阅读理解。 As you dash outdoors in the middle of winter, you might make it halfw

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阅读理解。      As you dash outdoors in the middle of winter, you might make it halfway down the block before realizing
that your ears are freezing because you forgot your hat.
      Now, scientists have shown that even though you"ve had an apparent memory lapse (丧失), your brain
never forgot what you should have done.
      Memory works mainly by association. For example, as you try to remember where you left your keys,
you might recall you last had them in the living room, which reminds you that there was an ad for soap on
television, which reminds you that you need soap, and so on. And then, as you"re heading out of the door to
buy soap, you remember that your keys are on the kitchen counter. Your brain knew where the keys were
all along. It just took a round-about way to get there.
      Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are studying associative memory in monkeys
to figure out just how this complicated process works.
      First, the researchers trained a group of monkeys to remember arbitrary (任意的) pairs of symbols. The
researchers showed the monkeys one symbol (cold weather) and then gave them the choice of two other
symbols, one of which (a hat) would be associated with the first. A correct choice would earn them a sip of
their favorite juice.
      Most of the monkeys performed the test perfectly, but one kept making mistakes.
      "We wondered what happened in the brain when the monkey made the wrong choice, although it
apparently learned the right pairing of symbols," said study leader Thomas Albright.
      Albright and his team observed signals from the nerve cells in the monkey"s inferior temporal cortex (ITC),
an area of its brain used for visual pattern recognition and for storing this type of memory.
      As the monkey was deciding which symbol to choose, about a quarter of the activity in the ITC was due
to the choice behavior.
      Meanwhile, more than half the activity was in a different group of nerve cells, which scientists believe
represent the monkey"s memory of the correct symbol pairing, and surprisingly, these cells continued to fire
even when the monkey chose the wrong symbol.
      "In this sense, the cells "knew" more than the monkeys let on in their behavior," Albright said. "Thus,
behavior may vary, but knowledge endures." 1. The example of the keys and soap is given to explain the relationship between ______. [     ]
A. memory lapse and human brain
B. memory and association
C. memory and television ads
D. memory and our daily life 2. Which of the following best expresses the general idea of the text? [     ]
A. Your brain may forget something, but not always.
B. Activity is a round-about way to memory.
C. Your brain remembers what you forget.
D. Monkeys have better memory than us. 3. The researchers believe the monkey that made the wrong choice ______. [     ]
A. also knew the correct answer
B. had the worst memory
C. failed to see the objects well
D. had some trouble with its nerve system 4. The underlined word "endures" may be best replaced by ______. [     ]
A. disappears
B. increases
C. improves
D. remains

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1-4: BCAD

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阅读理解。      That little "a" with a circle curling around it that is found in E-mail addresses is most commonly referred
to as the "at" symbol.
      Surprisingly though, there is no official, universal name for this sign. There are dozens of strange terms
to describe the "@" symbol.
      Before it became the standard symbol for electronic mail, the "@" symbol was used to represent the cost
of something or how heavy something is. For instance, if you purchased 6 apples, you might write it as 6
apples "@" $1.10 each.
      With the introduction of e-mail came the popularity of the "@" symbol. The "@" symbol or the "at sign"
separates a person"s online user name from his mail server (服务器) address. For instance,
joe@uselessknowledge.com. Its widespread use on the Internet made it necessary to put this symbol on
keyboards in other countries that have never seen or used the symbol before. As a result, there is really no
official name for this symbol.
      The actual origin of the symbol remains a mystery. History tells us that the @ symbol came from the
tired hands of the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages before the invention of printing machines, every
letter of a word had to be copied with great efforts by hand for each copy of a published book. The monks
that performed these long, boring coping duties looked for ways to reduce the number of individual strokes
(笔画) per word for common words. Although the word "at" is quite short to begin with, it was a common
enough word in text and documents so that those monks thought it would be quicker and easier to shorten
the word "at" even more. As a result, the monks changed the shape of "t" into a circle to surround "a", thus
leaving out two strokes in the spelling "t". 1. Which of the following is the best title of the passage? [     ]
A. How"at" developed into @.
B. How @ came into being.
C. How monks invented @.
D. How people wrote the cost of something. 2. Which is NOT the reason for the monks to spell "at" as @? [     ]
A. Though "at" is short, it was used very often.
B. The monks wanted to be quicker and easier with their copying.
C. The monks wanted to invent a new word.
D. Copying work was long and boring for them. 3. According to paragraph 5, which is TRUE about the symbol of @ today? [     ]
A. When you are online, you must use the @ symbol.
B. Kittly 163.com @ is an email address.
C. In countries where @ is used, governments have given it an official name.
D. It is likely to find the @ symbol on computer keyboards worldwide.

