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Unit 5 Test
Written Comprehension
1 Read the articles below about some unusual punishments. Which post, A, B, C or D,
refers to ... ? (7 x 2 = 14 points)
1 a person who committed a driving offence ..........
2 a punishment that involved food ..........
3 a punishment that was intended to make the offender feel the pain of the victims ..........
4 offenders having to endure something opposite to their personal taste ..........
5 a judge who believes in punishment as a type of revenge ..........
6 a service that wasn’t paid for ..........
7 the punishment being carried out at the crime scene ..........
Creative Justice – or Making the Punishment Fit the Crime!
Believe it or not, some judges are known for their creative justice when they hand out punishments that really fit the crime. Read a
A You’re Sentenced to Classical Music C Three Choices
Judge Paul Sacco of Fort Lupton, Colorado, has an Jacob, the five-year-old son of a traffic violato
interesting punishment for people, usually probably never forget the day Judge Frank C
teenagers, who break environmental laws about asked him to help rule on a decision about hi
noise by blasting their music on car stereos and at father, the owner of a pizza restaurant. His fa
parties. He forces them to sit and listen to music at received a parking ticket after he had illegally
full volume for an entire evening. Since the parked his vehicle to make a quick delivery. J
offenders usually listen to hip hop or rock, the judge was given three options – for his father to pay
tries to make their punishment as distressing as $90 fine, a $30 fine or to have the ticket dism
possible, with music such as classical music and entirely. After a few moments of deliberation,
children’s TV theme songs. The guiding principle in young boy decided to choose the $30 fine. Ju
Judge Sacco’s courtroom is an eye for an eye. Or Caprio was impressed with Jacob’s comprom
rather, an ear for an ear! decision and came up with another creative
solution – he would cancel the ticket provided
B Take a Walk!
Jacob’s father would treat him to a big breakf
When 19-year-old Victoria Bascom from celebrate his wise decision.
Ohio refused to pay a cab driver a $100 fare, she
D A Night in the Woods
went into court expecting to pay a fine. To her
astonishment, she was given the choice of 60 days Why would a woman spend an entire winter n
of prison time or walking the same distance that the the woods without water, food or light? Well, t
cabbie had driven – 30 miles – in addition to paying was one more of Judge Michael Cicconetti’s
the fine. She was also put on probation for four creative judgements in which he tries to make
months. Judge Michael Cicconetti’s explanation for defendants think about their crimes and the e
his decision was that by giving Bascom a choice of on their victims. Michelle Murray was convicte
punishments, she could determine her own abandoning 35 kittens in a local park in the m
outcome. This would ultimately force her to be more of winter. Nine of them later died. “How would
aware of the crime she had committed and make it like to be dumped off at a metro park late at n
unlikely that she would commit another offence. By the judge asked her. Cicconetti gave Murray
the way, she chose to walk. choice between 90 days in jail for animal
abandonment or a $500 donation to the park
she had abandoned the kittens and one night
in the woods without food and wearing only th
clothes on her back. She chose the latter.
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Unit 5 Test
2 Complete the sentences. (3 x 2 = 6 points)
1 Children’s TV theme songs and classical music are examples of ....................................................................................
...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .
2 Victoria didn’t imagine that .................................................................................................................................................................................
...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .
3 Judge Cicconetti chose the woods as a punishment because ................................................................................................
...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .
3 Find words or expressions in the text that mean: (5 x 2 = 10 points)
1 unpleasant (Text A) ...................................................
2 ending (Text B) ...................................................
3 cancelled (Text C) ...................................................
4 serious thought (Text C) ...................................................
5 abandoned (Text D) ...................................................
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