For urgent matters, but not in lethal distress, which of the following is used?
(A)Alfa! Alfa! Alfa!
(B)Zulu! Zulu! Zulu!
(C)Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
(D)Pan-Pan! Pan-Pan! Pan-Pan!
Oil spills are becoming a serious hazard as tankers and cargo ships it either deliberately or accidentally.
(A)charge
(B)recharge
(C)surcharge
(D)discharge
For entry of any ship into a nation’s marine , the ship must seek the permission from the government ofthat nation.
(A)boundary
(B)captain
(C)coastline
(D)traffic
Undocumented laborers are often victims of abuse and exploitation, and many of the workers are enticed or towork as sea fishermen.
(A)kidnapped
(B)liberated
(C)repulsed
(D)volunteered
The Coast Guard is responsible for providing a safe, efficient, and waterway system to support domesticcommerce, international trade, and military sealift operations.
(A)navigable
(B)capable
(C)desirable
(D)negotiable
The Coast Guard has a long heritage and proud tradition of immediate response to save lives and property in .
(A)saturation
(B)situation
(C)position
(D)peril
We have received your signal. We just sent a Coast Guard ship and contacted police to send a helicopter torescue.
(A)digress
(B)distress
(C)disperse
(D)seamstress
To conduct this inspection in a timely manner, please make available to our boarding officer all of your vessel’sdocuments, including your .
(A)insurance and endowment
(B)patent and trademark
(C)stock option and taxes
(D)catch logs and reports
If the staffs were found suspicious of violating the law, the inspection officers should give timely suggestion,persuasion, and measures.
(A)prohibition
(B)permission
(C)admission
(D)contradiction
In addition to responding to a variety of maritime accidents and emergencies, the Coast Guard investigates thecauses and determines whether applicable laws have been .
(A)visualized
(B)slated
(C)vilified
(D)violated
A: There is flooding after wreckage and a lot of oil has spilled into the sea; please send assistance.B:
(A)B: Roger! We will inform marine mammal protection experts to assist you; s/he will be there within an hour.
(B)B: You have the right to remain silent and hire a lawyer.
(C)B: Roger! We will inform the Environmental Protection Administration and other relevant authorities to bringboom, oil sweeper and oil skimmer equipment to handle the pollution.
(D)B: Why were your fish logs blank?
It is illegal for vessels to any part of their cargo to shore or another vessel prior to regular entry &clearance, except in cases of real necessity that are reported and verified.
(A)download
(B)inroad
(C)upload
(D)offload
Having to abandon the sinking ship, the captain commanded his crew members to all passengers from theship as soon as they could.
(A)articulate
(B)collaborate
(C)evacuate
(D)fascinate
A failure to observe restrictions and maintain situational awareness is among six factors thatcontributed to the fatal crash of a helicopter.
(A)altitude
(B)attitude
(C)latitude
(D)longitude
After hitting the uncharted rocks, the crew members took immediate actions to control damage, especially to repairall the flooded .
(A)apartments
(B)compartments
(C)departments
(D)impartments
The fire department chief said, “We have all the praise for the tremendous sacrifices offered by all those bravefire fighters who could never be by the blazing fire and disasters from time to time.”
(A)deposited
(B)deterred
(C)derived
(D)designated
Due to poor of the weather condition, the helicopters could not join the rescue operation to transfer theinjured survivors to the hospital for medical treatment.
(A)vicinity
(B)virginity
(C)visibility
(D)vitality
Sailing or fishing in areas is a marine crime and punishable by law.
(A)certified
(B)unconvicted
(C)manifested
(D)unauthorized
The two container vessels with each other about ten nautical miles outside Kaohsiung Port and both ofthem suffered serious flooding.
(A)collapsed
(B)collided
(C)combined
(D)confronted
It is important to use a marine VHF radio because it provides continuous with search and rescue teams.
(A)contact
(B)query
(C)release
(D)spares
The fishing boat was found smuggling drugs and was quickly by the Coast Guard for further investigation.
(A)seized
(B)viewed
(C)dumped
(D)bounced
Modern shipbuilding makes considerable use of prefabricated sections. Entire multi-deck segments of the hull orsuperstructure will be built elsewhere in the yard, to the building dock or slipway, and then lifted intoplace.
(A)translated
(B)transported
(C)transformed
(D)trespassed
On-board inspections are sometimes requested by coast guards to investigate potential illegal goods or human .
(A)purchasing
(B)hitchhiking
(C)trafficking
(D)mediating
The illegal drug trade is a global black market, dedicated to cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale ofthose substances which are subject to drug laws.
(A)probability
(B)probation
(C)prohibition
(D)procession
Coast guards are required to the territory waters regularly to prevent any illegal activities or carry outrescue operations.
(A)mingle
(B)patrol
(C)suppress
(D)venture
The term “damage control” is also used in project management and other contexts to describe the actions neededto deal any problem that may jeopardize an endeavor.
