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The lifelong benefits of reading for pleasure
The lifelong benefits of reading for pleasure
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Professor Alice Sullivan, UCL Institute of Education
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1
Readers of fiction were grouped into _ educational levels.
4
5
7
6
2
The method the researchers used was a .......... .
statistical regression analysis
statistical progression analysis
P-value
random analysis
3
One author of contemporary literary fiction given was ...... .
J. K. Rowling
Jane Austen
Salman Rushdie
Roald Dahl
4
The speaker suggests that reading ........ is best for learning more new vocabulary.
high-brow fiction
science
philosophy
biography
5
Professor Sullivan is a sociologist of .......... .
statistics
education
economics
literature
6
The cohort repeated the same vocabulary test at age __ and __.
16 42
6 10
6 42
10 42
7
There is ........... in reading for pleasure between primary and secondary school.
a drop off
no change
an increase
no data
8
Professor Sullivan is a .......... .
psychologist
economist
historian
sociologist
9
One author given of classical fiction was ...... .
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Agatha Christie
Anton Chekov
10
The British Cohort Study followed more than ....... babies.
71,000
17,000
1700
7,000
11
Research on reading can influence .... .
employment
health
career
policy
12
The 17,000 plus babies were all born in the same ........ .
season
month
fortnight
week
13
The study found that between 16 and 42 vocabulary .......... .
improved more in women than men
improved more in men than women
improved the same in men and women
in men and women declined
14
The study found that between 16 and 42 vocabulary ........... .
remained about the same
declined
fluctuated
improved
15
The British Cohort Study was started in ...... .
1917
2007
1907
1970
16
The highest educated levels were least likely to read ............ .
biography
cooking
history
romance
17
In March, 2015, the speaker published a Research impact case study called ....... .
Reading and vocabulary
Reading and Mathematics
Reading for pleasure
Reading to learn
18
........... was the most popular category regardless of educational level.
science
crime
poetry
politics
19
The highest educational level was those with a ........... group degree, such as UCL.
Russian
Muscle
Brussels
Russell
20
Professor Alice Sullivan wrote two journal articles with .............. .
Mat Brown
Matthew Vrown
Mat B. Rown
Brown Mat
