Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.

    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning<推论;说服> and spatial <空间的>skills), while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).

    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline (衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.

    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive(认知的;认识的) decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.

    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated(旋转的) form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g.  "object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter are typically dominated(占有主导地位的) by women.

    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders(性别), women showed obviously less decline than men overall(全部地).

The underlined word in the second paragraph means_________.

   A. natural     B. great C. obvious D. absolute

According to the passage, which of the following can Not be typed into the same category?

   A. cloud   B. sheep C. trees D. goose

Which of the following statements is true according the article?

   A. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.

   B. Women stand out at remembering people’s names.

   C. Men excel at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time.

   D. Women excel at dealing mathematic problems.

One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that _________.

   A. the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline

   B. people surveyed are all old

   C. people taking part in this test came from all over the world   D. women live longer than men

The author aims to tell us that __________.

   A. women’s minds perform better than men’s

   B. men’s minds decline more with age

   C. everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older

D. a survey on human’s mind decline was done recently

It took George quite a while to find a  36  place for his car and in the end he had to leave it in a narrow street,   37   from the dentist’s. As he got out, he glanced at his   38 . His appointment(约会)was at five and he still had twenty minutes to   39  . He crossed into the square and   40   on a bench, partly to   41  the last of the afternoon sun,   42   to calm his nerves (神经). He hated these visits  43   the dentist(牙医).

As he sat there, watching the children at play and   44   to the old women talking to each other, he turned around to see a red car like his own come out of the   45   where he had parked. The car gathered speed and was soon   46  of sight. George   47   in his pockets for the keys: They were not there. “My car!” he cried   48   a loud voice, which made several people stare at him. He got up and ran across the   49   and then down the narrow street. His car was not to be seen--but then he discovered it concealed(被隐藏)   50   a large one. He was relieved (使宽慰)to find his   51  , still in his car.

By the time he reached the dentist’s it was already five. “I had rather an odd (奇特的)   52 ,” he said to the dentist to explain his   53  . “I thought my car had been   54  .”

“It’s quite   55   sir,” said the dentist. “As a matter of fact I have only just got here myself.”

 

36. A. leaving

B. parking(停车)

C. wide

D. special

37. A. in a way 

B. far away 

C. some way 

D. near

38. A. watch

B. teeth 

C. car 

D. place

39. A. leave

B. sit  

C. spare

D. see the doctor

40. A. stopped 

B. stepped

C. stood

D. sat down

41. A. shine 

B. enjoy

C. get 

D. receive

42. A. but also

B. so

C. in order

D. for

43. A. by

B. of  

C. to

D. with

44. A. listen 

B. listening 

C. to listen

D. listened

45. A. car

B. place 

C. street

D. way

46. A. disappeared

B. out

C. left

D. lost

47. A. looked 

B. felt

C. found

D. searched

48. A. with

B. at

C. in

D. by

49. A. square

B. hospital

C. street 

D. bench

50. A. with

B. behind 

C. after

D. in

51. A. bags

B. money

C. keys 

D. card

52. A. chance 

B. luck

C. thing 

D. experience

53. A. hateness

B. reason

C. lateness

D. car

54. A. robbed 

B. stolen

C. lost

D. there

55. A. true

B. good

C. often

D. all right

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