题目内容
【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Every four years, millions of people gather in summer 【1】(watch) soccer games. This year, the World Cup kicked off on June 14 in Russia.
Specially prepared for the most exciting sporting event, Live It Up, the official World Cup song, was released on May 25. 【2】(perform) by US artists Nicky Jam, Will Smith, and Albanian singer Era Istref, the song has a line that goes, "One life, live it up, because we got one life."
With a great melody(旋律)and attractive lyrics, the song stands for "the 【3】(excite), the celebration and the unity 【4】 people all over the world would share during the 2018 World Cup". In fact, the relationship between soccer and music 【5】(grow) stronger and stronger since the first official World Cup song came out in 1966. As a newspaper The Telegraph said, "Listening to inspiring music encourages people to take more risks."
One of the greatest soccer 【6】(coach), Giovanni Trapattoni, even believes that listening to music can teach players great lessons. "It is the intervals(中间休息), speed, and rhythm 【7】 help you learn the logical skills you need to read a game." he said.
【8】(actual), the right music can make all the difference. As Colombian musician Juanes said, soccer and music have a lot 【9】 common. "You need your feet for soccer and you need words for music, but they make us think of one and 【10】 same thing--- passion."
【答案】
【1】to watch
【2】Performed
【3】excitement
【4】that/which
【5】has grown
【6】coaches
【7】that
【8】Actually
【9】in
【10】the
【解析】
这是一篇议论文。文章讲了每隔四年,为了看足球赛,成千上万的人在夏天聚在一起,人们在看球赛的同时,也在欣赏着世界杯之歌。事实上,足球和音乐有着许多共同之处。
【1】考查不定式。句意:每隔四年,为了看足球赛,成千上万的人在夏天聚在一起。题干中表示“为了…”,用不定式作目的状语,所以填to watch。
【2】考查非谓语动词。“世界杯歌曲”和“演奏”之间是被动关系,用过去分词作定语,所以填Performed。
【3】考查名词。该空作stands for的宾语,用名词,所以填excitement。
【4】考查定语从句。___4___ people all over the world would share during the 2018 World Cup是一个定语从句,the unity,该空需要填一个关系词,关系词在从句中作宾语,指物,所以填that/which。
【5】考查时态。句意:事实上,从1966年第一首官方世界杯歌曲出现以来,足球和音乐的关系变得越来越强。根据“since…”,可知这里用现在完成时,所以填has grown。
【6】考查固定结构。One of + 可数名词复数,表示“…中之一”,该结构是固定结构,所以填coaches。
【7】考查强调句。把It is和该空去掉,这个句子结构仍然完整,所以这个句子是一个强调句。强调句的基本结构是it is/was + 被强调部分 + that + 句子的其他成分,所以填that。
【8】考查副词。句意:事实上,正确的音乐可以有重大影响。该空位于句首,修饰整个句子,所以用副词,填Actually。
【9】考查固定短语。句意:正如哥伦比亚的音乐家Juanes所说,足球和音乐有许多共同之处。In common共同的,该短语是固定短语,所以填in。
【10】考查固定短语。句意:但是它们让我们想到同一件事情。one and the same thing同一件事情,该短语是固定短语,所以填the。
小题7考查强调句。这道题的关键在于能够准确判断出强调句,英语强调句型的基本结构是“It+be+被强调成分+that (who)…”。在该结构中,It was…that (who)… 为强调句的结构词,原则上说,若将其去掉,句子意思依然清楚、结构依然完整。如:1. It was Jack who stole our money. 是杰克偷了我们的钱。若去掉it was…who…,即为:Jack stole our money. 杰克偷了我们的钱。2. It was in May that you can see this kind of flower. 你在五月可以看到这种花。
若去掉it was…that…,即为:In May you can see this kind of flower. 你在五月可以看到这种花。若去掉It was…that (who)…结构词,句子意思则不通、结构则不完整,那么就可能不是强调句。
【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. | |