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Harry P. Bahrick
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Arnold B. Scheibel
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Marion Diamond
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Timothy Salthouse
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Stanley Rapport
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Robert Kail
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Examined both young and old’s blood circulation of brain while
testing,
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Aging is a significant link between physical and mental activity.
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Some semantic memories of an event fade away by repetition.
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Rat’s brain developed when put in a diverse environment.
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Solution:
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D
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C
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C
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A
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YES
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NOT GIVEN
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NO
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NOT GIVEN
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B
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E
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A
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D
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C
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ii
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iv
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x
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vi
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i
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vii
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xii
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Homesteads
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agricultural output
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wheat
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Company
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Police Force
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transcontinental railway
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C
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D
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B
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C
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memory
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psychological
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semantic memory
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episodic memory
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algebra
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vocabulary
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E
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B
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A
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C
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IELTS Mock Test 2023
February
Reading Practice Test 3
HOW TO USE
You have 2 ways to access the test
1. Open this URL
http://link.intergreat.com/ZXnDp
on your computer
2. Use your mobile device to scan the QR code attached
READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13
Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage
1.
Exploring british village 2
{A} The Neolithic longhouse was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the first farmers in
Europe beginning at least as early as the period 5000 to 6000 BC. The origin of the name
blackhouse is of some debate. It could be less than 150 years old and may have been
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synonymous with inferior. On Lewis, in particular, it seems to have been used to distinguish the
older blackhouses from some of the newer white-houses (Scottish Gaelic: taigh-geal, Irish: tí
geal, tí bán), with their mortared stone walls. There may also be some confusion arising from
the phonetic similarity between the ‘dubh’ , meaning black and taghadh meaning thatch. The
houses in Scotland were built high rather than wide; however, some were built small and wide.
{B} The buildings were generally built with double-wall dry-stone walls packed with earth and
wooden rafters covered with a thatch of turf with cereal straw or reed. The floor was generally
flagstones or packed earth and there was a central hearth for the fire. There was no chimney
for the smoke to escape through. Instead, the smoke made its way through the roof. The
blackhouse was used to accommodate livestock as well as people. People lived at one end and
the animals lived at the other with a partition between them.
{C} It is estimated that there are over ten thousand villages in Britain, yet defining the term
‘village’ isn’t as simple as it may at first sound. When does a hamlet become a village? And
when does a village become a town?
{D} Strictly speaking the term ‘village’ comes from the Latin ‘villaticus’, which roughly translates
as ‘a group of houses outside a villa farmstead’. Today a village is understood as a collection of
buildings (usually at least 20) that is larger than a hamlet, yet smaller than a town, and which
contains at least one communal or public building. This is most commonly the parish church,
though it can be a chapel, school, public house, shop, post office, smithy or mill. Villagers will
share communal resources such as access roads, a water supply, and usually a place of
worship
{E} A hamlet is a smaller grouping of buildings that don’t necessarily have any public or service
buildings to support it. A significant difference is that it won’t have a parish church like a village
does, and most hamlets contain only between three and twenty buildings.
{F} The point at which a village becomes a town is difficult to determine and is probably best
defined by those who live there. However, since the Middle Ages, the term ‘town’ has been a
legal term that refers to the fact that the community has a borough charter. The situation is
confused by the fact that there are many town-like suburban communities calling themselves
villages (for example, Oxton Village in Birkenhead), as well as designed suburban ‘villages’ such
as those built under the Garden Village Movement.
{G} The 2001 census shows us that approx 80% of people in England live in an urban
environment, with under 7% living in rural villages (the remainder live in rural towns or outside
concentrated settlements). This is the exact opposite of the situation two centuries ago, when
under 20% of the population lived in the town, and the majority lived in rural villages. As late as
1851 agriculture remained the largest single source of employment in Britain, yet today under
3% of us work on the land.
{H} It is essential to remember that villages were created and have evolved because of
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particular combinations of geographical, commercial, economic and social factors. They expand,
decline, move and fluctuate with the times. This article introduces some of the common forms
of the village to be found in Britain.
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