Module 6 Reading. Tips & Practice

🔑 Tips for Every Exercise: Crimes & Punishment

Task 1: Multiple Choice Cloze (Register & Collocation)

• Construed vs. Regarded: In Question 1, construed is used when we are talking about an interpretation of a concept (like "justice").

• Consigned: In Question 7, rehabilitative efforts are consigned to the periphery. This implies being sent to a place of insignificance or oblivion—perfect for C2 legal texts.

  
  

Task 2: Long Reading (Inference & Tone)

• Deciphering the "Bandage" Metaphor: Arthur's critique of "re-entry programs" is that they are superficial. They try to fix the person (the bandage) without changing the brutal system (the blades) that breaks them in the first place.

• Tracking Character Logic: When Sarah calls prisons "warehouses of human obsolescence," she is arguing that society simply stores people away instead of treating them as valuable humans.

  
  

Task 3: Open Cloze (High-Level Inversions)

This is the most "Proficiency-heavy" part of the exam.

• Gap 2: No sooner. This triggers an inversion: "No sooner had the legislation been...".

• Gap 4: Were. [Inverted Second Conditional] Instead of "If the jury were to find...", we say "Were the jury to find...".

• Gap 7: On no account. This is a fixed negative inversion used to express strong prohibition. "On no account should the rights...".

• Gap 8: Such. Used for emphasis: "Such was the gravity..." means "The gravity was so great...".

  
  

Task 4: Headings (Academic Synthesis)

• Paragraph C (ii): Indigenous ontology. This matches the text about "Restorative Justice" and healing models derived from non-Western belief systems.

• Paragraph D (vii): Digital Panopticon. This heading refers to the use of AI, data, and surveillance in justice, named after Jeremy Bentham’s prison design where everyone is watched.