Task B, US Spy Leaker Missing in HK, Reference Word Gap Fill
Complete each sentence by filling the gaps with appropriate reference words (listed below). _____________________________________________________________________________
these things this capability the data the territory this action The metadata the claims the case
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When you have finished the exercise, read the entire article and analyze how the writer achieves cohesion and coherence by using the strategy/strategies you have learned in this lesson:
An ex-CIA employee who leaked details of US top-secret phone and internet surveillance has disappeared from his hotel in Hong Kong. A spokesman for the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence said ___________ ___________ had been referred to the Department of Justice as a criminal matter.
Hong Kong - a Chinese territory - has an extradition treaty with the US, although analysts say any attempts to bring Mr. Snowden to America may take months and could be blocked by Beijing. Mr. Snowden is believed to have arrived in Hong Kong on 20 May. A standard visa on arrival in ___________ ___________ for a US citizen lasts for 90 days.
His revelations have caused transatlantic political fallout, amid allegations that the UK's electronic surveillance agency, GCHQ, used the US system to snoop on British citizens.Foreign Secretary William Hague cancelled a trip to Washington to address the UK parliament on Monday and deny ___________ ___________.
He told the newspaper: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With __________ ___________, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting.
"If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. "I don't want to live in a society that does ____________ sort of ____________. I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded." (Type 2 words in the box below.)
An ex-CIA employee...leaked details of US top-secret phone and internet surveillance...."If accurate, ____________ ____________ represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm," the statement said.
Prism is said to give the NSA and FBI access to emails, web chats and other communications (data) directly from the servers of major US internet companies. ___________ __________ is used to track foreign nationals suspected of terrorism or spying.
The first of the leaks came out on Wednesday night, when the Guardian reported a US secret court ordered phone company Verizon to hand over to the NSA millions of records on telephone call "metadata". ____________ ___________ include the numbers of both phones on a call, its duration, time, date and location (for mobiles, determined by which mobile signal towers relayed the call or text).