Rats can tell human languages apart

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1.Cotton-top tamarins are a kind of...
	A. rat
	B. fish
	C. reptile
	D. monkey

2. Where was the research conducted?
	A. Spain
	B. Japan
	C. Thailand
	D. The Netherlands

3. Rats can differentiate certain languages by their...
	A. pitch
	B. script
	C. rhythm
	D. grammar

4. What information about the Dutch language do we learn from the passage?
	A. Dutch is like a primitive animal language.
	B. Dutch is very different from Japanese.
	C. Dutch is an easy language to learn.
	D. Dutch is popular in Japan.

5. Who were the researchers?
	A. linguists
	B. archaeologists
	C. ichthyologists
	D. neuroscientists

Synonyms: Which of the following words or phrases replace the ones from the passage best?

6. parallel
	A. contradiction
	B. assimilation
	C. substitute
	D. similarity

7. respond
	A. hate
	B. react
	C. comply
	D. reorganise

8. recognise
	A. copy
	B. ignore
	C. identify
	D. prefer

9. discriminate
	A. obey
	B. repeat
	C. tell apart
	D. follow through

10. utter
	A. write
	B. speak
	C. distort
	D. complete