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Question 22 : The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

For years, movies and television series like Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) paint an unrealistic picture of the “science of voices.” In the 1994 movie Clear and Present Danger an expert listens to a brief recorded utterance and declares that the speaker is “Cuban, aged 35 to 45, educated in the […] eastern United States.” The recording is then fed to a supercomputer that matches the voice to that of a suspect, concluding that the probability of correct identification is 90%. This sequence sums up a good number of misimpressions about forensic phonetics, which have led to errors in real-life justice. Indeed, that movie scene exemplifies the so-called “CSI effect”—the phenomenon in which judges hold unrealistic expectations of the capabilities of forensic science.

  1. Voice recognition has started to feature prominently in crime-scene intelligence investigations because of movies and television series.
  2. Voice recognition as used in many movies to identify criminals has been used to identify criminals in real life also.
  3. Although voice recognition is often presented as evidence in legal cases, its scientific basis can be shaky.
  4. Movies and televisions have led to the belief that the use of forensic phonetics in legal investigations is robust and fool proof.

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Explanatory Answer

The main idea of the paragraph is conveyed in the last sentence: "Indeed, that movie scene exemplifies the so-called “CSI effect”—the phenomenon in which judges hold unrealistic expectations of the capabilities of forensic science." Option D rephrases this. Also note that all other option are specific to voice recognition. The paragraph is more general and talks of forensic science.


The answer is, "Movies and televisions have led to the belief that the use of forensic phonetics in legal investigations is robust and fool proof."

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