Capital Punishment

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Task 1: Capital Punishment

1. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) for each of the following questions.
(1) What causes the two women's discussion on capital punishment?

a. The execution. b. The report of a murderer. c. The function of judicial system.
(2) Why does one of the women thinks that killing a killer is not justified? a. Because the killer doesn't have to be killed. b. Because the crime is not very serious. c. Because once you're killing a killer, you become a killer as well.
(3) What, according to one of them, is more important than punishment? a. Life. b. Rehabilitation. c. Elimination.
(4) What are the problems that cause people to kill according to one of the women? a. Poverty and drugs. b. Discrimination. c. Both a and b.

2. True or False Questions.
(1)
The two speakers agree with each other on everything.
(2)
Capital punishment has not been used for ten years.
(3)
One of the speakers doubts if the person sentenced to death is really guilty.
(4)
When criminals come out of prison, they never go back to a life of crime.
(5)
Prisons are very crowded.

3. Fill in the following blanks
(1) The second speaker doesn't believe that we are sure the person convicted is really guilty because she has doubts on the
and the
today.
(2) The first speaker doesn't trust the present rehabilitation program because studies show that
.
(3) To improve the rehabilitation program, the second speaker suggests to
the programme to an
one
(4) The two reasons given by the first speaker for not keeping murderers in jail are:
  a. The jails and prisons are already
.
  b. The
have to pay to maintain
.

4. Give a list of viewpoints that Speakers A and B hold respectively.
Speaker A:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Speaker B:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

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Task 1: Capital Punishment

1. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) for each of the following questions.
(1) What causes the two women's discussion on capital punishment?

a. The execution. b. The report of a murderer. c. The function of judicial system.
(2) Why does one of the women thinks that killing a killer is not justified? a. Because the killer doesn't have to be killed. b. Because the crime is not very serious. c. Because once you're killing a killer, you become a killer as well.
(3) What, according to one of them, is more important than punishment? a. Life. b. Rehabilitation. c. Elimination.
(4) What are the problems that cause people to kill according to one of the women? a. Poverty and drugs. b. Discrimination. c. Both a and b.

2. True or False Questions.
(1)
The two speakers agree with each other on everything.
(2)
Capital punishment has not been used for ten years.
(3)
One of the speakers doubts if the person sentenced to death is really guilty.
(4)
When criminals come out of prison, they never go back to a life of crime.
(5)
Prisons are very crowded.

3. Fill in the following blanks
(1) The second speaker doesn't believe that we are sure the person convicted is really guilty because she has doubts on the
and the
today.
(2) The first speaker doesn't trust the present rehabilitation program because studies show that
.
(3) To improve the rehabilitation program, the second speaker suggests to
the programme to an
one
(4) The two reasons given by the first speaker for not keeping murderers in jail are:
  a. The jails and prisons are already
.
  b. The
have to pay to maintain
.

4. Give a list of viewpoints that Speakers A and B hold respectively.
Speaker A:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Speaker B:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.