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Comprehension Check
Match the beginnings with the endings to make sentences about the text.
1. The Securitate used children 
2. Some of the agents who recruited the child spies continued 
3. Historians think the Securitate had 
4. The child spies had to tell the Securitate 
5. In the 1980s it was difficult for the secret police 
6. The secret police were interested in intelligent and sporty children because 
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7. The EU wants Romania 
8. By 1989 Soviet power was beginning 
a. 
if their friends and families told jokes about Ceausescu.
b. 
they had contact with many teachers and other children.
c. 
to spy on their families, friends and teachers. 
d. 
to recruit informers.
e. 
hundreds of thousands of informers by 1989.
f. 
to work for the security services after 1989. 
g. 
to weaken in Eastern Europe.
h. 
to open up all the old Securitate archives.
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Vocabulary Collocations: Verbs + Nouns
Match the words in the left-hand column with those in the right-hand column to make collocations.
Check your answers in the text.
1. do
a. power
2. tell
b. a job
3. get
c. school
4. leave
d. the radio
5. lose
e. wrong
6. listen to 
f. a joke
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Vocabulary Prepositions
Fill the gaps using prepositions
1. work 
the security services
2. listen 
western radio stations
3. opinions 
something
4. have contact 
somebody
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5. tell jokes 
somebody
6. interested 
somebody or something
7. responsible 
something
8. hear 
something