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Answer key: Unit 3
Vocabulary and grammar review | 4 1 F (He compares face-blindness to tone-deafness:
Unit 1
1 1 gave 2 making 3 give 4 made, giving 5 give
6 gave 7 give 8 making
2 1 found the advice (that) Gustavo gave 2 should be
given the opportunity/chance 3 had never been/ Presenter: This week’s All in the Mind examines an
gone skiing before/until/till 4 Paola gave made a
favourable impression 5 has changed in/over the
last/past 6 give you a refund / refund your money
unless Professor: Hello. Well, let’s start with an image some
3 1 had stopped 2 We’d been standing, were feeling
3 I’ve driven 4 she’s been studying 5 had been
eating 6 used to work 7 had been coming, were
repairing 8 went
Vocabulary and grammar review |
Unit 2
1 1 universal 2 explosion 3 variety 4 characteristics
5 influential 6 enrich 7 tendency 8 changeable
2 1 accurately 2 articulate 3 command 4 fluency
5 pick up 6 mother tongue 7 bilingual
3 1 get 2 making 3 doing 4 made 5 make 6 do
4 1 with the intention of 2 so as 3 in case
4 otherwise 5 due to 6 so that
3 All in the mind
Listening | Part 2
3 Face-blindness
CD 1 Track 08
Presenter: This week’s All in the Mind examines an
unusual condition you may never have heard of before:
prosopagnosia. Here’s Professor Alexander Scharma to
explain.
Professor: Hello. Well, let’s start with an image some
of you may be familiar with: a painting called The
Son of Man, by the surrealist artist René Magritte. In
the picture, an apple floats in front of a man’s face,
covering the features that would normally allow him to
be recognised. The painting perfectly illustrates the
concept of prosopagnosia, or face-blindness.
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not distinguish between the faces, but they could
distinguish between the pictures of other things.)
CD 1 Track 09
unusual condition you may never have heard of before:
prosopagnosia. Here’s Professor Alexander Scharma to
explain.
of you may be familiar with: a painting called The
Son of Man, by the surrealist artist René Magritte. In
the picture, an apple floats in front of a man’s face,
covering the features that would normally allow him
to be recognised. The painting perfectly illustrates
the concept of prosopagnosia, or face-blindness. To
people with this condition, as soon as someone leaves
their sight the memory of that person’s face is blank –
or, at best, a set of jumbled features. Face-blindness
is a little like tone-deafness: the tone can be heard, or
the face seen, but distinguishing between different
tones or faces is nearly impossible. The effects of
prosopagnosia can be so bad that people severely
affected can’t recognise their own parents or children.
If we understood how the normal brain recalls faces,
we’d be well on the way to understanding this strange
disorder. It might also help us to understand human
evolution, since the ability to recognise faces is more
or less equal to the ability to recognise individuals. This
ability helps to hold society together and has enabled
human beings to develop a complex culture which is
unique in the animal kingdom.
The question scientists need to answer is whether this
basic ability has its own private brain mechanism, or
whether it’s simply one aspect of a general ability to
recognise individual members of a particular class of
objects. Researchers have used face-blind volunteers
to explore this question. The subjects were shown
images of cars, tools, guns, houses and landscapes,
and also black-and-white pictures of faces with no hair
on their heads. Ten of these images were repeated. The
subjects were asked to indicate, as quickly as possible,
whether each image they saw was new or repeated. The
results were surprising. None of the face-blind subjects
could recognise the faces in the series well, but they
could distinguish between the other repeated pictures
as easily as people without prosopagnosia could. That
confirms the idea that faces are handled differently
by the brain from other objects. It’s been shown in
experiments that people with face-blindness