Exercise 5
Read the text and then select the correct answer, A, B, C or D.
Passport Privacy Protection?
The new microchip-(1) _____ passports are scheduled to be issued by the end of next year. They could be read (2)_____ from as far away as 30 feet, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Although the passports wouldn't include transmitters of their own, they would have antennas to allow a reader to capture the (3)_____. The ability to read remotely (4)_____ data raises some troubling possibilities. For example, passport (5)_____ would be vulnerable. The biggest threat comes from identity (6)_____. Furthermore, government agents will be able to find out who was (7)______ a political meeting and it will be easier for terrorists to target Americans travelling abroad. The United States and other countries have been working for at least two years to set new passport (8)_____ with the International Civil Aviation Organization, a group affiliated with the United Nations. All new U.S. passports issued by the end of the following year are expected to have a chip (9)_____ the owner's name, birth date and issuing office. Additionally, there will be a "biometric" identifier - a (10)_____ of the owner's face.