在职攻人员攻读公共管理硕士学位英语模拟练习三
发布时间：2010/1/20 15:19:22 来源：城市学习网 编辑：紫藤
4. 综合练习
l. What is your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? to talk? The frst time you _1_ thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom _2_ events much earlier that the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four _3_ retain and specific, personal experiences.
A variety of explanations have been _4_ by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia". One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which responsible For forming memories, does not mature _5_ about the age of two. But the most popular theory _6_ that, since adults do not think like children, they can't _7_ childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or _8_ one event follows _9_ as in novel or film. But when they search through their menial _10_ for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don't find any that fit the _11_ It's like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.
Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new _12_ for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply _13_ any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use _14_ spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly _15_ impressions of them into long-term memories. In other _16_, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about _17_.... Mother talking about the afternoon _18_ looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean park. Without tiffs _19_reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form _20_ memories of their personal experiences.
1. A. touched B. heard C. listened D. felt
2. A. recall B. resolve C. involve D. interpret
3. A. merely B. really C. largely D. rarely
4. A. proposed B. witnessed C. canceled D. Figured
5. A. after B, since C. until D. once
6. A, contains B. maintains C. magnifies D. intervenes
7. A. access B. refer C. reflect D. attain
8. A. regulations B. descriptions C. narratives D. forecasts
9. A. the other B. others C. the rest D. another
10. A, flashes B. files C. outputs D, dreams
11, A. frame B. landscape C. footstep D. pattern
12. A. explanation B. factor C. emphasis D. arrangement
13.A. isn't B. wasn't C. aren't D. weren't
14.A. some else B. someone else's C. anyone else D. anyone else's
15, A. forgetting B. remembering C. forgotten D. remembered
16. A. words B. means C. senses D. cases
17. A, it B. them C. him D. theirs
18, A, taken B. spent C, used D. chosen
19. A. petty B. mutual C. habitual D. verbal
20. A. subordinate B. spiritual C. permanent D. conscious
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