Sunfish, Zen, Ceratopsians

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Answers are below the exercises:

The data collected from the tags showed that sunfish spend 50 per cent of their time in the top 10 meters of the ocean. 

_____ (Q) They mostly feed on zooplankton, an extremely diverse group of simple, slow-moving creatures that includes jellyfish and related animals, which stay close to the surface.

_____ (R) This time is probably spent basking, lying on their side and soaking up heat from the sun.

_____ (S) They generally go to depths of 90 to 170 meters, though the deepest observed dive reached 644 meters.

_____ (T) The rest of the time is spent diving, which they do on average 40 times a day – though hardly ever at night. 

_____ (U) This is by no means as deep as other fish go, but then the sunfish don't need to plunge to the abyssal depths. 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19294-zoologger-the-worlds-most-fecund-vertebrate.html#.U6nZlPl1w2a

The basic premise that the highest truth, or first principle, or Tao, is not expressible in words or conceivable through logical thought, is common to both Taoism and Zen. 

_____ (Q) However, the enlightened Taoist sage is considered to have gained some special knowledge, and thus becomes somehow removed from the world. 

_____ (R) This is obviously not Taoistic quietism (wu-wei) but action where words will not do and the effect is to force the student back into his own mind, rather than to foster a dependence on teachers.

_____ (S) The Zen Master gains nothing other than the realization that there is nothing to gain, and is thus more than ever in the world.

_____ (T) Furthermore, whereas Lao-tzu poetically says "The Tao that can be named is not the real Tao," the Zen Master takes this for granted and if questioned on the subject he might scream "kwatz!" or strike the disciple. 

_____ (U) Both hold, moreover, that an intuitive understanding of the first principle is possible, and this is called enlightenment. 

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/lieberman/zen.html

Ceratopsians were slow-moving plant eaters that probably lived together in large herds--hardly the kind of animals you'd associate with deadly conflict. 

_____ (Q) But upon closer examination, the frills are typically too thin to provide much protection.

_____ (R) The huge bony collars, or frills, around the animals' heads seemed to protect their necks.

_____ (S) For many years, paleontologists thought these animals used their horns and spikes to fight predators like T. rex. 

_____ (T) In much the same way, the elaborate skulls of the horned dinosaurs may have been for display, not defense.

_____ (U) And among modern animals from beetles to bison, horns are almost always used to attract mates, compete with rivals or allow animals of the same species to recognize each other. 


http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils-new-discoveries/display-or-defense/whats-the-point

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sun fish ---> 5,1,3,2,4  Q=5, R=1, S=3, T=2, U=4
tao/zen -------> 2,5,3,4,1
dinos ----------> 3,2,1,5,4

3 more free practice scrambled paragraphs: sundews, torpor, FAPs

Answers are below the exercises:


Sundews are sticky flypaper plants.

_____ (Q) Insects that land on the leaves stick fast and are digested. 

_____ (R) The glands exude attractive nectar, adhesive compounds, and digestive enzymes. 

_____ (S) Often nearby glandular tentacles are stimulated and also adhere to the insect, and on many species the entire leaf coils around the prey. 

_____ (T) They bear long tentacles on their leaves, and these stalks are tipped with glands which are often brightly colored.

_____ (U) These motions are usually slow, taking minutes or hours to occur.


http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cp/Genera/Drosera.php

(Even though this video's title contains a glaring grammar error, it's a good video.  Obviously it should say: A carnivorous plant eats bugs.)

The general term for the period of inactivity experienced by some mammals in winter is “dormancy,” which includes more specific terms such as “hibernation” and “torpor.” 

_____ (Q) True hibernation means that an animal’s metabolism turns off to the point that its body temperature nearly matches that of the environment around it. 

_____ (R) During this time, an animal's heart rate, breathing rate and metabolism slow down considerably. 

_____ (S) And in winter, this means that body temperatures can drop to nearly freezing.  

_____ (T) Contrary to popular belief, however, most of the mammals that hole up for the winter do not actually hibernate. 

