Washington (CNN) -- Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found.

In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.

Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders "involved increasingly in systematic corruption."

He did not elaborate on how non-cash methods of corruption, like sexual favors, have been used to corrupt agents.

Since October 2004, 127 Customs and Border Protection employees have been arrested or indicted for acts of corruption, said agency Commissioner Alan Bersin, speaking at the same hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon's offensive against the drug cartels, combined with a surge in the hiring of border agents in recent years, have multiplied the risks of corruption, Bersin said.

Today, the Border Patrol counts more than 20,700 agents, more than double its size in 2004. Bersin implied that the rapid hiring spree may have come at the cost of hiring less qualified agents.

"The accelerated hiring pace under which we operated between 2006 and 2008 -- and, frankly, mistakes from which we are learning -- exposed critical organizational and individual vulnerabilities within CBP," he said.

To face this challenge, the commissioner touted the passage of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010, which requires that by 2013, all the agency's law enforcement applicants must receive a polygraph test before being hired. It also calls for periodic reinvestigations into the background of its agents. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who is the president of Mexico?
2. How many are working for border patrol today?
3. Is this the same as in 2004?
4. How many employees have been arrested?
5. Between what years was the higher hiring rate?
6. who is the acting inspector general mentioned?
7. what organization does he work for?
8. Is cash used for corruption?
9. what about non-cash?
10. what is the non-cash example used?
11. what drug cartel is mentioned?
12. who is being corrupted?
13. what tests are the agents supposed to receive?
14. by when?
15. according to what act?
16. who is the commissioner mentioned?
17. where was he speaking?
18. Do agents leak private information?
19. What else do they do?
20. What did Edwards call the corruption?
Answer: 1. Felipe Calderon
2. more than 20,700 agents,
3. no
4. 127
5. between 2006 and 2008
6. Charles Edwards,
7. Department of Homeland Security.
8. yes
9. yes
10. sexual favors
11. Zetas drug cartel
12. U.S. border and customs agents,
13. a polygraph test
14. by 2013
15. he Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010,
16. Alan Bersin
17. a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs.
18. yes
19. allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes,
20. systematic corruption.

CHAPTER XVI

Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost. Whatever his misgivings, his and Flora's sense of loss, Nedda must be given a free hand! Derek gave no outward show of his condition, and but for his little daughter's happy serenity Felix would have thought as she had thought that first night. He had a feeling that his nephew rather despised one so soaked in mildness and reputation as Felix Freeland; and he got on better with Sheila, not because she was milder, but because she was devoid of that scornful tang which clung about her brother. No! Sheila was not mild. Rich-colored, downright of speech, with her mane of short hair, she was a no less startling companion. The smile of Felix had never been more whimsically employed than during that ten-day visit. The evening John Freeland came to dinner was the highwater mark of his alarmed amusement. Mr. Cuthcott, also bidden, at Nedda's instigation, seemed to take a mischievous delight in drawing out those two young people in face of their official uncle. The pleasure of the dinner to Felix--and it was not too great--was in watching Nedda's face. She hardly spoke, but how she listened! Nor did Derek say much, but what he did say had a queer, sarcastic twinge about it.

"An unpleasant young man," was John's comment afterward. "How the deuce did he ever come to be Tod's son? Sheila, of course, is one of these hot-headed young women that make themselves a nuisance nowadays, but she's intelligible. By the way, that fellow Cuthcott's a queer chap!" What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. did Derek show his condition?
2. what did John comment after?
3. who did Felix get along better with?
4. why?
5. what made felix happy as dinner?
6. did she talk a lot?
7. what did she do?
8. how did john describe sheila?
9. what about fellow Cuthcott?
10. did he think sheila was dumb?
11. what was felixs smile like during the visit?
Answer: 1. No
2. "An unpleasant young man"
3. Sheila
4. because she was devoid of that scornful tang which clung about her brother
5. watching Nedda's face
6. No
7. she listened
8. As one of these hot-headed young women that make themselves a nuisance
9. He's a queer chap
10. No
11. It had never been more whimsically employed

Jenny was a 13 year old girl with blond hair and blue eyes. She had gotten out of her last day of school and was free for the summer. Two of her friends were going to the nearby beach to do some swimming and enjoy the sun. Jenny went with them and when they got there the beach was very full and there were people everywhere. They changed into their bathing suits and went to the water. The water was very cold. They chose not swim and walked to the sand. Then they laid down on some towels and enjoyed the sun.

After several hours Jenny and her friends fell asleep. They woke up and the sun was beginning to set. When Jenny sat up she found that it was painful to touch her skin. When she looked down she saw that she had a very bad sunburn. Her friends were also very badly sunburned so they went home. Jenny's mother gave her a cream to put on the sunburn. Afterwards she felt a lot better and went to sleep. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Did the girls fall asleep straight away?
2. How long did it take?
3. What time of day did they wake up?
4. Was they sun in the sky?
5. What did Jenny notice?
6. How many went to the beach?
7. Was it busy?
8. Was the water warm?
9. Did they swim?
10. What did they do instead?
11. Did they sit on the sand?
12. on the sand directly?
13. Is Jenny an adult?
Answer:
1. no
2. all day
3. the evening
4. it was setting
5. they were sunburnt
6. three
7. yes
8. no
9. no
10. subathed
11. they laid down
12. no, on towels
13. no