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TASK I Complete the sentences using verbs in passive forms:
1. All major government decisions (take)…
2. The policies to be submitted to Parliament (determine)…
3. The Cabinet ensures that the relevant policies (carry out)…
4. Once the matter (decide) …
5. The convention (observe)…
6. The convention (suspend)…
7. The size of the Cabinet (prescribe)…
8. The office of Prime Minister (recognize)
9. Ministers may (bind)…
10. The Prime Minister (choose)…
11. No votes customarily (take)
12. Matters (refer) to sub-committees.
TASK II Find in the text those sentences which express similar ideas:
1. The functions of the Cabinet are: the supreme control of the national executive in accordance with the policy agreed by parliament; and the continuous coordination and delimitation of the authority of Government departments.
2. Under the doctrine of collective responsibility the Cabinet is bound to offer unanimous advice to the Sovereign, even when its members do not hold identical views on a given subject. In principle, once the Government’s policy on a particular matter has been decided, each minister is expected to support it, unless he chooses to resign, as he is free to do.
3. In the exceptional circumstances preceding the referendum in June 1975 on British membership of the European Community, ministers were free to campaign in the country against the Government’s recommendation.
4. A great deal of the work of the Cabinet is carried on through the committee system, which involves the reference of any issue either to a standing Cabinet committee or to an ad hoc committee composed of the ministers primarily concerned.
5. The unique position of authority enjoyed by the Prime Minister derives from his power to submit his own choice of ministers to the Sovereign and to obtain their resignation or dismissal individually. He makes recommendations to the Sovereign for the award of many civil honours and distinctions.
TASK III Insert the proper prepositions into following:
1. The Cabinet is composed... ministers personally selected... the Prime Minister and may include the holders of departmental and non-departmental offices.
2. Its origin can be traced back... the informal conferences that the Sovereign held... his leading ministers, independently... the Privy Council,... the seventeenth century.
3. After the Sovereign’s withdrawal... an active role in politics... the eighteenth century, and the development... organised political parties the Cabinet assumed its modern form.
4. The functions of the Cabinet are: the final determination... the policy to be submitted... Parliament; the supreme control of the national executive in accordance... the policy agreed... Parliament.
5. The exercise of these functions is vitally affected... the fact that the Cabinet is a group of party representatives, depending... its existence... the support of a majority... the House of Commons.
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