Grammar Exercises Abbreviations

I. Read and translate the text. Look up the abbreviations you don’t know in the dictionary.

Washington, dc. – fbi hq, 10 a.M.

Special agent Phil Hastings arrived at the FBI HQ at 10 a.m.; he was in a bad mood. When he left his car and opened the door of the Hoover Building, a young security guard asked him for his ID.

“What the hell do you need my ID for? What do I look like? A NASA guy?”

“Like an NBA player. Show me your ID, or I’ll throw you out of here.”

“If I look like an NBA player then you do like one from the NHL, you have ice where your brains should be,” said Phil showing his ID to the guard.

In the building Phil went right into the DDO office.

“Good morning, sir.”

“Good morning, agent Hastings. Grab a seat. My friend, the assistant of the AG, and I would like to hear your story about what happened in LA.

“Well, sir, the FBI was running an operation against a gang, which had been robbing weapon warehouses and selling drugs in LA. I was AIC of the operation. We received a signal from the local police that another military warehouse had been robbed. I was working in cooperation with the local DEA office and the SWAT team of the LAPD.

When we arrived at the crime scene, a policeman informed us that a few terrorists had been trapped inside a house. Later we found out that the “terrorists” were the members of the street gang, not the IRA or PLO guys.

“So, I hope there was no CIA or NSA involved.”

“Sure not. So, the building was under siege. Despite the fact that the terrorists were surrounded, they had no will to surrender. They had a lot of weapons: M 16’s and SAW’s with ammunition and a lot of FRE. It was a military warehouse after all.”

“I think they deserve FRE,” laughed the assistant of the AG.

“Yes, sir. So, I made a decision to storm the building. The SWAT team under my command rushed in. I shouted, “Freeze! Put your weapons down and put your hands up!” As the answer one of them began to shoot. A few of the SWAT team guys had

been injured. After that, the SWAT team killed practically all members of the gang.

“What do you mean ‘practically all’, agent Hastings?”

“Well, sir, one of them survived. We can only PTL that he had survived because it was butchery. His name is Marty Powell a.k.a. “Bullet” the leader of the gang.”

“Jim, in my humble opinion there is nothing illegal in the way agent Hastings acted, four KIA bandits and few WIA policemen are not so bad, said the AG assistant.

“But how can local street punks, such as those, find information about military warehouses?”

“Sir, it is declassified information. They probably found it with their own IBM PC.”

“How?”

“There is a lot of WWW sites with such information; some of them are legal.”

“I can’t understand one thing,” interrupted the DDO, “there has to be security on those warehouses. Where were they? Can’t blow the hell out of some street punks?”

“Sir, there were four or five MP’s with Remington rifles, but that wasn’t enough.”

“Thank you agent Hastings, off you go.”

“Good day, sir.” Hastings left the room, TGIF he said to himself, and made his way right into the nearest TGIF.

II. What do you know about international organizations? Match the name of the organization with its function. Translate the names into Russian.

1. UN a) An autonomous intergovernmental organization under

the aegis of the UN, works for the safe and peaceful uses

of atomic energy.

2. UNESCO b) Coordinates programmes aimed at solving health

problems and the attainment by all people of the highest

possible level of health. It works in areas such as

immunization, health education and the provision of

essential drugs.

3. ILO c) Facilitates international monetary cooperation and

financial stability and provides a permanent forum for

consultation, advice and assistance on financial issues.

4. WHO d) Formulates policies and programmes to improve

working conditions and employment opportunities,

and sets labour standards used by countries around the world.

5. IMF e) Its purposes are maintaining international peace and

security, developing friendly relations among nations on

the principle of equal rights and self-determination, and

encouraging international cooperation in solving

international economic, social, humanitarian problems.

6. IAEA f) It was established to accelerate economic growth, social

progress, and cultural development and to promote peace

and security in the Southeast Asia region.

7. NATO g) Promotes education for all, cultural development,

protection of the world's natural and cultural heritage,

international cooperation in science, press freedom and

communication.

8. ASEAN h) Security organization whose primary purpose was to

unify and strengthen the western Allies' military response

in case the Soviet Union invaded Western Europe in an

effort to extend communism there. After the end of the

Cold War it adhered more strongly to its original purpose

of maintaining international stability in Europe.