HELP ENGLISH PASSAGE AND QUESTIONS, THIS IS A PART OF THE PASSAGE REST ARE IN THE OOO FILE: Questions 7–19 are based on the following passages.

The following passages discuss the topic of intuition. The first was written by an American essayist in 2007. The second is an excerpt from a

book written by a research psychologist in 2002.

PASSAGE 1

According to a spate of recent popular books,

your faculty of intuition is an untapped source

of boundless power. You can access the ageless

wisdom of the universe, they claim, by simply

attuning yourself to the many non-rational

frequencies of information that envelop you.

To get an edge on your competition, learn to

listen to your gut.

Recent scientific research, however,

sheds a less sanguine and more cautionary

light on the power of irrationality. Studies

from such diverse fields as neurobiology,

evolutionary psychology, and economics

suggest that what we call intuition is in fact

the encroachment upon awareness of many

ancient systems of unconscious processing.

The often inchoate thoughts from our

unconscious are usually adorned by our

rational minds with a veneer of reason and

meaning, but they emanate from neural

systems better suited to our ancient ancestors than to modern humans. Trust them at

your own peril, and only if you value the

hunter-gatherer within you.

In order to survive and reproduce, our

ancestors often needed to process stimuli

quickly. When being chased by bears, they did

not have the luxury of researching the behavior

of omnivores in order to make the optimal

evasive maneuver.