Career Choices, Retail Sales, and Human Cognition

Choosing the Right Career Path

Facts and Considerations

1. True: Choosing a career path is often a confusing and stressful experience.
2. True: You can begin by choosing a career that fits well with your skills.

Common Questions

1. Why is it difficult? It's challenging because, without experience, you don't know what a job truly involves, and careers can be unpredictable.
2. What should you look for? You should aim for a career you are good at and one that you will genuinely want to do.

Key Vocabulary

• Confusing
• Fits
• Reach
• Venture

Sentence Fragments and Answers

1. are motivated
2. best, have ever read
3. for, about
4. where
5. to choose a job she loved

Navigating the January Sales

Facts and Considerations

1. True: Consumers who visit shops are rewarded with discounts of up to 80%.
2. True: Online retailers also participate in their own January sales.

Common Questions

1. How dedicated are shoppers? Some people start queuing during the night and wait for extended periods.
2. Why do they do it? This is because they can ensure they will receive presents they genuinely like.

Key Vocabulary

• Pick up
• Continue
• Keenest
• Rewarded

Sentence Fragments and Answers

1. better, are reduced
2. were, how
3. going, as
4. what she had bought for Peter

The Early Life of Leonardo da Vinci

Facts and Considerations

1. True: His father was stern and distant with him.
2. False: Piero da Vinci knew what to do about his son, Leonardo.

Common Questions

1. Why couldn't he attend university? Leonardo could not study at a university because he was born out of wedlock.
2. Why is he so renowned? He is remembered for his scientific and technological work, which was far more advanced than that of his contemporaries.

Key Vocabulary

• Ran
• Talent
• Famous
• Stunned

Sentence Fragments and Answers

1. what, had had
2. from, left
3. as, older
4. not to stop practicing until he learned how to paint

The Science of Facial Recognition

Facts and Considerations

1. True: Approximately 2 percent of the population has prosopagnosia, a condition characterized by great difficulty in recognizing faces.
2. False: Super-recognizers are often able to recognize another person despite significant changes in appearance.

Common Questions

1. Why might super-recognizers not acknowledge someone? They may not acknowledge recognition because other people usually don't recognize them in return, and they wish to avoid making the other person feel the meeting was more important to them.
2. How can their ability be useful? Their abilities could help determine the varying degrees of credibility among eyewitnesses.

Key Vocabulary

• Recalling
• Broad
• Encounter
• Credible

Sentence Fragments and Answers

1. to, were found
2. who, to
3. meeting, at
4. had not been, would not have met