ВИЯз. Англ. Практикум по культуре речевого общения (дополнительный курс). Часть 1

Выберите правильный ответ. After September 11 the U.S. government exerted great effort _________other al-Qaeda agents and sympathizers throughout the world, and it made combating terrorism the focus of U.S. foreign policy.

• to track at
• to track up
• to track down
• to track on

Выберите правильный ответ. An offender is a person who _______________

• is someone who steals
• helps a criminal in a criminal act
• kills someone
• is anyone who breaks the law

Выберите правильный ответ. A smuggler is a person who _______________

• makes counterfeit money or signatures
• hides on a ship or plane to get a free journey
• brings goods into a country illegally without paying tax
• takes away people by force and demands money for their return

Выберите правильный ответ.

• Jury looks after administrative and legal matters in the courtroom.
• Magistrates are usually well-paid and have formal legal qualifications.
• There are a few hundred judges, trained as solicitors, who preside in serious cases.
• Coroners have medical or legal training (or both), and inquire into violent or unnatural deaths.

Выберите правильный ответ. The deadliest terrorist strikes to date were the September, 11 attacks (2001), in which suicide terrorists associated with al-Qaeda _______four airplanes, crashing two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City and one into the Pentagon building; the fourth plane crashed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• robbed
• hijacked
• kidnapped
• stole

Выберите правильный ответ. If a person in Britain has a legal problem, he will go and see (1) a/an _________. In the US, he will go and see (2) a __________

• (1) barrister; (2) attorney
• (1) solicitor; (2) attorney
• (1) advocacy; (2) lawyer
• (1) attorney; (2) solicitor

Выберите правильный ответ. Hugh is entirely trustworthy. His ________ to the organization cannot be questioned.

• espionage
• conscience
• corruption
• loyalty

Выберите правильный ответ. As a result of a resent rise in the divorce rate, there are far more ___________ than there used to be.

• separate
• only
• unique
• single

Выберите правильный ответ. A hijacker is a person who _______________

• takes control of a plane by force and makes the pilot change course
• takes away people by force and demands money for their return
• uses violence for political reasons
• makes counterfeit money or signatures

Выберите правильный ответ. Hundreds of thousands of people __________ the attacks firsthand (many onlookers photographed events or recorded them with video cameras), and millions watched the tragedy unfold live on television.

• gazed
• watched
• looked
• witnessed

Выберите правильный ответ. A pickpocket is a person who _______________

• steals money, etc. by force from people or places
• steals things from people’s pockets in crowded places
• steals from shops while acting as an ordinary customer
• is someone who steals

Выберите правильный ответ.

• In England until the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act of 1965, the sheriffs weren’t responsible for the execution of sentences of death.
• The sheriff and deputy are peace officers and thus have the power of police officers in the enforcement of criminal law in the USA.
• In Northern Ireland the sheriff and salaried oversheriff for a county are appointed by the Queen.
• In Scotland the sheriffs principal and sheriffs for the six sheriffdoms are appointed and removed by the Prime Minister on recommendation of the House of Lords.

Выберите правильный ответ. An arsonist is a person who _______________

• takes away people by force and demands money for their return
• helps a criminal in a criminal act
• sets fire to property illegally
• hides on a ship or plane to get a free journey

Выберите правильный ответ. _________ deals with disputes between individuals and government departments (for example, over taxation).

• The European Court of Human Rights
• The European Court of Justice
• Tribunal
• The Crown Court

Выберите правильный ответ. Burglary is __________________

• deceiving to make money
• inability to pay one’s debts
• taking a criminal charge against someone
• breaking into a building to steal

Выберите правильный ответ. Julie seems to have no moral standards at all. She is completely ______________

• dissolute
• licentious
• amoral
• dissipated

Выберите правильный ответ. The number of young offenders recorded in criminal justice _______ has declined markedly in the past 15 years.

• diaries
• records
• copybooks
• statistics

Выберите правильный ответ. The burglar suffered _____________of conscience when he realized he had unwittingly stolen the little girl’s teddy bear.

• aches
• stabs
• pangs
• pains

Выберите правильный ответ. The Judge himself always ___________ the sentence in the Crown Court even if there is the jury.

• decides on
• decides for
• decides at
• decides with

Выберите правильный ответ. Sarah ________ herself for not confessing the truth earlier.

• bribed
• reproached
• blamed
• accused

Выберите правильный ответ. That man must have ________ you completely. Didn’t you see through his story?

• reproached
• bribed
• hoodwinked
• accused

Выберите правильный ответ. In Britain policemen are to be seen in towns and cities keeping law and order, either walking in the streets or driving in cars (known as __________ because of their distinctive markings).

• «lion cars»
• «zebra cars»
• «panda cars»
• «bear cars»

Выберите правильный ответ. The open box on a raised platform almost in the centre of the court is called _________

• a jail
• a dock
• a desk
• a cage

Выберите правильный ответ. In attacking the old lady, the youth committed a ________ crime.

• naughty
• bad
• heinous
• evil

Выберите правильный ответ.

• People comply with the laws because they believe them right and perceive that in the long run it is in everybody’s interest to observe them.
• The bigger a society becomes, the stronger its self-policing elements are likely to be and the stronger the legal means of social control becomes.
• With technological progress there isn’t any need for new laws.
• Police is body of public officers charged with maintaining public order and safety and enforcing the law, including preventing crime.

