Passage2 Questions6to10arebasedonthefollowingpassage: Therearetwokindsofmemory:shot-termandlong-term.Informationinlong-termmemorycanberememberedatalatertimewhenitisneeded.Theinformationmaybekeptfordaysorweeks.However,informationoverandover.Thefollowingexperimentshowshowshort-termmemoryhasbeenstudied. HenningstudiedhowstudentswhoarelearningEnglishasasecondlanguageremembervocabulary.Thesubjectsinhisexperimentwere75collegestudents.TheyrepresentedalllevelsofabilityinEnglish:beginning,intermediate,andnative-speakingstudents. Tobegin,thesubjectslistenedtoarecordingofanativespeakerreadingaparagraphinEnglish.Followingtherecording,thesubjectstooka15-questiontesttoseewhichwordstheyremembered,eachquestionhadfourchoices.Thesubjectshadtocirclethewordtheyhadheardintherecording.Someofthequestionshadfourchoicesthatsoundalike.Forexample,weather,whether,wither,andwetterarefourwordsthatsoundalike.Someofthequestionshadfourchoicesthathavethesamemeaning.Method,way,manner,andsystemwouldbefourwordswiththesamemeaning.Finallythesubjectstookalanguageproficiencytest. HenningfoundthatstudentswithalowerproficiencyinEnglishmademoreoftheirmistakesonwordsthatsoundalike;studentswithahigherproficiencymademoreoftheirmistakesonwordsthathavethesamemeaning.Henning’sresultssuggestthatbeginningstudentsholdthesoundofwordsintheirshort-termmemory,andadvancedstudentsholdthemeaningofwordsintheirshort-termmemory. 6.Henningmadetheexperimentinordertostudy. A.howstudentsrememberEnglishvocabularybyshort-termmemory B.howstudentslearnEnglishvocabulary C.howtodevelopstudents’abilityinEnglish D.howlonginformationinshort-termmemoryiskept 7.WhichofthefollowingstatementsisTRUEaccordingtothepassage? A.Informationinshort-termmemoryisdifferentfromthatinlong-termmemory. B.Long-termmemorycanbeachievedonlybytraining. C.Itiseasiertotestshort-termmemorythanlong-termmemory. D.Henninggaveaseparatetestonvocabularytohisstudents. 8.FromHenning’sresultwecanseethat. A.beginnershavedifficultydistinguishingthepronunciationofwords B.advancedstudentsrememberwordsbytheirmeaning C.itisdifficulttorememberwordsthatsoundalike D.itisdifficulttorememberwordsthathavethesamemeaning 9.Theword“subjects”inthepassagemeans. A.memoryB.thethemeoflisteningmaterial C.abranchofknowledgestudiedD.thestudentsexperimentedon