1. New words

1)  telepathy [tə ‘lepəθi  心灵感应

a)  Noun. the ability to know what is in someone else's mind or communicate with them mentally, without using words or other physical signals

2)  controversy ['kɔntrə,və:si]

a)  a dispute where there is strong disagreement.

3)   Parapsychologist 心理玄学者

4)   Derision di'riʒən

a)  the act of deriding or treating with contempt.

5)   Deride

a)   treat or speak of with contempt.

6)   Contempt kən'tempt]

a)   lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.

7)   Uncover // reveal

a)   make visible

b)   The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

8)  Compelling

a)  If a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong

b)  compelling evidence.

        i. very exciting and interesting and making you want to watch or listen

        ii. I found the whole film very compelling.

9)  Compel

a)  to force someone to do something [+ to infinitive]

b)  As a school boy he was compelled to wear shorts even in winter

10)  Alike

a)  Adj. similar; like each other

       i. The children all look very alike

b)  Adv. in a similar way

       i.  The twins even dress alike.

        ii.  My father treated us all alike.

c) used after referring to two groups of people or things to show that both groups are included

        i.   Friends and family alike were devastated by the news of her death

11)     Outright [complete, absolute] fraud

12)     Concur kənˈkɜː

a)   to agree with someone or have the same opinion as someone else

         i.  The new report concurs with previous findings.

b)   [+ that ] The board concurred that the editor should have full control over editorial matters.

c)   If two or more events concur, they happen at the same time.

13)     Put down to chance // ascribe to

14)     routinely [ru:'ti:nli]

a)   according to routine [ru:'ti:n]  or established practice

15)     Conventional

a)   following accepted customs and proprieties

16)     Propriety prəˈpraɪə.ti/ /-t ̬i/ n

a)   formal // correct moral behaviour or actions

b) The director insisted that there was no question as to the propriety of how the funds were raised.

c)  She was careful always to behave with propriety

17)     Plausible: seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed:

18)     Tranquility træŋ'kwiləti serenity

a)  a state of peace and quiet

19)     Draw up起草

a)  make up plans or basic details for

20)     Marginally  slightly

21)     esoteric [,es.ə-/ 'terik] 小众的

a)  very unusual; understood or liked by only a small number of people, especially those with special knowledge

22)     quantum entanglement量子纠缠

23)     Be subject to  sʌbdʒɪkt  suffer

a)  to have or experience a particular thing, especially something unpleasant

        i.  In recent years, she has been subject to attacks of depression

b)   Depend on

        i.   be subject to the laws of nature

c)   likely to be affected by something (especially something unpleasant

         i.   be subject to colds

24)     Be subjected to // encounter ; sustain; səbˈdʒekt]

a)   Be subjected to tests受到检验

2.    Questions

两种题型。匹配和FILL GAP. FILL GAP 题目数量多，而且好定位，时间好找。所以建议先做该题型。匹配题：根据题目中关键信息，到文中寻找。

2.1. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE words(31-40).

1982年  Ganzfeld studies

第三段：

The telepathy test involved identification of a picture(32) chosen from a random selection

Of four taken from a large image bank.

The idea was that a person acting as a sender (31)would attempt to beam the image(32) over

To the receiver （33）relaxing in the sealed room.

注： 32题选择 picture 或 image都对。

FLAW:

第四段: There were many other ways of getting positive results. They ranged from ‘sensory leakage(34)’ to outright fraud(35).

Studies 1987

An automated variant of the technique which used computers(36) to perform many of the key tasks such as the random selection of images.

By minimizing human involvement (37), the idea was to minimise the risk of flawed results

Results were studied by Honorton in a ‘meta-analysis(38)’, a statistical technique for finding the overall results from a set of studies.

Some parapsychologists remain disturbed by the lack of consistency(39) between individual ganzfeld studies. It’s unlikely to be detected by a typical ganzfeld study involving around 40 people: the group is not big enough(40).

2.2.  MATCH (27-30)

27 Researchers with differing attitudes towards telepathy agree on

第一段: Sceptics and advocates alike do concur on one issue, that the most impressive

evidence so far has come from the so-called ‘ganzfield’ experiments

选择E:  the significance of the ganzefeld experiments

28  Reports of experiences during meditation indicated

Such signals might be more easily detected by those experiencing meditation-like tranquility in a relaxing ‘whole field’ of light, sound and warmth

选择B： The need to create a suitable environment for telepathy

29 Attitudes to parapsychology would alter drastically with

倒数第二段：Most still totally reject the very idea of telepathy. The problem stems at least in part from the lack of any plausible mechanism for telepathy

选择A ：the discovery of a mechanism for telepathy

30 Recent autoganzfeld trials suggest that success rates will improve with 

最后一段：Early results show that creative and artistic people do much better than average

选择F： a more careful selection of subjects

这里subjects 做实验对象讲。

2.3.  Difficult sentences

1)  As yet, we cannot rule out the possibility of an earthquake. 

a)  Rule out, 排除

2)  Just because chance had been ruled out as an explanation did not prove telephany must exist.

Because 引导的从句做主语.

仅仅因为运气作为解释被排除 并不能证明telephany必须存在

3)  Reports of telepathic experiences had by people during meditation led parapsychologists to suspect that telepathy might involve ‘signals’ passing between people that were so faint that they were usually swamped by normal brain activity

该句的主旨是: 来自…的汇报使心理玄学者猜想 心灵感应涉及到有信号在人们之间传递,但这些信号太弱,通常被淹没在正常脑力活动中.

4)  They pointed to typical hit-rates of better than 30 percent—a small effect, but one which statistical tests suggested could not be put down to chance.

a) Point to   // indicate

b) 他们指出, 典型的超过30%的命中率,尽管影响小,但统计测试表明,该数据不能归结为运气

5)  Only when many students are combined in a meta-analysis will the faint signal of telepathy really become apparent.

 倒装句

6)  The problem stems at least in part from the lack of any plausible mechanism for telepathy.