PART 1

Choose a suitable word or words to fill the spaces.

1. The project needs to be . . . . . . by someone with banking experience.

overlooked overdrawn overseen overridden

2. The history of Elgar's music on disk is almost as old as the . . . . . . . . . . itself.

maestro metre medium master

3. Which film would you ...................... to someone who likes westerns?

recommend review recollect recall

4. Oh, I know Rome well; I ..................... a year there.

stayed stopped spent stood

5. If the company ....................... on its bank loans, we might as well declare insolvency.

defers debars defaults defects

6. Without .................................. an eyelid, he took money from crooks and despots.

blinking beating backing batting

PART 2

Complete this text by filling in each space with one or more suitable words.

to the Oxford English Dictionary, clairvoyance is a French word that is used in English to refer to the supposed human faculty that enables an individual to perceive things or events destined to occur in the future or beyond the reach of normal perception. Like most people, you probably give this little ; although, you would be hard to disprove it conclusively. The same perfunctory judgement might be applied to other issues belonging to the catch-all cubby-hole labelled paranormal phenomena, in which reports to do with spiritualism, poltergeist, levitation, telekinesis, and so forth, reside.

all, the term paranormal is simply used to refer to matters that lie beyond the scope of normal objective investigation or explanation. But then, many people have witnessed what they take to be proof that at least one particular paranormal phenomenon does indeed exist. Millions, if not totally , believed, for the most part, their own eyes, as Uri Geller went about his spoon-bending stunts. these were duly validated by physicists, psychologists, psychiatrists, telekineticists, and the media, until other than a fellow magician, soon to be followed by a whole bevy of others, showed that anyone can do it.

Enough, you might say, to disparage any arguments in support of a paranormal world. Yet, is it? Few will not have experienced the disturbing feeling of déjà vu and been convinced that what was a first-time encounter was no such thing. enough to go on, you might say; but, wait a minute! What about that intuitive feeling we all experience, time and again, when someone surreptitiously pays us attention. How do we know? We usually do, don't we? Yes, telepathy is considered much less paranormal than, say, telekinesis, even though it cannot be detected or measured by any known scientific methods. Investigators have conducted rigorously-controlled tests that purport to show, on statistical grounds, that people claiming telepathic can indeed receive, in real time, information of which they can have no possible .

Let us keep open minds so that we may consider some of the of telepathy. First, we should try to label it; how about 'the interchange of thoughts or ideas, via unknown physical or non-physical channels of communication'? This would require us to give credence to the notion that a thought, a apparently immaterial product of the intellect, can leave the body, travel intact and independently, enter the mind of another or others, and finally impart intelligible to the recipient(s). If true, this might mean that intellectual output, namely thoughts and ideas, can exist outside the body, able to move from place to place in an instant, able to traverse the universe in no time at all.

Once demonstrated, that would put paid to monism, the philosophical doctrine holding that mind and body are one and the same substance; nothing other than a brain in a body. Be that as it may, it is by no means clear how we could set about disproving telepathy.

PART 3

Write about 350 words expressing your views about the paranormal.

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