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- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with words from the text.
- •5. Find the statements which are not true to the text.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to underlined words and emphatic constructions.
- •7. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Complete the following sentences.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
- •5 . Agree or disagree with the following statements.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing into Russian paying attention to different functions of the verb «to be».
- •7. Translate the following sentences in writing into Russian:
- •Make up a short summary of the text.
- •Compare the u.S. Constitution with that of Russia. Speak on their advantages and disadvantages.
- •10. Read the text and render its content in Russian:
- •1. Read and translate the text
- •2 . Answer the following questions.
- •3. Complete the following sentences.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Find the beginning for the following endings.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with words from the text.
- •5. Find in the text the definitions of the meanings of the following words. Translate them into Russian in writing.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to the underlined words and constructions.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Complete the following sentences.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
- •5. Find in the text the definitions of the following terms.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to the underlined words and constructions.
- •8. Compare the system of checks and balances of the us with that of Russia. Pay attention to the differences in these systems. The plan below may be helpful.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Complete the following sentences.
- •4. Insert the English equivalents used in the text.
- •Political Parties
- •Give the general idea of the text.
- •Read the following joke and retell it:
- •12. Read the article and do the tasks that follow it:
- •13. Answer the following questions:
- •14. Agree or disagree with the following:
- •16. Review the article.
- •17. Read and translate the article:
- •20. Answer the following questions:
- •21. Find in the article the facts to prove that:
- •22. Read the following quotations by Churchill:
- •23. Review the article.
- •I . Read and translate the text:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •IV. Find in the text the facts to prove that:
- •V II. Could you give any examples from history or your personal experience when «the rule of law» works? do you support the idea that «the law is the highest judge»?
- •VIII. Read the following item and render its idea in russian:
- •X . Answer the following questions:
- •Xl agree or disagree with the following statements:
- •XII. Divide the text into logical parts, make up an outline of the text and speak on the text in accordance with your outline. Word study
- •I. Give russian equivalents for:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •V. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •Authority
- •The state
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •IV. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms:
- •Word study
- •III. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •The philosophical tradition
- •The empirical tradition
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •I I. Answer the following questions.
- •Word study
- •T he Evolution of Pluralism
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Answer the following questions:
- •IX. Complete the following sentences:
- •XXIII. Answer the following questions:
- •Word study
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •Word study
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •V. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Answer the following questions:
- •Text IV
- •V. Answer the following questions:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •XIII. Answer the following questions:
- •In children (by Christine Russell)
- •XXIII. Answer the following questions:
- •Text VI
- •Text VII
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •Word study
- •T ext VIII
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •Postmodern tv (by Steven Connor)
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
20. Answer the following questions:
1. Why do we speak about a host of images connected with Winston Churchill?
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When was Churchill exiled from the mainstream of his party?
How was he branded by peace-loving Britons at that
time?
What did he do not to remain a passive spectator of the political situation?
Who helped him to be in the center of all urgent issues?
What helped Churchill to assume finally power?
Where did Churchill live being in exile?
What works did he write at that time?
How many of them did he write in 1931-1939?
What political cartoons appeared in press?
When did Winston Churchill become Prime Minister?
21. Find in the article the facts to prove that:
Winston Churchill was a man of legend.
For ten years Winston fought a lonely war of his own.
Churchill was a man of action.
He had never been bored.
It was Winston's great foe - Adolf Hitler - who has tened Churchill's return to power.
22. Read the following quotations by Churchill:
«Never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.»
«Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.»
Find in the article one more quotation. Read it out. In what way do these quotations characterize Churchill as a politician? What do you think?
23. Review the article.
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I . Read and translate the text:
POLITICS (by Gary Althen)
Americans are quite proud of their political system. Whether they are well informed about politics (most are not) or whether they participate actively in political matters (many do not), they believe their political system has advantages most other political systems lack. They believe it protects their individual freedom, which is a value of supreme importance to them. They believe their system is, or can be, responsive to their wishes in ways other systems cannot be.
Paradoxically, most Americans have a rather negative view of politics and politicians. The system might be very good, but the people who operate within it might not be. As a group, politicians are generally seen as relatively unintelligent, excessively talkative, and somewhat devious. Government employees, too, are suspect. Many Americans suppose that the government has too many workers, and only a few who are diligent and productive enough to deserve the pay they get. Paradoxically, again, Americans generally expect and receive competent service from government employees.
Perhaps because they fear that a government can become «too strong» and thereby endanger citizens' freedom, Americans tolerate a political system that seems utterly inefficient to many people from other countries. The American system was, indeed, originally established in such a way as to prevent it from taking quick, concerted action in any but the most extreme circumstances. There is a «division of power,» with various governmental responsibilities divided among the national, state, and local levels and, there is the «separation of powers» among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches - at both the national and state levels. There is the «two-party system,» with two large and
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ideologically ambiguous parties competing for positions in the government.
This structure results in extreme decentralization that people from many other countries have difficulty in understanding. The decentralization is most evident in the domestic realm, and somewhat less so in the conduct of foreign affairs. In both realms, though, the United States government has more internal impediments to action than most other governments do. American citizens tend to see that as an advantage, or at least as a price worth paying for the limits it puts on the government's ability to infringe on individual citizens' lives.
The administrative side of the government does not have the built-in «checks and balances» that keep the political side from acting decisively. Some administrative agencies are quite efficient. Others are less so. Among the least efficient, most observers would agree, is the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the one agency with which foreign visitors inevitably have dealings.
Americans feel very free to criticize their political leaders. The president, senators and congressmen, governors, mayors, and others are subject to public criticism so harsh that foreign visitors are sometimes shocked and embarrassed to see or hear it - even if they agree with it. But while they themselves feel free to criticize, Americans usually do not welcome criticisms that come from foreign visitors. «If you don't like it here, go back where you came from,» is the reaction foreigners sometimes get when they make negative comments about American politics (as well as other aspects of American Life).
Besides their pride in their systems of government and their propensity to criticize their leaders, Americans have three other general ideas about politics that foreigners will want to understand: they believe firmly in what they call the «rule of law,» they idealize compromise, and they conceive of politics as something separable from other aspects of life.
(from «AMERICAN WAYS»)
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