Exercises on Nouns
Exercise 1
1. The brain stores 100 trilion pieces of informations/information.
2. Men’s brains are heavier than woman’s/women’s brains.
3. The human brain weighs about 3.5 pounds/pound.
4. The brain cannot feel pain/pains.
5. The brain receives more than 100 million/millions messages.
Exercise 2
1. Intelligence is the ability to use thought and knowledges to understand things and solve
problems.
2. Hormones help adjust the mixture of sugar, salt, and waters in your body.
3. Psychology, meaning the study of the mind and how it works, comes from a Greek word
meaning lifes or soul.
4. Brain cells use up a lot of energy, so they need a constant supply of oxygens.
5. Each hemisphere of the brain receives informations about the opposite side of the visual
field.
6. Although millions of brain neurons are active at any one time, they do not use much
electrical powers. =uncount
7. Lights entering the eye forms an image on 130 million tiny light cells. Lights = lampu
(countable = plural)
8. Most animal are not able to rely on learning and memory.
Exercise 3
1. People’s brains weigh more now than they did 100 year ago.
2. Nerves impulses can travel at speeds of up to 488 feet per second.
3. The brain contains between 10 trillions and 100 trillions neurons.
4. Each neuron is linked by synapses to thousand of other neurons.
5. Nerves endings below the skin’s surface pick up sensations of cold, heat, and touch.
6. There are three to four millions pain receptors in the skin.
7. A three-years-old child’s brain is two-thirds the size it will finally be.
8. The brain uses 25 percents of the blood’s oxygen.
Exercise 4
From the four underlined words or phrases (A), (B), (C), or (D), identify the one that is not correct.
1. The potato was the staple of Ireland, and when the crop failed in 1840, there was
A B C
mass starvations.
D
2. Sharks can maneuver considerably faster than other fish because they have no bones.
A B C D
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3. Although sugar cane and sugar beet look very different, the sugars that is refined from them
A B C
tastes almost the same.
D
4. Textiles industries are as widespread as food industries because both supply basic
A B C
human needs.
D
5. Many animal species are totally colorsblind, but the condition is very rare in humans.
A B C D
6. Our skulls is made up of eight cranial and fourteen facial bones.
A B C D
7. Diamonds, which is about 40 times as hard as talc, is made up of pure carbon.
A B C D
8. The oceans contain about 97 percent of the world’s water supply, and about another 2
A B C
percent of the world’s water supply is ices.
D
9. Brain waves patterns vary among different people and in different activities.
A B C D
10. The ancestor of today’s horse was a little mammal called eohippus, which first appeared
A B
54 millions years ago.
C D
11. Lasers are of great value in areas such as communication, industry, medicine, and
A B C
scientifics research.
D
12. Dinosaurs are classified as reptiles, although some appear to have been warms-blooded.
A B C D
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