Unit Skills Tests | Answer Key

GROUP A&B

Unit test 1A
1 1
Personality quizzes have always been popular. /
What it boils down to is that / we love to know what
makes us tick. / We get a kick out of / doing tests to
understand ourselves. / People have been
interested in studying / their character traits and
personal identities / since the days of the Ancient
Greeks. / Simply put, it is in people’s nature / to get
to know themselves better.
2 narrative with lots of details are probably not
1 half their lives
The speaker says that some people spend half
their lives posting photos and videos, clicking
on ‘likes’, commenting on other people’s posts
or chatting online to friends and strangers alike.
2 new identity
The speaker says that the general feeling in the
early days was that you could invent a
completely new identity.
3 to the Internet
The speaker says that as Internet use has
grown, online activities have become an
integral part of our real lives. Things like
shopping or banking are now inextricably linked
to the Internet.
4 less likely
The speaker says that the more time we devote
to being online, the less likely we are to fake
certain aspects of our personality.
5 platform
The speaker says that some people change the
way they present themselves online according
to the platform they are using.
3
1 another way
2 this straight
3 a nutshell
4 hearing you
5 other words
4
C
The article says that the way we understand
reality is not perfect.
2 A
The article says that children under the age of
two do not have the ability to store long-lasting
memories.
3 D
The article says memories which have a strong
authentic. Real memories tend to be
fragmented – they have gaps and lack
coherence.
4 B
The article says that memories don’t stay the
same with the passing of the months and years.
5 A
The article says that memory expert Elizabeth
Lofters carried out an experiment in which she
managed to get 25% of the participants to
believe a false childhood memory of being lost
in a shopping centre. In another experiment,
half the participants ‘remembered’ a trip in a
hot-air balloon after being shown photographs
that had been manipulated.

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GROUP A&B

Unit test 1B 4
1 1 C
Personality quizzes have always been popular. / The article says that one factor that can have
What it boils down to is that/ we love to know what an effect on how well we remember an event is
makes us tick. / We get a kick out of / doing tests to our emotional state.
understand ourselves. / People have been 2 B
interested in studying / their character traits and The article says that the type of people who can
personal identities / since the days of the Ancient ‘lose themselves’ in a book are thought to be
Greeks. / Simply put, it is in people’s nature / to get more susceptible to memory distortion.
to know themselves better. 3 A
2 The article says that at the age of seven,
1 half their lives children suffer a phenomenon known as
The speaker says that some people spend half ‘childhood amnesia’, which wipes out most
their lives posting photos and videos, clicking recollections of events up to that point.
on ‘likes’, commenting on other people’s posts 4 D
or chatting online to friends and strangers alike. The paragraph starts with ‘how can you tell if a
2 be anonymous memory is false or not?’
The speaker says that the new technology was 5 A
seen as a chance to be anonymous. The article says that a study carried out at City
3 security reasons University of London found that, out of 6,641
The speaker says that these activities require participants, 2,487 claimed to have memories
people to use their real identities for security from before the age of two.
reasons.
4 deception
The speaker says that maintaining that kind of
deception during longer interactions is much
more complicated
5 online and offline
The speaker says that it is fair to say that, while
in the early days of the Internet users tended to
hide behind fake identities, people nowadays
generally have a similar personality online and
offline.
3
1 In other
2 you correctly
3 boils down
4 saying that
5 another way

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