Варіант 2 » Test 9 (2)

2. Read the text and complete it with the choices (a—g). There are two extra choices you don't need to use. The state system of any country is (A) a work of many centuries. As for the United .Kingdom, it is a combination of a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch as the head of the state. Government agencies of the UK include the monarchy, legislative, executive and judicial bodies. The monarch inherits the throne. The Queen symbolises the supreme power. Traditionally, she never acts (F) without the advice of her ministers. The highest legislative body of the United Kingdom is Parliament. It consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The lowest chamber, the House of Commons, is an elected and (G) sit in the House of Lords. It has 651 elected Members of Parliament, known as MPs. They are elected at genercfr elections. The House of Lords, or the upper chamber is a partly hereditary one. The .number of its members is not the same. On the whole, the following members can (E) win elections: two archbishops and 24 most senior bishops, hereditary peers, law lords, and life peers. It is the duty of the monarch to appoint all bishops formally and he or she also entitles peers on the advice of the Prime Minister. The Lord Chancellor presides over the House of Lords. He or she is (D) the chairman of the House and if the House of Lords sits as a law court, represents a member of the government and heads it.