Questions 27-30

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

Write your answers in boxes 27-29 on your answer sheet.

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

Write your answers in boxes 14-17 on your answer sheet.

27 What does the typist’s experiment show in the passage?

A Old people reading ability is superior

B Losses of age is irreversible

C Seasoned tactics made elders more efficient

D Old people performed poorly in driving test

28 Which is correct about rat experiment?

A Different toys have different effect for rats

B Rat’s brain weight increased in both cages.

C Isolated rat’s brain grows new connections

D Boring and complicated surroundings affect brain development

29 What can be concluded in the chess game of a children’s group?

A They won game with adults.

B Their organization of chess knowledge is better

C Their image memory is better than adults

D They used different part of brain when chessing

30 What is the author’s purpose of using “vocabulary study” at the end of the passage?

A Certain people are sensitive to vocabularies while others aren’t

B Teachers and professionals won by their experience

C Vocabulary memory as a crystallized intelligence is hard to decline

D Old people use their special zone of brain when study

Questions 31-36

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than two words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 31-36 on your answer sheet.

It’s long been known that 31__________ declined with age. Charles A. Dana foundation invested millions of dollars to test memory decline. They used advanced technology, neurochemical experiments and ran several cognitive and 32__________ experiments. Bahrick called one form ”33__________“, which describes factual knowledge. Another one called “34__________“contains events in time and space format. He conducted two experiments toward knowledge memory’s longevity, he asked 1000 candidates some knowledge of 35__________, some could even remember it decades ago. Second research of Spanish courses found that multiple course participants could remember more than half of 36__________ they learned after decades, whereas single course taker only remembered as short as 3 years.