Unit 3 - "Mind Power". Vocabulary (Gateway 2nd edition B2+).

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The night before the exam, Tom tried his hardest to (1)            [articulate, memorise, interpret]all of the irregular verbs on the list, an activity he perceived (2)      [like, so, as] boring. After about half an hour he found his mind (3)            [grasping, struggling, wandering]to his favourite TV series. ‘I wish I had a (4)       [grasp, gift, way]for learning languages,’ he moaned. After another half an hour of staring at the page he couldn’t (5)          [recall, perceive, grasp]a single verb. Then he started reading the list out loud and within 20 minutes he had learned the lot!

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We'll be looking _____ an improvement in your work this term.

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She looks down ______ people who haven't been to college.

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They've taken ___ golf.

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She hit _____ the perfect title for her new novel.

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I'm not sure how he'll fit _____ with other people.

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He came _____with a new idea for improving working standards.

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After her first psychology seminar on ‘the mind’, Jenny felt she hadn’t fully caught (1)    to what the lecturer was explaining. She had only picked (2)    a few of the ideas so she asked her friend Sasha if she could help her piece (3)          the missing information. They looked at each other’s notes and came up (4)      some ideas as to what the lecturer was trying to say. Talking it (5)         with a friend helped make things clearer, and soon Jenny felt she had a much clearer understanding of the seminar.