READING WITH EXERCISES

White supremacist sentenced to 40 years

1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the headline and guess whether these sentences are true or false:

1. Someone is going to spend forty years in prison.  T / F
2. The person in the headline hates white people.  T / F
3. The person in the headline is the head of a church.  T / F
4. The person in the headline had very expensive lawyers defending him.  T / F
5. The person only recently joined a white supremacy group.  T / F
6. In 1999 the person shot eleven people.  T / F
7. The person in the headline is a strong supporter of multiculturalism.  T / F
8. The person thinks the white race is nature’s finest achievement.  T / F

2.BNE: A 33-year-old American man has been sentenced to forty years in prison for trying to organize the murder of a US federal judge. Matthew Hale was convicted because he asked an undercover FBI agent to murder judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow. Hale was angry after Lefkow ordered him to stop using the World Church of the Creator name for his white supremacy group as she said it was trademarked by another church. Prosecutors said his crime amounted to an act of terrorism. He was described in court as “extremely dangerous” and his crime “extremely egregious”. Hale, who has a law degree, defended himself in the case and protested his innocence, saying he had committed no crime.

Hale has a long history as a white supremacist. He founded the American White Supremacist Party, which was dissolved, and tried to open a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), but failed. He then joined the Church of the Creator. In 1999 he hailed the shooting of eleven people by a Creator member. All victims were Black, Jewish or Asian and two died. Hale says his church “is a racial religion whose prime goal is the survival, expansion and advancement of the white race”. He considers non-white people – he includes Jews here - to be inferior because “they have smaller, less developed brains”. He deems multiculturalism to be “a heinous crime against nature” and the white race to be “nature’s finest achievement”.

3. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

(a)	sentenced	heinous
(b)	organize	started
(c)	amounted to	arrange
(d)	supremacy	top
(e)	egregious	disbanded
(f)	founded	punished
(g)	dissolved	egregious
(h)	hailed	domination
(i)	prime	applauded
(j)	heinous	equaled

4. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

(a)	sentenced	amounted to an act of terrorism
(b)	a US federal	brains
(c)	undercover	judge
(d)	his crime	degree
(e)	protested	goal
(f)	law	FBI agent
(g)	white	crime
(h)	prime	his innocence
(i)	less developed	to forty years
(j)	a heinous	supremacist