A). Match the words

Look at the text title and complete the sentences according to their possible occurrence in the text.

There's no going back for a President …

Faced with a new US intelligence assessment…

There's a need to continue…

3 a). Form adjectives from these verbs:

administrate		supervise
exaggerate		worry
insist		continue
warn		welcome

3 b). Fill in the gaps with the help of expressions above:

1) The campaign’s confidence may turn out to be justified, but two weeks prior to the national convention there are more than a few ________________ signs for Obama.

2) Now, nearly 20 years later, the questions have not gone away, but have rather become more_______________.

3) Bulletins communicate information of interest to the nation’s critical infrastructures that do not meet the timeliness, specificity, or significance thresholds of ______________ messages.

4) Whether these were intended to be lifelike or______________, even idealistic, is unclear.

5) After 25 years of buying and _____________ a great variety of businesses, I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems.

6) _____________ monitoring is the process and technology used to detect compliance and risk issues associated with an organizations financial and operational environment.

7) With a strange ____________ of the familiar I saw also Cesar amongst them, and recognised Dominic's old, well-known, effective gesture, the horizontal sweep of his powerful arm.

1) shrugged off	Iran's nuclear threat
2) exaggerate	nuclear weapons program
3) poses	a danger to the world
4) halted	the spectre of
5) is backed	a nuclear holocaust
6) raised	rhetoric
7) warned of	claims
8) strident	nuclear weapons
9) covert	by some of America's allies
10) a damage control	ambiguities
11) clarify	nuclear capacity
12) despite	media conference
13) defuse	efforts
14) acquire	new American intelligence
15) concerted	the current crisis

4 b). Fill in the gaps with the help of the elements or whole expressions given above:

1) A British diet expert _____________ _____ __________ that too much of the sugary snack can be bad for babies.

2) Do you think Muslims in office ______________ to the US political system?

3) "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran ____________its ___________ ____________ ________," reads a declassified version of the National Intelligence.

4) Solana is expected to hold talks with Larijani this week to _______________ ______________ in Iran's response to an incentive package offered by the United States

5) Given the polarizing impact of this book, I was expecting a lot of __________________ ___________________ and distorted analysis. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to find a calm and careful essay on the subject.

The Polish government on Monday tried to ________________ _____________ on the country's eastern EU border, where truckers blocked the customs demanding to let them out of the country

5.Translate the sentences:

The national intelligence estimate has taken America's friends and foes by surprise.
The intelligence report could cripple the drive for a fresh round of UN sanctions against Iran.
President Bush phoned Vladimir Putin to make the case that now is not the time to back off.

6. Object to the statements replying with the words: Quite the contrary.

1) Iran halted uranium enrichment.

2) The British government is trying to withdraw.

3) US President is backed by the international community.

7. The word holocaust / Holocaust has the following synonyms: destruction, extermination, genocide, sacrifice which of them is the synonym to Holocaust written with the capital letter?

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