Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. 【1】 But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.

【2】 One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.

【3】 Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.

We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. 【4】 Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. 【5】

A. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones.

B. Memory “trick” work the other way as well.

C. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things.

D. Generally forgetting things is serious and dangerous.

E. It is necessary to remember the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks”.

F. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.

G. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】G

【3】B

【4】A

【5】F

【解析】

试题分析：本文属于说明文阅读，记忆是可以通过练习改善的，但很多时候记忆也会出错。文章中列举了多个记忆出错的现象。

【1】C 根据横线前句Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise.记忆是可以通过不断地练习来提高的。也就是说如果你很努力，你就可以提高你记住事情的能力。这是对前一句的强化说明。故C项符合上下文串联。

【2】G 根据横线后句One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before早晨起来的时候，我发现前门没有关闭，而我清楚地记得我把门关了起来。这是记忆出错的问题，我们会记住一些实际上并没有发生的事情。故G项正确。

【3】B 第二段告诉我们我们记住了一些实际上并没有发生的事情。再根据横线后句Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did.我们却会忘记之前记得的事情。所以B项“Memory “trick” work the other way as well.”符合上下文串联，尤其与第二段一致。

【4】A 根据横线前句We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness.可知我们总是能发现一些由人们的健忘而导致的有趣的事情。因为这些事情总是很有意思，人们从不厌烦。故A项符合上下文串联。

【5】F 根据横线前句Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny.可知这些记忆出错的事情并不总是有趣的，也会带来很多的麻烦。故F项符合上下文串联。