Przykładowe Materiały Egzaminacyjne JĘzyk angielski poziom 3 Czytanie
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Listening 49Ladies and gentlemen! And there are a few ladies present I see. Welcome to this session which is concerned with exercise Purple Rain which, as you know, was held in October between the 15th and 17th in the training area at Drawsko Pomorskie. Now, this was a pretty big exercise and in all over 300 troops took part and, on the whole, it went quite well. Now, one of the things we were looking at during this exercise, though it wasn’t our main concern, was how close our operating procedures are to those of other NATO members. To help us to do that, a U.S. reserve chemical corps joined us for the exercise. Our troops closely cooperated with these American specialists and the Americans worked very well with their Polish counterparts. We were able to learn quite a lot from them and, I am happy to say, there were no language problems, which is something we really should be proud of. Our thanks to the language schools for their great effort. Of course, I don’t need to remind you what the main purpose of exercise Purple Rain was, do I? Do I?! Oh, well, just in case you have forgotten it, it was to improve our readiness for the possible threat of an NBC attack, that is a nuclear, biological and chemical attack. Something that is pretty relevant at the moment as we all remember the events of September the 11th, and we have to be ready for all possibilities. Well, there are many ways of dealing with NBC attacks and, of course, we couldn’t deal with all of them in one exercise. In fact, we concentrated on tree areas; the decontamination of vehicles, FIBUA, that is fighting in built-up areas, and dealing with chemical attacks dispersed from enemy aircraft. Now, the roaring success of exercise Purple Rain was, without doubt, the FIBUA training. I’ve received a number of complements about your professional conduct during this part of the training, particularly from our American colleagues, so you should be proud of yourself because of this. And that wasn’t the only part that went well. The decontamination exercises were carried out with a good deal of efficiency. You remember those tanks exposed to […] – a particularly nasty chemical agent? Well, they were washed down smoothly and efficiently. And I’m glad to say that the specialists report that there would have been absolutely no cases of cross-contamination. Well, you could have done this exercise a little quicker, but not a bad effort. Well done. But, as with everything, there were some failures and we need to move on to look at those. The main failure came in the part of the exercise dealing with chemical attacks dispersed from enemy aircraft. There could have been a real tragedy here. A real tragedy for two Bluefor soldiers, that is. Now, they were positioned in Charlie trench and didn’t not even hear an approaching enemy aircraft. This aircraft dropped chemicals which, had this been real and not just an exercise, would have killed them. And why did this happen? They were so tired after a long night’s digging that they slept through the advanced warning of the attack. Being exhausted after a long night is understandable. But, please, remember! One of you has to be wide awake at all times. Make sure that you are that you are not all engaged in heavy physical work so one of you doesn’t get so exhausted. But luckily, this is the only incident of that type and otherwise everything went pretty smoothly. If you want to get some more detailed information about the outcome of the exercise, please, read the AAR – the after action review. This is really advisable as this report was written by independent MOD NBC observers, and they were very objective in their comments. Lots of useful things can be learned from reading that report. It’s available at HQ. Just ask sergeant Pursel for a copy. And you can get hold of it at our website. You should know the address by now. But just in case you don’t I’ve written it on the board behind me. Generally speaking, their comments were favourable. They admired the organisation and the facilities at the training area. They complemented the quality of our officers’ English and they were particularly complimentary about the conduct of our soldiers during the exercise as a whole. But, of course, they also pointed out areas for improvement. After they analysed the data stored on computer concerning how often and how accurately a weapon was fired, they weren’t too happy with the results. So, that’s something to concentrate on in the future – improving the accuracy of weapon firing. So, please keep this in mind. Soon we will have another exercise organised to deal with this and other problems. We will notify you about the dates and places for the exercise in due time. All in all, a good job gentlemen, or and ladies, of course! Keep up the good work, and thank you for attending this session. Listening 50Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Today is the last day of your course in planning and conducting Special Forces Operations. Today we are going to turn our attention to one specific kind of operation and that is counter terrorism. The operation we are going to look at today, Operation Mice and Cats, was conducted in two parts. Part One, carried out by the Mice, was an attack on a base which specialised in research into top-secret military weapons. Part Two, carried out by the Cats, was a pursuit and capture of the Mice. Now the attack on the secret weapons base, which was carried out by the mice, had two aims. The first was to steal a prototype of a new weapon. This new weapon, a product of a great deal of effort by those working on the base, was designed to seek out and destroy incoming missiles. The second aim was to capture two top scientists. These two scientists are the only two scientists in the world that know the secret guidance system that makes this new weapon so effective. On the night of the attack they arrived at the weapons research base at 02.00 hours in the morning. At the perimeter fence that surrounds the compound they managed to disable a video camera and dig underneath. The fact that a video camera covering the perimeter fence wasn’t working should have been noticed by the duty guard. Now, the Mice quickly made their way to the laboratory where the prototype secret weapon is kept. They used micro explosives to blast open the main door, used a paralysing gas to overpower the people inside and cracked the safe where the prototype weapon was kept. Then, they made their way to the accommodation block where the two scientists lived. Fortunately, one of the scientists was on holiday, so they only managed to kidnap one. So that was the end of part one. A quick easy raid on a secret military base with no casualties to the Mice. Good professional job. Pity only one of the scientists was