a. the combination of high inflation and economic decline b. high unemployment in spite of high levels of production
c. a decrease in the rates of inflation
d. inflation in an overactive economy
11. It is said in the text that the economic crisis of the mid-1980's ........................ .
a. followed the same pattern as earlier economic crisis
b. had little effect on the industry of developed countries
c. caused people to lose faith in economics d. caused the economy to be overactive
12. The main idea stressed in the passage is ........................ .
a. the growing unpopularity of economics as a science
b. the relationship between unemployment and recession
c. the industrial decline of US and some Western countries
d. the unusual nature and the extensive effects of the economic crisis of the 1980's Political crime is different from everyday crime only in the motivation of the offender. A bank
robbery, a theft, drug smuggling, kidnapping, or murder is no more a crime for being politically
motivated. In this perspective, terrorism is defined as ''aggravated aggression for political ends'';
this differentiates terrorism both from vandalism and from crimes of violence in which no
political motivation is detected. Political crime is therefore a wider term than terrorism, which
is an acute form of it. The connection between the two is as between the whole and the part.
13. It is argued in the passage that ........................ .
a. terrorism rarely stems from political considerations
b. a bank robbery cannot be politically motivated
c. vandalism and political crime are one and the same thing
d. a crime is still a crime even though it may be politically motivated 14. The writer argues that a crime is political ................. .
a. so long as it is committed against politicians
b. if it is related to vandalism
c. if violence is involved
