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Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory, right? Dana Denis is just 40 years old, but (21)______
Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory, right? Dana Denis is just 40 years old, but (21)______
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2009-01-14
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Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory, right? Dana Denis is just 40 years old, but (21)______ she’s worried about what she calls "my rolling mental blackouts." "I try to remember something and I just blank out," she says.
You may (22)______ about these lapses, calling them "senior moments" or blaming "early Alzheimer’s(老年痴呆症)." Is it an inescapable fact that the older you get, the (23)______ you remember? Well, sort of. But as time goes by, we tend to blame age (24)______ problems that are not necessarily age-related.
"When a teenager can’t find her keys, she thinks it’s because she’s distracted or disorganized," says Paul Gold "A 70-year-old blames her (25)______ ." In fact, the 70-year-old may have been (26)______ things for decades.
In healthy people, memory doesn’t worsen as (27)______ as many of us think. "As we (28)______ , the memory mechanism isn’t (29)______ ," says psychologist Fergus Craik. "It’s just inefficient."
The brain’s processing (30)______ slows down over the years, though no one knows exactly (31)______ Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency and (32)______ there’s less activity in the brain. But, cautions Barry Gordon, "It’s not clear that less activity is (33)______ . A beginning athlete is winded(气喘吁吁)more easily than a (34)______ athlete. In the same way, (35)______ the brain gets more skilled at a task, it expends less energy on it.
There are (36)______ you can take to compensate for normal slippage in your memory gears, though it (37)______ effort. Margaret Sewell says: "We’re a quick-fix culture, but you have to (38)______ to keep your brain (39)______ shape. It’s like having a good body. You can’t go to the gym once a year (40)______ expect to stay in top form."
选项
A、mature
B、advance
C、age
D、grow
答案
C
解析
此处的考点是对上下文的理解。As we age的意思是:随着我们衰老。其他选项:A. mature成熟,B.advance前进,D.grow成长,都与上文不能形成很好的连接。根据题意,正确C。
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