You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below
How Well Do We Concentrate?
A
Do you read while listening to music? Do you like to watch TV while finishing your homework? People who have these kinds of habits are called multi-taskers. Multi-taskers are able to complete two tasks at the same time by dividing their focus. However,Thomas Lehman, a researcher in Psychology, believes people never really do multiple things simultaneously. Maybe a person is reading while listening to music, but in reality,the brain can only focus on one task. Reading the words in a book will cause you to ignore some of the words of the music, When people think they are accomplishing two different tasks efficiently, what they are really doing is dividing their focus. While listening to music, people become less able to focus on their surroundings. For example, we all have experience of times when we talk with friends and they are not responding properly.Maybe they are listening to someone else talk, or maybe they are reading a text on their smart phone and don't hear what you are saying, Lehman called this phenomenon "email voice".
B
The world has been changed by computers and its spin-offs like smart-phones or cell-phones. Now that most individuals have a persona device, like a smart-phone or a laptop,they are frequently reading, watching or listening to virtual information. This raises the occurrence of multitasking in our day to day life. Now when you work, you work with your typewriter, your cellphone, and some colleagues who may drop by at any time to speak with you. In professional meetings, when one normally focuses and listens to one another, people are more likely to have a cell phone in their lap, reading or communicating silently with more people than ever. Even inventions such as the cordless phone has increased multitasking. In the old days, a traditional wall phone would ring, and then the housewife would have to stop her activities to answer it When it rang, the housewife will sit down with her legs up, and chat, with no laundry or sweeping or answering the door.In the modern era, our technology is convenient enough to not interrupt our daily tasks.
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Questions 14-18
Reading Passage 2 has six paragraphs, A-F. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-F, in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.
14 a reference to a domestic situation that does no require multitasking
15 a possible explanation of why we always do multitask together
16 a practical solution to multitask in work environment
17 relating multitasking to the size of prefrontal cortex
18 longer time spent doing two tasks at the same time than one at a time
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