The word "subject" in the passage means______.
A. the college course the students take
B. the theme of the listening material
C. a branch of knowledge studied
D. the student experimented on
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There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Information in longterm memory can be remembered at a later time when it is needed. The information may be kept for days or weeks. However, information in short-term memory is kept for only a few seconds, usually by repeating the information over and over. The following experiment shows how short-term memory has been studied.
Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember vocabulary. The subjects in his experiment were 75 college students. They represented all levels of ability in English; beginning, intermediate, advanced, and native-speaking students.
To begin, the subjects listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording, the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they remembered. Each question had four choices. The subjects had to circle the word they had heard in the recording. Some of the questions had four choices that sound alike. For example, weather, whether, wither, and wetter are four words that sound alike. Some of the questions had four choices that have the same meaning. Method, way, manner, and system would be four words with the same meaning. Finally the subjects took a language proficiency test.
Henning found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike; students with a higher proficiency made more of their mistakes on words that have the same meaning. Henning's results suggest that beginning students hold the sound of words in their short-term memory, while advanced students hold the meaning of words in their short-term memory.
Henning made the experiment in order to study ______.
A. how students remember English vocabulary by short-term memory
B. how students learnEnglish vocabulary
C. how to develop students' ability in English
D. how long information in short-term memory is kept
During a cattle drive, cowboys took a group of cows from a wild and open country to
A. the West states and Texas
B. the cities of the East States
C. the people who eat beef in the cities
D. the railroad towns hundred miles away
Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a consequence of new technological developments?
A. Older technologies die away.
B. The quality of life is improved.
C. Overall productivity increases.
D. More raw materials become necessary.
I'd like to______a special seat for the concert of May
A. serve
B. reserve
C. preserve
D. conserve