_____ (U) The term hibernation applies to only a very small portion of mammals – for instance, a few species of bats and some rodents like the marmot. 


http://wildaboututah.org/wildaboututah/110120dormancy.htm


(As you read above, bears do not really hibernate - what they experience is more closely described as 'torpor.' So the following video shouldn't really say that bears are hibernating, but everything else in the video is ok. :P)

All animals function - to some degree - on instinct: from the tiniest slug, to the largest elephant, to the brainiest human, we all are inherently inclined to perform certain behaviors. 

_____ (Q) This is an innate behavior that is triggered by some sort of sign stimulus and - once initiated - will run to completion. 

_____ (R) However, Konrad Lorenz discovered that it will complete this action even if the egg is removed during the behavior: the goose will simply continue with the behavior as if the egg was still there.

_____ (S) If an egg is displaced from the nest, the bird will reflexively roll the egg back to the nest with its beak. 

_____ (T) One of the best known examples is the behavior of the nesting Graylag Goose. 

_____ (U) The simplest form of instinct is a fixed-action-pattern.


http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2011/11/fixedactionpatterns.html

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sundews ----> 3,2,4,1,5      Q=3, R=2, S=4, T=1, U=5

bear torpor ------> 4,1,5,2,3

fixed action patterns -----> 2,5,4,3,1
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5 new, free scrambled paragraphs

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Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate.

_____ (Q) Another measure of intelligence the fact that you can count neurons: the common octopus has about 130 million of them in its brain, whereas a human has 100 billion.

_____ (R) The average is the size of a walnut—as big as the brain of the famous African gray parrot, Alex, who learned to use more than one hundred spoken words meaningfully, which means it's proportionally bigger than the brains of most of the largest dinosaurs.

_____ (S) For example, researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it—and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body. 

_____ (T) But this is where things get weird, because three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its arms.

_____ (U) “It is as if each arm has a mind of its own,” says Peter Godfrey-Smith, a diver, professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an admirer of octopuses.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/

In Keynes' theory, one person's spending goes towards another person's earnings, and when that person spends his or her earnings, he or she is, in effect, supporting another person's earnings.

_____ (Q) Keynes' solution to this poor economic state was to "prime the pump," meaning he argued that the government should step in to increase spending, either by increasing the money supply or by actually buying things itself.     

_____ (R) This cycle continues on and helps support a normal, functioning economy.   

_____ (S) During the Great Depression, however, this was not a popular solution and it is said that the massive defense spending that United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated during World War II helped revive the U.S. economy. 

_____ (T) Under Keynes' theory, this stopped the circular flow of money, keeping the economy at a standstill.

_____ (U) When the Great Depression hit, people's natural reaction was to hoard their money.  

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http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-keynesian-economics.htm

The president has the power to 'pardon' people.  To pardon a person means, basically, to eliminate a guilty verdict against a person.  Jack Johnson was an amazing boxer but he boxed during a period of time in America when there was extreme racism.  He was especially hated by some people because he was African American but married a white woman.  Indeed, believe it or not, the Congress of the US (at that time) passed a law just to have Johnson arrested.  The law stated that a black man could not travel with a white woman across a state line.  Johnson was arrested after he took a train trip with his wife.  As you can see from the scrambled paragraph, the Congress wants to eliminate the guilty verdict against Johnson posthumously (even though Johnson is dead - if something happens posthumously, it happens after a person's death). On March 5, 2013 lawmakers reintroduced a resolution (2013 CONG US SCON 5) seeking a posthumous pardon from President Obama on behalf of former boxing champion Jack Johnson. _____ (Q) The defeat of Jeffries led to race riots nationwide in which numerous blacks were murdered. _____ (R) Johnson was convicted and sentenced to a year and a day in prison. _____ (S) In 1912, while married to a white woman named Lucille Cameron, Johnson was arrested by federal marshals and charged with violating the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. 2421) for crossing state lines with Belle Schreiber for "immoral" purposes. _____ (T) For those unfamiliar with Johnson, he became boxing’s first African-American heavyweight champion after defeating Tommy Burns in 1908. _____ (U) However, it wasn’t until Johnson retained his title by defeating all-time great Jim Jeffries in 1910 that he truly drew the ire of white society. http://westreferenceattorneys.com/2013/03/unforgivable-blackness-jack-johnson-and-the-mann-act/ I found a film based on Jack Johnson on youtube: {{An almshouse was a place for poor people to live.}} On February 22, 1876, Anne and her brother Jimmie were sent to the state almshouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. _____ (Q) Anne spent four years at Tewksbury, enduring the grief of her brother's death and the disappointment of two unsuccessful eye operations. _____ (R) Jimmie, who was younger than Anne and had been born with a tubercular hip, died a short time later.

