LANGUAGE - CLOZE
A new study shows that being bilingual may delay dementia (1) ____ five or more years. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland discovered that people who spoke two languages did not (2) ____ any signs of three types of dementia for more than four years longer than (3) ____ who were monolingual. A co-author of the report, Dr. Thomas Bak, said: "Bilingualism can be (4) ____ as a successful brain training, contributing to cognitive reserve, (5) ____ can help delay dementia." This means that speaking two languages keeps the brain in better health and helps to keep diseases like Alzheimer's at (6) ____ for longer than if someone spoke just one language.
Dr Bak's research found that bilingualism and the delaying of dementia had (7) ____ to do with social status, gender, occupation or educational background. Bak's team evaluated the (8) ____ records of 648 people from India who had been diagnosed with dementia. Of these patients, 391 were bilingual or trilingual and many were (9) ____. Dr Bak wrote: "The fact that bilingual advantage is not caused by any differences in education is (10) ____ by the fact that it was also found in illiterates, who have never attended any school." He suggested that learning a language (11) ____ in life could keep the brain healthier. He said language learning was "socially more enjoyable, and it (12) ____ your brain to train permanently".
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| 1. | (a) | at | (b) | as | (c) | from | (d) | by |
| 2. | (a) | revive | (b) | gauge | (c) | make | (d) | show |
| 3. | (a) | them | (b) | those | (c) | they | (d) | these |
| 4. | (a) | looked | (b) | watched | (c) | seen | (d) | stared |
| 5. | (a) | which | (b) | such | (c) | this | (d) | too |
| 6. | (a) | bay | (b) | pay | (c) | by | (d) | par |
| 7. | (a) | dearth | (b) | scarce | (c) | few | (d) | little |
| 8. | (a) | medical | (b) | medicine | (c) | medicinal | (d) | medics |
| 9. | (a) | alliterate | (b) | illiterate | (c) | iterate | (d) | reiterate |
| 10. | (a) | conformed | (b) | confounded | (c) | confirmed | (d) | confined |
| 11. | (a) | latest | (b) | lately | (c) | later | (d) | lateness |
| 12. | (a) | fracas | (b) | forces | (c) | faces | (d) | faux pas |
Dr Bak's research found that bilingualism and the delaying of dementia had little to do with social status, gender, occupation or educational background. Bak's team evaluated the medical records of 648 people from India who had been diagnosed with dementia. Of these patients, 391 were bilingual or trilingual and many were illiterate. Dr Bak wrote: "The fact that bilingual advantage is not caused by any differences in education is confirmed by the fact that it was also found in illiterates, who have never attended any school." He suggested that learning a language later in life could keep the brain healthier. He said language learning was "socially more enjoyable, and it forces your brain to train permanently".
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