Candidate coalition constituency general election

Candidate coalition constituency general election hung parliament majority
political party support vote vote
If you are over 18 and on the Electoral Register, a polling card will be sent to your home before the
date of the
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_ general_ _election _. Your polling card will tell you where you can
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_ vote _ . Once at the
polling station, you will receive a ballot paper with a list of 3 _ candiates _ representing your
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_ constituency __ , together with an indication of their
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_ political party _. You then cast your vote,
marking the party you 6 _ support _ on the ballot paper, and when the voting is complete, all votes will
be counted and the party with the 7 _ majority _ of votes may form a government. When none of the
parties gets enough 8 _ votes _ in the election to gain an outright majority, a 9 hung parliament _ occurs
and the parties have to form a 10
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4 Complete the sentences with appropriate words to form compound nouns.
1 Local police forces are strengthening security in preparation for possible civil _ _ during the
elections.
2 The country is currently unstable, with several paramilitay _
3 It is hoped that the guerillas will give up their armed _ _ and negotiate with the goverment
through diplomacy rather than violence.
4 The Israeli peace _ _ was announced on 6th of April 2011 and signed by many leading
politicitans.
5 In the1960s, civil _ _ activists in the United States used non-violent protests to end the
separation of different racial groups.
Mark __/5
Photocopiable © Oxford University Press Upper-Intermediate Progress tests Unit 4

Progress Test Unit 4 Test A
5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below.
Capitalist extreme liberal patriot religion
1 __ Liberalism _ and 2 _ capitalism __ are products of roughly the same period of history: the late 18th
and early 19th centuries.
Someone who feels a strong support for his or her country ís 3 _ patriotic _ .
She was a frequent church-goer and was considered very 4 _ religious __.
A so-far unknown group of 5 _ extremists _ claimed responsibility for the bombing.
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Use of English
6 Complete the sentences with the missing words. Use modal verbs or form compound nouns
or adjectives.