you will be able to recall intimate details of a certain moment if there was a distinctive smell, an abnormal sight, a loud noise, an odd taste or a weird feeling (touch). These will serve in the same way as markers of previous statements of position. For example if you have a moment that you find yourself in emotional turmoil feeling the loss of a person in your life you may remember times in your life when you felt connected, but you will notice that even the memory will be primarily held in place by one sense… a lot of the time it is sight. A picture will immediately bring an emotional response. It can be any of the senses though, for example if you recall an intense session of lovemaking it will be more the sense of touch that will hold the moment in place…
As you can see, the brain is just the hard drive that holds the information. It is the mind that needs to be observed and understood, how the parts of the mind interact and instruct the saving of the information. It is also interesting to observe that most of today's mental illnesses are treated by altering the way the hard drive (brain) accesses the information with drugs instead of spending more time on reconstructing how the information is put there. This is of course because it is very difficult for even the most intelligent of people to grasp that there is even a difference. (2)
Word study:
Task 5
Compose word combinations matching a line in A with a line in B.
Task 6
Match the definitions.
Task 7
Match the words with similar meaning.
Task 8
Give the Russian equivalents to the following.
It is important to recognize, go through the exact same electrical process, difference between imagination, a single grain of sand, source of happiness and misery, immovable rigid memory structure, expansion of consciousness, emotional response.
Task 9
Translate the following word combinations into English.
Реагировать на окружающую среду, наблюдать за чем-либо, ограничивать избыток чего-либо, результат отношений, держать в памяти, сила притяжения, структура памяти, ограничивать себя, преимущественно, эмоциональный отклик.
Task 10
Match an adjective (A) and a noun (B).
Task 11
Match these sentences halves (as given in the text).
Task 12
Which preposition goes with the following verbs?
Task 13
Look at the expressions below. Use a dictionary to check any words and phrases you did not understand.
1. the country suffered a brain drain
2. he is really brainy
3. can I pick your brains later?
4. we need to do some brainstorming
5. I have had a brainwave
6. he went out of his mind(with anger)
7. cast your mind back
8. he put it out of his mind
9. have/keep an open mind on difficult issues
10. put your mind to it
11. she is not in her right mind
12. he is in two minds
13. the job was completely mindless
14. I can see it in my mind’s eye
15. it was totally mindless vandalism
Task 14
Replace the phrases in bold with an expression from the previous exercise. You may need to change the form of the words or phrases to fit the sentence.
a) All the people in the office met to share their ideas.
b) He is a little bit crazy and unstable.
c) I am sure you can solve the problem if you really try hard.
d) The residents all agreed the attack on the library was without any reason whatsoever.
e) I have never seen her so angry, she completely lost control.
f) There was a huge number of skilled and professional people leaving.
g) I do not know the answer myself so I would like to get some of your ideas.
h) He decided to consider all the possibilities and not decide on one answer immediately.
i) This work is the most boring, repetitive thing I’ve ever done. I don’t have to use my brain at all.
j) She was always really clever at school.
k) The policeman asked me to remember something that happened a long time ago.
l) There are a couple of things that I am unable to decide about.
m) She’d never been there but when I described the island, she could imagine what it looke like.
n) It was taking a long time to think of something but suddenly I had a fantastic idea.
o) She couldn’t change wht had happened so she decided not to think about it any more.
Speaking:
Task 15
Answer the following questions.
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