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4. Translate the following sentences into Russian.

1. Any natural-born American who is 35 years old or older may be elected to this office.

2. Both houses must approve a bill for it to become law, but the President may veto or refuse to sign it.

5. Insert modal verbs.

1. Senators … be chosen every five years.

2. Theoretically all citizens of both sexes over 18 years of age … be elected to the Senate.

3. Through its power over the purse the US Congress … control much that relates to foreign policy.

4. The President … serve two terms but not longer than that.

5. The Vice-President … inherit the Presidency only in some special cases.

6. Each of the fifty states of the USA … pattern their constitution after the federal Constitution.

7. The Industrial Revolution … not have developed without machine tools, for they enabled manufacturing machines to be made.

8. A distinguish … be made between import and export and the relation between them is the balance of trade.

9. The USA … to utilize resources due to a unique set of institutions designed to encourage utilization and extraction.

10. Taxation in the USA is a complex system which … invalue payment to at least four different levels of government and many methods of taxation.

11. State schools … to select pupils according to intelligence.

5. Open the brackets using the Active or the Passive Voice.

1. The President (to elect) every four years.

2. Voters (to elect) the President together with the Vice President.

3. Last time the President (to elect) in 2000.

4. Next time the USA (to elect) the President in 2014.

5. The President (to head) the Executive Branch.

6. The Executive Branch (to head) by the President.

7. To be law a bill must (to sign) by the President.

8. The President must (to sign) a bill in order to become law.

9. Each state (to elect) two members of the 100-member Senate.

10. Two members of the 100-member Senate (to elect) by each state.

6. Insert prepositions.

The US Constitution, written … 1787, established the country’s political system and is the basis … its laws. … 200 years … its history, the United States has greatly grown and changed. Yet the Constitution works as well today as when it was written. One reason is that the Constitution can be amended (for example, the Fifteenth Amendment gave black Americans the right to vote and the right Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote). Another reason is that the Constitution is flexible: its basic principles can be applied and interpreted differently … different times.

Vocabulary and Comprehension Exercises

7. Give English equivalents.

Федеральный союз, согласно конституции, полномочие, управлять, выдавать лицензию, на низшем уровне, житель, отвечать за что-либо, назначать, по-разному, всеобщие выборы, принимать решение, предлагать законопроект, с одобрения, в случае смерти, на оставшийся срок, одобрить законопроект, без подписи президента, пожизненно, рассматривать дела, вносить поправки.