This [not living in memories] is not always easy; one’s own past is a gradually increasing weight.
A. ...as they get older, people find it harder to remember their past.
B. ...as they grow older, people accumulate more experience.
C. ...to old people, their past is becoming more important.
D. ...to old people, their past is becoming a heavy burden.
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Fill in each of the 15 blanks In the passage with the most likely answer. Want to keep your mind healthy throughout your life 1 an instrument. A new study found that musicians 2 brains that function better than their peers well into old age. Researchers 3 the mental abilities of senior citizens and discovered that musicians performed better at a number of skills. In 4 , they excelled at visual memory tasks. 5 musicians had similar verbal capabilities to non-musicians, their ability to memorize new words was better, too. Perhaps most importantly, the musicians’ IQ 6 were higher overall than those who spent their lives listening to music 7 performing it. The experience of musicians also played a role in how 8 their minds were. The younger they began to play their instruments, the better their minds performed at the mental tasks. 9 , the total number of years they played instruments throughout their life 10 how strong their brains remained years later. A preliminary study of 70 older participants, with different musical experience over their lifetimes, provides a connection 11 musical activity and mental balance in old age. The results revealed 12 participants with at least 10 years of musical experience had better performance in nonverbal memory, naming, and executive processes in advanced age 13 non-musicians. The study also found that musicians who 14 in their spare time had even higher-functioning brain capabilities. This finding supports 15 recent study that reported people who walk regularly maintain healthier brains. With that in mind, perhaps joining a marching band will make you the smartest person at the retirement home in the future.
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B. Incidentally
C. Nevertheless
D. Additionally
TOPIC: List some of the good virtues that the washwoman possessed and describe how unusual she was. Use the outline given below. · her sense of duty and her strong will to fulfill her tasks · her affection and her tolerance for her son · her self-esteem and her independence
As the boat rose and fell on the long swells, I could feel sleep creeping over me like paralysis.
A. ...the sleepiness, a sympotm of paralysis, overwhelmed me.
B. ...gradually, I was paralyzed in my sleep by the tiredness.
C. ...gradually, I felt so sleepy that I could not move.
D. ...paralyzed people like me fell asleep quickly.
Once, at my prep. school, I had a story in the magazine and Mother was beside herself.
A. ...my mother was very supportive when I was writing a story for the school magazine.
B. ...to see my story in the magazine was such a surprise to my mother that she couldn’t believe it.
C. ...my mother was deeply moved by the story in the magazine that she couldn’t find words to express herself.
D. ...the magazine carried a story I had written and this made my mother so happy that she couldn’t control herself.