GEI3 - Unit 3C - Public Opinion

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1. What is the text about?

• Corruption in China
• Amnesty International
• Execution for corruptors

2. Who has the opinion that death penalty can reduce crime?

• China's Central Comission for Discipline Inspection
• Anti-death penalty activists
• People who are in favor of death penalty

3. What fact have the United Nations' authoritative studies found?

• People are not more afraid of death penalty than of imprisonment.
• Death penalty threat discourages people to do crime.
• Imprisonment and death penalty threats have just the same effects on crime.

4. With corruptors being sentenced to death, the number of corruption acts in China has been significantly declined.

• True
• False

5. What is NOT mentioned as the source of corruption?

• Poverty
• Ambition
• Materialism

6. People are more afraid to lose their power and wealth than to lose their lives.

• True
• False

7. Which one is probably the most effective way to punish people who are involved in corruption?

• Death sentence
• Jail time with parole
• Impoverishment

8. What can be concluded from the text?

• Death sentence is not the right tool to end corruption.
• Death penalty will reduce the number of corruption acts.
• Greed and ambitions are the evil root of corruption.

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