3. The research implied that
A) people with personality disorders dreamt more than others
B) interrupting dreams was more significant than interrupting sleep
C) dreamless sleep led to fewer personality disorders
D) dreams lasted for equal periods of time in different people
E) if sleep was disturbed, then dreams later became disturbed as well
EXERCISE 2: Complete the sentences by selecting words:
a) punctuate b) peculiar c) burst d) drifting e) jerky f) exhibit g) implications
1. It wasn't until the …. ship nearly grounded itself that the onlookers
realized that the crew was in trouble.
2. She has some very …. ideas which both confuse and amuse me.
3. He has been …. symptoms of stress ever since he took on that new job.
4. The minister's speech was …. by spontaneous rounds of applause.
5. We could hear occasional …. of gunfire from behind the enemy lines.
THE MIND'S EYE
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? Everyone knows
the answer: they both weigh the same. An interesting point, however, is what sort of image popped into your head when you read those words. One person who
answered this question saw, distinctly, a pair of scales with a cube of lead on one
scale balancing a big mound of feathers on the other. A second person got no
mental image, but simply conceived of the problem in terms of words. People differ greatly in their power to "make pictures in their heads." Years ago the British
scientist Sir Francis Galton asked a group of colleagues to try to visualize the
breakfast table as they had sat down to eat that morning. Some of them saw the
table in sharp detail and in colour. Others saw it only in black and white. Still others saw a blurred outline, as if through a badly adjusted magic lantern. Many could get no visual image at all. Scientists believe that most people are born with the ability to summon up in the mind's eye precise visual images of past experiences, but that many of us lose this power as we grow up, simply because we fail to exercise it.
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