II. The plan for rendering an article.
| The title of the article | The article is headlined … The headline of the article I have read is … |
| The author of the article; Where and when the article was published. | The author of the article is … The article is written by … It is (was) published in … It is (was) printed in … |
| The main idea of the article. | The main idea of the article is … The article is about … The article is devoted to … The article deals with … The article touches upon … The article focuses on … The article covers the problem (issue) … The purpose of the article is to give the reader some information on … The aim of the article is to provide the reader with some material (data) on … |
| The contents of the article. Some names, facts, figures. | The author starts by telling the reader (about, that) … The author writes (states, stresses, thinks, points out) that … The article describes … According to the text … Further the author reports (says) that … In conclusion … The author comes to the conclusion that … |
| Your opinion of the article | I found the article interesting (important, dull, of no value, too hard to understand) In my opinion … To my mind … I am (not) with the author when he says that … |
Article I
Russians Get ‘Gold Medal’ for Cyber Fraud
BLOOMBERG
Russian hackers get a “gold medal” for fraud, but their Chinese counterparts carried out more than half of all the cybercrimes committed last year, according to Kaspersky Lab, Russia’s largest antivirus software developer.
About 52 percent of the 73 million attacks on the World Wide Web that Kaspersky recorded last year originated in China, the Moscow-based company said in its annual report Tuesday.
“Chinese cyber criminals are capable of producing so much vicious software that in the past two years absolutely all the antivirus developers have had to deal with it,” Kaspersky said.
Chinese hackers are now the world’s best, trumping those from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia, although Russians retained the “gold medal” for fraud, Kaspersky said.
Russian hackers have mastered the mass-production of web sites that play upon users’ naivety and curiosity by offering services that purport to allow access to the e-mails and text messages of friends and family members, according to Kaspersky.
One successful scam invites users to send a free text message with a short code to receive passwords for private e-mail accounts, leading to charges on the victim’s cell phone bill, Kaspersky said.
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Task 1. Read the article and find the names of:
a) all countries mentioned in the article,
b) a Russian organization developing antivirus software.
Task 2. True or false?
c) Russian hackers get a “gold medal” for fraud.
d) About 25 percent of the 73 million attacks on the World Wide Web originated in China.
e) Chinese hackers are now the world’s worst.
f) Russian hackers have mastered the mass-production of web sites that play upon users’ naivety and curiosity.
Task 3. Choose the best alternatives to complete the statements.
a) a hacker is
i) a secret agent
ii) a secret user of other people’s computer system
iii) a hairdresser
b) a fraud is
i) a discussion
ii) a TV program
iii) the crime of deceiving people
c) a crime is
i) a crisis
ii) an illegal action that can be punished by law
iii) an institution
d) curiosity is
i) the desire to emigrate
ii) the desire to know about something
iii) the desire to sleep
Task 4. Match 1-6 to a)-f) to form partnerships from the article:
1. gold a) counterparts
2. Chinese b) company
3. Moscow-based c) hackers
4. Russian d) medal
5. successful e) text message
6. free f) scam
Task 5. Over to you. Are hackers “rewarded” well?
Task 6. Render the article according to the plan for rendering newspaper articles.
Article II
Female Discovered in Trunk of Car at U.S./Canada Border
Blaine , Wash. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made a surprising discovery at the Peace Arch port of entry on October 19, a female hiding in the trunk of an automobile.
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CBP officers of the Blaine Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team were conducting enforcement operations when they selected a 2004 Honda Civic from Virginia for examination. Upon opening the trunk they were astonished to discover the concealed 20-year-old female. All occupants were immediately removed from the vehicle and placed in handcuffs.
Even more remarkable was that the driver and the smuggled female were U.S. citizens. When questioned by officers, they both stated that they took this unusual action because they were under the erroneous notion that because she lacked a passport, the passenger would not be permitted back into the United States.
When informed of this discovery by her officers, Port Director Margaret Fearon warned, “All travelers are reminded that any smuggling of persons or contraband is a serious offense and subject to criminal and civil penalties.” In this case, the violation for driver’s failure to present all persons for inspection resulted in a mitigated monetary penalty of $500.
Article III
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