ACCORDING TO THE PASSAGE, WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IS NOT...

54. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Americans do not pronounce “farmer” the same as the British.B. French spoken in Canada is different from French spoken in France.C. People in the United States call some things different from people in England.D. There is no difference in grammar between British English and American English.Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correctanswer to each of the questions from 55 to 64Aging is the process of growing old. It occurs eventually in every living thing provided, of course, that anillness or accident does not killitprematurely. The most familiar outward signs of aging may be seen in old people,such as the graying of the hair and the wrinkling of the skin. Signs of aging in a pet dog or cat include loss ofplayfulness and energy, a decline in hearing and eyesight, or even a slight graying of the coat. Plants age too, butthe signs are much harder to detect.Most body parts grow bigger and stronger, and function more efficiently during childhood. They reach theirpeak at the time of maturity, or early adulthood. After that, they begin to decline. Bones, for example, graduallybecome lighter and morebrittle. In the aged, the joints between the bones also become rigid and more inflexible.This can make moving very painful.All the major organs of the body show signs of aging. The brain, for example, works less efficiently, andeven gets smaller in size. Thinking processes of all sorts are slowed down. Old people often have trouble inremembering recent events.One of the most serious changes of old age occurs in the arteries, the blood vessels that lead from the heart.They become thickened and constricted, allowing less blood to flow to the rest of body. This condition accounts,directly or indirectly, for many of the diseases of the aged. It may, for example, result in heart attack.Aging is not a uniform process. Different parts of the body wear out at different rates. There are greatdifferences among people in their rate of aging. Even the cells of the body differ in the way they age. The majorityof cells are capable of reproducing themselves many times during the course of a lifetime. Nerve cells and musclefibers can never be replaced once they wear out.Gerontologists - scientists who study the process of aging-believe this wearing out of the body is controlledby a built-in biological time-clock. They are trying to discover how this clock works so that they can slow downthe process. This could give man a longer life and a great number of productive years.