COMPREHENSION CHECK

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 566.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

1. rightist and leftist objectives;

2. to wit­ness great changes;

3. practice terrorism;

4. to adopt terrorism as virtually a state policy;

5. to be picked at random;

6. public im­pact;

7. lethality

8. a contested homeland;

9. communi­cations media;

10. to happen into terrorist situa­tion;

11. grievances;

12. psychological warfare;

13. unpredictable violence;

14. electrically detonated explosives;

15. to view something as religious heresy;

16. perpetration of hoaxes;

17. in the latter half of the 19^th century;

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

1. What objectives are usually pursued by terrorism?

2. What was the role and place of terrorism throughout centuries and throughout the world?

3. Can terrorism be used in the framework of a state policy? Dwell on such cases in history.

4. Do you think terrorism is the only means of settling various con­flicts in societies?

5. Speak of the role of communications media in terrorism's public impact.

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

1. The practice of using terrorism in its form of unpredictable violence throughout the contemporary world cannot be denied.

2. But for terror during the French Revolution Robespierre would have never entered the period of his political dominance.

3. Technological advances of the 20th century brought no changes into the practice

of terrorism.

4. In order to encourage adherence to the national ideology and the declared political goals of the state Nazi Germany put no obstacles to terrorism.

5. The anarchists of the 19th century were always close to the political mainstream and put forward quite realistic demands.

6. Due to modern communications media, millions of viewers are di­rectly exposed to the terrorists' political goals.