Progressive Skills 3: Post-test Part 1: Reading

1 part 1: ReadingRead Section A. True or false? Write T or Booth is American. He is from Chicago. He was born on November 3rd, 1954. In 1975, he got a degree from New York College of Psychology. One year later, he got a Masters from StanfordUniversity. Stanford is in the state of California. In 1979, he obtained a PhD from the same 1981, he became a professor of Psychology at Princeton University. At this university, he conductedhis most famous experiment. Booth is also well known for his books on psychology and for a radio series. was born in got his Masters in PhD is from Stanford studied at three different is : 5 Read Section B. Choose the best ending to each was very influenced by another well-known psychologist called Philip Zimbardo.

2 In 1971, Zimbardoconducted an experiment which is now very famous. He called it the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardowanted to investigate whether people can behave in different ways depending on the situation and their rolein it. In his experiment, 24 male participants were divided into two groups, one acting as prisoners and theother as prison guards. He found that people conformed to their roles in the experiment. Booth found thisvery interesting. In 1990, Booth conducted a replica of Zimbardo s experiment. However, he did not copy every aspect of theprevious experiment. Instead, Booth wanted to see if women were as easily led as the men in Zimbardo sexperiment appeared to was .. with the same university as in Zimbardo s at the same time as Skills 3: experiment Zimbardo conducted was called.

3 Stanford Zimbardo Stanford Prison Prison experiment involved two roles, .. and prison , prison guard and and guard and found that .. participants acted like participants did not conform to their participants acted like prison participants conformed to their decided to change Zimbardo s experiment by .. female fewer more participants. more : 10 Read Section C. Find the best answer to each participants were split between the roles, with 12 in each. Each participant was assigned the role ofprisoner or prison guard. The role assigned was not based on personality or any other characteristic but bychance. To increase the authenticity of the experience, the experiment was not conducted in the normallecture rooms. Instead, it took place in the basement of Princeton University, which was converted into a the beginning of the experiment, the prisoners were arrested in the middle of the night by the guards and put into the prison.

4 Participants acting as guards were given a police uniform, mirrored sunglasses and fake guns. These items allreinforced the guards role, especially the sunglasses, which prevented eye contact and therefore made theguards seem more impersonal. The guards also worked in shifts, just like real prison guards, furtherreinforcing their role. They were told that they were in charge of the prison and that they could punish theprisoners if they did not obey, although they could not use physical violence. Progressive Skills 3: post -testParticipants acting as prisoners wore loose-fitting grey dresses with numbers sewn onto them. They were notgiven shoes. They wore bracelets on their wrists to mimic those of real prisoners. The guards always used thenumbers on the dresses instead of their found the same results as Zimbardo and stopped the experiment after three many participants were there?

5 Were the roles assigned? on on on did the experiment take place? an area under Princeton Princeton the basement of a local the normal lecture did the experiment distinguish between prisoners and guards? guards could hit the prisoners but the prisoners were not allowed to hit the prisoners worked in shifts but the guards were on duty all the prisoners had loose clothes while the guards had police prisoners were not allowed to look at the did the experiment make the prisoners feel like prisoners? mirrored sunglasses so they could not make eye grey clothes, the numbers and the grey clothes and night-time physical punishment from the : 10 Progressive Skills 3: post -testA Choose the best way to complete each have shown _____ in vocabulary is important repetition is is repetition it is important often forget _____ spell I spell to spell are spelt parents _____ any t let their children t letting their children to t let make their t let their children to don t think that s true and does Bob thinks Bob does the government changed the law, they _____ the problem.

6 Be be solvedMarks: 5 Progressive Skills 3: post -testPart 2: GrammarB Write one word in each people _____ use to be able to read or Berne is the psychiatrist _____ wrote Games People is _____ that there was a lot of water in the Sahara at one you know _____ the library is? is an idea _____ was put forward by James : 10C Write the correct form of the verb in brackets in the space. You may need two or three average temperature _____ by C since 1990. (rise) population of the world _____ by about one per cent every year at the moment. (grow) of the Earth s water _____ in the oceans. (store) _____ to university, she worked in a bank. (go) told him _____ the tutor. (see)Marks: 10A Which set does each word belong to? Tick in the correct , reports PeopleRememberingLiving thingsNatural and Skills 3: post -testPart 3: VocabularyEssays, reports PeopleRememberingLiving thingsNatural and : 10B Complete each sentence with a word from the box.

7 There are extra exchange forbid greening habitat improvement influence perception prioritize producers psychiatrists radiation share soil solar plants are _____, which means they convert sunlight into is important to _____ your work every day. Do the important things _____ of people and events is affected by our cultural often _____ their children from doing certain things, like staying out take water and nutrients from the treat people who have mental from the Sun reaches the Earth but some is reflected back into have had some success in _____ deserts such as the Sahara and the government has _____ that the economy is growing by per cent a need to find alternative sources of power, such as _____ : 5 Progressive Skills 3: post -testC Write the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each find people talking loudly on mobile phones very _____.

8 (annoy) people _____ a lot, even if they are not to blame. (apology) is a great deal of _____ from lakes and rivers in hot countries. (evaporate) some cultures, people ask for _____ when they have done something wrong. (forgive) English, you must use _____ language in letters and e-mails to strangers. (form) can t solve this problem. It s _____. (possible) manager obtained _____ from all the staff for the new work procedures. (agree) people have a _____ learning style for example, they need to hear new information or see it written down. (prefer) is an enormous _____ of vegetables. (vary) survey looks at Internet _____ by teenagers. (use)Marks: 10A Rewrite each word with the correct : 5 Progressive Skills 3: post -testPart 4: WritingB Rewrite the sentences with the same meaning.

9 Begin with the words is possible that Saharais a Sanskrit do scientists know about early humans? We re going to find re going language learning just grammar and vocabulary. We ll find ll it is difficult to pronounce new words, you should repeat them many is researchers believe that global warming is not _____Marks: 10C DictationYou are going to hear a paragraph three first time, just listen. Do not second time, listen and third time, check your : 10 Progressive Skills 3: Post-test