Tutors Teach Seniors High-Tech Tricks Selection Review

2. 2. According to “Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks,” why do

the young tutors sometimes wear special glasses?

• a. to protect their eyes from the glaring light in retirement homes

• b. to ease the eye strain that comes from working long hours on

  computers

• c. to help them better understand the vision problems that many

  seniors face

• d. to help them read large-print computer screens used by their

  elderly pupils

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1. According to “Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks,” what

main qualities do the tech-training programs help develop in the

young tutors? Choose three options.

• a. patience

• b. sympathy

• c. efficiency

• d. confidence

• e. imagination

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3. Which result of the tutoring programs is explained in “Tutors Teach

Seniors New High-Tech Tricks”?

• a. Many senior pupils have become incredibly skilled on computers.

• b. Companies have started to develop more senior-friendly

  computers.

• c. Some teen tutors have developed friendships with their senior

  pupils.

• d. Some senior pupils have begun teaching computer skills to other

  seniors.

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4. Which phrase best describes the author’s opinion of the tutoring

programs she describes in “Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech

Tricks”?

• a. useful but expensive

• b. helpful and worthwhile

• c. creative and economical

• d. interesting but ineffective

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5. If a person can correctly be described as struggling to solve a math

problem, which of the following must be true?

• a. The person is able to easily solve the math problem.

• b. The person is having difficulty solving the problem.

• c. The person is bothered by the length of the problem.

• d. The person is familiar with the type of math problem.

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6. Which of the following could best be used to illustrate the meaning

of impairments?

• a. long hair

• b. blue eyes

• c. strong arms

• d. poor hearing

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7. What is the most likely meaning of the word frustrated in the

following sentence?

Makayla was frustrated because she could not see the play from

the back of the theater.

• a. pleased

• b. annoyed

• c. confused

• d. surprised

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8. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then

Part B.

      Part A According to “Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks,” for

what main reason are young people often asked to help seniors with tech

problems?

• a. Their relationships with elderly people need strengthening.

• b. Their patience as effective teachers needs to be developed.

• c. Many of them need after-school jobs to earn money for college.

• d. Many of them are highly knowledgeable in computer technology.

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8. 8. Part B Which quotation from “Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech

   Tricks” best supports the answer to Part A?

• a. But a number of programs across the country are finding just the

  right experts to help usher older adults into the digital age.

  For Pamela Norr, of Bend, Ore., the light bulb went off as she, yet

  again, was trying to help her own elder parents with a tech

  problem. To whom did she turn?

  “My teenage kids,” she says.

• b. “So many teenagers think that seniors are just old people that

  don’t know anything,” she says. “And actually, the camaraderie

  and knowledge that we can transmit to one another is so

  wonderful and so helpful.”

• c. He says teaching tech to seniors has changed his perspective. “I

  think it’s a very good idea to work on your patience,” he says,

  “and be more understanding when it comes to what’s going on in

  their minds.”

• d. At Pace University in New York, college students who tutor

  seniors in local retirement homes are prepped with sensitivity

  training.

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9. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part

B.

      Part A In “Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks,” for what main

reason do the seniors want to learn to use new electronic technologies?

• a. to communicate better with younger family members who live far

  away

• b. to pursue interesting hobbies, such as photography, after their

  retirement

• c. to stop feeling inadequate and instead feel like part of the new

  digital age

• d. to develop closer relationships with the young people who are

  their tutors

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