Q&A based on Passages : Passage 1

Practice Test

Direction: You will be given 10 minutes to read and choose the right answers to the questions.

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(1) Maze Online Books has e-mailed Mr. Smith

   1 to confirm his order of The Oldest Day.

   2 to ask him to review a book that he bought.

   3 because he needs help logging in to his account.

   4 because he was unhappy with his recent purchase.

(2) What should Mr. Smith do if his book was damaged during delivery?

   1 Exchange it for other goods on the store's website.

   2 Write about it in his review of the book.

   3 Tell Maze and get a coupon code.

   4 Send an e-mail to the customer service center.

(3) What is true about Maze's book-of-the-month service?

   1 It will become cheaper next month.

   2 Customers receive five books each month.

   3 Maze chooses the book of the month randomly.

   4 Mr. Smith can get 10 percent off for the whole year.

Let's Discuss!

Vocabulary Check

Direction: Let's study the meaning of the words and their correct pronunciation.

Comprehension Questions

Direction: Let's study and understand the email again to check for the answers and its content.

(1) Maze Online Books has e-mailed Mr. Smith

   1 to confirm his order of The Oldest Day.

   2 to ask him to review a book that he bought.

   3 because he needs help logging in to his account.

   4 because he was unhappy with his recent purchase.

(2) What should Mr. Smith do if his book was damaged during delivery?

   1 Exchange it for other goods on the store's website.

   2 Write about it in his review of the book.

   3 Tell Maze and get a coupon code.

   4 Send an e-mail to the customer service center.

(3) What is true about Maze's book-of-the-month service?

   1 It will become cheaper next month.

   2 Customers receive five books each month.

   3 Maze chooses the book of the month randomly.

   4 Mr. Smith can get 10 percent off for the whole year.

Q&A based on Passages : Passage 2

Directions: You will be given 10 minutes to read and choose the right answers to the questions.

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(1) What do the Japanese researchers caution about?

   1 Looking for easier ways to improve memory through sleeping pills.

   2 Finding ways to cure the illnesses of brains without any doctor’s advice.

   3 Using medicines that are not given by a doctor to help people study.

   4 Concentrating too hard on studying for passing memory tests at school.

(2) “Recognition memory” is

   1 used when a person encounters something that was experienced before.

   2 the term that Dr. Parker tried to define in the research he conducted 10 years ago.

   3 the type of memory for recalling the content of what people have read in the past.

   4 considered to be a more accurate type of memory than recall memory.

(3) The students in the experiment

   1 distinguished the words that they had just heard from the ones that they did not.

   2 were asked to read out groups of different words and remembered them correctly.

   3 had to move their eyes in different directions while listening to a speaker’s voice.

   4 were divided into groups based on the words that they had heard.

(4) What was one of the groups 10 percent better at?

   1 Recognizing the “lure” words among the other words in the list.

   2 Moving their eyes from word to word while checking the list.

   3 Marking the right words which had been read out before.

   4 Remembering the correct spelling of a word on the list.

(5) Which of the following statements is true?

   1 A team of Japanese doctors developed the drugs to improve people’s recognition memory.

   2 Dr. Parker revealed the connection between recall memory and recognition memory.

   3 Students are less likely to be fooled by false information when they move their eyes         vertically.

   4 Research has shown the way that people can boost their memories with physical movement         of the eyes.

Let's Discuss!

Vocabulary Check

Direction: Let's study the meaning of the words and their correct pronunciation.

Comprehension Questions

Direction: Let's study and understand the passage again to check for the answers and its content.

(1) What do the Japanese researchers caution about?

   1 Looking for easier ways to improve memory through sleeping pills.

   2 Finding ways to cure the illnesses of brains without any doctor’s advice.

   3 Using medicines that are not given by a doctor to help people study.

   4 Concentrating too hard on studying for passing memory tests at school.

(2) “Recognition memory” is

   1 used when a person encounters something that was experienced before.

   2 the term that Dr. Parker tried to define in the research he conducted 10 years ago.

   3 the type of memory for recalling the content of what people have read in the past.

   4 considered to be a more accurate type of memory than recall memory.

(3) The students in the experiment

   1 distinguished the words that they had just heard from the ones that they did not.

   2 were asked to read out groups of different words and remembered them correctly.

   3 had to move their eyes in different directions while listening to a speaker’s voice.

   4 were divided into groups based on the words that they had heard.

(4) What was one of the groups 10 percent better at?

   1 Recognizing the “lure” words among the other words in the list.

   2 Moving their eyes from word to word while checking the list.

   3 Marking the right words which had been read out before.

   4 Remembering the correct spelling of a word on the list.

(5) Which of the following statements is true?

   1 A team of Japanese doctors developed the drugs to improve people’s recognition memory.

   2 Dr. Parker revealed the connection between recall memory and recognition memory.

   3 Students are less likely to be fooled by false information when they move their eyes         vertically.

   4 Research has shown the way that people can boost their memories with physical movement         of the eyes.