A marvel of research - Review 4

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Close-up C2 Workbook, National Geographic Learning

Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

agendas

syllabuses

dissertations

assignments

barely

utterly

slightly

reasonably

motive

apparatus

scope

thesis

reasons

rationales

surmises

hypothesises

analysis

review

argument

acknowledgement

with

to

in

on

of

but

for

not

assiduous

invasive

intelligible

inexplicable

Postgraduate students occasionally write (1) ___ on rather bizarre topics. Some might seem (2) ___ ridiculous to the casual onlooker and it's anyone's guess as to the researcher's (3) ___ behind exploring such a topic. One studies jumping height differences between cat fleas and dog fleas, another (4) ___ that mosquitoes may be more attracted to Limburger cheese than humans are and a third gives a(n) (5) ___ of the dangers of sword swallowing. In terms of the study of life, mankind leaves no stone unturned. A perhaps more useful but still unusual subject was published by a researcher at University College London. An authority (6) ___ neuroscience, Eleanor Maguire studied the brains of London's black cab drivers. Having to memorise routes along more than 25,000 streets, a cabbie of the British capital has anything (7) ___ a poor memory. Maguire learned that these (8) ___ drivers have a larger posterior hippocampus – the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory. This serves as proof that a brain is like a muscle and it's imperative that we flex it.

A marvel of research

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