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2.Answer the questions:

1) How is the US President elected?

2) Where is the residence of the US President?

3) Is the US President exempt from income tax?

4) What are the US President's functions as head of the Executive Branch?

5) In what case may the US President be removed from office before the expiration of his term of office?

6) What are the US supreme legislative and executive bodies?

7) How many American Presidents were impeached?

8) What do you know about Watergate affair?

9) How many Departments are there in the US Government?

10) What are the subdivisions of the Treasury Department?

11)What Department is in control of the Army, Navy and Air Force?

12)In what way was the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reorganized? When did the reform take place?

13)Under whose jurisdiction is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)?

14)What is the US Federal Government structure?

15)What is the structure of the US Congress?

3. Look up the following words and word combinations in the Vocabulary; find the sentences where they are used:

national election, to elect, to reelect, elected, native-born citizen, income tax, tax-free, to collect taxes, to provide, (official) entertainment, extensive, head, executive, legislative, to be enacted into, veto, to sign a bill, to pass a bill, bill of impeachment, to overrule, to assign duties, to resign, disabled, to assume the office, sitting president, to acquit, to center, contribution, foreign relations, to issue bills/passports/reports/patents, to handle dealings, to mint coins, peaceful, to print paper money, officials, dignitaries, legal matter, to move against, violator, natural resources, to enforce a law, safety, welfare, tribe, supply, to conduct scientific studies, to lend money, to be concerned, non farm workers, minimum wages, mediation and conciliation service, domestic commerce, trade, mining, manufacturing, branch, new inventions, to meet high standards, to report on weather conditions, to administer, on a federal level, aid-to-education programs, low-income, large-scale, to foster, establishment, energy conservation, nuclear weapons.

4. Fill in the blanks with articles if needed:

... President recommends ... programs and ... laws to ... Congress and requests ... money for federal government ... operations. If ... President "vetoes" or refuses to sign ... bill passed by ... Congress, his veto may be overruled by ... two-thirds vote of... both houses of... Congress.

... Trial in ... Senate, with ... Chief Justice of... United States acting as ... judge and ... Senators as ... jury, follows. Only ... one American President has ever been impeached.

... Secretary of... Defense is assisted by ... Secretaries of ... Army, ... Navy and ... Air Force.

... Department of... Interior protects and develops ... nation's natural resources and manages ... national parks. It also enforces ... federal hunting and fishing laws, checks on ... safety of ... mines and is responsible for ... welfare of... Indian tribes.

... Department of... Commerce helps develop ... domestic commerce as well as ... trade with .., other countries, particularly in ... mining, ... manu­facturing and ... transportation industries.

... Department of ... Energy, created in 1977 to address ... nation's growing energy problems, consolidated ... major federal energy functions into ... single department.

5. Fill in the blanks with prepositions if needed:

... the U.S. Constitution a sitting President may be removed ... office ... his term expires only ... an impeachment process that begins... the House ... Representatives.

1974 saw an equally historic confrontation arising ... the "Watergate" affair, which centered ... illegal campaign contributions and involved top-level administration officials.

The Department ... State, headed ... the Secretary ... State, advises ... the President ... foreign relations.

The Department... Defense is responsible ... the nation's security.

The Department ... Agriculture looks ... the interests ... fanners and issues reports ... the supply and prices ... farm products, conducts ... scientific studies ... agriculture and lends ... money to build ... rural electric systems.

6. Explain the use of the modal verbs in the following sentences:

The President of the United States is chosen in a national election for a four-year term of office, and may be re-elected for a second term. He must be a native-born citizen at least 35 years old. Like every US citizen he must pay income tax on his salary and on the extra money he has earned.

As head of the Executive Branch, the President must carry out the gov­ernment programs enacted into law by Congress.

President's veto may be overruled by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress.

Before a trial could take place, however, President Nixon resigned his office.