16.(A, commiserated

15,The victims of the earthquake cannot withstand another_. (A)cataclysm (B) catapult (C) castration (D)cavalcade) n. Cloze Test: 20% (a) If we want to connect language to our brains, we can compare it to eating, Language in the brain should be ___16— as a restaurant. There is a cooking area where food is prepared, and an eating area where it’s consumed. The production of language (the kitchen) is handled primarily by front (anterior) portions of the left hemisphere, and an area in both humans and animals which deals with 17— movement. Comprehension (the eating area) is dealt with mainly by back (posterior) portions, because this is the area which deals with incoming impressions. Traditionally, the anterior production portions are _18— Bi'oca’s area, and the posterior reception portions as Wernicke’s area, after the nineteenth-century neurologists recognized their importance. However, Braca’s area is not a brain “unit” —19— a cover term for a cluster of interconnected areas. At least four subsections can be _20_. First, an area which deals with the muscles controlling speech, mainly _21— of the mouth. Further forward is an area which controls —22— order, that is, the arrangement of things one after the other. Further forward still, another area deals with conditional connections, as in “IF it rains, THEN put up an umbrella.” Further forward still, another handles associations between words. The first three of these are probably important in the brains of other primates, though humans have extended their use: “Language functions have recruited cortical circuits that —23_ for very different purposes in our primate ancestry.” . (C) envisaged (C)configurative (C) referred to 找s (C)and (C)amassed (C) those (C) intermittent (C) dissipated

16.(A, commiserated

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