Brain. Mind Power. Use of English B1+

Her students are … by quadratic equations. They find it so difficult to solve problems.

David’s mind frequently … when he is doing his homework.

New concepts are easily … .

My friend doesn’t … change as a bad thing.

Scientists believe that exceptional abilities may offer … insights into how our minds work, and perhaps answer the question: do we all have these abilities deep inside our brain, but we don't know how to access them?

Autistic savants can perform complex calculations at lightning speed, speak seven languages and they … their own languages.

They are supposed to be reliable enough and work … in any weather.

An estimated 10% of the autistic population compared to around 1% of the non-autistic population have savant abilities, but no-one … exactly why.

Scans of the brain suggest that the right hemisphere in savants, the side of the brain associated with mathematics or memory, is … compensating for a fault in the left hemisphere, connected with language and comprehension.

Modern robotics … the types of tasks robots do and each new generation of robots is increasingly sophisticated.

Robots can now navigate, remember more and calculate … better than humans.

Today, we use the word robot for machines that … to carry out tasks.