IR2 Unit 3 Reading II Comprehension Questions

Question 1: Jane's mother pretended to be someone else.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 2: Wendy's mother participated in a small-scale act of internet fraud.

Question 2: The school in London was not very careful in determining parents' identities.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 2: The school had no effective way of checking indentification, probably because it did not anticipate cheating by desparate parents.

Question 3: In the United States and the United Kingdom., driver's licenses are used as ID cards.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 3: In some countries (e.g., India, the United States, and the United Kingdom), no national ID card is issued, but driver's licenses typically serve the same purposes.

Question 4: In Frank Abagnale's day, it was not technologically possible to make fake IDs.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 4: In the 1960s, a teenager named Frank Abagnale, equipped only with scissors and a typewriter, made a fake ID that convinced people he was an airline pilot.

Question 5: The FBI claimed that people could get fake IDs from a beauty shop in Wisconsin.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 5: FBI agents said that, while monitoring the shop for six months, they had seen beauty shop customers buy passports, birth certificates, driver's licenses, and other identity documents.

Question 6: People who choose to disappear need ID documents to set up new lives as someone else.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 6: In order to get a job or rent an apartment somewhere new, they need fake documents.

Question 7: Life insurance companies help people stage their own "deaths."

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 6: Some people even stage their own "deaths" so their families can collect money from life insurance policies.

Question 8: Steven Chin Leung disappeared in order for his family to collect money from his insurance company.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 7: First, he was charged in the U.S. state of Hawaii for trying to get a U.S. passport illegally. To escape those charges, he went to New York and disappeared after the September 11 terrorist attack,...

Question 9: Equipment needed to make fake IDs can be legally purchased in the United States.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 8: The ID-making equipment can be legally purchased because it has other, perfectly legal uses. Software for putting holograms on ID cards or encoding magnetic strips is easily available on the Internet.

Question 10: Albanian ID cards show the holders' fingerfrints but not their picture.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Paragraph 8: In addition to the usual features--picture, signature, and so on--the Albanian card has a biometric ID feature.