Airport Tests Passenger Eye Ids

Heathrow Airport is testing a new hi-tech identity system which examines a passenger's eye, rather than their passport as they go through immigration control. Heathrow is the first UK airport to carry out a large-scale trial of the iris recognition technology, which was unveiled at the airport last Friday.

The aim is to speed up the movement of passengers through the terminal and detect illegal immigrants.

A total of 2, 000 passengers who frequently fly from North America to Heathrow on Virgin and British Airways flights are taking part in the five-month trial.

Each passenger will have an image of one of their eye's iris stored on computer. Instead of showing their passport on arrival they will go into a kiosk where in seconds a camera will check that the pattern of their iris matches computer records. If so a barrier will automatically open.

The trial will test the technology and gauge passenger reaction.

3.4.1. Guess the meaning of the following words by their explanation:

identity (n) sameness, who or what a particular

person or thing is;

iris (n) the round, coloured part of the eye;

gauge (v) to judge the worth, meaning, etc.,

of something or somebody's actions;
large-scale (adj) long, sophisticated;

trial (n) experiment;
pattern (n) model, sample;

to match (v) to be like or suitable for use;

image (n) a picture, a copy, (esp. in mind);

record (n) a written statement of facts, amounts,

events, etc.;

to detect (v) to find out, to notice

3.4.2. Say whether the following statements are true or false:

1) A new hi-tech identity system examines a passenger's ear rather than their passport as they go through immigration control.

2) Heathrow is the first USA airport to carry out such an experiment.

3) The aim of the system is to speed up the movement of passengers through the terminal.

4) Passengers who frequently fly from North America to Heathrow are taking part in a six-month trial.

5) Each passenger will have an image of their eyes' iris stored on computer.

3.5. Grammar Assignments.

3.5.1. Find in the texts some sentences in the Active Voice, copy them into your exercise books, give simple grammar analysis of these sentences.

3.5.2. Find in the texts some sentences in the Passive Voice, copy them into your exercise books, give simple grammar analysis of these sentences.

3.5.3. Find in the texts sentences with the Participles and define their forms and functions. See Grammar in Use section if necessary.

3.5.4. Supply prepositions or adverbs where necessary:

1) It is the porters who always carry the passenger's luggage.............. the hold of a ship or the luggage-van of a train the customs-house..................... an inspection.

2) This is duty-free according. our customs regulations.

3) Do you know whether there are any restrictions.. imported cameras in this country?

4) Personal effects are usually duty-free if one does notexceed …… a certain quota.

5) In a number of countries furs do not fall customs restrictions.

6) Customs duties are taxed both imported as well as exported goods.

3.5.5. The following statements are grammatically incorrect. Find the errors
and correct them:

1) On the customs-house a passenger's luggage are carefully gone into customs inspectors. (3 errors)

2) Sometimes customs inspector carefully search under the passenger's belongings to prevent smuggling. (2 errors)

3) There are 150 % duty about this article. (2 errors)

4) As soon as one's luggage cleared the customs special stamps are pasted onto it. (2 errors)

5) It took me about two hour to go through all the formalities on the customs-house. (2 errors)

3.5.6. Make up sentences with the Passive and Active Voice using the
following word combinations:

not liable to duty, to be subject to customs restrictions, to inspect one's luggage, to be released by the customs, to go through the customs, to have a greater amount of something.

Unit 4. Customs Declaration. Customs Clearing

4.1. Pre-Text Assignments.

4.1.1. Read the following word and phrase list. Try to memorize all the words and word-groups:

4.1.2. Complete the following sentences using the words and expressions from the word and phrase list. Try to think of as many variants as possible:

1) Customs wars are waged between different countries so as to …

2) Customs tariffs serve to …

3) It is only natural that in war- time customs inspections are more …

4) Customs houses are set up to …

5) To declare an item is to …

6) The opposite of reducing customs tariffs is to...

7) If one exceeds the quota …

4.1.3. Translate the following from Russian into English:

1) Я не знаю, что разрешается провозить беспошлинно.

2) Вы не превысили норму. Оплате пошлиной эти вещи не подлежат.

3) Я ничего не имею предъявить вам.

4) Я не знал, что на эти предметы распространяются таможенные ограни-чения.

5) Эти предметы подлежат таможенному обложению в размере 100 про-центов их стоимости.

6) При переезде через границу вы обязаны сообщить об имеющейся у вас на руках иностранной валюте.

7) Я вас прошу как можно скорее осмотреть мой багаж. Мой самолет вылетает через час.

8) Вот лицензия Министерства Торговли на вывоз этого аппарата.

4.1.4. Practice the reading of the following words and guess their meaning:

citizenship, purpose, submit, separately, monetary, valuables, false, flight, middle, bond, currency, icons, precious, antiques.

4.1.5. Check up the meaning of the following verbs:

keep, render, arrive, submit, provide, require, purchase, list, signs.

4.1.6. Give the initial forms of the following words and state what parts of speech they belong to:

commercial, currency, processed, duration, payment, properly, renewable, printed, recording, appliances, valuables, including.

4.2. Translate the following text in the written form using the dictionary

Text A