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
- Find the expressions below in the articles on this page and on page 160 and answer the questions.
- Add the missing word in each sentence.
Answer
a)
- a fallacy
- conventional wisdom, a commonly held perception, intuitively true
- uncover
- debunk, disprove
- verify
b)
- It is a commonly held perception that no one can survive a plane crash.
- Conventional wisdom says you shouldn't swim soon after eating.
- Scientists in Panama recently disproved the myth that sloths are lazy.
- The myth that you lose most of your body heat through your head has been debunked / disproved.
- It seems intuitively true that long-distance running is bad for your knees, but recent research suggests otherwise.
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