なぜか読めてしまう文章「タイポグリセミア」の正体。“ケンブリッジ大学の研究”は存在しなかった

Q1. What is the passage mainly about?

1. AHow our brain reads words with mixed-up letters
2. BHow to write a good story
3. CWhy Cambridge University is famous
4. DHow children learn new letters

文字がごちゃまぜの単語を脳がどう読んでいるかが中心なので A。

Q2. What does the brain look at to guess a word?

1. AOnly the middle letters
2. BThe first and last letters, the rough letter positions, and the meaning
3. CThe color of the letters
4. DThe size of the paper

It looks at the first and last letters, where the other letters roughly are, and the meaning of the sentence. とあるので B。

Q3. In the passage, "mixed up" means ...

1. Awritten in red
2. Bvery large
3. Ccut in half
4. Dnot in the right order

mixed up は「ごちゃまぜになった」。文字が正しい順番に並んでいないことなので D。

Q1. What is the main idea of the passage?

1. ACambridge University is the best place to study reading.
2. BJumbled words are impossible to read.
3. CThe famous Cambridge study was not real, and jumbled words can be read but more slowly.
4. DEye-tracking is mainly used to test eyesight.

「ケンブリッジの研究」は存在しなかったこと、ごちゃまぜの単語は読めるが速度は落ちることの2点が主旨なので C。

Q2. Where might the idea have come from?

1. AA study at Cambridge in 2003
2. BAn internet company
3. CThe 2006 eye-tracking study
4. DA 1976 thesis at another British university

The idea may come from a 1976 thesis at a different British university. とあるので D。

Q3. Why can people often read jumbled words?

1. ABecause the brain predicts words using clues such as the first and last letters and context
2. BBecause all the letters are actually in the right order
3. CBecause people read each letter very slowly
4. DBecause the words are always printed in large letters

the brain uses the first and last letters, the rough position of letters, and context to predict words とあるので A。

Q1. What is the passage mainly about?

1. AHow Cambridge researchers discovered the brain's reading system
2. BWhy Japanese is easier to read than English
3. CWhy viral texts are always completely false
4. DThe origin of the jumbled-letter claim and what research shows about reading such words

ネットの主張の出どころと、ごちゃまぜ文字の読みについて研究が示すこと（読めるが代償がある）を論じているので D。

Q2. What does the "CANISO" example show?

1. AThe brain reads every letter in strict order.
2. BThe brain encodes letter positions only roughly.
3. CReaders cannot recognize words with transposed letters.
4. DShort words are harder to read than long words.

the brain encodes letter positions only loosely の具体例として CANISO が CASINO の認識を速めると述べているので B。

Q3. According to the passage, why does the viral example feel easy to read?

1. ABecause it was written by Cambridge scientists
2. BBecause jumbled letters do not slow reading at all
3. CBecause it uses short familiar words, predictable phrasing and swaps between neighboring letters
4. DBecause the first letters of the words were moved

it uses short, familiar words, predictable phrasing and swaps between neighboring letters とあるので C。B は視線計測の結果と矛盾する。