For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (30) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (31) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (32) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (33) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (34) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 33

How did you persuade Tom to lend you the money?

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (30) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (31) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (32) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (33) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (34) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 34

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 30 to 34.

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (30) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (31) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (32) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (33) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (34) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 30:

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (30) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (31) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (32) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (33) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (34) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 31:

What happened in that city were a reaction from city workers, including firemen and policemen who had been laid off from their jobs.

There was a___________ table in the middle of the room.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

A/An_______is an official document stating that you have passed an examination, completed a course, or achieved some necessary qualifications

It was no accident that he broke my glasses. He did it _______ purpose.

For Better Grades - Use Your Brain!

   If you are like most students, you probably started this new academic year with a resolution to study harder. Now, science can you help you keep your resolution. Recent discoveries in brain research (30) _____ to better ways to learn. How does the brain (31) ____ new information? Think of the last time someone told you their phone number. Could you remember that number five minutes later? Probably not! That’s because it was in your short-term memory.

   Our memory actually has three components. Sensory memory takes (32) ____ information from our five senses and is stored for just a few seconds while our brain processes it. Short-term memory works like a “holding area” for new information — that’s where you keep the phone number while you dial it. but if you can put the phone number into long-term memory, you’ll remember that same phone number next week. This part of your memory (33) ______ everything from irregular verbs to the names of all your cousins.

   When you study, you transfer new information into long-term memory. Every time we learn something new, the structure of the brain actually changes as we build new connections to information that we (34) ______ know. When there are more connections to the new information, it’s easier to find it again.

Question 32:

“I will pay back the money, Gloria” said Ivan.

The more challenging the job is, _______.

Two students Peter and Anny are talking about women’s role.

- Peter: “ In my opinion, women would not go to work.”

- Anny: “.........................”

The police have begun an__________ into the accident which happened this afternoon.

“It’s no use talking to me about metaphysics. It’s a closed book to me.”

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.