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Decide if the verbs in bold are in the correct
form. Rewrite the incorrect forms.
Psychologists (a) had been interested in discovering
the key to lying for a long time, but it still doesn't
seem easy to work out what makes a good liar. Once,
a psychologist called Richard Wiseman (b) has done
an interesting experiment using television. He
(c) interviewed a famous person called Robin Day
about his favourite film. In the first interview, Day
(d) told Wiseman the truth. He (e) described how he
loved the film Some Like It Hot. In the second interview,
he (f) lied, telling the interviewer how much he liked
Gone with the Wind, even though he really hated it.
When they (g) had been finishing the interviews, they
(h) asked viewers to watch the two interviews and
to decide in which interview Day (i) had been lying.
Almost 30,000 people phoned in to vote, but the votes
were completely divided between the two interviews.
It became clear that viewers (j) were simply guessing.
Then a surprising thing happened. On the same day,
the two interviews (k) appeared on the radio and in a
newspaper. Seventy-three per cent of the radio listeners
correctly (1) guessed when Day (m) was lying, and
so did 64 per cent of the newspaper readers. Other
recent tests (n) have suggested the same conclusion,
that body language and facial expressions give little
indication of people's sincerity. It seems to be more a
question of the words we use.
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