_____ (S) At Perkins, in October 1880, Anne finally began her academic education—quickly learning to read and write as well as learning how to use the manual alphabet in order to communicate with a friend who was deaf as well as blind. _____ (T) Then, as a result of her direct plea to a state official who had come to inspect the Tewksbury almshouse, she was allowed to leave and enroll in the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts.  _____ (U) That particular skill opened the door to her future and a life of remarkable achievements, notably her work tutoring the blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller. http://www.afb.org/asm/asmbiography.asp A movie about Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller: The Vietnam War (American military involvement: 1961 to 1973) was a disaster.  Over 50,000 American soldiers died and over 1,000,000 Vietnamese died.  Horrible things happened in that war.  After several years of fighting, in 1973 the US government, basically, gave up and brought all US soldiers home.  In 1975 (Socialist) North Vietnam finally defeated (Capitalist) South Vietnam (the US had been supporting South Vietnam).  Daniel Ellsberg used to work for the Pentagon but slowly but surely began to feel that the war was wrong and that politicians were lying to the American people about the war.  He photocopied many secret documents and gave them to the New York Times.  By doing this, he  helped show the American people what was really happening and he probably helped to bring the war to a faster end. In 1967 Ellsberg became a member of the McNamara Study Group that in 1968 produced the classified  History of Decision Making in Vietnam, 1945 - 1968. _____ (Q) Ellsberg, disillusioned with the progress of the war, believed this document should be made available to the public and gave a copy of what later became known as the Pentagon Papers to Senator William Fulbright.  _____ (R) President Richard Nixon then made attempts to prevent anymore extracts from the Pentagon Papers from being published, yet the Supreme Court ruled against Nixon and Justice Hugo Black commented that the Times "should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly". _____ (S) However, he refused to do anything with the document, so Ellsberg gave a copy to Phil Geyelin of the Washington Post newspaper, yet the editors decided against publishing the contents of the document.  _____ (T) This included information that President Eisenhower had made a secret commitment to help the French defeat the rebellion in Vietnam and that President John F. Kennedy had, essentially, turned this commitment into a war by using a secret "provocation strategy" that ultimately led to President Lyndon Johnson expanding the war after the Gulf of Tonkin incident.  _____ (U) Ellsberg now went to the New York Times and they began publishing extracts from the document on 13th June, 1971.  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKellsberg.htm Answers are below: Answers: Octopus brain -----> 2,1,5,3,4       2=Q, 1=R, 5=S, 3=T, 4=U Keynes ----------------> 4,1,5,3,2 Jack Johnson ----------------> 3,5,4,1,2 Anne Sullivan --------> 2,1,4,3,5 Daniel Ellsberg --------> 1,5,2,4,3

3 more scrambled paragraphs: great white sharks, Kim Dae-jung, dendrites

Answers are below the exercise.  I'll try to post at least 5 new scrambled paragraphs every Sunday until the date of the test. I hope this helps you...


The legendary great white shark is far more fearsome in our imaginations than in reality.

_____ (Q) As scientific research on these elusive predators increases, their image as mindless killing machines is beginning to fade.

_____ (R) However, most of these are not fatal.  

_____ (S) It's not a terribly comforting distinction, but it does indicate that humans are not actually on the great white's menu.

