Answer the following questions using the active vocabulary.
5. Answer the following questions using the active vocabulary.
- What is the outcome of the midterm elections in the USA?
- What did the Republicans capture?
- Did the Republicans lose their positions in the House of Representatives?
- Did the former Vice President win the elections?
- Was the rivalry tough in South Dakota?
- What was the election like in Louisiana?
- What historic patterns did the outcome of the balloting Tuesday mark?
- What did Democratic opposition prevent the US president from?
- Did the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy win her bid?
- How will the election problem be resolved in Alabama?
- How did the election go off in California?
- How did Democrats react to the outcomes of the elections?
6. Using the active vocabulary render the article in English.
1 were to be held
2 a bill
3 to bring the country to the point of
4 IMF— International Monetary Fund
5 a runoff election — это последний тур выборов, когда ни один из кандидатов не получил абсолютного большинства
UNIT 5. HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN ISSUES
SECTION A
I
1. Read the article and look up the underlined words and phrases in the dictionary.
Systematic violations of women's rights in Afghanistan
Women in Afghanistan have suffered a catastrophic assault on their human rights during more than twenty years of war and under the repressive rule of the Taliban. Now, as women face further peril with the intensification of conflict following the September 11 attacks on the United States, the international community must make a firm commitment to support women's human rights.
Throughout Afghanistan's civil war, the major armed factions — primarily the Taliban and the United National Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, a coalition of mainly Tajik, Uzbek, and ethnic Hazara parties — have repeatedly committed serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law. Women have borne the major part of this violence and discrimination. In the civil war, women have suffered massive and systematic human rights abuses.
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