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NPAT Common 2020 QP3
For the following questions answer them individually
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 21
Select the option that best completes the given sentence.
Speaking two languages, rather than just one, has ____ practical benefits in a globalised world.
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 22
Given below are five sentences, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They are NOT in a meaningful order. Select the option that arranges the sentences in the correct order to fo1m a meaningful paragraph.
A. There are double handrails for people of various heights and museum-worthy manhole covers.
B. That characterisation isn't unique to Japan - after all, Switzerland's detailed timepieces are legendary.
C. Japan is often described as a nation that loves details.
D. In fact, there's a name for the sort of traditiona l artists who do this: shokunin.
E. But Japan has a long history of taking the time to perfect things in minute detail.
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 23
Given below are five sentences, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They are NOT in a meaningful order. Select the option that arranges the sentences in the correct order to forrn a meaningful paragraph.
A. In addition to access to capital and talent to innovate, other ways to incentivize innovation include an efficient regulatory system.
B. Often developed through knowledge hubs and incubators, these joint ventures are a place where entrepreneurs' ideas come co fruition.
C. Such a regulatory system would be predictable, transparent, scientifically rigorous, and has respect for intellectual property.
D. The aim of any such collaborative innovation is to partner across sectors and find solutions that are long-term and sustainable.
E. Creating new collaborations and partnerships, where innovation can thri ve is an important part of today's research and development landscape.
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 24
Given below are five sentences, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They are NOT in a meaningful order. Select the option that arranges the sentences in the correct order to
forrn a meaningful paragraph.
A. One of the most delightfully apt new phrases of the last few years is a Chinese term meaning "bowed head tribe".
B. These are the people whose heads are lowered and who are constantly gazing at their phones.
C. It's a wittier, more vivid description than "smartphone addict" and feels a lot closer to our lived experience.
D. New words sometimes skewer a trend so perfectly you wonder how you survived without them.
E. It describes the people we see every day on city streets - or don't, because we're a member of the tribe ourselves.
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 25
Given below are five sentences, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They are NOT in a meaningful order. Select the option that arranges the sentences in the correct order to
fo1m a meaningful paragraph.
A. The more leisure they have the less h(lpe there is for them, as far as cure is concerned.
B. Telephone maniacs are usually men of leisure who have small appreciation of the value of time.
C. Regardless of the hour or the pressure of business, they insist on telling long stories over the wire.
D. The worst feature about the disease is that those who have it never rea lise that they are making themselves obnoxious.
E. An unmistakable symptom of the disease is a desire to talk to people at distant points about all sorts of things at all hours.
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Probably most of the world is bilingual, or more than bilingual. It is common in many countries to speak a national language alongside an international lingua Franca such as Arabic, Spanish or English. On top of that, there may be a mother tongue that is not the same as a nationa l language. There is something quite uncanny about the ability to move rapidly between languages which even practitioners find hard to describe. Anyone who has learnt a language recognises that moment when you pass from translating in your head to just speaking it, the words emerging from inchoate thoughts before you can quite formulate them.
There is some evidence that babies still in the womb can be aware of the difference between languages, and this is certainly the case very soon after birth. Scientists are witnessed solemnly exposing infants to rudimentary languages with artificial rules - that the syllables Tu Pi Ro must a lways follow each other in that order. When an established rule is brnken for the first time in the artificial language (but not in other languages around) the baby shows surprise and increased attention.
There have been repeated claims that people who can speak more than one language are more intelligent. It does seem as if bilingual ability affects some aspects of the performance of tasks, but often not in any significant way. Sometimes it appears to have an impact in a negative manner - the active vocabulary of bilinguals can be smaller than that of monolingual speakers. In other cases, such as the resolution of conflicting infonnation, bilingual speakers tend to do better. This is unproven, though of course it is always useful to be able to speak another language.
It may be that different categories of bilingualism lead to different conclusions here. It seems quite plausible that someone who has spoken more than one language from birth would not be stretching his or her brain in the same way as another who painfully has set about mastering the grammar of a foreign language in youth or adulthood. Speakers of acquired languages display such different levels of confidence and mastery that it's unlikely to have solid or consistent effects on intelligence or cognitive development. In German I can hold a conversation, read a novel, write a letter - and once or twice I have even dreamt in it; in Arabic I could just about buy a train ticket or ask for directions. It doesn 't seem likely that they have the same contribution 10 mental capacity. II would also be worth investigating whether a person who had kept mentally active by acquiring a language in middle age would find that it warded off mental decay more successfully than a bilingual speaker from birth.
The world may be growing more, not less, multilingual as transport links improve and increasing numbers are exposed to others unlike themselves. English speakers are shielded from this truth because, uniquely, our need to acquire foreign languages is decreasing. Forty years ago, one had to learn a few words of Portuguese to travel round Portugal or Brazil, but nowadays their inhabitants are much less likely to be monoglot.
Sub Questions
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 26
The first paragraph tells us that:
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 27
The author claims that none of the following can be proven about bilingualism, EXCEPT:
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 28
The writer mentions his/her linguistic abilities in German and Arabic to illustrate the difficulty in drawing a connection between language acquisition and intelligence:
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 29
The word 'monoglot' refers to a person who is:
NPAT Common 2020 QP3 - Question 30
We can infer from the last paragraph that:
