DISAPPEARING MONEY
One of the most mysterious unsolved bank robberies took place
at the First National Bank of Chicago, USA. One Friday in 1977, an
employee at the bank put $4 million in cash in a bank vault. When
another employee came to make the weekly check on the vault,
she discovered that only $3 million was there. A million dollars
had simply disappeared. The robbery appeared in all the national
newspapers. Because nobody had broken into the vault, the police
suspected it was an inside job, and were at first hopeful that they
would recover the money quickly. "It's foolish to rob your own bank,
said one police officer. "You are almost certain to get caught, unless
you are very lucky. Because most robbers are in a hurry, they are
usually careless and leave clues, but the police could find nothing to
identify the thief or thieves. The FBI were suspicious of one employee,
but they didn't have enough reliable evidence to arrest him. Four
years later, police discovered $2,300 of the money in a drugs raid, but
have never found the thief or the rest of the money.
1 Look at the title and the photo. What crime do you think
the text is about?
2 Read the text and check your ideas from exercise 1.
3 Read the Learn this! box. Then find one example of each of
the adjective suffixes in the text in exercise 2 and add them
to the table.