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IMPERIAL ENGLISH UK

TASK 3

READING

a) Look at the page from the extract that you have just heard. Underline or
highlight the key information you heard in Task 2.

Bart Wilson walked across the dusty desert road to where some local police officers
were standing by the body of the dead man.
Two of the police officers were human and looked pleased to see him. One of
them was an iCop and its face was blank, like all robot faces.
Judge Burgess, the dead man, never showed up at work today; his assistant had FAMOUS STORIES
alerted the police after a couple of hours. They got in touch with his iCar and
found it here. With Judge Burgess.
Wilson looked down at the body of the judge. He was a fat man, in his late fifties.
His body was smashed and the dust around him was broken up with tyre marks. He
had obviously been hit by a car.
Wilson was joined by his own iFBI robot and he looked at it for information, as
he always did. The robot performed a background check on Burgess and found
nothing that pointed to him being murdered. It suggested that human investigation
may be useful. This pleased Wilson, making him feel like he was still useful even
though so many robots were involved in the police force now.
Wilson looked around, he noticed something by the body – it was some kind of
footprint. He looked closer – yes, a footprint! But a strange one – it was a deep
one, left by a heavy foot. And the shape was odd. Not a human foot, then. A
robot?
He stood up, frowning. A robot had been here and looked at the body of Judge
Burgess after he had been hit by the car and killed. But why didn’t the robot report
the body of a dead human at once? That’s what the robots are programmed to do.

b) Are the sentences below True () or False (X)? Correct the false sentences.

1) Judge Burgess was already dead when Bart Wilson arrived at the scene.
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2) Judge Burgess was on his way home from work.
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3) Judge Burgess’ assistant called the police immediately.
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4) Judge Burgess was overweight.
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5) The iFBI checked Burgess’ personal history.
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6) Not a lot of robots work in the police force.
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7) Robots have to report dead human bodies.
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