throughout the leadership campaign he made avirtue out of saying tax policy.

  3. He didn’t take drugs when he was in school.

  4. Cameron made a statement that all politicians have a right to a private past.

  5. He gave an interview to the Guardian supporting the anti- drug campaign.

  6. Tax policy is one of his political priorities.

  7. The Tory Party’s new leader David Cameron” has risen to the top by not saying much about anything.

  1. A) Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct passive or active forms.

b) Say what you have learned from the text about the purpose of PR during elections.

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PR backers who Liberals borrow heavily from the Liberal lexicon, using epithets like “misguided,” and “unfair” when referring to their opponents. Unfortunately, some Libertarians (to support) PR, pre- sumably because they see the system as their only shot at getting their people into office. They overlook the fact the PR is basically a subsidy system for non-competitive parties, whereas the present system (to represent) a political marketplace: a free market of parties from which a voter may freely choose. It (to sting) when your party loses a lot of the time, but that’s capitalism-make your product better if you want to sell more of it.

Is there such a thing as wasted votes? No. All votes in this country (to record) and become part of history. When a plurality victor (to enter) the state Legislature with 48 percent of the vote, having top- pled a leading contender who got 46 percent and an also-ran who (to receive) 6 percent, that new representative is very conscious that he is not the beloved of the majority. He will do everything he possibly can to make everyone very happy, because he needs to appease a lot of voters in his re-election campaign. He will be a coalition builder, and he will be responsive to his local constituents, because he is acutely aware that he lacks a mandate. That is the up-side of a majori- ty-driven republic.

This is not to say that everyone gets his way; but, simply that no votes (to waste). Is PR a more fair system because it would enable

more minorities or minority parties to gain political office? No. Third- party candidate Jesse Ventura (to astonish) Minnesota, the nation, and non-major partisans generally when Minnesota voters (to elect) him governor. Minnesota does not have proportional representation; Ventura (to elect) by a direct vote.

Life in a republic means there are winners and losers. PR smacks of “leveling the playing field.” Elections are competitive events; par- ties (to compete) for governance in the marketplace of ideas. If you’re losing, then redesign, repackage, and make yourself saleable. Those who have earned the right to govern American citizens (not to oblige) to be apologists for the principle of majority rule . If those elected officials abuse the trust of that majority, then they fully (to deserve) the voters’ rigorous contempt the next time around.

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N o t e s:

backer to avow to overlook subsidy system sting

plurality victor

to topple also-ran to appease to astonish direct vote apologist to abuse the trust contempt

понсор, попечитель, покровитель открыто признавать факт игнорировать

система финансирования, субсидирования стимулировать, побуждать

победитель, набравший наибольшее количество голосов

зд. одержать победу невыигравший участник удовлетворять изумлять, удивлять прямое голосование поборник, защитник злоупотреблять доверием неуважение, презрение