Donald Rumesfeld reading and writing fill in blanks 15
Below is a text with blanks. For an each blank, there is a list of choices. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
1.) A newly declassified document gives a fascinating ………………………… into the US military’s plans for “information operations”. The declassified document is called “information Operations Roadmap.” It was ……………………… by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. The operations described in the ………………………….. include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who ……………………. to destroy enemy networks.
| A) Eye
Glimpse Eyeball Squint |
B) Wore
Save Invade Gain Obtain |
C) Script
Token Document Form |
D) Chase
Comb Fan Seek |
Answer :-
A) glimpse B) obtain C) document D) seek
2.) On Sept. 10 [2001], Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not an foreign terrorists, “the adversary’s closer to home. It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy.” He said money wasted by the military poses a serious …………………….. Rumsfeld promised change but the next day Sept. 11 the world changed and in the rush to……………….. the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been …………………. Just last week President Bush announced, “my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending.” More money for the Pentagon while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it………………………
| A) Threat
Blackmail Bluff Fix |
B) Wore
Store Trust Fund |
C) Erased
Forgotten Past Gone |
D) Applies
Settles Spends Employs |
Answer :-
A) threat B) fund C) forgotten D) spends
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