Memory and Age- IELTS Reading Answers

Updated On Sep 13, 2023

Contents

1 Reading Passage
2 Memory and Age
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The Reading Module of the IELTS can be the top-scoring category, with diligent practice. To achieve the best results in this section, you must understand how to approach and answer the different Question types in the Reading Module. By solving and reviewing Sample Reading Questions from past IELTS papers, you can ensure that your Reading skills are up to the mark.

Reading Passage

Memory and Age

Memory and Age 1

Memory and Age 2

Questions 14-17

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C, or D.

Write your answers in boxes 14-17 on your answer sheet.

Question 14

What does the typist’s experiment show in the passage?

A Old people reading ability is superior

B Losses of age are irreversible

C Seasoned tactics made elders more efficient

D Old people performed poorly in driving test

Question 15
Which is correct about the rat experiment?

A Different toys have different effects on rats

B Rat’s brain weight increased in both cages.

C Isolated rat’s brain grows new connections

D Boring and complicated surroundings affect brain development

Question 16

What can be concluded in the chess game of a children’s group?

A They won games with adults.

B Their organization of chess knowledge is better

C Their image memory is better than adults

D They used a different part of the brain when choosing

Question 17

What is the author’s purpose of using “vocabulary study” at the end of the passage?

A Certain people are sensitive to vocabulary while others aren’t

B Teachers and professionals won by their experience

C Vocabulary memory as a crystallized intelligence is hard to decline

D Old people use their special zone of the brain when studying

Questions 18-23

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than two words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 18-23 on your answer sheet.

It’s long been known that______18_______ declined with age. Charles A. Dana foundation invested millions of dollars to test memory decline. They used advanced technology, neurochemical experiments and ran several cognitive and_______19_______ experiments. Bahrick called one form” _______20_______ “, which describes factual knowledge. Another one called “21“contains events in time and space format. He conducted two experiments on knowledge memory’s longevity, he asked 1000 candidates for some knowledge of_______22_______, some could even remember it decades ago. Second research of Spanish courses found that multiple course participants could remember more than half of _______23_______ they learned after decades, whereas a single course taker only remembered as short as 3 years.

Questions 24-27

Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A-F) with opinions or deeds below. Write the appropriate letters A-F in boxes 24-27 on your answer sheet.

A Harry P. Bahrick

B Arnold B. Scheibel

C Marion Diamond

D Timothy Salthouse

E Stanley Rapport

F Robert Kail

24 Examined both young and old’s blood circulation of brain while testing,

25 Aging is a significant link between physical and mental activity.

26 Some semantic memories of an event fade away by repetition.

26 Rat’s brain developed when put in a diverse environment.

Reading Answers

14 Answer: C

Question type: Multiple choice question

Answer location: Paragraph C, lines 5-8

Answer explanation: “The older typists, it turned out, achieved their speed with cunning little strategies that made them far more efficient than their younger counterparts: They made fewer finger movements, saving a fraction of a second here and there. They also read ahead in the text.” This clearly states that the older people were able to outperform the younger participants by the use of tactful strategies at typing.

15 Answer: D

Question type: Multiple choice question

Answer location: Paragraph D, lines 1-4

Answer explanation: “‘When a rat is kept in isolation without playmates or objects to interact with, the animal’s brain shrinks, but if we put that rat with 11 other rats in a large cage and give them an assortment of wheels, ladders, and other toys, we can show–after four days– significant differences in its brain,” says Diamond, professor of integrative biology.” Thus this suggests that the rat’s brain got affected by the environment around it.

16 Answer: B

Question type: Multiple choice question

Answer location: Paragraph I, lines 6-12

Answer explanation: “A group of adult novice chess players was compared with a group of child experts at the game. In tests of their ability to remember a random series of numbers, the adults, as expected, outscored the children. But when asked to remember the patterns of chess pieces arranged on a board, the children won. “Because they’d played a lot of chess, their knowledge of chess was better organized than that of the adults, and their existing knowledge of chess served as a framework for new memory,” explains Kail.” This suggests that owing to the better-organized knowledge of chess, the kids outperformed the adults.

17 Answer: C

Question type: Multiple choice question

Answer location: Paragraph J, lines 1-3 and 9-12

Answer explanation: “Crystallized intelligence about one’s occupation apparently does not decline at all until at least age 75, and if there is no disease or dementia, may remain even longer.” and “Vocabulary is one such specialized form of accrued knowledge. Research clearly shows that vocabulary improves with time. Retired professionals, especially teachers and journalists, consistently score higher on tests of vocabulary and general information than college students, who are supposed to be in their mental prime.” This suggests that the vocabulary study implied that crystallized intelligence is hard to decline with age.

18 Answer: Memory