heart

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• A1

  The doctor listened to his heart and said it was beating normally.

• A1

  She gave the gift from the heart — she chose it with great care.

• A2

  At the heart of the problem is a lack of communication between the two departments.

• A2

  He learned the poem by heart so he could recite it at the ceremony.

• B1

  Cardiovascular disease — affecting the heart and blood vessels — remains the leading cause of death globally, making research into its prevention and treatment one of the highest priorities in medical research and public health policy.

• B1

  The expression "a change of heart" — shifting one's position on an issue, often through emotional experience rather than rational argument — captures an important truth about moral development: many changes in our deepest commitments come not through logical persuasion but through encounters with people and situations that move us in ways that argument alone cannot.

• B2

  The history of the heart as a symbol — across cultures and centuries — reveals the remarkable persistence of its association with love, courage, and the most intimate dimensions of selfhood, an association so deep that contemporary neuroscience and cardiology have not displaced it despite demonstrating that the emotions attributed to the heart are generated in the brain; cultural metaphors have their own durability.

• B2

  The concept of emotional intelligence — the capacity to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions effectively — has been highly influential in organizational psychology and popular psychology, with proponents arguing that "heart" skills (empathy, emotional regulation, social awareness) are as important as cognitive skills for success in life and work, though critics have raised questions about the construct validity and measurement of the concept.

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