Question

1. Define each key term

using a complete
sentence: KGB,
disposable income,
censor, superpower.

Answer 1

• Created in 1954, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or Committee for State Security in English) was the agency responsible for the international security of the USSR, acting as an intelligence and secret police agency.
• Disposable income is what remains of the money you've earned after taxes and social security charges have been deducted from it, meaning that you can now spend it or save it as you like.
• To censor means to examine pieces of media and other forms of expression (books, articles, movies...) and to remove or edit any parts for moral, political, or security reasons.
• A superpower is an exceptionally dominant nation, whose political and military power and influence are so great in proportion to others, that it stands out independently.