Английский язык для специальных и академических целей: Международные отношения и зарубежное регионоведение. Часть 1 - [37]
2. What is the effect of the distorted self-perception on the US foreign policy?
3. Is the idea of exceptionalism unique to the United States?
4. What arguments does the article provide to prove that the US does not behave better than other nations in terms of maintaining peace, promoting international law, and protecting human rights?
5. What do Americans usually attribute the success of their nation to? What in reality makes the US a powerful nation, according to the article?
6. Do you agree that American past success is to a great extent due to good luck?
7. How does the author prove that the actual contribution of the US to world stability and global progress has been relatively modest?
8. How does the article dispel the myth of the divine origin of American exceptionalism?
1. Do you share the author's viewpoint on American exceptionalism or do you think Americans rightly consider themselves exceptional? Explain your position.
2. Does the US, in your opinion, cope with the self-assumed role of global policeman?
3. Is there a good side to the US taking on responsibility for global issues?
a) the US role in the world
b) the US foreign policy
c) the current US — Russian relations
VOCABULARY PRACTICE 3
1. so important or useful that it is impossible to manage without it
2. existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attri-bute
3. correspondence in form, nature, or character
4. to help a plan, idea, feeling, etc to develop
5. to take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
6. to show to be false
7. to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.
8. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe
9. provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)
10. accessible, liable, or subject to some influence, agency, etc.
11. contrary to someone' interests or welfare
12. something of use, advantage, or value
13. the process or state of irreversible breakdown or decline
14. to spend wastefully or extravagantly
Ex. 8. Continue the strings of collocations, translate them. Make up a sentence with one collocation from each list.
Ex. 9. Fill in the gaps with the words from Ex. 7 and Ex. 8 or their derivatives.
1. The head of the Teachers Federation says a full-scale strike scheduled for Tuesday is imminent
because the government _______________ an opportunity to negotiate a contract on the
weekend.
2. It is very difficult to govern a country in the aftermath of a revolution and political talent is
a scarce__________________.
3. As they age, baby boomers will be increasingly ________________ to ailments and conditions
such as heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.
4. In spite of his ______________record, Reagan is considered one of the nation's most popular
presidents, which goes to show how powerful a toothpaste smile can be!
5. Teaching human rights means both conveying ideas and information concerning human
rights and _________________ the values and attitudes that lead to the support of those
rights.
6. Egalitarianism, which is destructive of moral freedom, is ________________ to political
freedom.
7. The policies promoted by the outgoing Commission had an _______________impact on the
working classes and grass roots sections of society.
8. It is difficult to make sense of this information due to the ________________bias in design,
small sample sizes and outcomes of questionable relevance.
9. Unable to return to their pre-war lives, many Albanians _______________ the Revolution as
an opportunity to create a new life.
Unit II. US: from Democracy to Empire?
Unit II. US: from Democracy to Empire?
10. Nepal, the recently declared Republic in the Himalayas, is a small country generously ____________________ with natural beauty and ethnic and cultural variety.
11. Facts ________________ the statement issued by the United Nations that this year's flood is
the worst in the living memory.
12. Every day, in jails and prisons across the United States, young people under the age of 18 are held in solitary__________________.
13. If a state accepts a treaty but does not adapt its national law in order to _______________ to
the treaty or does not create a national law explicitly incorporating the treaty, then it violates international law.
14. The underlying causes of the __________________ are multiple, and include an assorted
domino effect that, when the last domino fell, took down financial giants and destroyed the working lives of many.
