题目内容
【题目】单词
【1】A firm employs my retired father as a _____(consult).
【2】So _____(absorb) was he in our talk that he took a wrong turn on the way home.
【3】Our new factory produces large _____(quantity) of goods every year.
【4】The hills _____(range) across the country to the sea are covered with fruit trees.
【5】When _____(concentrate) on/upon the task, you will finish it as quickly as you can.
【6】Our bottles are made with _____(recycle) plastic.
【7】Shanghai Disneyland fantasy fairy-tale castle, _____(测量) about 60 meters high, is the highest of the kind in the world.
【8】Now _____(电的) appliances have entered ordinary families for decades of years.
【9】Under the good _____(管理) of the new CEO, the high-tech company has made a big profit.
【10】In experts’ _____(判断), global warming will continue for a while.
【答案】
【1】consultant
【2】absorbed
【3】quantities
【4】ranging
【5】concentrating
【6】recycled
【7】measuring
【8】electrical
【9】administration
【10】judg(e)ment
【解析】
本题考查根据所给单词和汉语,用其正确形式完成句子。要根据句意结合语法知识判断所填词的词性和词形。
【1】考查名词。句意:一家公司雇用我退休的父亲做顾问。由a修饰用名词,指顾问。故填consultant.
【2】考查形容词。句意:他全神贯注地听着我们的谈话,以至于在回家的路上拐错了弯。be absorbed in “全神贯注于”,是固定短语。故填absorbed.
【3】考查名词。句意:我们的新工厂每年生产大量的货物。表示“大量的”是large quantities of,名词用复数。故填quantities.
【4】考查非谓语动词。句意:横穿全国延伸到海边的山上都种满了果树。The hills和动词range是主动关系,指山脉延伸。此处用现在分词作定语,故填ranging.
【5】考查非谓语动词。句意:当你全神贯注于这项任务时,你就会尽快完成它。主语you和concentrate是主动关系,表示正在进行,此处省略了are.故填concentrating.
【6】考查过去分词。句意:我们的瓶子是用回收塑料制成的。此处指被回收的塑料,用过去分词作定语,故填recycled.
【7】考查非谓语动词。句意:上海迪斯尼乐园的奇幻童话城堡高约60米,是世界上最高的。主语Shanghai Disneyland fantasy fairy-tale castle和动词“测量”是主动关系,此处是现在分词作定语,故填measuring.
【8】考查形容词。句意:现在电器已经进入普通家庭几十年了。修饰名词用形容词,“电的”是electrical,故填electrical.
【9】考查名词。句意:在新CEO的良好管理下,这家高科技公司赚了一大笔钱。由the good修饰用名词,“管理”是administration,故填administration.
【10】考查名词。句意:在专家看来,全球变暖将持续一段时间。由名词所有格experts’修饰用名词,“判断”是judg(e)ment,故填judg(e)ment.
【题目】请阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填一个单词。
You can relax if remembering everything is not your strong suit. Recent research makes the case that being forgetful can be a strength—in fact, selective memory can even be a sign of stronger intelligence.
Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Richards of the University of Toronto found that the neurobiology(神经生物学) of forgetting can be just as important to our decisionmaking as what our minds choose to remember.
“The goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time. Rather, the goal of memory is to help improve decisionmaking. As such, transience(转瞬即逝) is as important as persistence in memory systems,” their study in Neuron states.
Making intelligent decisions does not mean you need to have all the information at hand, it just means you need to hold onto the most valuable information. And that means clearing up space in your memory palace for the most uptodate information on situations. Our brains do this by generating new neurons(神经元) in our hippocampus(海马体), which have the power to overwrite existing memories that are influencing our decisionmaking.
“If you're trying to deal with the situation and your brain is constantly bringing up multiple conflicting memories, that makes it harder for you to make a wise decision,” Richards told Science Daily.
If you want to increase the number of new neurons in your brain's learning region, try exercising. Moderate aerobic exercise like jogging, power walking, and swimming have been found to increase the number of neurons making important connections in our brains.
When we forget the names of certain clients and details about old jobs, our brain is making a choice that these details do not matter. Although too much forgetfulness can be a cause for concern, the occasional lost detail can be a sign of a perfectly healthy memory system. The researchers found that our brains facilitate decisionmaking by stopping us from focusing too much on minor past details. Instead, the brain promotes generalization, helping us remember the most important gist of a conversation.
“One of the things that distinguishes an environment where you're going to want to remember stuff versus an environment where you want to forget stuff is this question of how consistent the environment is and how likely things are to come back into your life,” Richards said.
If you're an analyst who meets with a client weekly, your brain will recognize that this is a client whose name and story you need to remember. If this is someone you may never meet again, your brain will weigh that information accordingly.
These findings show us that total recall can be overrated. Our brains are working smarter when they aim to remember the right stories, not every story.
Title:Being Forgetful Might Actually Mean You're 【1】
Introduction | Recent research proves that being forgetful can be a strength, for forgetting and selective memory are of 【2】importance in our decisionmaking. | |
The goal of memory | People take advantage of memory to make good decisions rather than 【3】 information. | |
【4】 of being forgetful | It helps us forget outdated information. | ●Making wise decisions involves the existing memories making 【5】for the latest information. ●Meanwhile, too much contradictory information in memory can do harm to our decisionmaking. ●Exercising helps increase neurons, contributing to our 【6】 decisionmaking. |
It helps us see the big 【7】. | ●After 【8】the information it gets, the brain chooses to focus on the key points, occasionally forgetting unimportant past details. ●Whether to remember or forget particular stuff is 【9】by the degree of the consistency of the environment and the 【10】 of things reappearing later in life. | |
Conclusion | Our brains are working smarter when aiming to remember the right stories, not every story. |