United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Land Population

VI. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words and word combinations from the texts above.
violent citizens producers

innovations tolerance extreme

democratic society a leading member

industrial united efficiency
1. When people are ……. about something, they agree about it and act together.

2. The Fundamental Orders, adopted by the Connecticut Colony in 1639, is often considered the first ……. constitution in America.

3. Nobility used to have privileges above commoners, but the French Revolution and other revolutions revoked these privileges and made ……. .

4. Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and ……. of the American Civil Liberties Union, statesman, noted orator and three time presidential candidate for the Democratic Party.

5. If workers take ……. action, they join together and do something to show that they are unhappy with their pay or working conditions, for example refusing to work.

6. With a history as a fishing and trading sheikhdom, Kuwait, since the 1930s, has become one of the world’s leading oil ……. .

7. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labour ……. , but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.

8. The transformation of British agriculture during the 18th century was characterized by the enclosure of common land and the introduction of technological ……. such as the seed drill and the rotation of crops.

9. In Britain a building ……. is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house.

10. The Prime Minister said he was trying to preach peace and ……. to his people.

11. A fanatic is not only intense and eager but possibly irrational in his or her enthusiasm; fanatic suggests ……. devotion and a willingness to

go to any length to maintain or carry out one's beliefs.

12. Those who commit ……. acts must expect to suffer violence themselves.