- •Political science
- •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
Text IV
I. READ THE ARTICLE AND EXPLAIN WHY IT IS HEADLINED IN THIS WAY.
WASHINGTON DISCONNECTED (by Robert J. Samuelson)
By Washington, I do not mean the place. Most people here lead lives like most other Americans. They endure congestion, worry about schools and think only intermittently about politics and government.
What I mean by Washington is the political community. It consists of politicians, congressional staffers, White House aides, top bureaucrats, the press, lobbyists, think-tank experts and the staffs of interest and advocacy groups. These people subsist on politics, elections, legislation and public policy.
The widening gap between this Washington and the rest of the country is not altogether bad. America thrives in part because it's decentralized. Government power remains dispersed among the national, state and local levels. The economy permits companies to expand, compete, contract on their own. There is a plenty of volunteerism, charity and philanthropy.
Still, there is something intuitively disturbing about Washington's growing disconnect. In a representative democracy, people shouldn't feel less and less represented.
It has always been widely believed that the government could solve most social problems. This faith — plus confidence that the economy could produce boundless new wealth — inspired immense governmental activism. Washington . connected with the rest of the country by showering new benefits on many constituencies. Although Democrats led this crusade, most Republicans joined. The elderly benefited from Medicare and higher Social Security; the poor received Medicaid and food stamps; schools and universities got more aid; Congress passed environmental and worker-safety laws.
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We know now that this crusade foundered on its own heady assumptions. All social problems could not be solved; the economy couldn't produce boundless wealth; budget deficits emerged because politicians wouldn't choose between higher taxes and lower spending; regulations involved costs, as well as benefits. The political impact of this failure was profound. Lost was the old formula for connecting with the mass of moderate voters.
Ever since, both parties have struggled vainly to find a new one. The result is two parties that are not so much liberal and conservative as reactionary and radical. Democrats are reactionary because they seem to promise a return to the dreamy 1960s with expanding social programs and constituent benefits. Many Americans are suspicious. On the other hand, Republicans seem radical because they blame their governments. This frightens most Americans.
It is in this broader sense that Washington has become disconnected. The parties can't speak convincingly to the messy reality of large but inevitably limited government. Neither Democrats nor Republicans can create new programs or cut taxes. Politicians become more strident in their debates and more vicious in their personal attacks. They consort mostly with their own «core constituencies» and sympathetic ideologies.
This is a sad commentary on three decades of change.
(from «NEWSWEEK» 2002)
READ THE ARTICLE ONCE MORE AND SAY WHY THE AUTHOR IS SO DISPLEASED WITH THE SITUATION IN POLITICS.
TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING WORD-COMBINA TIONS INTO RUSSIAN:
To endure congestion; political appointees; think-tank experts; to subsist on; the widening gap; to thrive; to produce boundless new wealth; to shower benefits on; moderate
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voters; to blame for; in token ways; sympathetic ideologies; to be stunned by.
IV. TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES:
Connect - disconnect - connection -connected - disconnected
Policy - politics - political - politician Appoint - appointment - appointee - appointed Center - central - centralize - centralized - decentralized Compete - competing - competition - competitive -competitor
Volunteer - volunteerism - voluntary - voluntarily Philanthropy - philanthropic - philanthropist Represent - representative - representation