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PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN] SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1) Six months before she died, my grandmother moved into an old people's home and I visited her there. She was sitting in the living room with about fifteen other residents, mostly women, half of them asleep. The room was clean and warm, with flowers and pictures, and the care assistants were kind and cheerful. A talk show was on the television, and the only other sound was snoring and embarrassing digestive noises. People only moved when they needed to be helped to the bathroom. It was depressing. Gran talked a lot about how much she missed seeing her grandchildren, but I knew from my sister that they hated going to visit her there and, to be perfectly honest, I couldn't wait to get away myself. (2) So I was interested to read a newspaper article about a new concept in old people's homes. The idea is simple, but revolutionary: combining a residential home for the elderly with a nursery school in the same building. The children and the residents eat lunch together and share activities such as music, painting, gardening and caring for the pets which the residents are encouraged to keep. In the afternoons, the residents enjoy reading or telling stories to the children and, if a child is feeling sad or tired, there is always a kind lap to sit on and a cuddle. There are trips out and birthday parties too. (3) The advantages are enormous for everyone concerned. The children are happy because they get a lot more individual attention and respond well because someone has time for them. They also learn that old people are not different or frightening in any way. And of course, they see illness and death and learn to accept them. The residents are happy because they feel useful and needed. They are more active and more interested in life when the children are around and they take more interest in their appearance too. And the staff are happy because they see an improvement in the physical and psychological health of the residents. (4) Nowadays there is less and less contact between the old and the young. There are many reasons for this, including the breakdown of the extended family, working parents with no time to care for ageing relations, families that have moved away and smaller flats with no room for grandparents. But the result is the same: increasing numbers of children without grandparents and old people who have no contact with children. And more old people who are lonely and feel useless, along with more and more families with young children who desperately need more support. It's a major problem in many societies.【缺少答案,请补充】
Read carefully the following excerpt on the fragmented style of learning, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: ● summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then ● comment on the fragmented style of learning from a learner's perspective. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE. As far as technology is concerned, the world has changed for our generation, and as parents, teachers, leaders and educators, we are seeing the impact of that change on our children. The average 14-year-old now absorbs five hours' worth of content for every hour that they are receiving information. How? Well, your kid comes home from school and puts his headphones on. There's a TV on in the corner, and he is checking his emails, watching vlogs, and researching his homework. Within an hour he has absorbed more information than we have in a whole afternoon. Your kid is not "multi-tasking" as you might like to think; he does not take in separate pieces of information at exactly the same time - he is jumping between different tasks at incredible speeds. Our generation learned at school that we usually start something, follow it through and then move on to the next thing. But the children of today no longer learn in this way; they have a fragmented attention span due to the fragmented style of learning in which they receive information. I recently gave a speech, and my point is this: Stop blaming technology and embrace it. There is no point saying "Don't look at the computer"; instead be creative and show your child more interesting things to look at on the computer! Thousands of years ago people got their messages across to others by carving them on a tree or on a stone; now we have Social Media. Let's move forward together with our children, and maybe we will all learn something along the way. ----THE END----
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