PAU Anglès 2015 · Juny · Sèrie 4 · Part 3 · Listening comprehension

Part 3: Listening comprehension TELEPATHY In the following conversation you are going to hear some new words. Read and listen to them. Make sure you know what they mean. sensory: sensorial phenomena: fenòmens / fenómenos figure out (to figure out): esbrinar / averiguar bend, bending (to bend): doblegar / doblar guessing (to guess): endevinar / adivinar invest (to invest): invertir reliable: fiable Ready? Now read the questions on the following page. Read them carefully before listening to the conversation. Presenter: In today’s programme Debate we will have two experts discussing the existence of telepathy as a paranormal activity. Telepathy is defined as the transmission of thoughts or feelings from one person to another without using any known sensory channel or physical interaction. Dr John Thompson is professor of Physics at university. He claims that telepathy cannot be explained by modern physics, simply because it does not exist. Dr Susan Barry runs a foundation in the United States which was established to look at the credibility of paranormal phenomena. [Now listen to the conversation.] QUESTIONS Choose the best answer according to the recording. Only ONE answer is correct. [2 points: 0.25 points for each correct answer. Wrong answers will be penalized by deducting 0.08 points. There is no penalty for unanswered questions.] Look at number 0 as an example. 0. Professor Thompson writes books on telepathy. × teaches at univeristy. is a TV showman. is a telepathy expert. 1. Professor Thompson thinks that telepathy is worth investigating. must not be investigated. has not been demonstrated. is scientific evidence. 2. Dr Susan Barry believes that Professor Thompson can explain everything. is very open-minded. does not take science seriously. is a traditional scientist. 3. According to Professor Thompson, the mind is more powerful than science. only physics can explain the world. telepathy is the result of human evolution. telepathy is a natural phenomenon. 4. Dr Susan Barry thinks that science cannot explain coincidences. and telepathy are the same thing. is part of human nature. does not explain telepathy. 5. The book Thoughts through Space demonstrated the evidence for telepathy. is a collection of visualized mental images. is a well-known book about telepathy. explains how one can send mental images. 6. According to Dr Susan Barry, the bending of metal spoons can be explained by the power of the showman’s eyes. a scientific experiment. the laws of physics. the power of the mind. 7. According to Professor Thompson, physics cannot explain what you can’t see. telepathy can’t be explained unless physics is revised. the bending of spoons is just a trick. nobody can explain why spoons bend. 8. Dr Susan Barry and Professor Thompson agree that a telepathy experiment is not easy to carry out. you need a robot to carry out an experiment on telepathy. scientific experiments should be watched by a conscious observer. making an experiment on telepathy experiment is useless.