English Language Tests (Part C)

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Chief Inspector Harston talks about ways in which computers can help the police fight crime. Members of the public often think of detective work as fast and exciting when Select Answer the most of most of the much of it is slow and boring. For example, a detective on a stolen car case may have to Select Answer check up check in check through long lists of information, and in the time it takes him Select Answer to do for to do to doing this the thief may well escape. With the new National Police Computer we are now able to find out details of car ownership and driving licences in a fraction of the time it takes Select Answer in for by traditional methods. We Select Answer are also developing are also develop also developing systems of storing fingerprint information in computers and even information about Select Answer peoples people people's appearance. It's possible to work out codes for visual details and to connect a computer to a videotape recorder. Then, instead of Select Answer looking up looking into looking through books of photographs Select Answer we'll be able to we'll be able we can to ask the computer to sort out the right ones, and see photographs of suspects Select Answer to flash flashing flashed across a VTR screen. In police work speed is often essential, so computers are ideal Select Answer to helping for helping for to help us catch criminals. The only problem is that we now have a new kind of criminal - the very clever man who knows Select Answer to how how to make huge sums of money by Select Answer cheating to cheat cheat a computer, and he is Select Answer too difficult indeed very difficult indeed so difficult indeed to catch.

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