Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 - Truth or myth? for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Find the expressions below in the articles on this page and on page 160 and answer the questions.
  2. Add the missing word in each sentence.

Answer

a)

  1. a fallacy
  2. conventional wisdom, a commonly held perception, intuitively true
  3. uncover
  4. debunk, disprove
  5. verify

b)

  1. It is a commonly held perception that no one can survive a plane crash.
  2. Conventional wisdom says you shouldn't swim soon after eating.
  3. Scientists in Panama recently disproved the myth that sloths are lazy.
  4. The myth that you lose most of your body heat through your head has been debunked / disproved.
  5. It seems intuitively true that long-distance running is bad for your knees, but recent research suggests otherwise.