2012-2013-2  Practice for English in Mind

Module 3 Weird and wonderful   Unit 11 Your mind

Class         Name            No. ___

Practice I  for  M3   U11  (P74-76)

I.               Translate the important phrases and expressions.

1.       一个有趣的记忆力测试

a fun memory test

2.       变得更难忘

become more memorable

3.       睡着、入睡go to sleep    

4.       提醒你自己想起…

remind yourself of…     

5.       首要的是、最重要的是above all

6.       如何改善你的记忆力

how to improve your memory   

7.       没有人记得住所有事。

No one remembers everything.

8.       第一次听一首乐曲listen to a piece of music for the first time   

9.       凭记忆把它演奏得十分完美

play it perfectly from memory

10.    擅长于…；在…做得好be good at sth. / doing sth.  =  do well in…          

11.    在课程的前15分钟

in the first 15 minutes of the lesson   

12.    出声地读出来、读出声来

read it aloud   

13.    共有、共同in common    

14.  找到、发现问题的答案

find answers to problems    

15.    理解他人understand other people      

16.    演奏一件乐器

play a musical instrument   

17.    语言智能 verbal intelligence

18.    空间智能 visual intelligence

19.    人际智能

interpersonal intelligence

20.    数学逻辑智能 logical-mathematical intelligence

II. Write down the words according to the English explanations.

1.       memorise___ to learn sth. carefully so that you can remember it exactly

2.       memorable____ special, good or unusual and therefore worth remembering

    or easy to remember

3.       remind____ to help sb. remember sth. important that they must do

4.       stressed____ too anxious and tired to be able to relax

5.       revise___ to change sth. such as a book or an estimate, in order to

 correct or improve it

6.       psychology__ the study of the mind and how it influences behaviour

7.       logical__ following or able to follow the rules of logic in which

ideas or facts are based on other true ideas of facts

8.       verbal__ spoken, not written, relating to words

9.       visual__ of or connected with seeing or sight

10.    interpersonal__ connected with relationships between people

III. Change the forms of the given words.

1.     memory (n.) __memorise_ (v.)

– __memorable __ (adj.)

2.     stress (v.) – stressed/ stressful (adj.)

– ___ stress _______ (n.)

3.     revise (v.) – __revision_____ (n.)

4.      psychology (n.)–_psychologist (n.)

5.     logical(adj.) –__logic____(n.)

6.      visual (adj.) –_ visual _(n.)

IV. Complete the words with the help of the first letter.

1.     I rang Paul and reminded___ him that the conference had been cancelled.

2.     Could you write down the passage from memory__?

3.     We gave a memorable___ performance at the Reading Festival this Monday.

4.     When he was at primary school, he was required to memorize__ a poem every week.

5.     I was really stressed___ out before the exam.

6.     People under a lot of stress___ may experience headaches and sleeping difficulties.

7.     Jogging puts a lot of stress__ on your knee joints.

8.     His helpfulness today has made me revise___ my original impression of him.

9.     He was forced to make several revisions_ to his speech.

10.  They’re revising__ for the test tomorrow.

11.  The arts of painting and sculpture are the visual__ arts.

12.  Airport officials received a stream of verbal_ abuse (辱骂) from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.

13.  People with high  interpersonal intelligence are good at understanding others /other people   .  (具有较高人际智能的人善于理解他人。)