1.Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word. in my mid-forties, I had a sudden and severe mental breakdown. about the events in my own life that (3) up to it. The (4) exceptional feature was that I am (5) psychologist and should therefore be able to view the events of my illness (6) two stand-points; subjectively as the patient and (7) objectively as the detached professional observer. always regarded (9) as reasonably well balanced (10) I had sometimes worried (11) physical illness, (12) thought that I might be subjected (13) the torture and humiliation of a severe mental illness had never entered my head. many years I had (15) outgoing efficient, continually active and reasonably cheerful: I thought of myself as well-meaning, Yet possibly somewhat insensitive both to my own and others' feelings. (PSYCHOLOGY) changes that accompany (17) (EMOTION) stress. The technology adopted is to ask leading questions such as: "Did you take the money?" or "Where did you hide the money?", mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject's electrical (18) (RESIST) in the palm or changes in his (19) (BREATH) and heart rate. Such apparatus has obtained widespread (20) (RECOGNISE), especially in companies, where the firm wants to find out who is responsible for (21) (THIEF). (RELY) method of convicting guilty people is valuable, but recent research sponsored by the U.S. Office of Public Health not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be used but also makes it (23) (QUESTION) whether they should be employed at all. QUALIFY), the tests themselves are by no means free from error, (25) (PRIME) because they discount human imagination and ingenuity.
