B is incorrect: The writer does not say anything
about helping young people to read.
C is incorrect: The writer does not give an opinion about
whether using technology on planes should be encouraged.
D is incorrect: The writer mentions
different uses of technology but does not compare them.
15 The correct answer is B: The text refers to Sherry Turkle’s view that ‘we do not err as a
society when we innovate but when we ignore what we disrupt or diminish while innovating’.
This tells us that Turkle believes it is a serious mistake not to consider the negative effects of
innovation, including ‘what we … diminish’: in other words, what is lost.
A is incorrect: The text
does not say anything about a reduction in print reading.
C is incorrect: The text does not refer
to young people becoming involved in innovation.
D is incorrect: The text does not mention any
comparison between developing products and developing ideas.
16 The correct answer is D: The writer refers to the fact that the brain’s reading circuit ‘needs
an environment to develop’ and says that ‘it will adapt to that environment’s requirements – from
different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used’. This means that the
circuit will adjust in any way that it is required.
A is incorrect: The writer points out that, unlike
vision and language, reading is not an inborn human ability.
B is incorrect: The fact that there
are different reading mediums is mentioned, but this is not the point which the writer is making
in the paragraph.
C is incorrect: The writer says that the brain is required to adapt to different
writing systems but does not say that these demands are unexpected.
