問題詳情

III. Cloze Test: Choose the answer that best fits the given text.Questions 36-40    Learning a second language can have a positive effect on the brain, even if it is 36 in adulthood,a study of 262 people tested either aged 11 or in their seventies suggests. The research 37 by Dr.Thomas Bak, from the centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University ofEdinburgh, between 2008 and 2010. All participants said they were able to communicate in at least onelanguage 38 English. 195 learned the second language before the age of 18, and 65 learned it afterthat time. The findings indicate that those who spoke two or more languages had 39 better cognitiveabilities compared to what would have been expected from their baseline test. Dr. Bak said the pattern theyfound was “meaningful” and the improvements in attention, focus and fluency could not be explained byoriginal intelligence. 40 , he admitted that this study also raised many questions, such as whetherlearning more than one language could also have the same positive effect on cognitive ageing and whetheractively speaking a second language is better than just knowing how to speak it.
36.
(A) worked out
(B) worked up
(C) taken up
(D) taken out

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.411765
統計：A(9),B(1),C(7),D(0),E(0)

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