Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la UNIT 12
din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa XI intitulat ADVANCED GOLD, Editura
Longman, Autori Sally Burgess si Richard Acklam, Editia 2001
UNIT
12: Mind over matter
Reading
Page 142
Exercise
3
1. F: ‘these odd mistakes’ (Para F) ‘certain strange problems’ (line 3), plus
examples in rest of paragraph ‘… when diabetes developed’ (Para F);
‘Well aware that it could affect his eyes …’ (line 12)
2. H: ‘… came to me.’ (line 17); ‘It was obvious
within a few seconds of meeting him…’ (Para H), ‘I couldn’t think why he had
been referred to our clinic.’ Para H), ‘And yet there was something a bit odd.’
(line 18)
3. A: ‘his eyes’ (line 21); ‘These, instead of
looking at me …’ (Para A)
4. G: ‘… they make a sort of symphony, do they
not?’ (Para G); ‘What a lovely man I thought’ (line 27)
5. E: ‘… the first bizarre experience occurred.’
(lines 34-35), ‘I had taken off his left shoe … left him to put on the shoe
himself.’ (Para E); ‘To my surprise, a minute later, he had not done this’;
‘Can I help?’ (Para C)
6. C “Did he mis-see?’ (LINE 45), ‘My eyes…’ (Para C)
7. B: ‘I opened out a copy of the National
Geographic Magazine, and asked him to describe some pictures in it.’ (lines
51-53); ‘I showed him the cover, …’ (Para B), ‘… had driven him to imagine the
river and terrace.’ (Para B), ‘I must have looked aghast, but he seemed to
think he had done rather well.’ (lines 54-55)
Vocabulary:
expressions with take Page 144
Exercise
1
1. i
2. e
3. d
4. h
5. a
6. k
7. c
8. f
9. l
10.b
Exercise
2
2. understand
3. start to like
4. start to employ
5. not allow something to annoy you
6. accept (people) as they are
7. treat someone unfairly
8. accept that someone will always be there
9. being amazed
10. decide to do something
11. make someone feel very tired
12. do something about
Exercise
3
1. upon
2. up
3. out
4. to
5. granted
6. breath
7. advantage
8. stride
9. on
10. be
11.way
12. in
Listening:
song Page 145
Exercise
1
Someone with a serious case of amnesia
Exercise
3
1. papers
2. way
3. gone
4. stomach
5. bed
6. decoder
7. make
8. fear
9. staring
10. nothing
Grammar
plus: emphasis with inversion Page 145
Exercise
1
The a) sentences give more emphasis to the
adverbials (Not only … and Seldom), and thus have a more dramatic
impact on the reader.
Exercise
2
There is an auxiliary verb (did and have) before the
subject (Dr. P and I) in each of the sentences.
Exercise
3
1. witness, providing an account of an armed
hold-up to police or reporters
2. politician, making a speech during an
election campaign
3. accountant, talking to junior members of
accounts department staff
4. university lecturer, giving an inaugural
lecture to students, parents and staff at the beginning of the academic year
Exercise
4
1. No sooner had I turned
the corner, than I saw these three men in balaclavas.
2. rarely has this country
been in such need of strong leadership.
3. Under no circumstances
can we be late with the figures for next year.
4. At no time in recent
history have we seen such rapid technological change.
Exercise
5
1. Not only did he miss the
meeting, but he failed to finish the report on time.
2. Rarely have I met such
an interesting individual.
3. At no time did I ever
believe that Ms Stevens took. Had taken the money.
4. Hardly had I left the
room when I heard someone calling my name.
5. Only after signing/ she
had signed the agreement did she realise what a terrible mistake she had made.
6. No sooner had the judge
entered the courtroom than the defendant started shouting.
7. Scarcely had we got on
the plane when the flight attendants asked us to go back to the departure
lounge.
8. Under no circumstances
were we allowed to enter the building without an identity pass.
Exercise
6
1. In a pub, two friends.
2. In a hall, a politician
speaking to an audience.
Exercise
7
There is a lot of inversion for emphasis in the
second extract, a politician speech.
Exercise
8
No sooner had they got into power than they
began dismantling the framework of our national health service
At no time in living memory have we had such
poor provision for our elderly
Under no circumstances can we allow this
government to be elected.
Never have I heard such a lame excuse.
Watch
Out!
1. No sooner … than
2. Hardly … when
Grammar
check: questions Page 148
Exercise
1
No. She feels that she has been tricked into
getting on the plane.
Exercise
2
2. How had her fear of flying affected her?
3. What had she decided to do to solve the
problem?
4. What did the cabin crew have to do?
5. Where were they taken in the coaches?
6. Why did she think ‘they’ had won?
Exercise
3
1. √
2. Who did give gave you permission to leave school
early?
