Vocabulary Exercises. How effective do you think the program is?

How effective do you think the program is?

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. What program enabled Customs to develop container examination facilities including container x-ray technology?

2. What is the goal of container examination facilities?

3. What are customs operational requirements?

4. What is an innovation in the way Customs conducts its business?

5. What did a extensive evaluation of available technology identify?

6. Why is it important to develop a suitable container transport process?

7. What Customs violations are most frequently detected?

8. What’s the purpose of limiting the physical handling of goods?

9. In what way does Customs ability to clear selected consignments more rapidly affect legitimate container traffic flow?

Explain the meaning of these words and phrases within the text

Funding allocated, increase Customs capacity, non-compliance with import and export requirements, operational options, varying degrees, viable option, close proximity to, the port environs, port/land interface, purpose-built, misreported consignments, rationalisation, non-intrusive means of verifying container contents

Find an appropriate word for each blank space in the text

1. As soon as we load a container we send a pre-alert advice to our office at the port of e….

2. In Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, a 6MeV linear accelerator is used in the x-ray s … process.

3. Customs has undertaken extensive work to assess the safe operation of the x-…

4. The x-ray i… of the container, including the analysis of the x-ray image by trained image-inspection officers, will take approximately 10-15 minutes.

5. If the image reveals that a further inspection is required, the c… will be unloaded at the facility for a detailed physical examination.

6. Selected containers will be stacked at the wharf and then transported to the container examination f…. via a shuttle service.

7. After a rapid x-ray scan and image inspection (approximately 10-15 minutes), most containers will be given immediate c…..

8. If an anomaly is d … in a container it will be detained for a more detailed physical examination.

9. US Customs relies heavily on new non-intrusive inspection t… to protect America.

10. US Customs is using powerful x-ray systems capable of e… entire trucks and containers at a time.

Complete each sentence using an appropriate form of the verb in the italics

1. The length of time to require for this examination will vary according to the type of examination to require.

2. On arrival at the facility, the container will to scan. The result of the image inspection will determine whether the container will be held for further physical examination, or if it will to return to the wharf ready for delivery.

3. There will be costs to associate with the logistics services to require to operate the shuttle service and the examination facility.

4. All containers to arrive in Australia are assessed for risk. Selections for search are made on the basis of these to assess.

5. Under the Customs Act 1901, "owners" can be charged for the cost of the examination as well as costs to incur as a result of an examination to take place, including the transportation of the goods to a Customs place for examination purposes.

6. Customs consultedextensivel y with industry to determine a to prefer transport model. This model uses a Customs-managed shuttle service between the wharf and the container examination facility

7. Because of the increases in examination capacity, Customs is locating these facilities very near to most wharves, and on to establish container-transport routes.

8. Customs in to consult with Industry has also developed a container-transport strategy aimed at to maximise industry convenience while to minimise the associated costs

9. The x-ray housing, to incorporate linear accelerator, detector array, imaging subsystem and associated electromechanical components, passes across the to contain on a rail-type system at a rate of 240mm/second.

10.. Of the containers to x-ray daily, it is expected that approximately 10 per cent of these will be selected for further physical examination.

Make up sentences using the words and word combinations below

To enable, to examine containers, to detect, to identify, to select for examination, to handle goods, to detain, to incur, large-scale fraud, to detect prohibited goods, i illicit drugs, illegal firearms,to assist in, non-compliance with, import and export requirements

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