Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blank from 18 to 23.
(18).......... as a means of security for banks. In Britain they first appeared in 1953 and by the 1960s, there were already a few cameras in major streets in London. Today, there are more than four million CCTV cameras across the country. That's one camera for every fourteen people. The cameras are there to film dangerous or illegal behaviour. With new software, they can (19)............ the faces of known offenders, and a new kind of CCTV in the Netherlands can detect angry voices and automatically (20)............. . Some CCTV cameras can even interact with the people they are watching. But these cameras don't just watch criminals; they watch all of us, (21)............ .
The amount of surveillance in towns and cities across Britain is increasing because (22)........... . Some goods in shops now have RFID tags (radio frequency identification tags) attached to them. When you pick up one of these items, the RFID tag sends a radio message to a CCTV camera and the camera starts filming you. Shops say that this technology helps to catch shoplifters - but only by treating (23).......... as a potential criminal.
Question 18.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blank from 18 to 23.
(18).......... as a means of security for banks. In Britain they first appeared in 1953 and by the 1960s, there were already a few cameras in major streets in London. Today, there are more than four million CCTV cameras across the country. That's one camera for every fourteen people. The cameras are there to film dangerous or illegal behaviour. With new software, they can (19)............ the faces of known offenders, and a new kind of CCTV in the Netherlands can detect angry voices and automatically (20)............. . Some CCTV cameras can even interact with the people they are watching. But these cameras don't just watch criminals; they watch all of us, (21)............ .
The amount of surveillance in towns and cities across Britain is increasing because (22)........... . Some goods in shops now have RFID tags (radio frequency identification tags) attached to them. When you pick up one of these items, the RFID tag sends a radio message to a CCTV camera and the camera starts filming you. Shops say that this technology helps to catch shoplifters - but only by treating (23).......... as a potential criminal.
Question 18.