ACTIVITY 22:
Without looking at the original text on
the previous page, fill each of the blank spaces with one
suitable word. (Some blank spaces
accept more than one alternative). Then
check the correct answers.
ARE YOU LYING?
The success rate
up to 90%
claimed for lie detectors is misleadingly attractive.
If we refer
a figure to a
company with 500 employees, twenty of
are thieves,
the lie detector could catch 18 of them but in
so would place
32 innocent employees
suspicion. The
problem for the management would therefore become
of deciding
much industrial
unrest they
prepared to
cause in
to eliminate
theft. It seems surprising that a
more effective
way of using lie detectors has not
into fashion.
This method consists in
the subject to
read aloud statements about the crime
question.
Clearly, anyone who was not
of the true
facts would not
any distinction
between saying: 'The thief was
a sports jacket'
and 'The thief was dressed
a blue suit'.
a person who
knew the true facts would be likely to register a
reaction.
or not he
to disguise his
reaction, the method would ensure that an innocent
person could not be convicted in his place.
Connectors
ACTIVITY
23:
Choose the right connector in each sentence.You can use them only once. Then
check the correct answers.
, an article I have just read
may seem too far-fetched to be true. But
some obvious exaggerations, it seems
improbable in some modern
armies where soldiers cannot be compelled to get their hair cut,
for example.
the soldiers
see no harm
, but what is really
is whether they have a
military mentality at all. In short,
that people must like
discipline
they would not join the army
. Of course
say that soldiers can be
just as effective with long hair as with short, but in fact it
is necessary to supply them with hairnets,
machinists in factories, to
avoid the risk of accidents.
