Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Home Work Irregular Plurals ( talking about the ideas)

31.2  Change the words in bold from singular to plural or vice versa, as instructed. Make any
          other necessary changes to each sentence.
1. There is an interesting PhD thesis on water resources in the library. ( make plural)
2. What were your main criteria in designing your survey? ( make singular)
3. She was interested in strange phenomena connected with comets.(make singular)
4. The hypothesis was never proved, as the data were incomplete. ( make plural)

Answers
1. There are interesting PhD theses on water resources in the library.
2. What were your main criterion in designing your survey?
3. She was interested in strange phenomenon connected with comets.
4. The hypotheses was never proved, as the data were incomplete.


31.3 make the beginning of each sentence with the most appropriate ending.  
 1. we must never accept the notion              on the role of the United Nations in times of war.
2. the task of choosing an analytical             on gender and language use very clear.
3. the book expresses his viewpoint              of dark matter to explain certain observations.
4. Tannes has always made her stance          that intelligence is connected to race.
5. Consumers have different perceptions     of family healthcare which changed everything.
6. The report laid out a new modal               of what low price and high quality mean.
7. Physicists developed the concept             framework is an important stage in any research

Answers
1 We must never accept the notion that intelligence is connected to race.
2 The task of choosing an analytical framework is an important stage in any research.
3 The book expresses his viewpoint on the role of the United Nations in times of war.
4 Tannen has always made her stance on gender and language use very clear.
S Consumers have different perceptions of what low price and high quality mean.
6 The report laid out a new model of family healthcare which changed everything.

7 Physicists developed the concept of dark matter to explain certain observations.

31.4 Read the text and then answer the questions. Use a dictionary if necessary.

Autonomy and creativity are two key concepts in the humanities which are often thought to be not part of scientific thinking. However, recent projects in the sciences suggest this is not true. For example, the attempt to load the components of human consciousness into a computer is a fundamentally creative activity which has profound implications for our understanding of what a human being is. Such science  may make us change our way of thinking about moral and philosophical questions and may make it possible for those in the humanities to find a  new grounding for their own work.

1 Which noun means 'independence / the right to think in one's own way'?
2 Which noun means the opposite of 'the sciences'?
3 Which adjective means 'felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way'?
4 What are the noun forms of think and understand used in this text?
5 Which adjective in the text means 'relating to standards of good or bad behaviour, what
     is right and wrong, etc.'?
6 Which noun in the text means the same as 'foundation/basis'?

Answers:
1.  autonomy
2.  the humanities
3.  profound
4 . thinking, understanding
5.  moral
6.  grounding




2 comments:

  1. What were your main criteria…
    She was interested in strange phenomena…
    The hypotheses were…

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  2. Sorry…
    What was your main criterion…
    …a strange phenomenon…

    ReplyDelete