Quarter 1 Review

Units 1 – 10

Ethics, Law, and the Extremes of Human Behaviour

Consolidate the Controversy.

You have navigated the toughest ethical debates of the modern world. Before we move on to the next ten topics, you must prove you can accurately wield the advanced vocabulary and grammatical structures of high-stakes arguments.

Section 1: The Vocabulary of Extremes

Drag the correct terms from Units 1-10 into the statements below.

terminal
taboo
exploitation
snoop
eugenics
exonerate
surrogate
relapse

U1 (Death): The doctor informed the family that the cancer was and no further treatment would help.

U2 (Swearing): Discussing money and death at the dinner table is still considered in many cultures.

U3 (Sex Work): Opponents of decriminalisation argue the industry is built entirely on the of vulnerable people.

U4 (Cheating): It is a massive breach of trust to through your partner's text messages while they sleep.

U6 (Genetics): Selecting embryos for height and eye colour draws terrifying comparisons to the history of .

U7 (Death Penalty): The new DNA evidence was enough to completely the man after 20 years in prison.

U8 (Family): Because they couldn't conceive naturally, the couple hired a to carry the baby.

U10 (Drugs): Without proper therapy and support, an addict is almost guaranteed to after leaving rehab.

[IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: Q1 Symbolic Collage]

Designer Prompt: A gritty, high-contrast 1990s pop-art collage featuring stark, symbolic objects: a wooden judge's gavel, a glowing smartphone, a medical syringe, and a set of iron prison bars. The composition is tense and fragmented. Deep blacks, stark whites, and harsh crimson red accents. Absolutely no human figures, hands, or faces are present. Clean, striking, provocative image.

Section 2: The Grammar Gauntlet

Test your mastery of the advanced structures needed to debate these topics.

1. Modals of Past Criticism (Unit 4 - Cheating)

How do you criticise someone for a bad decision they made yesterday?

2. Passive Infinitives (Unit 5 - Juvenile Justice)

Which sentence correctly uses the passive infinitive to describe a court demand?

3. Mixed Conditionals (Unit 7 - Death Penalty)

How do you explain that a past mistake is affecting the present reality?

4. Clauses of Concession (Unit 8 - Redefining Family)

Which grammar structure correctly acknowledges a contrasting fact?

5. Causative Verbs (Unit 9 - Body Modification)

How do you say you paid a surgeon to change your appearance?

6. Inversion for Emphasis (Unit 10 - War on Drugs)

How do you make this statement dramatically inverted? "The cartel not only sells drugs..."

Section 3: Heavy Idioms

Type the missing words to complete these conversational phrases.

1. Deciding who gets to live or die is essentially playing .

2. Seizing one drug shipment is meaningless; it's just a drop in the .