- •State educational institution of higher professional education
- •Reading and understanding customs texts
- •Contents
- •Part I. Reading for information
- •I. Headlines
- •II. The plan for rendering an article.
- •Article I Russians Get ‘Gold Medal’ for Cyber Fraud
- •Article II Female Discovered in Trunk of Car at u.S./Canada Border
- •Article III cbp Officers Intercept Marijuana Smuggling Attempt in New York
- •Article IV Border Patrol Stops Drug Smuggler, Seizes Meth on I-5
- •Article V Siemens Managers Admit Bribing Russian Officials
- •Article VI Drug Police Seize Cannabis Garden
- •Article VII Afgan Drug Lords Bypassing Central Asia
- •Article VIII Bank Clients’ Data Faces Scrutiny
- •Vedomosti
- •Article IX Branding: a crucial defence in guarding market share
- •Article X uk government backtracks over bribery
- •Article XI Globalisation needs no defence – it needs to be questioned
- •Article XII Breaking the habit
- •Part II. Reading for analysis Text I
- •The custom of customs
- •1. Whole numbers
- •2. Decimals
- •Text II
- •Anything to declare?
- •Text III
- •Full exposure
- •Text IV
- •Counterfeiting and piracy: crime of the 21st century
- •Дозажигался…
- •Counterfeiting, the Internet and the postal dilemma
- •Text VI
- •Call of the wild
- •Russia Backs Pact to Save Wild Tigers
- •Text VII
- •Trafficking drugs into Europe
- •The cocaine business
- •Text VIII
- •Sniffy customers
- •Text IX
- •Classification of goods
- •The Harmonized System Convention
- •Text XI
- •Customs valuation
- •Text XII
- •Meeting the challenges of the 21st century
- •Part III. Supplementary reading not guilty
- •Smuggler
- •Two coats
- •In the driving seat
- •At the customs office
- •Dutch cigarettes
- •A present from strasbourg
- •Coping with smuggling in the middle ages
- •A true story
- •A great deal of trouble
- •Travels with charley in search of america
- •The word
- •Tests Test 1 Coke and the Colonel’s wife
- •Test 2 On the border
- •Test 3 Drug Detector Dogs in Customs work
- •Test 4 Lexical – grammar test
- •Bibliography
Article VI Drug Police Seize Cannabis Garden
By Carl Schreck
STAFF WRITER
Drug police have arrested a Moscow region man on suspicion of growing copious amounts of cannabis in his apartment and selling it to the teenage patrons of a dance club that he operates.
Officers from the regional branch of the Federal Drug Control Service arrested the man, whose name has not been released, on March 28 in his apartment in the city of Voskresensk after receiving a tip that he was cultivating large amounts of cannabis, drug control spokeswoman Yekaterina Kosova said.
Upon searching the apartment, police discovered indoor growing equipment – including heat lamps and automatic watering devices – and learned the suspect had tapped an outdoor power line in an apparent attempt to save money on his electricity bill, Kosova said.
Police confiscated 84 cannabis plants along with 190 grams of marijuana and a stash of hashish, Kosova said. Police also confiscated several packages of different sorts of hemp seeds – a veritable starter’s kit for growing marijuana – that the suspect had apparently received in the mail from abroad, she said.
The suspect, who Moskovsky Komsomolets reported was 35 years old, has been charged with possession of a large amount of an illegal substance. A conviction carries up to 10 years in prison.
Kosova said police were preparing to also charge the suspect with selling the marijuana and hashish to teenagers who frequented a dance club that he ran in Voskresensk. She declined to identify the club. “We are still trying to establish the entire network of dealers before we charge him with dealing,” Kosova said. “There was too much in the apartment for him to sell all by himself.”
Kosova declined to comment on the tip that led police to the suspect. Kosova said cannabis gardeners were rare but not unheard of in the Moscow region. “We have had about five such cases in the last six months,” she said.
Separately, drug police on Saturday detained a Moscow region teacher on suspicion of selling drugs to his students. The 35-year-old man was carrying 1.6 kilograms of opiates when he was arrested, Moskovsky Komsomolets said.
Task 1. Look through the article. Which of these issues are mentioned in the article and which are not?
cannabis garden in the apartment
cultivating poppy in the city of Voskresensk
seeds received from abroad
conviction carries up to 10 years in prison
cannabis gardeners are not so often to be heard of in the Moscow region
selling drugs to students
Task 2. Complete the table using the words from the article.
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Verb
Noun
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search
confiscate
…
…
detain
suspicion
…
…
charge
dealer
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Task 3. Match 1 – 6 with a) – f) to make expressions used in the article.
1. drug a) a tip
2. dance b) substance
3. receiving c) gardeners
4. watering d) police
5. illegal e) devices
6. cannabis f) club
Task 4. Find expressions in the article that mean:
someone who enjoys growing flowers and plants
to find
to officially take private property away from someone
to go often to a particular place
to name someone or something
a secret warning to police about illegal activities
Task 5. Over to you. What is the main idea of the article?