A.benevolent
B.profitable
C.essential
D.equivalent

A.compressor
B.transistor
C.equator
D.ancestor

A.nutritious
B.contagious
C.contemptuous
D.numerous

While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised ______.
A.A. to have more time to learn
B.to be able to learn more quickly
C.to feel learning more enjoyable
D.to get on better with the tutor

The phrase “get there” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “______”.
A.have the things you have long desired
B.achieve your aim with hard work
C.arrive at an intended place with difficulty
D.receive a school or college degree

All of the following are true about adult learning EXCEPT ______.
A.experience in doing other things can help one’s learning
B.young people usually feel less patient than adults
C.adults think more independently and flexibly than young people
D.adult learners have fewer advantages than young learners

It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you ______.
A.should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger
B.find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger
C.can sometimes understand more than when you were younger
D.are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger

Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today bears his name.
A.observers
B.telltale
C.bears
D.his name

The English horn is an alto oboe with a pitch one-fifth lower than the soprano oboe.
A.an alto
B.pitch
C.than
D.the

________(1)
A.despite
B.unless
C.owing
D.whether