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He ______ the memory of his dead wife though she has passed away for about ten years.A.che
He ______ the memory of his dead wife though she has passed away for about ten years.
A.cherishes
B.haunts
C.persists
D.insists
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He ______ the memory of his dead wife though she has passed away for about ten years.
A.cherishes
B.haunts
C.persists
D.insists
A. Comes the memory
B. came the memory
C. the memory comes
D. the memory came
A.in memory of her
B.in her way
C.in her company
D.in favor of her
M: I don't remember him. I've got a terrible memory for faces. I even have a hard time recognizing people I've been introduced to.
Q: What is the man's problem?
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A.He can't remember people by sight.
B.He can't remember people by name.
C.He has a terrible memory for football.
D.He has a hard time recognizing names.
听力原文: Some people have very good memories, and can easily learn quite long poems by heart. There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over again.
The famous English writer, Charles Dickens said that he could walk down any long street in London and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed. Many of the great men of the world have had wonderful memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears*when he is a small child. Some children who live abroad with their parents seem to learn two languages as easily as one. In school it is not so easy to learn a second language because students have too little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well. A man' s mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our minds.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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A.Because he was a famous English writer.
B.Because he enjoyed walking along the street.
C.Because he had a good memory.
D.Because he was proud of his own ability.
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A.They can easily learn quite long poems by heart.
B.They can remember long stories by heart.
C.They can remember almost everything they have read.
D.They can remember things they have only read once.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicions in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.
Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold dp to 100,000 "words"—ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.
The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.
According to the passage, memory is considered to be ______.
A.the basis for decision making and problem solving
B.an ability to store experiences for future use
C.an intelligence typically possessed by human beings
D.the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words
听力原文: A unique laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have revealed that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night, although in ordinary life a person may remember none or only one of his dreams.
While the subjects--usually students--sleep, special machines record their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects sleep soundly.
Observers report that a person usually fidgets before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the curtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine indicates that the dream is over, a buzzer wakes the sleeper. He sits up, records his dream, and goes back to sleep--perhaps to dream some more.
Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have faded.
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A.Content of dreams.
B.Dreamers while they dream.
C.The meaning of dreams.
D.The process of sleeping.
Practice (or review) tens to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material. Over a period of no practice what has been learned tends to be forgotten and the adaptive consequences may not seem obvious. Yet, dramatic instances of sudden forgetting can be seen to be adaptive. In this sense, the ability to forget can be interpreted to have survived through a process of natural selection in animals. Indeed, when one's memory of an emotionally painful experience leads to serious anxiety, forgetting may produce relief. Nevertheless, an evolutionary painful experience leads to serious anxiety, forgetting may produce relief. Nevertheless, an evolutionary interpretation might make it difficult to understand how the commonly gradual process of forgetting survived natural selection.
In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible aspects, it is helpful to consider what would happen if memories failed to fade. Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration. Without forgetting, adaptive ability would suffer. For example, learned behavior. that might have been correct a decade ago may no longer be. Cases are recorded of people who (by ordinary standards) forgot so little that their everyday activities were full of confusion. Thus forgetting seems to serve the survival of the individual and the species.
Another line of thought assumes a memory storage system of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through forgetting. In this view, continual adjustments are made between learning or memory storage (input) and forgetting (output). Indeed, there is evidence that the rate at which individuals forgets is directly related to how much they have learned. Such data offer gross support of contemporary models of memory that assume an input-output balance.
From the evolutionary point of view, ______.
A.the gradual process of forgetting is an indication of an individual's adaptability
B.if a person gets very forgetful of a sudden he must be very adaptive
C.forgetting for lack of practice tends to be obviously in adaptive
D.sudden forgetting may bring about adaptive consequences