Questions 6-10
Choose YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer, choose NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer, or choose NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this.
6. Attitudes towards bilingualism have changed in recent years.
7. Bilingual people are better than monolingual people at guessing correctly what words are before they are finished.
8. Bilingual people consistently name images faster than monolingual people.
9. Bilingual people’s brains process single sounds more efficiently than monolingual people in all situations.
10. Fewer bilingual people than monolingual people suffer from brain disease in old age.
Questions 11-14
Which paragraph (A-G) contains the following information?
11. an example of how bilingual and monolingual people’s brains respond differently to a certain type of non-verbal auditory input
12. a demonstration of how a bilingual upbringing has benefits even before we learn to speak
13. a description of the process by which people identify words that they hear
14. reference to some negative consequences of being bilingual
