2015-08-21
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| covert tests, full body scanners, sterile areas, security, TSA, x-rays, security checkpoints, backscatter technology |
1. They said the _________they use are low energy to ensure they bounce only off skin rather than passing through the body, to produce an image focused on objects concealed beneath clothes.
2. _________take advantage of the fact that at certain wavelengths, electromagnetic waves can pass through clothes but not through the skin, metal or substances such as drugs and explosives.
3. The US _________admits that the scanners have the ability to store and print images.
4. _________of the Transportation Security Administration's screeners and equipment were conducted at hundreds of airports across the country from July to November 2003.
5. According to the report, most failures found at________were due to a lack of recurrent training for screeners.
6. Our goal is to consistently improve _________, and each day we're building on the already strong system of security we've got in place.
7. __________ displays both organic and inorganic materials hidden on a person's body.
8. "Improvements are needed in the screening process to ensure that dangerous prohibited items are not being carried into the _________of heavily used airports or do not enter the checked baggage system," the report states.
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Exercise 8. Write the correct form of the word in brackets and complete the sentences.
1. As such, airport security serves several purposes: to protect the airport from attacks and crime and to protect the aircraft from attack, and to reassure the (travel) public that they are safe.
2. A recent development is the (controversy) use of full body scanners to detect hidden weapons and explosives on passengers.
3. There are misunderstandings about how x-ray backscatter personnel scanners function, but they do use (ionize) radiation and the x-rays emitted from them penetrate skin as well as clothing.
4. A (technology) released in Israel in early 2008 allows passengers to pass through metal detectors without removing their shoes.
5. In the United States non-passengers were once allowed on the concourses to meet (arrive) friends or relatives at their gates, but this is greatly restricted now in the United States.