(A)with
(B)of
(C)in
(D)upon
For departing vessels and other marine transportation, it is important to check the persons' identities.
(A)dashboard
(B)cupboard
(C)onboard
(D)switchboardAccording to the International Maritime Bureau report, pirate 48 off the coast of Somalia have decreaseddramatically this year; however, the number of incidents off Africa’s west coast is increasing and piracy is becomingmore violent there. There were 102 incidents of piracy and armed robbery during the first quarter of 2012. Forty-threeof those were attributed to Somali pirates, a decrease from 97 in the first quarter of 2011. Nine vessels were hijacked inthe area, a decrease from 16 in the period a year earlier. Pirates took 144 crew members 49 off Somalia during thequarter, according to the report. The bureau credited international navies, which have staged both reactive andpre-emptive 50 against pirates in the region, for the decrease in piracy off Somalia.
A coast guard officer was honored Tuesday for his service while deployed in support of overseascombat operations.
(A)supper
(B)superior
(C)subversive
(D)subway
(A)attacks
(B)errands
(C)instances
(D)options
The coastal state may, in the exercise of its sovereign rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage the livingresources in the exclusive economic zone, take such measures, including boarding, , arrest and judicialproceedings, as may be necessary to ensure compliance with the laws and regulations adopted by it in conformitywith this convention.
(A)inspection
(B)instruction
(C)construction
(D)destruction
(A)coverage
(B)leakage
(C)hostage
(D)vantage
When you spot a passenger falling overboard, which of the following may be one of the actions you take?
(A)Return to cabin
(B)Throw lifebuoys
(C)Extinguish cigarettes
(D)Follow the escape routeThe roots of the Coast Guard lie in the United States Revenue Cutter Service established by Alexander Hamilton 51 theDepartment of the Treasury on 4 August 1790. The first Coast Guard station was in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Untilthe re-establishment of the United States Navy in 1798, the Revenue Cutter Service was the only naval force of theearly United States. It was established to collect taxes from a brand new nation of patriot people. When the officerswere out at sea, they were told to 52 down on piracy; while they were at it, they might as well rescue anyone indistress.
(A)cases
(B)views
(C)tricks
(D)strikes
(A)between
(B)under
(C)among
(D)above
(A)crave
(B)crook
(C)cruise
(D)crackThe Coast Guard faces several issues in the near future. Lack of coverage affects many areas with high maritime traffic.For example, local officials in Scituate, Massachusetts, have 53 that there is no permanent Coast Guard station,and the presence of the Coast Guard in winter is vital. One reason for this lack of coverage is the relatively high cost ofbuilding storm-proof buildings on coastal property; the Cape Hatteras station was abandoned in 2005 after winterstorms wiped 54 the 12-foot (3.7 m) sand dune serving as its protection from the ocean. Faced with these issuesthe Coast Guard has contracted with General Dynamics C4 System to provide a complete 55 of their 1970s eraradio equipment. Rescue 21 is the United States Coast Guard's advanced command, control and communicationssystem. Created to improve the ability to assist mariners in distress and save lives and property at sea, the system iscurrently being installed in stages across the United States. The nation's existing maritime search and rescue (SAR)communications system has been in operation since the early 1970s. Difficult to maintain, increasingly 56 , andprone to coverage gaps, this antiquated system no longer meets the safety needs of America's growing marine traffic. Inaddition, it is incapable of supporting the Coast Guard's new mission requirements for homeland security, whichrequire close relation with Department of Defense agencies as well as federal, state and local law enforcementauthorities. 57 this system enhances the safety and protection of America's waterways.
(A)Materializing
(B)Misusing
(C)Modernizing
(D)MesmerizingThe U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday that, in cooperation with federal and international partners, it has seized afishing vessel suspected of large-scale illegal high-seas drift net fishing in the North Pacific Ocean and is delivering itsmembers to the Alaska Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Law Enforcementfor the investigation. Renegade large-scale high-seas drift net fishing indiscriminately kills massive amounts of fish andother marine life such as whales and turtles by means of enormous nets suspended for miles in open water. The practiceis universally condemned and is a significant threat to ocean ecosystems and to the food and economic security ofnations that rely on fishery resources.
Which of the following is NOT a problem of drift net fishing?
(A)Ocean ecosystems are endangered.
(B)Huge amounts of sea life are killed.
(C)It involves large-scale international cooperation.
(D)It may be harmful to the economic security of some nations.
What may happen next to the said vessel and its members?
(A)They will seize another fishing vessel.
(B)They will be investigated by the Alaska Division.
(C)They may suspend their nets.
(D)They may discriminate between fish and other marine life.
Where is this passage most likely to appear on a Coast Guard website?
(A)Careers
(B)Services
(C)About Us
(D)Newsroom