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Type 4, Integrated
Direction:
You will now read a short passage and then listen to a talk on the same academic topic. You will then be asked a question about them. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.
Homework
Direction:
Now read the passage about optimism and its effect on life expectancy. You have 45 seconds to read the passage. Begin reading now.
Reading [Reading time: 45 seconds]
The first major study of optimism used essays written by soldiers coming home after World War II. In the 1990’s, some 50 years after the essays were written, Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the essays and investigated which of the writers had died. He found that the more pessimistic phrases and words an essay contained, the higher the chance that the writer got sick and died by age 65. After age 65, however, it seemed that the length of life was related not to attitude, but to genetics, in other words, to whether the writer’s parents and grandparents had had long lives. 106 words
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