IELTS Research Reports

An empirical investigation of the process of writing Academic Readingtest items for the International English Language Testing SystemResearchers:A Herbert ClarkeB Hiroshi IshiguroC Ja-Young SungD Daniel LevinE Frank HegerSummary CompletionQuestions 6–13Complete the summary below.Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.A recent study by Frank Heger concluded that how a robot 6. __________ is essential indetermining the 7. ___________ it can have with humans. In his experiment, volunteers hadto assess four opponents ranging from very machine-like equipment to real 8. __________.Volunteers were put in a MRI scanner, which measured the activity of their 9. __________,wearing 10. __________ showing images of their opponents. They then had to decidewhether to work with or 11. __________ the opponent. Their scans showed that theirassessment of their opponents’ 12. __________ was more active when their opponentappeared more 13. __________.Multiple ChoiceQuestions 14–17:Choose the correct letter (A,B,C or D)14 People dress up their Roombas and give them names because...A they want their robots to be different from all the others.B they love their robots.C they give their robots names and genders.D their robots are respected.15 Daniel Levin indicated that levels of social interaction with robots can depend on...A the age of the human.B their intentions.C the sex and nationality of the human.D the way they view humans.IELTS Research Reports Volume 11353