Answers are below the exercises.
Bullfighting is certainly one of the best-known, although at the same time most controversial, Spanish popular customs.
Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” killed three people and wounded 22 with his mailbombs.
______ (Q) From his cabin in the woods in Montana, the reclusive
mathematician sent out bomb after bomb, and then letter after letter haranguing
victims who had survived his attacks.
______ (Q) So perhaps you would not be surprised to learn that the
portion of the emotion system of the brain (the "limbic system") is
in charge of transferring information into memory.
www.psycheducation.org/emotion/hippocampus.htm
______ (Q) The panda also uses its powerful jaws and strong teeth
to crush the tough, fibrous bamboo into bits for its digestive system to
process.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandaFacts/default.cfm
http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/bcp/brainbasics/triune.html
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/matahari.htm
Bullfighting is certainly one of the best-known, although at the same time most controversial, Spanish popular customs.
______ (Q) Formerly this bull's forebears, the primitive urus,
were spread out over wide areas of the world.
______ (R) These bulls also played an important role in the
religious ceremonies of the Iberian tribes living in Spain in prehistoric
times.
______ (S) Many civilizations revered them; the bull cults on the
Greek island of Crete are very well known and the Bible tells of sacrifices of
these bulls in honor of divine justice.
______ (T) In fact, the origins of the plaza de toros (bullring)
are probably not the Roman amphitheatres but rather the Celtic-Iberian temples
where those ceremonies were held.
______ (U) This Fiesta could not exist without the toro bravo, a
species of bull of an ancient race that is only conserved in Spain.
Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” killed three people and wounded 22 with his mailbombs.
______ (R) The mad genius, whom investigators tagged as the
University and Airline Bomber, terrorized the country for nearly two decades.
______ (S) At this time, someone recognized his ideas in the
manifesto: his brother, David, who had not seen Ted for many years, but who had
many deep and thoughtful conversations with him in the past.
______ (T) No one was able to figure out who he was until 1995
when he sent out a 35,000-word manifesto against technology and
industrialization, which the Washington Post and the New York Times published
in order to prevent the Unabomber from carrying out his threat to blow up a
plane over Los Angeles.
______ (U) And so, the brutal chess game between bomber and
government came to an end as a family drama between two brothers who were very
much alike and yet different enough for one to give the other up to the FBI for
the public good.
Emotion and memory are very closely related.
______ (R) From years of experiments and surgical experience, we
now know that the main location for this transfer is a portion of the temporal
lobe called the hippocampus.
______ (S) You know this from your experience.
______ (T) The woman who made you laugh, the man who made you feel
embarrassed, and your new boss - the ones who had an emotional impact.
______ (U) If you go to a party, meet a bunch of new people, which
faces are you going to remember?
www.psycheducation.org/emotion/hippocampus.htm
Millions of zoo visitors enjoy watching giant pandas eat.
______ (R) To make up for the inefficient digestion, a panda needs
to consume a comparatively large amount of food—from 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo
each day meaning that a panda must spend 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and
eating.
______ (S) This posture leaves the front paws free to grasp bamboo
stems with the help of a "pseudo thumb," formed by an elongated and
enlarged wrist bone covered with a fleshy pad of skin.
______ (T) A giant panda’s digestive system is more similar to
that of a carnivore than an herbivore, and so much of what is eaten is passed
as waste.
______ (U) A panda usually eats while sitting upright, in a pose
that resembles how humans sit on the floor.
Paul MacLean, the former director of the Laboratory of the Brain
and Behavior at the United States National Institute of Mental Health,
developed a model of the brain based on its evolutionary development.
______ (Q) We still carry that reptilian part in our brain
(R-complex) but it has been supplemented by an early mammalian brain containing
emotion (limbic system) and a more advanced mammalian brain for higher-order
thinking (neo-cortex).
______ (R) It is referred to as the "triune brain
theory" because MacLean suggests that the human brain is actually three
brains in one.
______ (S) At one point in the evolution of life, reptiles were
the highest life form, but had basic brains that lacked emotional centers –
this is why reptiles often do not care for their young.
______ (T) Each of the layers or "brains" were
established successively in response to evolutionary need.
______ (U) The three layers are the reptilian system, or
R-complex, the limbic system, and the neocortex.
With the outbreak of World War I, Mata Hari's cross-border
liaisons with German political and military figures came to the attention of
the French secret police and she was placed under surveillance.
______ (Q) Her trial in July revealed some damning
evidence that the dancer was unable to adequately explain.
______ (R) In the murky world of the spy, however, the French
suspected her of being a double agent.
______ (S) Brought in for questioning, the French reportedly
induced her to travel to neutral Spain in order to develop relationships with
the German naval and army attaches in Madrid and report any intelligence back
to Paris.
______ (T) She was convicted and sentenced to death, and in the
early-morning hours of October 15, Mata Hari was awakened and taken by car from
her Paris prison cell to an army barracks on the city's outskirts where she was
to meet her fate.
______ (U) In February 1917 Mata Hari returned to Paris and was
immediately arrested; charged with being a German spy.
Answers:
Bull: 24351
una: 21435
hippocampus: 45132
panda: 35241
brain: 51423
mata: 42153
