These sentences are not true. Correct them.

a) These proof of that isn’t as irrefutable as JFK’s front-to-back motion.

b) Wounds in the various victims accounted for at least eight shots alone.

c) County Coroner didn’t stand by his analysis of powder burns on REK’s head.  

5. Complete the following sentences:

a) Having known several of the great…

b) It consisted of…

c) County Coroner Thomas…

6. Give English equivalents for:

восхитительно

конспирация

Всемирный Торговый центр

повредить

следственный отдел

первоначальное расследование

измеримо

изменение системы

опытный учёный

вещественное доказательство

тень

отверстие от пули

стрелять

Text 3

1. Translate these words and word-combinations:

foray

government corruption

mysterious

circumstances

shot

allegedly

suicide

chord

beneath

crestfallen

horribly offended

rage

cite

overwhelming

2. Read and translate the text:

In 1993 and 1994, I had my last foray into the activist world where I sought to oppose government corruption by using physical evidence. I became involved with a group of families (eventually reaching 109) of members of the US military who had committed "suicide" or died under mysterious circumstances. They came to call themselves "Until We Have Answers". Some victims had been shot in the back. Some shot with two different weapons. Some had allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves with chords from pay telephones. Some were beaten. Others had been killed by bullets that could not possibly have been fired from guns they were holding. The medical reports from the Pentagon were beneath the level of a third grader trying to explain what had happened to his homework. The families were crestfallen, horribly offended, and full of rage.

I sponsored an Indiana conference for some of those families. Notes were compared, strategies reviewed. New approaches were made to Congress. In the end, more than fifty members of the House and Senate signed a resolution tied to the appropriations bill calling for the Pentagon to reopen the cases. What happened? During summer recess, the DoD did reopen the cases and, in a matter of weeks, closed them all again with the exact same findings. When a new Congress arrived on Capitol Hill to read the "new" investigations, the deaths were "old business". All told, some of the families had spent as many as ten years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to achieve zero results. I still weep when I think of the hope I brought to some of those families that the undeniable physical evidence would secure them justice.

I could cite a half dozen more cases where the physical evidence was overwhelming and achieved nothing. But if the point is not made now it will never be made.

3. Answer the following questions:

a) Had some victims been shot in the back?

b) The author sponsored an Indiana conference for some of the families, didn’t he?

c) What had happened when a new Congress arrived on Capitol Hill to read the investigations?

These sentences are not true. Correct them.

a) In 1996 the author had the last foray into the activist world.

b) The author became involved with a group of soldiers of members of members of the UK military.

c)  The author sponsored conference for some of the families.

5. Complete the following sentences:

a) Some victims had allegedly…

b) The families were…

c) More than fifty members…

6. Give English equivalents for:

набег

выступать против

таинственный

обстоятельства

жертва

аккорд

пуля

герб

получить результат

нулевой

надеяться

Text 4

1. Translate these words and word-combinations:

average

attendance

pursue

inconsistencies

hit

sense

credibility

tower

collaps

impact

suicide mission

improbable

consciousness

instantly accept

merely

wedge

reliance

testimony

foreknowledge 

2. Read and translate the text:

MAKING AMENDS - OFFERING AN APOLOGY

More than thirty-five times now, and in nine countries, I have lectured on 9/11. The average attendance at the lectures has been between 400 and 500 people. In an estimated sixty-five per sent of those lectures, in question and answer sessions lasting sometimes up to three hours I have been asked why I don't pursue the physical evidence inconsistencies of 9/11. At least 9,100 people have heard me say something like:

"I don't for a minute believe that an airliner hit the Pentagon. And no one has ever seen a video of an airliner hitting the Pentagon because there isn't one. It doesn't look like the WTC towers collapsed because of the impacts and the way that they collapsed doesn't make sense. But if I, with some measure of journalistic credibility, and my readers on Capitol Hill and in universities start writing stories about these things, I wind up in either a journalistic suicide mission, or in the improbable place of having to explain where the airliner that didn't hit the Pentagon went or how the towers were brought down. There is a mountain of physical evidence that blows the government story in my mind, but my experience says that it will never penetrate the consciousness of the American people in a way that will bring about change. What will penetrate, from my experience, is taking non-scientific reports that most people instantly accept as credible, whether news reports or government statements or documents, and merely showing that they are lies. That opens the wedge, and removes any reliance upon expert or scientific testimony which is typically used to confuse simple facts. From there, you can begin to show people all the other documentary evidence of foreknowledge, planning and participation."