3. √
4. About What is that book you’re reading about?
5. √
6. √
7. Will you please tell me
where you did go went last
night?
Exercise
4
1. How long have you lived
here?
2. What are you doing next
Friday evening?
3. Who is your best friend
going out with?
4. Where did you learn to
speak such good English?
Listening
Page 149
Exercise
1
1. 1980s
2. headphones
3. armchair
4. ping-pong balls
5. image library
6. 3
7. pick out
8. 10
9. 128
10. 39 million
Exercise
2
1. A subject is isolated in
a small room with halves of ping pong balls covering her/his eyes. Once the
person is in a relaxed state, an image generated by computer is ‘beamed’ to the
subject by another person outside the room. The computer then shows the subject
four images including the one that was ‘beamed’ and the subject has to say
which one is it.
2. The success rate is
twice as high as was expected and the chance of this happening by chance are
one in 39 million. This is a much greater level of significance than in most
scientific experiments.
Vocabulary:
sound and light Page 149
Exercise
1
1. hiss
crash hum screech
bang roar thud
2. flash
flicker sparkle beam
twinkle glow
Exercise
2
1. roar
2. crash
3. hum
4. screech
5. bang
6. hiss
7. thud
Exercise
3
Illustration 1: flicker
Illustration 2: beam
Illustration 3: twinkle
Illustration 4: sparkle
Illustration 5: glow
Illustration 6: flash
Exercise
4
hiss: people reacting to the villain in a
pantomime or silent film
flash: someone shipwrecked on a desert island
trying to attract attention with a mirror
flicker: the visible evidence of an emotion
(embarrassment, anger, recognition, etc.) in someone’s eyes
crash: a building being demolished
hum: the sound of the audience talking quietly
among themselves before a performance begins
screech: the sound of someone’s fingernails on a
blackboard
sparkle: bubbles in a glass of champagne
bang: a tyre exploding
roar: a swollen river rushing towards the sea
beam: a lighthouse in the fog
thud: someone falling to the floor in a faint
twinkle: the visible evidence of amusement or
happiness in someone’s eyes
glow: a fluorescent frisbee in the dark
Exercise
5
1. beam
2. flash
3. flickered
4. roared
5. glowed
6. crash
7. screech
8. humming
9. thud
10. sparkled
11.bang
12. hissing
13. twinkled
Writing:
article Page 150
Exercise
2
What the mind can do: the biggest unsolved
mystery
Can we read another’s minds?
Does ‘mind over matter’ matter to scientists?
Extraordinary claims and some
extraordinary evidence.
Improbable truths.
Exercise
3
1. No, but students have presumably added one in
Exercise 2.
2. Yes. It establishes an atmosphere of mystery
and raises questions (Where is this ‘small room at Edinburgh University
3. Yes (lines 23-24)
4. Yes (Opening paragraph)
5. Yes. ‘What’ … for emphasis. ‘For the past 10
years what they have been attempting to do is …’ (lines 11-12)
Inversion for emphasis: ‘… under no circumstances do orthodox scientists
appear…’ (line 22)
6. Yes: (Statistics in para 3)
7. Yes: ‘haze of pink light’, ‘gentle hissing’
(Para 1); ‘devised a range of rigorous tests’, ‘startling results’ (Para 3);
‘fluke, error, even fraud … is more plausible (Para 4); ‘… neatly summed up’ (Para 5)
8. Yes (Statistics in Para
3)
9. Yes (Para 4 lines 27-29; Para
5 lines 32-34)
10. Yes
English
in Use: Page 152
Exercise
1
Hypnotism is sometimes used in the treatment of
psychological problems such as phobias. It is also used to help people give up
smoking and to break other patterns of behaviour that are seen as detrimental,
and has even been employed as a substitute for chemical anesthetics in
dentistry, surgery and childbirth.
Exercise
2
He seems positive about it.
Exercise
3
1. subconscious (adj)
2. complaints (noun)
3. anxiety (noun)
4. stress (noun)
5. impressive (adj)
6. injection (noun)
7. understandable (adj)
8. intention (noun)
Unit
12 Review Page 153
Exercise
1
1. B
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. A
8. A
9. D
10. C
11. A
12. C
13. B
14. C
15. D
Exercise
2
1. Not only did Simon break a bone in his foot
but he also dislocated his shoulder.
2. No sooner had he walked through the front
door than the phone rang.
3. Only after I had shouted/ after shouting at
Jerry for not waking me up did I remember it was the weekend.
4. Never before have I been so attracted to
someone.
5. Hardly had we moved into our new house when
the central heating stopped working.
Exercise
3
1. If we don’t take on more
people.
2. It really took my breath
away to hear that she had been fired.
3. We really took to Gail
from the beginning.
4. Looking after my mother
after her stroke has really taken it out of me.
5. You should take this
matter up with the council.
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