kidnapped. Onto Part Two of the operation. Part Two, as you remember was carried out by the Cats and was a pursuit of the mice in an attempt to recapture the secret weapon and free the scientist. Now, finding the Mice’s base wasn’t too difficult. Modern technology makes locating people and places possible. Using satellite photographs, the Mice’s base was discovered. This proved a little difficult; the photographs had to be studied very carefully by the reconnaissance team. Thought the base looked like a simple farm, with a farmhouse and a barn, fortunately they were able to spot one or two details which clearly indicated that this was a terrorist camp. Unfortunately, the mice’s base was situated in mountainous terrain. This meant the Cats couldn’t get too close. The landing point for the helicopters transporting the Cats was ten kilometres away. Having landed, the Cats set off on an approach march to the base. The march was very difficult as it was uphill all the way. They were quite tired by the end of it. They spent two hours resting and carrying out reconnaissance of the base. They made a detailed study of the farmhouse and the barn. Several men came out of the farmhouse and kept looking into the back of a jeep. The Cats guessed that this was where the prototype weapon was kept. They also saw food being taken to the barn and assumed that that was where the scientist was being held. At 20.00 hours, having gathered this vital information, the Cats made their move. They quietly approached and surrounded the farm buildings. On a given signal, all the guards were attacked and quickly and quietly eliminated. The Cats split into two groups. One group made directly for the jeep. Another headed for the barn. Unfortunately, they had ignored the farm dogs. The dogs came charging out and started to bark furiously at the Cats. This alerted the Mice, who came rushing out of the farmhouse and started shooting. It was during this firefight that the hostage was killed. The barn door opened and a terrorist came out. One member of the Cat team turned and fired. Unfortunately, the terrorist was using the hostage as a human shield. The bullet hit the scientist and he was killed instantly. The fire fight finished soon after that with the Cats as the victors. They reclaimed the prototype weapon and recovered the body of the scientist. So, ladies and gentleman, that was Operation Mice and Rats. Your task for this morning is to study this operation very carefully, decide what went wrong, why it went wrong and how to avoid such problems in the future. Listening 51 Major Fairfax reporting, Sir. Reporting on today’s cordon and search mission. Well, the mission was carried out by 50 soldiers of the Queen’s Royal Hussars with myself in command. The house we were to search was in a village 15 km north east of Podujevo. I think that’s how you pronounce it. Now we decided that this house would be a good place to search because local people had tipped us off, saying it might contain a bomb factory. Now, we set out at 06.00 hours travelling in Land Rovers and tracked vehicles. The journey took about an hour and nothing much happened on it. One of the Land Rovers did get a flat tire but that was soon fixed. Now we arrived at the village at 07.00 hours. We were met by a company of soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the Czech army who were going to form the cordon. We quickly located the target house and the Czechs started deploying their cordon around it. Now, if somebody had tried to escape they would have been immediately stopped. The inhabitants of the house knew abut it and they didn’t try to do it. It was then that we had the first problem. A lot of the local people came out of their houses. Neighbours to the family in the targeted house, and started to shout and complain. They were getting in the way and the Czechs were having difficulty doing their job. Now, my knowledge of the local language is not very good so I had no idea what they were saying or what the problem was. So, I called up the linguist and asked for his help. He quickly told the local people what we wanted to do and handed out a few leaflets explaining how search operations are carried out. All the time I smiled and tried to look as friendly as possible. Well, the locals seemed to calm down and they allowed us to continue. I got my sergeant to give four or five good loud bangs on the door, and after a while, when I could clearly hear lots of rapid activity going on inside the house, the door was opened. We first let in the sniffer-dogs in – make sure there were no explosives anywhere. They didn’t find any so we started going through the cupboard and drawers. Not that they had much furniture. They are not that rich in that part of the country. Well, after about ten minutes Trooper Jones called me over saying that he thought he’d found something. From the expression of his face you could tell he had found a mortar, or a machine gun, something like that. In fact, tucked behind some clothes in a wardrobe, was a bag containing twelve rounds of ammo. Jones was so pleased by this. It was the first find he had made during his tour of duty. It was then that we heard a lot of noise outside. Lots of shouting and swearing. I went out to have a look what was going on. Outside I saw that one part of the cordon set up by the Czech soldiers was under siege by all these blokes with cameras and notebooks. I went over to find out what was going on and was told that these blokes were reporters and they wanted to get into the house to take pictures and to interview the family that lived there. Now, I was having none of this. I didn’t want my search to be messed up by lots of nosy reporters. I just told them nice and politely that the house might contain booby traps. That soon quietened them down. They didn’t want to get into the house too quick after I’d told them that. Well, I went back into the house. By this time the search had been completed. I had to decide what to do with the head of the house. Well, as he’d been caught breaking the law I decided to arrest him. He didn’t put up a struggle. In fact he was quite willing to come. The trouble started when we got outside. I dismissed the cordon and we went to our Land Rover. It was then that a rock was thrown from the crowd that was still gathered outside the house. Luckily, it missed. I sent in a snatch squad into the crowd to try and catch the rock thrower but he got away. The trip back to base was uneventful. We charged the man, put him in a cell and made sure he was safe. That’s about all I have to report. Just a straight forward cordon and search operation. Directory: plik -> file -> Do pobrania - Mat. Egzaminacyjne -> Angielski Angielski -> Two texts. For questions 1 to 6 plik -> March 4th-8th 2000; ustroń, poland Download 1.02 Mb. Share with your friends:
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