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Answer: No.

1. Fewer bilingual people than monolingual people suffer from brain disease in old age.

Keywords: fewer bilingual people, suffer, brain disease, old age. In terms of issues related to age,

in paragraph F, the author mentioned brain disease in old age. However, he/she only mentioned “bilingual experience may help to keep the cognitive mechanisms sharp”: “Older bilinguals enjoy improved memory relative to monolingual people”, “bilingual patients reported showing initial symptoms of the disease an average of five years later than monolingual patients”, “the bilinguals’ brains had more physical signs of disease than their monolingual”. There is no line which contains information about the number of bilingual people and their monolingual counterparts. We only knowthat the physical signs of disease in bilinguals are greater than monolinguals, but it is clear that both groups suffer from brain disease. Therefore, the answer is Not given.

Answer: Not given.

1. An example of how bilingual and monolingual people’s brains respond differently to a certain type of non-verbal auditory input

Keywords: example, brains, respond, differently, type of non-verbal auditory input.

When doing question 35, we already know that information about brain responses is in paragraph D, so we have to pay attention to this paragraph. “Simple sound” can be considered as “a certain type of non-verbal auditory input” – “When researchers play the same sound to both groups in the presence of background noise, however, the bilingual listeners’ neural response is considerably larger, reflecting better encoding of the sound’s fundamental frequency, a feature of sound closely related to pitch perception.” Therefore, the answer is D.

Answer: D

1. A demonstration of how a bilingual upbringing has benefits even before we learn to speak

Keywords: demonstration, a bilingual upbringing, benefit, before we learn to speak.

In paragraph G, the author gave an example of one study in which “researchers taught sevenmonth-old babies growing up in monolingual or bilingual homes”, then drew the conclusion that “for very young children, as well as for older people, navigating a multilingual environment imparts advantages that transfer far beyond language.” “advantages” is the same as “benefits” and “seven-month- old” is before we learn to speak. Therefore, the answer is G.