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Exercise 27 GENIUS
We all know stories about people with (0) ...................... EXCEPTION
memories who have the (1).................................................. ABLE
to remember hundreds of numbers after hearing them only
once. Now experts are saying that such feats can be taught.
For example, most people can (2)............about nine REPETITION
numbers if they are read out one a second. In one
experiment, ten hours' training (3)................only PRODUCT
a small (4)........................., but the results after practising IMPROVE
for a thousand hours were (5)....................: some AMAZE
people remembered 80 or even 100 numbers. Similarly,
most adults can (6)...............only about 5 out IDENTITY
of a set of 21 colours that are only(7)................................. SLIGHT
different. But after 80 training hours one person
could recognise 18 of them. Studies of 76 major
(8)..................show that it took at least ten years of COMPOSE
(9).................training before any of them wrote a MUSIC
major work. Psychologists are therefore raising
the (10).............that genius is the product of teaching. POSSIBLE
Exercise 28 HEALTHY EATING
In the past, any mother would be (0)...................if PRIDE
her children were round and slightly fat. Those
days are gone. (1).....................have now reached the RESEARCH
(2)................that too much fat and sugar in her children's CONCLUDE
diets are a major factor in the (3)....................of heart DEVELOP
diseases and other(4).........................when they are older. ILL
However, (5)......................children need to eat a wide GROW
range of foods, and their general health could
be(6)....................by cutting out particular ones. Psychologists DANGER
say that the (7)......................is not to change SOLVE
eating habits too fast, but to do it (8)......................, so CARE
that children do not lose muscle in addition to
fat. Parents should present food a little (9)................... DIFFERENCE
, spread butter thinly and avoid putting sugar
on the table. Children should also be(10)............. COURAGE
to take part in sports: this way they will be using
the calories that they have eaten.
Exercise 29 COLLECTING EGGCUPS
People collect a large (0)..........................of objects: VARY
stamps, postcards, dolls. Some people collect
objects which are connected with (1)................. HISTORY
events or with (2)..................people. But one of FAME
the strangest(3).............is that of eggcups. COLLECT
Kenvin Murphy of Bradford in Yorkshire has
10.000 of them. Not (4)..................., his favorite SUPPRISE
eggcup is one in the shape of a (5)................... Yorkshire man TYPE
. Kenvin's hobby began seven years ago
, after he (6)..................an elephant eggcup to LOAN
a granddaughter who took such a (7)............................ LIKE
to it she insisted on keeping it. Kenvin saw a few
eggcups he liked at a (8)......................at a local shop, SELL
and started collecting them.
Others like Kenvin's eggcup too. " I have just
bought a ( 9)................for one of my favorites, REPLACE
which (10)................disappeared last week, " he said MYSTERY
1. following
2. drivers
3. directions
4. previously
5. failure
6. manager
7. unsatisfactory
8. apologised
9. ambitious
10. confident