PASSAGE 3: THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING AN INSTRUMENT

Bring about significant improvements is closest in meaning to:

• Cause major progress

• Prevent any change

• Reduce overall growth

• Keep things the same

Get smarter means:

• Become less intelligent

• Grow more intelligent

• Stay the same mentally

• Lose cognitive skills

Give children an advantage is most similar to:

• Limit children’s opportunities

• Provide kids with a benefit

• Take away children’s skills

• Ignore young learners

Intellectual skills refers to:

• Physical movement abilities

• Mental reasoning abilities

• Emotional control skills

• Social interaction skills

Perceptual skills is closest to:

• Sensory processing abilities

• Physical strength skills

• Language speaking skills

• Artistic creativity skills

Cognitive skills means:

• Physical coordination skills

• Mental thinking abilities

• Emotional expression skills

• Social communication skills

Turn out is most similar to:

• End up being

• Fail to happen

• Avoid occurring

• Prevent completely

Wishful thinking refers to:

• Realistic planning

• Unrealistic hope

• Practical strategy

• Logical prediction

Highly convincing means:

• Not very believable

• Very persuasive

• Slightly acceptable

• Hardly credible

Carry out a trial is closest to:

• Stop an experiment

• Conduct a study

• Delay a test

• Ignore research