Supply the correct form of the verbs given in brackets. Huge Hunt for Missile SmugglersA. Huge Hunt for Missile Smugglers This week’s Heathrow security alert was sparked by high-quality intelligence that Islamist extremists with links to Al Qaeda have smuggled portable Sam-7 anti-aircraft missiles into Britain from Europe. The intelligence, which (1) _______________ (to understand) (2) _______________ (to receive) at the weekend, sent shudders through anti-terrorist investigators. They (3) _______________ (not to receive) such specific and credible information of an imminent threat since the September 11 atrocities. Police and the intelligence agencies regularly hear “background noise” (4) _______________ (to point) to possible attacks on the UK. But investigators insisted yesterday that the Heathrow warning (5) _______________ (to be) of quite a different order and that the response to it (6) _____________________ (modal verb/be) quick and uncompromising. A surveillance operation (7) _______________ (to launch) and anti-terrorist investigators are hopeful of making arrests in the coming days. The police and MI5 believe there are about 40 Islamist extremists (8) _______________ (to base) in Britain who (9) _______________ (to link) to Al Qaeda, some of whom (10) _______________ (to monitor) for months due to concerns they (11) _______________________(modal verb/instruct) to carry out a terrorist strike. In a briefing yesterday, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir John Stevens, hinted that Heathrow (12) _______________ (not to be) the only target in London, but refused (13) _______________ (to draw) on which other buildings in the capital (14) _______________ (modal verb/be) under threat. He also confirmed that closing Heathrow (15) _______________ (to consider). There was also the possibility of troops (16) _______________ (to draft) into the capital, he said, but this (17) _______________ (not to be) imminent. However, Whitehall sources also said there almost certainly (18) _______________ (to be) more high-profile security operations (19) _______________ (to involve) the army as well as armed police. (From ‘The Guardian’ February 13, 2003, abridged)
B. Brazilian Gangs Step up Attacks on Police Police in Brazil’s largest and wealthiest city, Sao Paulo, came under attack for the fifth day running yesterday in what officials believe to be a planned assault by a ruthless gang. More than 25 police stations, as well as patrol cars and the home of an officer, (1) _______________ (to shoot) at since Sunday. The gang (2) _______________ (to terrorise) Sao Paulo and its outlying areas is known as the First Command of the Capital, or PCC by its Portuguese acronym. Two police officers (3) _______________ (to kill) and at least 12 (4) _______________ (to wound) since Sunday. Officials believe the attacks (5) ____________________ (modal verb/order) by the PCC’s high command in jail. Another police officer (6) __________________ (to shoot and kill) on Wednesday night in the town of Praia Grande, about an hour’s drive from Sao Paulo, but a police spokeswoman said that killing (7) _______________ (not to think) (8) _______________ (to link) to the gang. Officials said the outbreak of violence (9) _________________ (modal verb/relate) to a request by the PCC for better living conditions at the high security prison. It (10) _______________ (to deny). Once the gang chiefs give an order, “people outside prison tied to the PCC (11) _________________ (modal verb/do) something to show their servitude,” said Godofredo Billencourt, head of the Department for Investigation of Organized Crime. (From ‘The Guardian’, abridged)
C. Car Bomb A crude car bomb (1) _______________ (to contain) 59kg of explosive (2) _______________ (to leave) outside a police station in Co Fermanagh (3) _________________ (modal verb/cause) considerable damage, police said. Residents of the village of Rolsea (4) __________________ (modal verb/evacuate) as Army bomb experts dealt with the device. A controlled explosion removed the danger from the device and forensic science experts yesterday (5) _______________ (to check) the scene. The attempted bombing (6) _______________ (to believe) (7) _______________ (to be) the work of dissident republicans who (8) _______________ (to be) active in the border areas of Fermanagh in the past few years. (From the ‘Times’, abridged)
D. Terror Suspects Must Be Moved Says Watchdog The home secretary is looking for new accommodation for suspected terrorists (1) _______________ (to hold) without charge after the conditions of their detention in high security prison (2) _______________ (to criticize) by an independent review yesterday. Lord Carlile of Berriew QC said the 13 men currently (3) _______________ (to detain) (4) _________________ (modal verb/keep) in a “separate, secure environment with greater internal freedom of association and activity.” Wartime detainees (5) _______________ (to keep) in “better prison conditions.” He went on (6) _______________ (to suggest) that the men, who the government (7) _______________ (to believe) (8) ___________ (to be) international terrorists, (9) ____________________ (modal verb/tag) electronically, which (10) _______________ (to mean) they would be placed under house arrest. All 13 complained that though they (11) _______________ (not to charge) with any offence they (12) _______________ (to treat) in the same way as men (13) _______________ (to convict) of the most serious crimes and, indeed, (14) _______________ (to lock up) alongside such men. Lord Carlile said: “Some (15) _______________ (to complain) of worse treatment, including the use of solitary confinement, restricted opportunities to contact family and insensitivity …” Lord Calile reviewed the conditions as part of his independent report on the detention provisions in part IV of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. He said the Act (16) _______________ (to allow) the home secretary to detain foreign nationals who (17) ___________ (to suspect) of involvement in international terrorism and who (18) ________________ (to pose) a threat to national security until they (19) ___________________ (modal verb/deport). In a separate report also published yesterday the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment said one detainee (20) _______________ (to complain) he (21) _______________ (to ill-treat) at Belmarsh. “A person alleged … he (22) _______________ (to restrain) in a painful manner by prison officers at Belmarsh prison after he (23) _______________ (to become) agitated, and that one officer (24) _______________ (to punch) him in the chest,” the report said. Inspectors reminded ministers and officers that all forms of ill-treatment, including verbal abuse, (25) _______________ (not to be) acceptable. (From ‘The Guardian’, abridged)
E. Land-Use Case Ponders Fate of the Working Class Usually it is a question studied in depth by sociology students, but yesterday the troublesome issue of the working class – does it exist in 21st century Britain? – surfaced in the unlikely surroundings of the High Court in London. Developers (1) _______________ (to want) to build luxury homes on prime land in west London sold 70 years ago, on condition that it (2) _______________ (to use) to benefit the working people, argued that this social distinction no longer (3) _______________ (to exist). Opposing the developers was the unlikely proletariat’s champion, the wealthy eighth Earl of Cadogan. He wants to stop the property firm Dano (4) _______________ (to build) four £1m houses on land in Chelsea that used to belong to his family. When this land (5) _______________ (to sell) in 1929 it (6) _______________ (to have) a covenant that (7) _______________ (to restrict) its use “for the housing of the working class.” The earl claims the phrase still means “persons of lower income,” such as police, nurses and teachers. Michael Barnes QC, for Dano, told the judge, Mr Justice Etherlon, that the “working class” (8) _______________ (to mean) those in manual or industrial jobs. The phrase (9) _______________ (to have) a clear meaning in the 1920s, but since then economic and social conditions (10) _______________ (to alter). Now some people who (11) _____________ (modal verb) previously (12) _______________ (to label) ‘working class’ (13) _______________ (to earn) more than some professionals, he added. (From ‘The Guardian’, abridged)
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