COMPREHENSION CHECK

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

1. to display differences in aims

2. to explain the purpose of terrorism under the approaches

3. to annihilate and to weaken the existing authority on the grounds of ideology

4. to be unable to conceive the results in the long run

5. to make doubts about political system

6. to get some political advantages in order to obtain a profit

7. a political tool for struggle and destruction of the regime

8. to hear smb's claim and draw attention on this

9. to spend insufficient resources for struggle

10. to provide contradictions among the elements of society

11. to exhibit the immorality of terrorism

12. to destroy / to jeopardize integrity exploiting ethnic structure

13. to firm huge gaps between the government and society in the context of social security

14. to put smth. on the agenda

I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:

1. What idea do the terrorists suggest defining themselves as the society's unknown

warriors and sacrificing volunteers?

2. Can the aim of subverting the political regime in the long run be suggested as

the only aim of terror? Prove your idea.

3. What are the basic aims of the terror organizations at the first stage? Speak of

the expected results of the following actions

4. How can the issue of terrorist aims be approached from an economic point of

view?

5. How do the manipulation of ethnic structure of the society appear to be a good

source for terror in the course of time?

6. Is the operation itself or the effect of the operation is important for terrorists?

Dwell on the proposed information.

7. What main targets can be enumerated and dwelled on?

8. What means is employed by terrorist organizations to let the public hear their voice?

II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:

1. The aims of the terror organizations display indifferences depending on the countries they take action in and the groups they are directed by.

2. The manipulation of ethnic structure of the society can't be a good source for terror in the course of time.

3. The terror organizations assert that they aim to have a more peaceful and fair style of life in loyalty of the ideology they support, getting rid of the government and the leaders they regard as unjust and cruel.

4. Terrorists consider themselves as the society's unknown warriors and sacrificing volunteers whose activities have not been understood and appreciated yet.

5. For terrorists the effect of the operation is not so important, as the operation itself.