60. Make up your own sentences in Ukrainian, using your active vocabulary, and let your classmates interpret them.

61. Read and translate the text, paying special attention to the underlined words and expressions:

The Sunni Backlash

After holding their fire during the national elections, Iraqi insurgents un­leashed a volley of car bombings, shootings and kid­nappings across the country last week, leaving U.S. officials with the distinct impression that Sunni political leaders can turn the violence on and off at will. Abu Abdullah al-Anbari, a field commander of insurgents, told Time that he had been given orders by unnamed superiors not to attack Iraqis during the four days surrounding the Dec. 15 balloting to allow the vote to go forward. The goal, he said, was to get Sunnis to the polls in order to “create a balance between political powers.” But after seeing the preliminary results – by most accounts, a strong showing for the Shiite religious parties – his view has changed. Now he sees the election, which Sunnis have claimed was marred by widespread fraud and should be rerun, as “a trap”. Al-Anbari says his group’s attacks will continue, and he is helping to bring together different insurgent groups on a pro­vincial level.

As local election monitors and a newly deployed inter­national commission finish certifying election results, it’s becoming clear that the biggest losers are Iraq’s moderates. “There is almost no one in the middle,” says an Iraqi official, citing how the seats seem to be going to sectarian extremists on both sides. Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s secular Shiite party hasn’t so far got the number it was expecting. And according to the pre­liminary results, the secular list of Shiite Ahmad Chalabi, one of Washington’s favorite lobbyists for the war to over­throw Saddam, didn’t get enough votes for one seat. So even as Shiite and Kurdish leaders are meeting to discuss forming a broadly representative government, the lack of a significant moderate voting bloc means there will probably be less will to make deals and compromise. Says the Iraqi official: “What is the next step? It is confrontation”.

62. Find Ukrainian equivalents to the following words and expressions from the text:

to hold one’s fire, insurgent, field commander, superior, preliminary result, fraud, monitor, to deploy, moderate, sectarian extremist

63. Translate the following sentences into English, using your active vocabulary:

1) Як повідомляє агенція Рейтерс, Ізраїльські війська на один день припинили вогонь у Лівані. 2) Російські спецслужби запевняють, що їм вдалося знищити ще одного чеченського польового командира. 3) Попередні результати виборів стануть відомі вже ввечері. 4) Спостерігачі від ЄС вважають, що останні вибори в Україні були демократичними. 5) Світова спільнота була шокована, коли виявилося, що помірний політичний курс не має достатньої підтримки в населення Австрії. 6) Повстанці ІРА продовжують влаштовувати теракти. 7) В Україні військовослужбовець має виконувати будь-який наказ вищого офіцера без жодних вагань. 8) Більш ніж 65% росіян вважають можливою фальсифікацію найближчих виборів. 9) Поляки проти того, щоб США розміщували свої ракети на їх території. 10) Релігійні фанатики майже ніколи не з’являються в розвинених країнах з високим рівнем життя.