UOE Part 1
For questions 1 – 12, read the text
below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best
fits each gap.
What we know about music and the brain
Work on the human brain has (0) ……..
how different parts are centres of activity for different skills, feelings,
perceptions and so on. It has also been shown that the left and right halves,
or hemispheres, of the brain are (1) …….. for different functions. While
language is processed in the left, or analytical hemisphere, music is processed
in the right, or emotional hemisphere. (2) …….. of
music like tone, pitch and melody are all
probably processed in different parts of the brain. Some features of musical
experience are processed not just in the auditory parts of the brain, but in
the visual ones. We don’t yet fully understand the (3) …….. of this. The
tempo of music seems to be (4) …….. related to its emotional impact,
with fast music often (5) …….. as happier and slower music as sadder. It
is the same with the major biological rhythm of the body: our heart (6) ……..
quickens when we’re happy, but slows when we’re sad. Military music may have (7)
…….. from attempts to get us ready for (8) …….. by using fast
drumming to (9) …….. our hearts into beating faster. Music is perhaps
one of the most complex experiences the brain
(10) ……..
with and it has become an absolutely (11) …….. part of our rituals and
ceremonies. It has power beyond language to (12) …….. mood and
co-ordinate our emotional states.
1 A amenable B dependable C responsible D reliable
2 A Views B Aspects C
Factors D Pieces
3 A expectations B implications C
assumptions D propositions
4 A surely B plainly C
evidently D directly
5 A felt B endured C
encountered D touched
6 A pulse B speed C
pace D rate
7 A evolved B extended C
advanced D elevated
8 A battle B fight C
quarrel D struggle
9 A activate B motivate C
stimulate D animate
10 A manages B copes C
bears D
holds
11 A vital B important C
compulsory D dominant
12 A notify B report C
associate D communicate
Part 2 – Mosquitoes
According
to the World Health Organisation, malaria, a disease spread (0) ........
mosquitoes, affects millions of people every year. Everyone knows how irritating
the noise made by a mosquito, (13) …….. by a painful reaction to its bite, can
be. It is astonishing that so (14) …….. is known about why mosquitoes are drawn
to or driven away from people, given (15) …….. level of distress and disease
caused by these insects. We know that the most effective chemical (16) ……..
protecting people against mosquitoes is diethyltoluamide, commonly shortened (17)
…….. deet. (18) …….. deet works well, it has some serious drawbacks: it can
damage clothes and some people are allergic to it.
Scientists
know that mosquitoes find some people more attractive than others, but they do
not know (19) …….. this should be. They also know that people vary in (20) ……..
reactions to mosquito bites. One person has a painful swelling while (21) ……..
who is bitten by the same mosquito (22) …….. hardly notice. Scientists have
(23) …….. discovered the reason for this, but they have carried (24) ……..
experiments to show that mosquitoes are attracted to, or put (25) …….. by,
certain smells. In the future, scientists hope to develop a smell that
mosquitoes cannot resist. This could be used in a trap (26) …….. that, instead
of attacking people, mosquitoes would fly into the trap and be
destroyed.
For the time (27) …….. however, we have to continue spraying ourselves with
unpleasant
liquids
if we want to avoid getting bitten.
43 There
were a lot of things that we had to think about before we could accept their
offer.
OBLIGED
There
were several things that we ………………..……………….. consideration before we could
accept their offer.
44 Do
you think you could help me to fill in this application form?
WONDERING
I
………………..……………….. me a hand filling in this application form.
45 I
know that it was wrong of me to shout in front of the customers.
RAISED
I know
that I should ………………..……………….. in front of the customers.
