tailieunhanh - The complete guide to the toefl IBT reading part 7

Tiếng anh là ngôn ngữ rất phổ biến hiện nay. Mọi người luôn nghĩ rằng việc học tiếng anh là rất khó nhưng nếu ta luôn rèn luyện với tài liệu này nó sẽ giúp ta mau chóng phát triển được vốn tiếng anh của ta. | Lesson 4 Purpose Method and Opinion Questions 91 sciences and even physical sciences. When psychologists speak of a dependent variable in an experiment they mean the same thing as a chemist does. Of course some psychological terminology consists of everyday words such as emotion motivation intelligence ego and anxiety but psychologists use these words somewhat differently. For example a non-psychologist may use the word anxiety to mean nervousness or fear but most psychologists reserve the term to describe a condition produced when one fears events over which one has no control. Glossary jargon the specialized language used by people in the same field Reading T F 28. The author explains the special language of psychology in part by giving the reasons why it exists. T F 29. In the author s opinion the jargon used by psychologists is confusing and unnecessary. T F 30. The author mentions a chemist to show how different the terminology of social science and physical science is. T F 31. The word anxiety is given as an example of a word that has a more specialized meaning to psychologists than it does to non-psychologists. Exercise Focus Answering multiple choice purpose method and attitude questions about longer passages. Directions Read the passages. Then mark the answer choice that best answers the question. Passage 1 1 Computer games were designed and played as long ago as the 1950 s. The first known game was Tennis for Two 1958 designed by William Higginbotham. Another early game was Steve Russell s Spacewar 1961 . These games never became very popular. It was not until the 1970 s and 80 s when computer arcade games were introduced that computer games attracted millions of game-players. The first to make a splash was Pong Atari 1972 . It was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Alan Alcorn. The game play was extremely simple. Two players bounced a moving ball back and forth between their two electronic paddles. Bushnell placed the first game machine in a local gas .