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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #37851 Short European Union
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Listen to the recording and answer the multiple-choice question by selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.

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The new relations between Ukraine and the European Union were seen as a strategic danger by Russia, whose government determined to launch a military intervention in order to take over many territories near the Crimean peninsula and destabilize the Ukrainian government, giving birth, in mid-August of 2013, to the first hybrid warfare (military strategy which combines conventional warfare with irregular warfare and cyberwarfare). The first attack consisted in a selective e-mail ‘'bombardment'. These e-mails were "loaded" with malware files designed to extract confidential information from the computers of high officials from the Ukrainian government; most of them were e-mails containing false alerts to update software such as Adobe Flash Player.

Which of the following accurate summary of the author in the text?

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Option 2: "Russia has been the first nation to apply hybrid warfare tactics to attack another country."

Explanation: This option is correct as the text states that the military intervention by Russia in Ukraine gave birth to the first hybrid warfare. This indicates that Russia was the first to employ this combination of conventional and irregular warfare tactics in this context.

Option 1: "Ukraine and the European Union were actually planning to attack Russia."

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text does not mention any plans by Ukraine and the European Union to attack Russia. Instead, it describes Russia's perception of a strategic danger due to the new relations between Ukraine and the EU, leading to Russia's military intervention.

Option 3: "Russia took care of stealing computers from Ukrainian officials."

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text does not state that Russia physically stole computers. Instead, it describes a cyber attack involving malware sent via e-mails to extract information from the computers of Ukrainian officials.

Option 4: "The reason Russia wanted to attack Ukraine was because they wanted to recover the territories which Ukraine had stolen from them."

Explanation: This option is incorrect as it misrepresents the text. The text indicates that Russia viewed the new relations between Ukraine and the EU as a strategic danger, leading to military intervention, but does not mention any claim that Ukraine had stolen territories from Russia.

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