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Exam practice Moods

Reading and Use of English Part 1
Exam tip
For questions 1 -8, read the text below and decide
Study the spaces one by one, paying careful
which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. attention to the words before and after the
There is an example at the beginning (0).
gap. The four options you have to choose from
will be similar in meaning but only one will fit
correctly in the gap. The correct answer may
also be the only word to fit grammatically.

Learning new words in a foreign language
Remembering words successfully is a chancy business, but over the last forty years psychologists have
found three methods which consistently improve this important language learning (0) B
These are:
creating a visual (1) for the word you want to remember; forming word associations; and recalling
into attempts to remember lists of words has shown that these
the word by (2)
of a story. (3)
methods (4) in memory improvements of ten percent over simply reading words once.
for a fourth method which can be added to the other three;
Now, new studies have shown solid (5)
it's surprisingly simple. It only (6) saying the word you want to remember to yourself. It doesn't even
seem to matter if you don't say the word aloud - it only has to be mouthed. Across eight experiments in
were asked to read and remember lists of words, researchers found memory improvements
which (7)
sometimes in (8) of ten percent.

0 A capability B skill C capacity D competence
1 A impression B photo C copy D image

2 A means B ways C methods D processes
3 A Enquiries B Studies C Research D Questions

4 A result B lead C cause D produce
5 A indication B support C data D evidence
implies
6 A includes B needs C involves D
contributors
7 A participants B applicants C contestants D
D extra
addition
8 A surplus B excess C

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