3. Answer the following questions:

a) Did the author believe that an airliner hit the Pentagon?

b) Is there a mountain of physical evidence that blows the government story?

c) They can begin to show people all the other documentary evidence of foreknowledge, can’t they?

These sentences are not true. Correct them.

a) The average attendance at the lectures hasn’t been between 200 and 300 people.

b) There isn’t a mountain of physical evidence that blows the government story.

c) The author believes that an airliner hit the Pentagon.

5. Complete the following sentences:

a) In an estimated sixty-five…

b) It doesn’t look like…

c) There is a mountain of physical evidence…

6. Give English equivalents for:

посещение

длиться

коллапс

изменение

лгать

обычные факты 

участие

планирование

свидетельство

Text 5

1. Translate these words and word-combinations:

hurriedly

explosive

conclusion

 jet

fuel

shaft

collapse

carnage

demolition

scramble

reliable

earthquake

straw

windstorm

assassination

2. Read and translate the text:

On September 13, 2001, I hurriedly published a 241-word story on the FTW web site wherein I reached the early conclusion that explosives had not been placed in the World Trade Center. At the time, I based my conclusion upon several things. They included a detailed BBC report citing scientific sources and architectural experts saying that jet fuel running down the elevator shafts had been sufficient to cause the collapse; a detailed statement by New York architect John Young (still on the web) supporting these conclusions, and statements from my ex-wife Mary, an eyewitness who had seen the carnage from her Battery Park apartment nearby. Neither she, nor anyone she knew had heard any secondary explosions that might have indicated demolition charges inside the building.

As the world was turning inside out, we all scrambled for reliable information in a place where nothing was to be trusted. It was like trying to stand sill in an earthquake. The BBC, because it was not American and held prestige, seemed like something that could be trusted - a straw in a windstorm. Whether accurate or not, I recognized that - much like the newspaper accounts appearing in Australia and New Zealand within hours of the Kennedy assassination that impossibly included Oswald's picture with statements that he was the assassin - for most of the world this avenue had already been closed off.

I wish I would have said that then.

3. Answer the following questions:

a) When did the author publish a 241- word story on the web site?

b) On what things (factors) did the author base his conclusion?

c) What did the author recognize? 

 4. These sentences are not true. Correct them.

a) On 5 July 1996 the author published a story on the web site.

b) We all read for information in a place where nothing was to be trusted.

c) It was like trying the dresses.    

5. Complete the following sentences:

a) They included a detailed …

b) Neither she, nor anyone she knew…

c) I recognized that…

Text 6

1. Translate these words and word-combinations:

bulletin

entire

obviously

failure

cover-up

accessible

voluminous

melting

centigrade

concede

fuel

jet

contention

2. Read and translate the text:

As I published the brief bulletin, the entire weight of all of my experience with physical evidence was clearly in mind. I then promised my readers that I would follow up with more reports on the collapse. I never did, and I apologize. It has obviously created some confusion about what I really believe.

Some advocates who want to push the physical evidence arguments have construed my failure to make additional reports as evidence of the fact that I am somehow a coconspirator with the government in the 9/11 attacks and their cover-up. This is merely misplaced rage at something that is visible and accessible me. Some, quite correctly, have produced voluminous research showing that the melting point of steel - as originally reported by the BBC on September 12th, changed over the course of the next several days. It officially rose from 800 degrees centigrade to almost 2000 degrees centigrade and explanations about jet fuel being the cause of the collapse became harder to accept. I never read these stories, and was unaware of them until last week. I had already chosen my course of action and was devoting all my energies to that research.

I concede now that the melting point of steel is not 800 degress centigrade, as the BBC told us. It is much higher. And it is indeed questionable whether the fuel from flights 11 and 175 could have caused the collapse. This has never been a point of contention with me, although I can see how some might have thought it was.

3. Answer the following questions:

a) What did the author promise his readers?

b) Did the author read the stories about terrorist act? 

c) Could flights 11 and 175 cause the collapse?