_____ (T) It's true that of the 100-plus annual shark attacks worldwide, fully one-third to one-half are attributable to great whites. 

_____ (U) Indeed, new research finds that great whites, who are naturally curious, are "sample biting" then releasing their victims rather than preying on humans. 

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/great-white-shark/

As President Park Chung Hee sought constitutional revisions in 1969 to allow himself to run for a third term, Kim Dae-jung gave an address against the scheme in an outdoor rally, and he was widely acclaimed for his vision and courage.

_____ (Q) A heavily-loaded truck rammed into his car, seriously injuring him and his two aides. 

_____ (R) Despite the obstructionist tactics and illegal electioneering practices of the ruling party, he garnered over 46 per cent of the votes cast.

_____ (S) He was chosen the presidential candidate of the New Democratic Party in 1971, running against the all-powerful incumbent, Park Chung Hee. 

_____ (T) During the Assembly election campaign that soon followed the presidential vote, opposition leader Kim experienced what was to be the first of at least five attempts on his life by his political foes.

_____ (U) President Kim  suffered from the leg injury incurred in this 'accident' until his death in 2009.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2000/dae-jung-bio.html

There were many heroes in South Korea who fought for democracy.  Kim Dae-Jung was one of them. When I started working with adult foreign students, many of my students were from Korea and told me about Kim Dae-Jung. He became a hero of mine.

OK, this one might be tough because of all the weird scientific terminology...but try it anyway.

Basically, a long time ago a scientist did an experiment in which he raised two groups of rats under different circumstances.  One group was raised in a super-enriched environment. That meant that there were many toys and things to play with or climb over in their environment.  The other group was raised in a very plain environment. 

When the researcher killed and decapitated the rats (cut their heads off so he could examine their brain tissue) from both groups, he was surprised.  He saw that the brains of the rats from the super-enriched environment looked more complex than the brains of the rats raised in the boring environment. He concluded that young rats (or any type of mammals) should be raised in complex environments to make sure that they had complex brain development.

The complexity was due to 'dendritic branching.'  There are little branchlike things that grow between neurons (brain cells).  These dendrites can connect to other neurons. The more complex a rat's environment, the more of these 'branches' will grow.

In this scrambled paragraph they wanted to see how the drug lithium might affect dendritic branching.  See whether you can get this one.  When they talk about synaptic plasticity, they mean how much the nerve cell can change.  If the drug has therapeutic efficacy, it can help people.


A large body of evidence from molecular, cellular and human studies suggests that lithium may enhance synaptic plasticity, which may be associated with its therapeutic efficacy.

_____ (Q) Following 4 week lithium or control chow feeding, animals were decapitated, the hippocampi were prepared and stained using a rapid Golgi staining technique and the amount and distribution of the dendritic branching was evaluated using Sholl analyses (method of concentric circles). 

_____ (R) In area CA1, the same treatment also increased the number of dendritic branches in the proximal half of apical dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal cells and reduced branching in the distal half of apical dendritic trees but had no effect on basilar dendritic trees.

_____ (S) In the DG, lithium treatment increased the amount and distribution of dendritic branches in the proximal half of dendritic trees of the granule cells and reduced branching in the distal half. 

_____ (T) To determine whether lithium treatment alters structural synaptic plasticity, this study examined the effect of 4 week lithium treatment on the amount and distribution of dendrites in the dentate gyrus (DG) and hippocampal area CA1 of young adult rats. 

_____ (U) However, only a small number of studies have directly assessed this. 

http://www.neurostructural.org/default.asp?page=72947

The student who made this video had COURAGE. :P :P :P Kudos to him.

