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Fill in the blanks with the right word: A recent study has suggested an answer to a question that has

occupied philosophers for centuries. Do people need words into think? A tribe living in the Amazon basin could provide the answer. The iraha tribebe small ! there are only "## hundred members $ all told $they e%hibit a fascinating cultural peculiarity. These people have no words for numbers. from &one'(' two' and &many'. )hat is more(words for &one' and &two' are very similar. Asas anyone can tell( this tribe has never hadsort of vocabulary for numbers( butappear to survive quite well without it. *t was soon realized that these people might supply an insightthe way our minds work. +tudies have shown that adult members of the tribe are noat counting than a baby is at speaking. they were shown a row of ob,ects and askedduplicate the number they saw( they could not get beyond two or three before starting to make mistakes. This applies even to adults who appear reasonably intelligent inother way. +o it looksthough the iraha are not very good at counting simply because theynot have a vocabulary for numbers. This would suggest that human beings in general cannot think if they have no words to do. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. -f all the games in the world( the ,igsaw puzzle has got to be among the most ubiquitous. .et( the history of its origins presents an/*0T1*2345puzzle of its own. -ficially( the ,igsaw puzzle/-1*2*05in 4ngland( and its/*0640T5 was 7ohn +pilsbury(a 8ondon engraver and map maker. *t is also an apparently/D*+ 3T45 fact that in 9:;: +pilsbury created a puzzle(/*0*T*A85known as a'dissected map'( by mounting one of his maps on a piece of hardwood and cutting around the borders of the countries. <is puzzles came to be used as/4D3=AT*-05tools in schools to help children learn 2eography. <owever( as is almost/6A1.5the case with inventions( some doubts have been raised about whether +pilbury>s puzzle was the first( and there is evidence that two Dutch map makers( =ovens and ?ortier( may have produced the first puzzle ten years earlier. The controversy arises from the fact that their puzzles were first made using maps that had been printed in the 9:"#s. <owever( this was an age of e%ploration( and new/D*+=-6415 demanded that maps be constantly/DAT45. =onsequently( the maps used in the puzzles( would have been out of date by 9:;#( suggesting that =ovens and ?ortier produced their first puzzles before them. The evidence is/=-0=83D45( however( an advertising for their dissected maps only appears in 9::@. +o it is/=-0=4*645 that they simply thought this was a good way of making use of old maps. For questions 1-10, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. o not change the word given. !ou must use between three and si" words, including the word given. 1. *t took me some time to understand fully what happened. #$%&' *t was ..understood what had happened. (. ThereAs no point arguing about this small detail( in my opinion. #)*+$ This small detail .( in my opinion. ,. *f your order is delayed( we will contact you. '&-! +hould .to your order( we will contact you.

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