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Multiple Choice

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older kids don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on tablets or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds. Unbeknown to most of us, an invisible, game-changing transformation links everyone in this picture: the neuronal circuit that underlies the brain's ability to read is subtly, rapidly changing and this has implications for everyone from the pre-reading toddler to the expert adult.

What is the writer's main point in the first paragraph?

• Our use of technology is having a hidden effect on us.

• Technology can be used to help youngsters to read.

• Travellers should be encouraged to use technology on planes.

• Playing games is a more popular use of technology than reading.

Multiple Choice

This is not a simple, binary issue of print versus digital reading and technological innovation. As MIT scholar Sherry Turkle has written, we do not err as a society when we innovate but when we ignore what we disrupt or diminish while innovating. In this hinge moment between print and digital cultures, society needs to confront what is diminishing in the expert reading circuit, what our children and older students are not developing, and what we can do about it.

What main point does Sherry Turkle make about innovation?

• Technological innovation has led to a reduction in print reading.

• We should pay attention to what might be lost when innovation occurs.

• We should encourage more young people to become involved in innovation.

• There is a difference between developing products and developing ideas.

Multiple Choice

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used. If the dominant medium advantages processes that are fast, multi-task oriented and well-suited for large volumes of information, like the current digital medium, so will the reading circuit. As UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield writes, the result is that less attention and time will be allocated to slower, time-demanding deep reading processes.

What point is the writer making in the fourth paragraph?

• Humans have an inborn ability to read and write.

• Reading can be done using many different mediums

• Writing systems make unexpected demands on the brain.

• Some brain circuits adjust to whatever is required of them.

Multiple Choice

Increasing reports from educators and from researchers in psychology and the humanities bear this out. English literature scholar and teacher Mark Edmundson describes how many college students actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries in favour of something simpler as they no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts. We should be less concerned with students' 'cognitive impatience', however, than by what may underlie

it: the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with a level of critical analysis

sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts.

According to Mark Edmundson, the attitude of college students

• has changed the way he teaches.

• has influenced what they select to read.

• does not worry him as much as it does others.

• does not match the views of the general public.

BINZ

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Last lesson

We have been doing well with reading practise so far!


Shall we finish checking the last listening test!