Выберите правильный ответ. A deserter is a person who _______________

• gets secret information from another country
• steals from shops while acting as an ordinary customer
• is a soldier who runs away from the army
• marries illegally, being married already

Выберите правильный ответ. A burglar is a person who _______________

• deliberately causes damage to property
• gets secret information from another country
• steals from shops while acting as an ordinary customer
• breaks into houses or other buildings to steal

Выберите правильный ответ. __________ offer young people advice on how to resist pressure from friends to engage in antisocial behaviour ranging from under-age drinking and smoking to drug abuse and other crimes.

• Equal influence strategies
• Peer influence strategies
• Noble influence strategies
• Lord influence strategies

Выберите правильный ответ. You do not have to speak in your defence. «Everyone is innocent unless proved __________.»

• useless
• offcast
• guilty
• blameworthy

Выберите правильный ответ.

• Terrorism is legally defined in all jurisdictions.
• Schools, shopping centres, bus and train stations haven’t been targeted both because they attract large crowds and because they are places with people are familiar and in which they feel at ease.
• The victims and locations of terrorist attacks often are carefully selected for their shock value.
• The goal of terrorism generally is to kill as many people as possible.

Выберите правильный ответ. A terrorist is a person who _______________

• takes control of a plane by force and makes the pilot change course
• murders for political reasons or a reward
• uses violence for political reasons
• betrays his or her country to another state

Выберите правильный ответ.

• The usual estimate is that there are about 20,000 separate public police agencies in the USA and that the majority of them consist one hundred men who are employed full-time.
• In the USA every community is entitled to run its own police department but cannot exclude federal or state officials from investigating offenses over which they have jurisdiction.
• The former American police structure to some extent reflected public opposition to any concentration of police power.
• States are divided into counties, and every county has its constable, usually elected and with responsibilities for the investigation of crime.

Выберите правильный ответ. A spy is a person who _______________

• gets secret information from another country
• murders for political reasons or a reward
• makes counterfeit money or signatures
• uses violence for political reasons

Выберите правильный ответ.

• The federal courts are organized in three tiers, like a pyramid, at the bottom of which are the US courts of appeals, where litigation begins.
• In the USA individuals fall under the jurisdiction of two different court systems, their state courts and federal courts.
• The courts of appeals and the Supreme Court are superior courts in the USA.
• Most federal courts hear and decide a wide array of cases; the judges in these courts are known as magistrates.

Выберите правильный ответ.

• The first regular professional police force in London, the Thames River Police was organized to curb the thefts that plagued the world’s largest port.
• The Metropolitan Police Act established the principles that shaped modern American policing.
• In July 1890 the House of Lords passed a bill making the marine police a publicly financed organization, which ushered in a new era of policing.
• ‘Bobbies’, named after Robert Peel (later Sir Robert Peel), were immediately popular.

Выберите правильный ответ. The legal system in Britain includes ________ (which deal with offenders under seventeen).

• probate courts
• superior courts
• juvenile courts
• coroners’ courts

Выберите правильный ответ. A lot of old _______________ were settled in the New York gangland killings in the 60s.

• criminals
• scores
• quarrels
• feuds

Выберите правильный ответ. If you make a false statement to the Inland Revenue, you may be accused of________

• tax expense
• tax evasion
• tax event
• tax avoiding

Выберите правильный ответ. _____________ specialize in representing clients in court.

• Solicitors
• Barristers
• Coroners
• Judges

Выберите правильный ответ. A shop-lifter is a person who _______________

• steals things from people’s pockets in crowded places
• makes counterfeit money or signatures
• is someone who steals
• steals from shops while acting as an ordinary customer

Выберите правильный ответ. The boy who stole the money must come forward. If the________ does not own up by the end of the day, the whole school will be punished.

• culprit
• sinner
• offender
• wrongdoer

Выберите правильный ответ. A hooligan is a person who _______________

• causes damage or disturbance in public places
• marries illegally, being married already
• helps a criminal in a criminal act
• hides on a ship or plane to get a free journey

Выберите правильный ответ. The jury listens to the evidence given in court in certain __________ and decides whether the defendant is guilty or innocent.

• federal cases
• civil cases
• leading cases
• criminal cases

Выберите правильный ответ. Because Trevor had started a fight in the playground, he was in ________ for the rest of that day.

• punishment
• exile
• disgrace
• dishonour

Выберите правильный ответ. An accomplice is a person who _______________

• is a member of a criminal group
• helps a criminal in a criminal act
• gets secret information from another country
• is a soldier who runs away from the army

Выберите правильный ответ. A traitor is a person who _______________

• deliberately causes damage to property
• betrays his or her country to another state
• uses violence for political reasons
• helps a criminal in a criminal act

Выберите правильный ответ. I’m afraid your assistant has __________the trust you placed in him, and leaked the whole story to the press.

• betrayed
• shafted
• deceived
• diddled

Выберите правильный ответ. A stowaway is a person who _______________

• brings goods into a country illegally without paying tax
• gets secret information from another country
• is a soldier who runs away from the army
• hides on a ship or plane to get a free journey

Выберите правильный ответ.

• The British police generally carry firearms, except in Northern Ireland.
• A Chief Constable may sometimes ask for the assistance of London’s police force, based at New Wales Yard — known simply as «the Yard».
• Britain has no national police force, although police policy is governed by the central Government’s Home Office.
• Each police force has its own Criminal Investigation Department, which members are detectives, and they wear special uniforms.

Выберите правильный ответ. Mr White was found not guilty of murder, but was given six years _________ for manslaughter.

• imprisonment
• detention
• restriction
• conclusion