Listening

Security #42

ILR 3 · Security & military · TV roundtable · natural recording

Play the recording, then answer the questions.

Question 1 of 6What is the lawyer's main concern about predictive tools?
Question 2 of 6What does the lawyer propose at the end?
Question 3 of 6Why does the general say a disaster that didn't happen "doesn't make news"?
Question 4 of 6What does "dresses it in the dignity of science" imply?
Question 5 of 6What is the point of the lawyer's example of the employee with a hundred files?
Question 6 of 6How does the lawyer's final reply reframe the debate?
Vocabulary
فَتْحbreakthrough, conquest
تَحْتَ أُنُوفِنَاunder our noses
شَاذّabnormal, anomalous
أَسْبَغَتْ عَلَيْهِbestowed upon it
وَقَارdignity, gravitas
الْأَدْهَىworse still
الِاشْتِبَاهsuspicion
يَدْفَعُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِdefends himself
نَوْبَةshift
خَتْم مَطَّاطِيّrubber stamp
الِاطِّلَاع عَلَىaccess to, viewing