Kryachkov 2!indd

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Д. А. Крячков
UNIT II
3. A __________ is someone who hates another simply because of that person’s race, religion, 
or national origin. 
4. __________ is fueled by faulty assumptions made about entire classes of people. 
5. Research on age discrimination has frequently __________ that there is consistent discrimi-
nation against older employees. 
6. Charlemagne was a charismatic man who held his widespread and __________ peoples to-
gether as much by force of personality as by force of arms. 
7. 
A major reason why people decide to have nothing to do with religion is that, in the name of 
religion, much injustice, violence and __________ has been perpetrated. 
8. American military strength has produced a __________ to use that strength. 
9. The intervention in Somalia by the United States and the United Nations was __________ by 
a humanitarian crisis, notably at Baidoa. 
10. It was certainly clear, as the 1970s drew to a close, that the nationalities question was by 
no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to 
__________ it, and even Brezhnev, recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution, 
warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually “dangerous” if the steady conver-
gence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated. 
11. Stereotypes, structured sets of beliefs about social groups, can be viewed as categories that 
can bias the way we __________ information, organize and store it in memory, and make 
judgments about members of those categories. 
12. The events of “Bloody Sunday” had a __________ effect on the political consciousness of all 
classes. 
13. In Algeria the nomenklatura of the National Liberation Front failed and __________ a revolt of 
the young, the underclass and the excluded. 
14. __________ and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS are universal and are the greatest 
barriers to preventing further infections; providing adequate care, support and treatment; 
and, easing the impacts of HIV/AIDS. 
15. A tribal chieftain, Haji Ghulam, argues that with little or no government development, and 
rising unemployment, it is the right of tribals to grow opium and __________ it. 
16. Bill Joy, the father of Java software and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, __________ with 
some feeling of guilt that “our most powerful 21st-century technologies … are threatening to 
make humans an endangered species.” 
Ex. 10. Complete the following sentences. Where necessary add 
a sentence or two to make your examples more meaningful.
1. 
__________ has recently assumed particular relevance/significance since __________.
2. __________ lost its stigma a long time ago.
3.
__________