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Bush denies Iran nuclear threat exaggerated
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a) What are the details of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program What do the letters IAE and NIE stand for?
b) Comment on the cartoon above. Why is the cartoon titled “Mad Hatters”? What ideas are embodied in different parts of the drawing?
Look at the text title and complete the sentences trying to guess what endings they might have in the text
There's no going back for a President …
Faced with a new US intelligence assessment…
There's a need to continue ….
4.3 a). Form adjectives from these verbs:
| administrate | supervise | ||
| exaggerate | worry | ||
| insist | continue | ||
| warn | welcome |
4.3 b). Fill in the gaps with the help of expressions above:
- The political ___________ of these territories into India was a declared objective of the Indian National Congress, which the Government of India pursued over the next decade.
- 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.
- Now, nearly 20 years later, the questions have not gone away, but have rather become more_______________ .
- Bulletins communicate information of interest to the nation’s critical infrastructures that do not meet the timeliness, specificity, or significance thresholds of ______________ messages.
- Whether they were intended to be lifelike or______________ , even idealistic, is unclear.
- After 25 years of buying and _____________ a great variety of businesses, I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems.
- _____________ monitoring is the process and technology used to detect compliance and risk issues associated with an organizations financial and operational environment.
- 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.
A). Match the words
| 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 |
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