TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a claim and a perspective. You should determine whether that perspective supports or undermines the claim. If the perspective could possibly convince someone with different view, it is supporting, otherwise it is undermining.
PROBLEM: claim: Children should do part time and summer work.
 perspective: a good option for an un-academic child

SOLUTION: support

PROBLEM: claim: Housewives should be paid for their work.
 perspective: Paid housewives have a better economic power

SOLUTION: support

PROBLEM: claim: Long term cooperation between Russia and the United States is possible.
 perspective: The conflicts between the economic interests of the two countries are an obstacle to long term cooperation between the two countries.

SOLUTION:
undermine