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Great white sharks - 1,3,5,2,4  ------------->  Q=1, R=3, S=5, T=2, U=4
Kim Dae-Jung ----------------> 4,2,1,3,5
Lithium and Dendrites -------> 3,5,4,2,1
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3 new free scrambled paragraphs: Learned Helpnessness, Pele/Banks, Dust Bowl

Answers are below the exercises:



{{Aversive means something that causes harm or pain and that someone would want to avoid.  A long time ago psychologists conducted a terrible experiment.  They put dogs in electrical cages and turned on the electricity.  The dogs could not escape the electrical charges even though each dog tried everything it could to do so.  Finally, when each dog realized there was nothing to be done, it simply lay down and took the electrical charges helplessly. This led to the psychological term: learned helplessness.

Scientists would, thankfully, never be able to do an experiment like this today. Yet, the concept of learned helplessness is important to realize.  When people feel that there is nothing they can do to change a situation, they often give up.  Why do so few people vote in elections?  Learned helplessness.  They feel that even if they vote, their vote will not change things. This is also one reason why activities in school should allow for student participation.  If people do not participate in actions concerning their own welfare, they often develop a sense of learned helplessness.}}


Learned helplessness occurs when an animal is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape.

_____ (Q) This inaction can lead people to overlook opportunities for relief or change.

_____ (R) When people feel that they have no control over their situation, they may also begin to behave in a helpless manner. 

_____ (S) Even when opportunities to escape are presented, this learned helplessness will prevent any action.

_____ (T) While the concept is strongly tied to animal psychology and behavior, it can also apply to many situations involving human beings.

_____ (U) Eventually, the animal will stop trying to avoid the stimulus and behave as if it is utterly helpless to change the situation. 

 http://psychology.about.com/od/lindex/f/earned-helplessness.htm

Please take a look at this simple experiment which shows how easy it is for people to give up, even though they can be successful:

{{Have you ever heard of Pele?  He is considered to have been one of the greatest soccer players ever.  Brasil won 3 World Cup championships with him on the Brasilian national team.  During that era, there was also a great goal keeper named Gordon Banks, who is considered to have been one of the greatest goal keepers ever. They played against each other in the 1970 World Cup.}}


In the 1970 World Cup, defending champions England were drawn in the same group with Brazil, winner of the two previous cups before England, and with Pele leading the way, looking for a third title in four tournaments.

_____ (Q) So stunning were the England goalkeeper’s reflexes on the play that the Brazilian players asked the media afterwards whether he was a martial artist. 

_____ (R) After 18 minutes of absorbing play came one of football’s finest moments as Gordon Banks sprang into action to make a low save from Pele’s bullet header. 

_____ (S) Pele was left dumbfounded and later said, “At that moment, I hated Banks more than any man in football, but when I cooled down, I could only applaud him in my heart."

_____ (T) Banks later told The Observer  that he heard Pele shout ‘goal’ as he headed it, which was followed by a massive, almost deafening, roar. 

_____ (U) Banks said, "Even though I’d got a hand to it, I thought he must have scored, but then I realized the crowd was cheering for me.” 

http://www.firstpost.com/sports/1970-world-cup-pele-gordon-banks-and-magic-vs-method-617149.html

The roots of the Dust Bowl can be traced back even earlier than the 1930s -- when two-thirds of the U.S. experienced drought, winds and clouds of dust -- to the 1920s, when post-World War I conditions led Midwestern farmers to experiment with new forms of mechanized farming.

_____ (Q) Rampant overproduction of wheat crops, coupled with over plowing of the fields, led to unforeseen consequences when massive droughts began to set in during the early 1930s.   

_____ (R) This was the beginning of the Dust Bowl, which actually comprised four separate drought periods that happened in quick succession.

_____ (S) As the winds began to blow against the parched landscape, uncovered patches of farmland simply blew away entirely. 

_____ (T) The farmers were trying to increase their profits by plowing and developing more land than ever before.

_____ (U) During the five years before the Dust Bowl began, more than 5 million acres (2 million hectares) of new farmland had been plowed, although not all of it had been used. 

