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III.Reading Comprehension (40 points) Passage One: Questions 31-36     Dr. Judith Kroth, a prominent cognitive scientist, discussed findings of her lab’s research on February 18th at a discussion session of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advanced Science. This discussion panel attracted an audience of almost 200 people. In her talk, Judith Kroth argued against the common belief that multilingual kids are hindered in their cognitive/linguistic development; she maintained that bilinguals, irrespective of their initial ' exposure to the second or third language, seem to help with multitasking and have a better control of their attentional resources in multitasking when compared with monolingual controls.    Dr. Judith Kroll attributed this “mental benefits” to the “operation” of the multilingual mind. Specifically, when multilingual kids and adults use a language (target language), lexical candidates from other (non-target) languages are also heightened and present in the background Multilingual speakers thus often have to involuntarily alternate between and/or among different lexicons. To efficiently use the target language——the language that is in active use, a multilingual speaker has to constantly suppress the irrelevant, non-target languages—the languages that are not in active use—while busily activating and choosing the appropriate lexical candidates from the target language. So the multilingual is always making lexical choices for a given situation and searching for the most appropriate lexical candidates that are activated at the same time. Multilingual speakers thus become experts in multitasking and are efficient in allocating attentional resources for tasks that are simultaneously performed at the same time.     In addition to the above cognitive benefit, bilingual speakers may be less likely to suffer from age-related mental decline, such as Alzheimers and dementia. So, maybe the fact that I speak a few languages may provide me with mental and cognitive benefits beyond the ability to chat with locals when I travel. To gain better insight into the benefits of multilingual minds, more research is warranted.
31.What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The dynamics of a multilingual mind
(B) The cognitive benefit of learning multiple languages
(C) The lexical architecture developed by multilingual speakers
(D) The cognitive load involved in the meaning retrieval process of multilingual speakers

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答案：B[無官方正解]
難度：適中0.625
統計：A(3),B(5),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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