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What can be inferred about Suzy's actions in the restaurant?

  • She didn't enter the restaurant
  • She only drank water and left
  • She opened a door, ate a sandwich, and paid for it (correct)
  • She ordered food but didn't pay

What is the primary evidence for the existence of scripts?

  • The instructions on a bottle of cough syrup
  • The information that turns up in people's attempts to remember the text (correct)
  • The presence of tables in restaurants
  • People's ability to recall entire texts

What is the main point of the instructions on the bottle of cough syrup?

  • To fill a measure cup every 2 to 3 hours
  • To ignore the instructions and use your own judgment
  • To rub the cough syrup on your neck or hair
  • To drink the cough syrup from the measure cup every 2 or 3 hours (correct)

What is the relationship between language structures and knowledge structures?

<p>Our understanding of what we read is based on both language structures and knowledge structures (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of the study of discourse understanding?

<p>The connection between language structures and knowledge structures (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the assumed knowledge that readers bring to a text?

<p>Knowledge structures (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of studying the workings of the human brain in language understanding?

<p>To understand how we process language (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the connections between different texts?

<p>Intertextuality (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the benefit of understanding scripts in language understanding?

<p>It helps us understand what is not explicitly stated (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main idea of the passage?

<p>The connection between language structures and knowledge structures in language understanding (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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