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        2) Who was killed in a bomb explosion?                                  2. PARIS, (UPI) – Police and fire department officials sought the
        a. Catholic                                                       cause of today’s chain of three explosions in a fashionable residential
        b Protestant                                                      area which left five dead and more than 40 injured.
        c. two Northern Irish Protestants                                       Subject: Predicate:
                                                                                   The story is about:
        3) When did the bomb explosion happen?
                                                                                   a, an attempt to find the cause of three explosions
        a. during the cease fire
                                                                                   b. the deaths of five people.
        b. before the cease-fire agreement
                                                                                   c. a problem between Paris police and the fire department.
        c. after the cease-fire was broken
                                                                                 3. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alger Hiss, the former State De-
        4) What did Michelle Williamson whose parents were killed
                                                                          partment official who was convicted of perjury 28 years ago in one of
want?
                                                                          the most controversial trials in American history, has filed a court suit
        a. to halt the release of the IRA prisoners
                                                                          in an effort to clear his name.
        b. to review the peace accord
                                                                                 Subject: Predicate:
        c. to get money
                                                                                   The story is about:
      5) What was the decision of the judge?                                       a. the filing of a court suit.
      a. the IRA had nothing to do with the explosion                              b. a controversial trial.
      b. the IRA had violated the cease-fire                                       c. the conviction of Alger Hiss.
      c. Michelle Williamson had the right to challenge the decision of
the court                                                                      4. BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Gerhard Schroder’s ruling Social
                                                                          Democrats suffered their worst regional election defeat since the Sec-
       EXERCISE 3. Find the subject and the predicate in each of          ond World War in Germany’s eastern state of Saxony.
the following sentences and answer the questions. Note that the                Subject: Predicate:
first verb in these examples is not a predicate. The first one has                 The story is about:
been done for you.                                                                 a. Gerhard Schroder who is ruling German Social Democratic
      1. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Five Muslim fundamentalists convicted        Party.
of the assassination of President Anwar Sadat were executed early                  b. the defeat of Social Democrats.
Thursday, hours after a clemency plea was rejected by Hosni Mubarak,               c. a political crisis in Germany.
Sadat’s successor.
      Subject: fundamentalists Predicate: were executed                          5. MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian business «oligarch» invited
                                                                          to testify to the US Congress on an alleged money laundering scandal
        The story is about:
                                                                          has insisted that reports of $10bn being laundered through accounts in
        a. the execution of five assassins.
                                                                          the Bank of New York were exaggerated.
        b. the conviction of five assassins.
                                                                                 Subject: Predicate:
        c. the replacement of Anwar Sadat by Hosni Mubarak.
                                                                                   1) This is a story about:
                                                                                   a. allegations of the Bank of New York.
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