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BUSYBODIES

1. A busybody is a person who minds other peoples business, who has too much interest in other

peoples lives. From what you have seen or heard of the American people, do you think they are

busybodies or do you think that they basically respect other peoples privacy?

2. What rihts does an employer or the overnment have in determinin what a person can or cannot do?

!ook at the followin sentences and try to come to a consensus for each one. "e prepared to e#plain

your answers.

a. A company sometimes has the riht to tell its employees what they can do, or how they

should live on their own time.

b. $#pression of ideas which are intolerant of others can be repressed for the ood of the society.

c. %t is reasonable not to buy the products of a company because of the political views of the owners.d. &he overnment has the riht to limit or control personal behavior if it affects the environment.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

Circle the synonym or definition for each of the italicized words in the sentences below. Use the context to

guess the meaning. DO NOT USE DCTON!"ES.

1. &he 'nited (tates is also the home of dedicated neo)*uritans, humorlessly imposin on others arbitrary

standards of behavior, health and thouht.

a. very harsh or strict

b. determined by personal opinion, not fact

c. leal

2. +ivil libertarians concedethat companies have a riht, not to mention, a moral obliation to

shareholders, to protect themselves from ruinous medical bills.

a. stronly disaree denyb. reluctantly aree admit

c. hope

-. %f society reuires corporation to pay for most of workers health)care costs, society cannot ob/ect if

those companies intrudeon employees lifestyles.

a. o where one is not wanted, without invitation

b. like stronly favor

c. are not interested in

0. ow can a company demand that an employee refrainfrom smokin away from work?

a. allow oneself to

b. repeatc. keep oneself from

. 3ost Americans appear to endorsethe view that the only thin that should be considered is /ob

performance.

a. approve support

b. critici4e denyc. motivate push

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5. 6ne useless and unenforceable reulation is the one that barsflu sufferers from oin out in public.

a. punishes

b. places where people drink

c. prohibits

7. &he Wall (treet 8ournal reported last week that a woman was arrested, handcuffed and forced to spend

si# hours in /ail on $aster (unday. &he woman, who had no previous police record, was apprehended

pickin flowers from an office park for her randmothers rave.

a. arrested sei4ed

b. seen discovered

c. worried about

9. &heir efforts have received a reat deal of publicity but they remain, in many cases, undaunted.

a. afraid

b. unknownc. not discouraed

:. ;oure talkin about somethin a person did, somethin he certainly had a riht to do and somethin that

a public institution should certainly not penalizepeople for.

a. award

b. punish

c. inore

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