Exercise 2. Fill in the gaps.

1. While the protesters are still only a minority of Egyptians, they show no sign of fading _____ and there is a chance that many more people will joion once the working week finishes on Thursday.

2. When the vote was re-held in January 2005, Mr. Yushchenko was elected, and appointed Ms. Tymoshenko as prime minister, but the two soon fell _____.

3. While the protesters are still only a minority of Egyptians, they show no sign of fading _____ and there is a chance that many more people will join once the working week finishes on Thursday.

4. Poland’s post-war communist authorities forbade any discussion on the topic (the Katyn massacre ), preventing the families of the victims from finding _____ anything about the fate of their loved ones.

5. “There have been alarming propaganda by the pirates to media that the weapons are not for the Kenyan military. This is a tactic by the terrorists to try and fend _____ reprisals against them”, Kenya’s government spokesman Alfred Mutua said.

6. He was one of the first to get _____ his flight and clear security.

7. Politics at times is like a train engine, it’s slow to get _____ to speed, but it can pull more and more people along.

8. The blast represents a big setback for confidence in Russia’s security as it gears _____ _____ two major international sporting events, the Winter Olympics in 2014, and the 2018 World Cup.

9. The group says some 2, 100 political prisoners are in Burmese jails while ‘pseudo-political reforms’ go _____.

10. The bill must go _____ a second reading and third reading in the lower house, then be approved by the upper house and regional assemblies before it becomes law.

Exercise 3. Match the beginning of each sentence with its suitable ending.

1. Protesters have been anxious for assurances that their uprising would not fizzle out …

2. The clashes that flared up with pro-Mubarak assailants died away …

3. Russian Railways head told Russian TV that a second device went off …

4. Mrs. Clinton made clear that the US would hold Pyongyang to its commitment to give up …

5. The New York Times said Mr. Obama described his new policy as ‘part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up …

6. When Filippos gave up …

7. “The death toll is going up”, …

8. London’s Royal Court Theatre says, it will go ahead with …

9. Egypt’s Muslims and Christians will go out …

10. Most of the opposition and protesters said they do not want to overthrow the monarchy, but want the ruling family to give up …

a) … any nuclear ambitions’.

b) … with a simple reshuffle of the old guard.

c) … its nuclear programme in return for diplomatic concessions and economic aid.

d) … on Thursday night when army troops intervened to put a security cordon around the perimeter of the square.

e) … in the area on the parallel track of the railway in the opposite direction.

f) … most of its powers to the elected parliament.

g) … his British job to return to Greece a few years ago, he could have been a symbol of a newly prosperous country offering good prospects to young professionals.

h) … to fight against corruption, unemployment and oppression and absence of freedom.

i) … a local official in Jiego said.

j) … a public reading of The Pagans in April.