Настоящее пособие предназначено для подготовки к экзаменам по английскому языку и адресовано абитуриентам, преподавателям, работающим в структуре довузовской подготовки, а также школьным учителям, готовящим выпускников к централизованному тестированию. В пособие включены общие сведения по грамматике английского языка, а также разнообразные по форме и содержанию упражнения для закрепления и активизации полученных знаний. Каждый раздел пособия завершается тестом, который дает возможность проверить степень усвоения грамматического материала и оценить в баллах свои достижения.
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Scientific American Mind - Memory upgrade (№4/2005)
Added by: Kyla | Karma: 209.07 | Periodicals | 29 January 2009
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Get the Picture You and I haven’t met, but I feel as if I already know you. You’re pretty smart.
Above average, in fact. And when you have a goal in front of you—whether it’s completing a work project by the deadline, writing that term paper or getting all the dinner-party details just right—you’re sure you’ll rise to the occasion. Me, too. Trouble is, we’re often so very wrong about our overconfi dent selfassessments—and we are blind to that ignorance because we can’t get a complete view of ourselves, as psychologists David Dunning, Chip Heath and Jerry M. Suls explain in their article “Picture Imperfect.” ...
