- •Part II
- •The Benefits of Online Fitness Training
- •Part III
- •Good Food Guide to the States
- •In which review are the following stated?
- •Use of english Part I
- •Fingernails growing faster
- •Part II
- •A short history of tattooing
- •Part III
- •India's rainforest by night
- •Part IV
- •Listening Part I – Multiple Matching
- •Part II – Sentence Completion
- •Part III – Multiple Choice
- •Part II
- •Getting rid of plastic bags
- •Part III
- •Use of english Part I
- •The sticking plaster
- •Part II
- •How the Tour de France began
- •Part III
- •Part IV
- •Listening Part I – Multiple Matching
- •Part II – Sentence Completion
- •Australian Adventure Holiday
- •Part III – Multiple Choice
- •Part II
- •Chance encounter
- •Part III
- •Use of english Part I
- •The Orient Express
- •Part II
- •In pursuit of excellence
- •Part III
- •The people of the Orinoco Delta
- •Part IV
- •Listening Part I – Multiple Matching
- •Part II – Sentence Completion
- •The magnificent carrot
- •Part III – Multiple Choice
- •An Apple Day
- •A New Approach to Cooking
- •Zookeepers for a day
- •Part II
- •Two Journalists and the Butterflies of Britain
- •Independent journalist Michael McCarthy reports on a new book about butterflies which has made a remarkable impression on him.
- •Learning about Black Bears
- •Conserving Jaguars
- •Ecology in a Volcanic Lake
- •The not so nutty professor
- •Part III
- •The Latest Computer Games
- •Campsites of Australia
- •Use of english part I
- •What makes someone intelligent?
- •The value of walking
- •Fashion hurts
- •Greenpeace
- •Part II
- •Salt consumption and health
- •Environmental issues
- •Kangaroos
- •Flamingos
- •Part III
- •An unusual park
- •The importance of pets
- •The smell of New Zealand birds
- •Evidence of ancient towns found in Amazon
- •Part IV
- •Speaking
- •Listening
- •Section three supplementary files
- •An Autism Treatment as Easy as h2o?
- •Ants Are First Animal Known To Navigate By Stereo Smell
- •As Elders Rock, Emotional Burden Of Dementia Eases
- •Beyond the Brain
- •In Sheep, an Upside To Immune Weakness
- •Arthritis
- •The effect of climate change on migratory birds
- •Allergy Alert
- •Fire Crews Hunt Escaped Hamster
As Elders Rock, Emotional Burden Of Dementia Eases
Nursing home residents who have dementia can literally rock away their (0) … and depression, nurse researchers have found, simply by rocking back and forth in a rocking chair for about an hour or two a day. (1) … who rocked the most in a research study even requested less medications to (2) … their daily aches and pains, and their balance improved. It turns out that the (3) … really does bring some peace of mind to many folks. It's been very well documented with infants that a gentle repetitive motion has a (4) … effect. We've shown that the same is (5) … in an older population that is (6) … distressed. Scientists studied 25 nursing home (7) … diagnosed as having dementia, either due to Alzheimer's disease or other causes. Nurses (8) … monitored patient behavior for the six weeks residents rocked and compared it to their (9) … during six weeks when the rocking mechanism on the chairs was (10) … . During the weeks they rocked, most residents' psychological and emotional well-being improved. |
0 - ANXIOUS
1 - PATIENCE 2 - EASY 3 - ACTIVE
4 - SOOTHE 5 - TRUTH
7 - RESIDE 8 - CLOSE
9 - BEHAVE 10 - DISABILITY |
Exercise 4. For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example 0 Egiptians
Beyond the Brain
The ancient (0) … thought so little of brain matter they made a practice of scooping it out through the nose of a (1) … leader before packing the skull with cloth before (2) … . They believed (3) … resided in the heart, a view shared by Aristotle and a legacy of medieval thinkers. Even when consensus for the locus of thought moved northward into the head, it was not the brain that was (4) … to be the sine qua non, but the empty spaces within it, called ventricles, where ephemeral spirits swirled about. French philosopher René Descartes codified the (5)… of conscious thought from the (6) … flesh of the brain. Cartesian "dualism" exerted a (7) … influence over Western science for centuries, and while (8) … by most neuroscientists today, still (9) … the popular belief in mind as a magical, transcendent quality. Thomas Willis - often referred to as the father of neurology – was the first to suggest that not only was the brain itself the locus of the mind, but that (10) … parts of the brain give rise to specific cognitive functions. |
0 - EGYPT 1 - DIE 2 - BURY, 3 - CONSCIOUS
4 - BELIEF
5 - SEPARATE, 6 - PHYSICS, 7 - POWER, 8 - DISMISSAL, 9 - FOOD
10 - DIFFERENCE |
Exercise 5. For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example 0 selection