Part 1

Choose a suitable word or words to fill the spaces.

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

overlookedoverdrawnoverseenoverridden

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

maestrometremediummaster

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

recommendreviewrecollectrecall

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

stayedstoppedspentstood

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

defersdebarsdefaultsdefects

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 sensory contact. 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 could 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 rationally a first-time encounter was in fact 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. Although it cannot be detected, let alone measured by any known scientific technique, scientists have conducted rigorously-controlled tests that purport to show, on statistical grounds, that people claiming telepathic can indeed receive information, in real time, 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 supposed interchange of thoughts or ideas, by unknown physical or non-physical channels of communication"? This asks us to give credence to the notion that a thought, a product of the intellect, can leave the body, travel intact and apparently 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, can exist independently of the body; perhaps able to move from place to place in an instant; perhaps able to traverse the universe, in no time at all.

Well, that could well 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 might set about disproving telepathy.

Part 3

Write about 350 words expressing your views about the paranormal.

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