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阅读理解。A: Hello, Judy. How are you getting along with your word processing (文字处理) class?
B: Well, so far progress has been rather slow. I haven"t learned the keyboard yet, and I have problems
   remembering all the orders of editing. I get really impatient because I want to master the means to
    operate the computer as soon as possible.
A: Just remember that Rome wasn"t built in a day. Word processing (文字处理) can"t be such an easy
    matter.
B: You"re right. Our teacher keeps telling us that it takes time to learn all the techniques (技巧) of word
    processing and that we can"t master everything in one day.
A: That" s entirely true. But you"ll catch on. Just be patient and practise whenever you can. 1. This dialogue suggests that Judy and the partner ______.

[ ]

A. may be friends
B. are studying in the same class
C. are both learning word processing
D. are both tired of study 2. What"s the main idea of the dialogue?

[ ]

A. Word processing isn"t an easy thing at all.
B.Only step by step can we master something.
C. True friendship will benefit our progress.
D. Truth comes from practice. 3. "Rome wasn"t built in a day" means that we should be ______.

[ ]

A. patient
B. hardworking
C. friendly
D. impatient 4. Judy has difficulty in doing the following things except (除了) ______.

[ ]

A. word processing
B. making progress
C. learning the keyboard
D. remembering all the orders of editing

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阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第66至第70小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。
注意：每空不超过3个单词。       As we all know, if you don"t use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when
you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everyone knows that. Yet many people do
not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory,
he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it.
      When someone says that his memory is poor, he really means he does not give it enough chance to
become strong.
      If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his fault (过错). But if he tells us
that he has a poor memory, many of us think that their parents are to blame (怪责), and few of us know
that it is just his own fault.
      Have you ever found that some people can"t write or read (blind people) but they have better memories?
This is because that they can"t read or write and they have to remember things. They cannot write them
down in a small notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs or stories, so their memories are
being exercised the whole time. If we want to have a good memory, we should practise remembering
things.                                       Title: How to Have 1. __________

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阅读理解。     The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and
telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure,
people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights
to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
      Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature
has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are discovering more and more
that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
      All living cells send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they
form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain,
too, sends our brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric
currents generated by most living cells are extremely small,often so small that sensitive instruments are needed
to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators
that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effects
can be astonishing.
      The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of
electricity through the water in which it lives. (An electric house current is only one hundred and twenty volts,
but two hundred and twenty volts in China.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel"s body are
specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length
of its body.1. Electricity was invented ______. [     ]
A. when man had no candles
B. about 200 years ago
C. to be operating computers
D. by Thomse Edison 2. The following things can send out pulses of electricity except ______. [     ]
A. electric eels and human hearts
B. Electrical generators and animal muscle
C. Stones and dry wood
D. human brain and living cells3. The electric current send out by an eel can be ______.[     ]
A. as much as 800 volts
B. about one hundred and twenty volts
C. as high as the house current in China
D. stored in the water where it lives4. From this shot passage we can infer ______. [     ]
A. the shorter an eel is, the stronger electricity it produces
B. we can always feel the electricity produced by living cells
C. human beings get their knowledge about electricity from nature
D. people learn about electricity from eels

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阅读理解。     In a recently published book, I came across some exercises with interesting names such as fishbone
diagrams, lotus flowers and clustering. As I used these exercises in my classes, I noticed that students were
interested. They said more and wrote more. They enjoyed expressing their ideas and sharing them in groups.
They were no longer passively waiting for the bell, but actively took part in the lesson. I find that creativity
can act as a way to increase participation and improve fluency (流利程度).
      Creativity has become a popular word in recent years. Scholars in the arts, psychology (心理学), business,
education, and science are all working to get a deeper understanding of it. Robert J. Sternberg is a creativity
specialist and Yale professor of psychology. He defines creativity as "the ability to produce work that is both
new (original) and appropriate (applicable to the situation )". This definition is useful, as we want our students
to use language in a new way, and to use it correctly and properly. Most scholars say there are two types of
creativity: big "C" creativity and small "c" creativity. Big "C" creativity refers to genius level thinking that results
in artistic masterpieces and scientific breakthroughs. Small "c" creativity refers to everyday level thinking that
can be used in any situation. Our emphasis is on the latter. While it goes without saying that any of our
students could go on to be the next Picasso or Edison, our aim is to help students produce more ideas and use
language in new ways. 1. The underlined words"waiting for the bell" in the first paragraph probably mean _____. [     ]
A. longing for a phone call
B. hoping to have a bell
C. expecting the end of the class
D. wanting to speak in class 2. It can be inferred from the passage that the author thought the exercises in the book were _____. [     ]
A. popular
B. useful
C. scientific
D. creative 3. When you use a very familiar word in a new way, you are _____. [     ]
A．creative in the sense of big "C" creativity
B．creative in the sense of small "c" creativity
C．not creative in the sense of big "c" creativity
D．not creative in the sense of small "c" creativity 4. The main purpose of the passage is to _____. [     ]
A. show how useful the book is
B. explain what creativity is
C. discuss how one can be creative
D. tell what teaching aims at

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