PARAJUMBLES
1>>1. It doesn't take a highly esteemed medical expert to conclude that women handle pain better than men.
A. First the men would give birth, and then take six months to recover.
B. As for labour pains, the human species would become extinct if men had to give birth.
C. They do, however, make life hell for everyone else with their non-stop complaining about how bad they feel.
D. The men in my life, including my husband and my father, would not take a Tylenol for pain even if their lives depends on it.
6. And by the time they finish sharing their excruciating experience with their buddies, all reproduction would come to a halt.
a BCAD
b BCDA
c CDBA
d BACD
e ABDC
2>>1. Hiss was serving as Head of the Endowment on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
A. Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938.
B. When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials.
C. Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever been a Communist or had known Chambers.
D. He told the Committee that among the members of a secret Communist cell in Washington during the 1930s was Hiss.
6. Then, bizarrely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.
a CBAD
b ADBC
c BADC
d ACDB
e ADCB
PARACOMPLETION
3>>Automatic writing is writing allegedly directed by a spirit or by the unconscious mind. It is sometimes called “trance” writing because it is done quickly and without judgment, writing whatever comes to mind, “without consciousness,” as if in a trance. It is believed that this allows one to tap into the subconscious mind, where “the true self” dwells. Uninhibited by the conscious mind, deep and mystical thoughts can be accessed. Trance writing is also used by some psychotherapists who think it is a quick way to release repressed memories.______________________________.
a According to psychic Ellie Crystal, entities from beyond are constantly trying to communicate with us.
b By itself, automatic writing is no more likely to produce self-growth or worthwhile revelation than any other human activity.
c They further claim that it permits them to recall previously irretrievable data from the subconscious mind and to unleash spiritual energy for personal growth and revelation.
d Apparently, we all have the potential to be as clairaudient as James Van Praagh and John Edward.
e There is no scientific evidence that trance writing has any therapeutic value.
4>>Remember that dispute about whether it was Mark Zuckerberg or some other Harvard students who really dreamed up Facebook a few years ago? Well, it turns out that the notion of putting notes and images on a host's “face book” was around long, long before Mr. Zuckerberg posted anything on his Wall. Bryan Benilous, a historical newspaper specialist at the digital-archive company Proquest, said he and his colleagues came across a Boston Daily Globe article from August 24, 1902, titled, “Face Book The New Fad,” describing a party game where revelers sketch out cartoony caricatures for fun. _________________
a There are more than a few similarities between current social-networking practices and early-20th century social practices, said Ellen Gruber Garvey, a professor at New Jersey.
b “I think it is interesting to note the similarities with this first iteration of Face Book as a shared social experience,” said Mr. Benilous.
c Drawing games and versions of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse were popular activities.
d Ms. Garvey also said it was common for Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries to keep guest books in which visitors and friends could scribble thoughts or jokes.
e It's almost like having friends write on your wall in a much less tech-savvy way.
5>>People who believe that the mind can be replicated on a computer tend to explain the mind in terms of a computer. When theorizing about the mind, especially to outsiders but also to one another, defenders of artificial intelligence (AI) often rely on computational concepts. They regularly describe the mind and brain as the “software and hardware” of thinking, the mind as a “pattern” and the brain as a “substrate,” senses as “inputs” and behaviors as “outputs,” neurons as “processing units” and synapses as “circuitry,” to give just a few common examples.________________________
a They rarely justify it by reference to the actual workings of computers, and they misuse and abuse terms that have clear and established definitions in computer science.
b An examination of what this usage means and whether it is correct reveals a great deal about the history and present state of artificial intelligence research
c Those who employ this analogy tend to do so with casual presumption.
d It highlights the aspirations of some of the luminaries of AI—researchers, writers, and advocates for whom the metaphor of mind-as-machine is dogma rather than discipline.
e When the mind is compared to a computer, just what is it being compared to?
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