Answer Sheet for Unit 10

Aims and Objectives

Section 1: European Institutions

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beethoven
2. 12
3. 25
4. Switzerland
5. Frankfurt
6. Brussels
7. 455 million
8. Bucharest
9. Every Member’s official language is an official language.
10. Maastricht

Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every 5 years.
2. Over 700.
3. Strasbourg
4. In political groups.
5. Foreign policy and security.

Exercise 4: Exposed Cloze

1. hold
2. plenary
3. jointly
4. censure
5. reject

Exercise 6: Exposed Cloze

1. politician
2. politics
3. political
4. policy
5. police

Exercise 8: True/False Statements

1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. TRUE
7. TRUE
8. FALSE
9. TRUE
10. FALSE

Exercise 9: Transformation

1. summit
2. issue
3. guidelines
4. attend
5. key
6. taxation
7. sensitive

Exercise 10: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every 5 years.
2. By national governments and the European Parliament.
3. Brussels
4. The European Parliament.
5. Approving new legislation.

Exercise 11: Multiple Choice Questions

1. to write a preliminary version of something
2. a formal suggestion or plan
3. to put something into effect or action
4. the Commission must explain and justify its actions to the Parliament
5. a suggestion made formally and voted on in a meeting, to express official condemnation
6. somebody who works in an official government department

Exercise 12: True/False Statements

1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

Exercise 13: Selections

1. to insure
2. courtyard
3. to undo
4. dialogue
5. critic

Exercise 14: Cloze

1. in
2. from
3. for
4. from
5. out
6. of
7. up
8. to
9. by
10. of

Exercise 15: Cloze

1. are
2. Parliament
3. Council
4. member
5. Commission
6. Courts
7. Auditors
8. regional
9. Bank
10. with

Exercise 17: Multiple Choice Questions

1. European Parliament
2. European Commission
3. The Council of the European Union.
4. Court of Justice
5. Court of Auditors.

Exercise 18: Multiple Choice Questions

1. YES
2. YES
3. NO
4. YES
5. NO
6. YES
7. YES
8. NO
9. NO

Section 2: European Legislation

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE

Exercise 2: Selections

1. optional
2. arrangement
3. direction
4. to apply
5. to ignore
6. to overlook

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because they needed to finish translating the legislative work that was already done.
2. Because everything has to be translated into all the official languages.
3. To make them easier to translate.
4. European Union terminology that ordinary people do not understand very well.
5. Some member states.

Exercise 4: Exposed Cloze

1. prove
2. on ice
3. backlog
4. at most
5. recruit

Exercise 6: Selections

1. Do you think China’s economic growth rate will start to slow down?
2. Has the acquis been translated into all the official languages yet?
3. Documents must be 15 pages at most, rather than the previous average of 37.
4. They found dozens of mistakes in the translations.
5. Their apathy was due to the fact that the document was difficult to understand.

Exercise 8: Cloze

1. shall
2. shall
3. shall
4. shall
5. shall
6. shall
7. shall
8. shall
9. shall
10. shall

Exercise 9: True/False Statements

1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

Exercise 10: Cloze

1. touch
2. amid
3. concern
4. stakeholder
5. mainstreaming
6. layperson
7. plain
8. societal

Section 3: European Projects

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Acceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon do not make comprehension difficult.
2. Unacceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon make it too difficult to understand the ideas.
3. Acceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon do not make comprehension difficult.
4. Acceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon do not make comprehension difficult.
5. Unacceptable. Mistakes and/or jargon make it too difficult to understand the ideas.

Exercise 2: Cloze

1. by
2. from
3. above
4. on
5. in
6. shall
7. than
8. order
9. such
10. also

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions

1. The content should be divided up into shorter sentences that are easier to understand.
2. The punctuation is bad.
3. It contains unnecessary subordinate clauses and is repetitive.
4. It contains too much jargon.
5. The punctuation is bad.
6. It contains unnecessary subordinate clauses, is repetitive and contains jargon.

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