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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #35219 European Union
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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 (a military strategy which combines conventional warfare with irregular warfare and cyber warfare). The first attack consisted of 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 most accurately summarizes the opinion 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: The text states that the military intervention by Russia in Ukraine marked the birth of hybrid warfare, indicating that Russia was the first to employ this strategy. This aligns with the author's opinion that Russia's actions were significant in the context of military tactics.

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

Explanation: This option misrepresents the text. The author discusses Russia's perception of a strategic danger posed by Ukraine's relations with the EU, leading to Russia's military intervention. There is no indication that Ukraine and the EU were planning an attack on Russia.

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

Explanation: This option inaccurately summarizes the text. The author mentions that Russia used malware in e-mails to extract information from Ukrainian officials' computers, but it does not imply that Russia 'stole' the computers themselves.

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

Explanation: This option introduces a narrative not supported by the text. The author explains that Russia viewed Ukraine's relations with the EU as a strategic danger, leading to intervention, but does not mention any claim of Ukraine stealing territories from Russia.

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