Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: MALE Participants Needed for Social Communication Study The Neuropragmatics and Emotion Lab is looking for healthy male volunteers to participate in an EEG experiment on social communication. You will hear stimuli and make decisions about stimuli that appear on a screen. With the EEG set-up, the entire participation will take about 4.5 hours and is conducted at 2001 McGill College Avenue. The compensation will be $10 per hour for your time and inconvenience. You are expected to be a MALE native Canadian English speaker, between 18-30 years old, right-handed and have normal hearing. If interested, please contact pell.lab.study@gmail.com. Pell Lab: 514-398-4400 MALE Undergraduate Participants Needed The CASC Lab in the Department of Psychology at McGill University (supervisor: Dr. Melanie Dirks) is looking for male McGill undergraduate students between the ages of 18-25 who are willing to complete an interview and a questionnaire about challenging friendship experiences. The interview will last approximately 2 hours. Participants will also be asked to complete a brief online questionnaire and to reach out to three of their friends who might also be willing to complete the same questionnaire. Participants will be compensated for their time ($20). If you are interested, please contact _ Thomas. Khullar: 514-398-3725 Participants Needed for Social Communication Study The Pell Lab is seeking North American English speakers for a study on social communication. You will judge audio and video clips showing social interactions while wearing an EEG cap measuring brain activity. The session is about 2 hours and compensation is $30 for the experiment. If you are interested and meet all the following criteria, please email pellabtest.eeg@gmail.com. Please provide your name, email and telephone number. Age between 18-35 years old Native North American English speakers Normal hearing and no history of mental and neurological disorder Right-handedness Kelly Hennegan: 514-398-4400 Ext.:00010 Question: To meet the requirements for the EEG experiment, you should be _ . - between the ages of 18-25 - left-handed with normal hearing - healthy and able to work about 4--5 hours - a female native Canadian English speaker
healthy and able to work about 4--5 hours

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write.Lenin and his wife translated a long English book into Russian but when they went to England in 1902, English people couldn't understand a word Lenin and his wife said, and Lenin and his wife couldn't understand what was said to them.This shows the importance of spoken language. Speaking, of course can't go without listening.If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly.The sounds of Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same.If you don't listen carefully, you'll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers. Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it's to exchange ideas.People usually use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing. The important thing is to make your idea clear in your mind and then to write it in a clear lively language. Chinese students read too slowly.If you read fast, you understand better.If you read too slowly by the time you have reached to the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about.When you meet with new words don't look them up in the dictionary.Guess the meaning to form the context. You may not guess quite correctly the first time but as new words appear again and again in different context their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word you'll never finish a book. Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they're studying. They should study those subjects in the foreign language not only in translation.In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time. Question: "Kill two birds with one stone" means _ . - to get some particular knowledge - to get more than what one pays - the stone is very useful - the birds are blind enough
to get more than what one pays

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: *Geographic Championship August 9, 2007 - "What historic site was carved from sandstone in about 1200 B.C.? This site includes two huge temples and statues of an ancient ruler." That's the question that gave three students from prefix = st1 /Mexicovictory over teams fromCanadaand theUnited Statesin the final round of the English National Geographic World Championship, a biennial contest of geography knowledge. Fourteen other international teams competed in the event, which has been since 1993. Continued on Next Page >> *House fire put off Sept. 16, 2007 -- A home located at 240 Cexter AvenueinMeridencaught fire around 5:45 Sunday afternoon. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found the first floor of the wood-frame house was in flames. The Meriden Fire Department had it under control by 6:47 pm. The house suffered such heavy damage that the electricity was cut off. The house has been declared unlivable until repairs can be made. There was no one in the house at the time. One firefighter was taken to MedicalCenterat 7:15 pm when he complained about not feeling well. Police are now looking into the cause of the fire. Continued on Next Page >> *Extinct languages Sept. 18, 2007 - In the vast outback of northern Australia, the native languages of the Aborigines are slowly dying. But a team of explorers and linguists are fighting to keep these dialects alive through the five - year Enduring Voices project, funded by the National Geographic Society. As the team tracks down speakers of these _ languages, including the only known speaker of a language long thought to be extinct, they learn why losing the wisdom of these mother tongues is a "tragedy for humanity." Continued on Next Page >> Question: Which team won the Eighth National Geographic World Championship in 2007? - Canada - Mexico - America - Australia
Mexico