IELTS IELTS IELTS ACADEMIC READING 2 Task Type: Matching headings You should spend about 20 minutes on this exercise. You are going to read a text about Robots at work . The text has seven paragraphs labelled A-G. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. There are two extra headings you do not need to use. Write the correct number in the boxes provided below. List of headings 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Robots working together Preparing LGVs for takeover Looking ahead The main functions of LGVs Split location for newspaper production Newspapers superseded by technology Getting the newspaper to the printing centre Controlling the robots Beware of robots! Robots at work A The newspaper production process has come a long way from the old days when the paper was written, edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the journalists working on the upper floors and the printing presses going on the ground floor. These days the editor, subeditors and journalists who put the paper together are likely to find themselves in a totally different building or maybe even in a different city. The daily paper is compiled at the editorial headquarters, known as the pre-press centre, in the heart of the city but printed far away in the suburbs at the printing centre. Here human beings are in the minority as much of the work is done by automated machines controlled by computers. B Once the finished newspaper has been created for the next morning s edition, all the pages are transmitted electronically from the pre-press centre to the printing centre. The system of transmission is an update on the sophisticated page facsimile system already in use on many other newspapers. An image setter at the printing centre delivers the pages as film. Each page takes less than a minute to produce. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce aluminium printing plates ready for the presses. C A procession of automated vehicles is busy at the new printing centre where the daily paper is printed. With lights flashing and warning horns honking, the robots (to give them their correct name, the LGVs or Laser Guided Vehicles) look for all the world like enthusiastic machines from a science fiction movie, as they follow their own random paths around the plant busily getting on with their jobs. Automation of this kind is now standard in all modern newspaper plants. The robots can detect unauthorized personnel and alert security staff immediately if they find an intruder ; not surprisingly, tall tales are already being told about the machines starting to take on personalities of their own. 256