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VII. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

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  5. I. Read the list of adjectives below and find the pairs of opposite words.
  6. I. Read the text once again and find in the text the English equivalents of the following Russian words. Make up your own sentences with these words.
  7. I. Suggest English equivalents of the following expressions and use them in your own sentences based on the text.

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1. abolished; 2. abuse; 3. charge; 4. confidence; 5. custody; 6. degrading; 7. detention; 8. divorce; 9. fair; 10. gained; 11. in custody; 12. inhuman;13. injunctions; 14. intimidation; 15. living; 16. offenses; 17. standard;18. to do wrong; 19. wrongdoing.

 

1. In the United States any suspect who is being interrogated ______________ must be offered the services of a lawyer, at the expense of the state if he cannot afford to pay, and failure to advise the suspect of this right (known as the Miranda warnings, after the case of Miranda v. Arizona) results in the rejection of a confession as evidence.

2. Belonging to this first generation, thus, are rights such as those set forth in Articles 2–21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including freedom from gender, racial, and equivalent forms of discrimination; the right to life, liberty, and security of the person; freedom from slavery or involuntary servitude; freedom from torture and from cruel, ________________, or ______________ treatment or punishment; freedom from arbitrary arrest, _____________, or exile; the right to a ____________ and publictrial; freedom from interference in privacy and correspondence; freedom of movement and residence; the right to asylum from persecution; freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; freedom of opinion and expression; freedom of peaceful assembly and association; and the right to participate in government, directly or through free elections.

3. The catalog of rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted without dissent by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948, is scarcely less than the sum of most of the important traditional political and civil rights of national constitutions and legal systems, including equality before the law… Also enumerated are such economic, social, and cultural rights as the right to work, the right to form and join trade unions, the right to rest and leisure, the right to a ______________ of ___________ adequate for health and well-being, and the right to education.

4. Amerigo Vespucci was the son of Nastagio, a notary. In 1479 he accompanied another relation, sent by the famous Italian family of Medici to be their spokesman to the king of France. On returning, Vespucci entered the “bank” of Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici and ______________ the ______________ of his employers.

5. Though Socrates (5th century BC) never taught directly, his whole activity rested on two unshakable premises: (1) the principle never ______________ nor to participate, even indirectly, in any _________________ and (2) the conviction that nobody who really knows what is good and right could act against it.

6. In _____________ cases the situation is often a de facto one: separation of the parents has taken place some time before the legal proceedings, and the child is already in the ___________ of one of them, so that the divorce decree may do no more than regularize in law what has already happened in fact.

7. Hence, in a case of armed robbery, the U.S. prosecutor may ____________ the suspect with armed robbery, simple robbery, assault, simple theft, or any combination of these _____________.

8. In July 1999, however, the Florida Supreme Court outlawed the state's use of the death penalty against 16-year-olds, and Montana ____________ the death penalty for those who were under 18 at the time of their crimes.

9. By the end of the 14th century the Court of Chancery in England had begun to grant ______________ as a remedy for the inadequacy of decisions in the common-law courts.

10. During the furor that ensued, more evidence came to light that prisoners held by the U.S. in various locations had been beaten, sexually assaulted, deprived of sleep and medical attention, frightened by dogs, and subjected to other forms of _______________, humiliation, and ___________.

 


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