Read each paragraph and respond to the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct answer.
(1) Gretchen Grimm, who finally kicked her decades-old habit of stealing when she was 83 years old,
illustrates two important truths about shoplifting. (2) The first is the powerful ego boost it can provide,
especially to insecure young people. (3) To illustrate, Gretchen began shoplifting when she was just six
years old, she believes, to win her mother’s attention and affection. (4) The other lesson is that a crime
perpetrated^2 that can be by first graders and old ladies is pretty hard to stop. (5) Gretchen, for instance, had only one serious arrest and hid her habit from her family for almost her whole life.
1. The topic sentence of this paragraph is
a. sentence 1. c. sentence 3.
b. sentence 2. d. sentence 4.
2. Which two sentences begin with transitions that signal major supporting details?
a. sentences 1 and 2 c. sentences 2 and 4
b. sentences 2 and 3 d. sentences 3 and 5
3. Which of the following sentences begins with a transition that signals a minor supporting detail?
a. sentence 1 c. sentence 3
b. sentence 2 d. sentence 4
1. a.
2. c.
3. c.
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The best-known decision affecting prejudicial press coverage of criminal cases is Sheppard v. Maxwell. In 1954, Dr. Samuel Sheppard of Cleveland was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife. His conviction followed reams of newspaper stories, many of which proclaimed his guilt before the jury had decided the case. The jurors, who went home each evening, were told by the judge not to
read newspapers or pay attention to broadcast reports, but no one monitored what the jurors did. Twelve years later, lawyer F. Lee Bailey took Sheppard's trial to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a conviction was overturned on the premise that Sheppard had been a victim of a biased jury. In writing the decision, Justice Tom C. Clark prescribed several remedies. He said that reporters should have been limited to certain areas in the courtroom, that the news media should not have been allowed to interview the witnesses, and that the court should have forbidden statements outside of the courtroom. The outcome of the Sheppard case led to many courtroom experiments with restrictions on the press. The most widespread practices were restraining (gag) orders and closed proceedings. With a gag order, the judge limited what the press could report. But since 1980, several court cases have overturned most of these limitations so that today the press is rarely excluded from courtroom proceedings, and the exclusion lasts only as long as it takes the news organization to appeal to a higher court for access. Cameras in the courtroom is a sticky issue between judges, who want to avoid the disruption that cameras present, and broadcast newspeople, who want to photograph what is going on. In selected cases, however, cameras have been allowed to record complete trials. In 1994, for example, Court TV broadcast the entire trial of O.J. Simpson. Cameras in the courtroom is a state-by-state decision. Some states allow cameras during civil but not criminal trials. Other states try to completely limit access. The U.S. courts and the press are not yet completely comfortable partners. "The most widespread practices were restraining (gag) orders and closed proceedings. With a gag order, the judge limited what the press could report." How are these two statements from the third paragraph related? a. The second sentence gives an example of something mentioned in the first. b. The second sentence summarizes the content of the first. c. The second sentence defines something mentioned in the first. d. The second sentence contrasts with the first.
Le jour du mariage. Mettez les verbes entre parenthèses à l'imparfait.C'(1)__________ (être) le samedi 20 novembre, 1998, dans notre petit village en Provence. Les mariés (2)___________ (être) très beaux! Oh là là! Ma fille (3)__________ (avoir) une belle robe blanche et Benjamin, son fiancé, (4)__________ (porter) un costume noir. Il (5)__________ (faire) beau mais pas très chaud. La cérémonie a commencé à 17h00. Toute la famille (6)__________ (être) très nerveuse. Nous (7)__________ (adorer) tous Benjamin mais ma femme et moi, nous (8)__________ (avoir) peur qu'il soit un peu trop jeune pour épouser notre fille! En plus, Benjamin venait juste de finir ses études et il ne (9)_______ (travailler) pas encore! Mais, après la cérémonie, nous sommes allés au petit Café
du Pastis et Benjamin nous a beaucoup parlé. En fait, nous (10)________ (avoir) tort à son sujet! Benjamin et moi, on (11)_______________ (être) deux hommes très semblables!(2) Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
People who choose to live without electricity and other indoor plumbing are considered _____________________ by those who couldn’t live without them.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Stimmt das oder stimmt das nicht?
1. Das politische System der Schweiz ist eine direkte Demokratie. 2. Das Parlament der deutschen Bundesregierung heißt der Bundestag. 3. Alle drei Jahre werden in der Schweiz ein neuer Bundespräsident und ein neuer Bundeskanzler gewählt. 4. In Österreich gibt es über 700 registrierte Parteien. 5. Der Bundeskanzler / die Bundeskanzlerin spielt die wichtigste Rolle in der deutschen Regierung.