FOCUS NOW II

EXERCISES ON PAGES 40, 41

EX.1

No, I don’t.

EX. 2

1) introspection, 2) assumption, 3) deprecatory gesture, 4) uturance, 5) contept, 6) flabby, 7) endurance, 8) impairs, 9) makeshift, 10) smashes

EX. 3

1) Cutie believes he exists because he thinks. 2) He asks himself just what is the cause of his existence. 3) No, he doesn’t, because he doesn’t believe Powell’s explanation as such. 4) Yes, because he has autonomous thought. 5) organic material, coma

EX. 4

body: composed of strong metal, needs: electrical energy, environment: he can stand extremes of envinronment easily, life span: continuosly conscious

EX. 5

“I accept nothing on autority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless – and it goes against all the dictates of logic to suppose that you made me.”

In Cutie’s opinion, it is unreasonable to think that Powell and Donovan made him because their hypothesis must be valid by reason and to suppose that they made him goes againist all the dictates of logic.

EX. 6

1) created, 2) machine, 3) robots, 4) humans, 5) planet

EX. 7

D