题目列表(包括答案和解析)
41. A. organizing B. misplacing C. putting D. finding
40. A. memory B. mind C. trouble D. health
39. A. since B. for C. by D. because
38. A. much B. little C. more D. less
37. A. joke B. laugh C. blame D. criticize
36. A. almost B. seldom C. already D. never
55. A. bigger B. weaker C. smaller D. stronger
答案 36-40 CDCAD 41-45 CBADB 46-50 DCCAB 51-55 CADAB
Passage 22
(江西省瑞昌一中2010届高三上学期期中考试)
Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory,right ? Dana Denis is just 40 years old, but 36 she's worried about what she calls “my rolling mental blackouts” . “I try to remember something and I just blank out.” she says. You may 37 about these lapses, calling them “senior moments ”or blaming “early Alzheimer's (老年痴呆症)”. Is it an inescapable fact that the older you get, the 38 you remember? Well, sort of. But as time goes by, we tend to blame age 39 problems that are not necessarily age-related. “When a teenager can't find her keys, she thinks it's because she's distracted or disorganized”, says Paul Gold. “A 70-year-old blames her 40 ”. In fact,the 70-year-old may have been 41 things for decades. In healthy people, memory doesn't worsen as 42 as many of us think. “As we 43 , the memory mechanism isn't 44 ”, says psychologist Fergus Craik. “It's just inefficient”. The brain's processing speed 45 over the years,though no one knows exactly 46 . Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency 47 there's less activity in the brain. But, cautions Barry Gordon, “It's not clear that less activity is 48 . A beginning athlete is winded(气喘吁吁)more__49__than a senior athlete. In the same way, 50 the brain gets more skilled at a task, it expends less energy on it.” There are 51 you can take to compensate for normal slippage in your memory, though it 52 effort. Margaret Sewell says “We're a quick-fix culture, but you have to 53 to keep your brain 54 . It's like having a good body. You can't go to the gym once a year 55 expect to stay in top form”.
54. A. painful B. disappointed C. nervous D. ashamed
53. A. Uncertainly B. Unsuccessfully C. Unusually D. Unfortunately
52. A. leave B. catch C. forget D. beat
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