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-caused-the-dust-bowl

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Learned helplessness ----------->   5,4,2,3,1 -----> Q=5, R=4, S=2, T=3, U=1
Pele and Banks -------> 2,1,5,3,4
Dust Bowl -----> 3,5,4,1,2
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Three New Scrambled Paragraphs: Fencing, Gobekli Tepe, Stomata

Answers for the scrambled paragraphs are under the exercises:


Fencing is probably one of the oldest games in existence.

_____ (S) Under the Germanic influence the duel spread all over Christendom. 

_____ (Q) The Germanic tribes which swarmed over the Empire at the fall of Rome were perhaps the earliest people to recognize combat with swords as a means of settling questions of justice or of vindicating a grievance.

_____ (R) It sprang directly from the duel, and dueling has been extant as long as there has been war.

_____ (T) Even as early as the reign of Charlemagne it was admitted as material proof in the judgments of God.

_____ (U) In the old days there were duels between two persons, and often between two whole armies, depending on the conditions of war. 

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~fencing/oldweb/history/fencinghistory.html

Prehistoric people would have gazed upon herds of gazelle and other wild animals; gently flowing rivers, which attracted migrating geese and ducks; fruit and nut trees; and rippling fields of wild barley and wild wheat varieties such as emmer and einkorn.

_____ (Q) Indeed, Gobekli Tepe sits at the northern edge of the Fertile Crescent—an arc of mild climate and arable land from the Persian Gulf to present-day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. 

_____ (R) "This area was like a paradise," says Schmidt, a member of the German Archaeological Institute.

_____ (S) Such weather and fertile soil would have attracted hunter-gatherers from Africa and the Levant. 

_____ (T) This is clearly the earliest "cathedral on a hill" that archeologists have yet to find.

_____ (U) And partly because Schmidt has found no evidence that people permanently resided on the summit of Gobekli Tepe itself, he believes this was a place of worship on an unprecedented scale.


Please read this article! It's so interesting!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html

Water enters the root and is transported up to the leaves through specialized plant cells known as xylem (pronounces zigh-lem).

_____ (Q) Cottonwood trees, for example, will lose 100 gallons of water per hour during hot desert days.

_____ (R) Land plants must guard against drying out (desiccation) and so have evolved specialized structures known as stomata to allow gas to enter and leave the leaf.

_____ (S) Carbon dioxide cannot pass through the protective waxy layer covering the leaf (cuticle), but it can enter the leaf through these openings (the stoma; plural = stomata; Greek for hole) flanked by two guard cells.

_____ (T) Unfortunately for the plant, while these gases are moving between the inside and outside of the leaf, a great deal of water is also lost.

_____ (U) Likewise, oxygen produced during photosynthesis can only pass out of the leaf through the opened stomata.


http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookps.html

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Fencing ----->  4,3,1,5,2 ----> 4= Q, 3=R, 1=S, 5=T, 2=U

Gobekli Tepe -----------> 2,1,3,5,4

Stomata ----->5,1,2,4,3
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3 More Free Scrambled Paragraphs

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At the end of World War Two, the Viet Minh announced Vietnamese independence.

_____ (Q) He was determined, however, to reunite Vietnam.

_____ (R) The French refused to relinquish their former colony, however, and in 1946, war broke out.

_____ (S) After eight years of war, the French were defeated and forced to agree to peace talks in Geneva.

_____ (T) By the early 1960s, North Vietnamese-backed guerrillas, the Vietcong, were attacking the South Vietnamese military.

_____ (U) The country was then split into a communist north and non-communist south and Ho Chi Minh became president of North Vietnam.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ho_chi_minh.shtml

 

{Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of psychological depression some people experience in the fall and winter due to a lesser degree of sunlight.}

Symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder usually begin in October or November and subside in March or April.  

_____ (Q) Regardless of the time of onset, most patients don’t feel fully “back to normal” until early May.   

_____ (R) Treatment planning, in fact, needs to match the severity of the condition for the individual. 

_____ (S) Depressions are usually mild to moderate, but they can be severe.   

_____ (T) Safety is the first consideration in all assessment of depression, as suicide can be a risk for more severe depressive symptoms. 

_____ (U) Some patients begin to “slump” as early as August, while others remain well until January.

{{ This paragraph is somewhat tricky because there are basically two parts to this paragraph - and there is no smooth transition between the parts.  It's important, therefore, to determine which the 1st sentence after the original sentence should be. Basically, one part of the paragraph logically comes before the other part.}}


http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=23051

At that time, the early 1960s, long hair on a man was considered absolutely outrageous.

_____ (Q) Indeed, it’s no coincidence that they arrived at the time in which the women’s movement was just beginning in the culture. 

_____ (R) Very quickly the Beatles changed the way men looked, the way men thought about the way they looked and, ultimately, our ideals of masculinity. 

_____ (S) The Beatles also galvanized women. 

_____ (T) After the Beatles came to America, that model was washed out forever. 

_____ (U) Before they arrived, the model for maleness in the culture, for lack of a better term, consisted of people like John Wayne and Gary Cooper. 

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/oldspeak/how_the_beatles_changed_the_world_an_interview_with_steven_d_stark

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Ho Chi Minh ----->  4,1,2,5,3    4__Q, 1__R, 2__S, 5__T, 3__U
SAD -------> 2,4,3,5,1
The Beatles -----> 5,1,4,3,2
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3 more free practice scrambled paragraphs

Answers are below the exercises.  Good luck! 


One of the liver's most important functions is to "detoxify" the blood.

_____ (Q) Ammonia, which is a byproduct of protein metabolism, may accumulate and this may make patients with very poor liver function feel confusion or changes in their mental state.

_____ (R) This blood is full of nutrients but also contains toxins and other chemicals that the liver cleans up before they enter the body's circulation.

_____ (S) In a case of very severe disease, liver failure can even cause a coma and brain swelling.

_____ (T) The liver receives blood from the intestine.

_____ (U) In patients with very poor liver function, the liver may not be able to clean up the blood.

http://iuhealth.org/riley/gastroenterology/liver-overview/how-the-liver-works/

Henry’s men waited for the French to begin the attack but there was no movement in the opposing army.

_____ (Q) Finally Henry, urged to begin the battle by his commanders, gave the command “Forward banners” and the army advanced with trumpets blaring.

_____ (R) It might have been the case  that there was inadequate overall command and no central decision made when to commence the assault or it might have been that the French were waiting for further contingents to arrive and take their station.

_____ (S) Now, halted within the confines of the two woods, Henry directed parties of archers and men-at-arms to move through the trees nearer to the French.

_____ (T) Once in arrow range of the French, Henry gave the command to halt and the divisions closed up, the archers setting their pointed staves in the ground forming a fence leaning outwards towards the French.

_____ (U) Then, on the king’s signal the English archers opened a devastating fire on the compact mass of French knights and men-at-arms.

http://www.britishbattles.com/100-years-war/agincourt.htm

To examine the power of reciprocity, let us look at an experiment done by Cornell University Professor, Dennis Regan.

_____ (Q) Later on, after the “task” was over, the hired participant asked his fellow participant for a favor: he was selling raffle tickets, and if he sold the most, he would win a prize.

_____ (R) In his study, two participants were put into a room to complete a task and one of the participants (hired by the professor) left the room during a two minute break and returned with a pair of colas (one for himself, and one for the other participant).

_____ (S) The sole act of the initial favor increased the participant's purchasing behavior by 100%.  

_____ (T) He explained: “I asked the experimenter if I could get myself a Coke, and he said it was okay, so I bought one for you too.”  

_____ (U) The participants who had received the cola ended up buying 2 times as many raffle tickets as those who, in other versions of the experiment, hadn’t received anything from a participant who returned with only one cola for himself.

http://zrdavis.com/the-power-of-reciprocity-video/

ANSWERS:

Liver: 42513    Q = 4, R = 2, S = 5, T = 1, U = 3

Henry: 21435

Reciprocity: 31524

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Links:
http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100511000742

http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682

http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/05/11/wondergirls-were-mistreated-by-jyp-entertainment/