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  3. What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you【C1】______thunder or watche

What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you【C1】______thunder or watche

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问题     What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you【C1】______thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom 【C2】______ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four【C3】______retain any specific, personal experiences.
    A variety of explanations have been 【C4】______ by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia". One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature【C5】______about the age of two. But the most popular theory【C6】______that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot 【C7】______ childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or 【C8】______ — one event follows 【C9】______ —as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental【C10】______for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fits the【C11】______. It’s like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.
    Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new【C12】______for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply【C13】______any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use【C14】______spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly【C15】______impressions of them into long-term memories. In other【C16】______, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about【C17】______—Mother talking about the afternoon【C18】______looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean park. Without this【C19】______reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form【C20】______memories of their personal experiences.
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选项 A、narratives
B、forecasts
C、regulations
D、descriptions
答案A
解析 考查名词辨析。画线处的词与stories是由并列连词or连接起来的，应是stories的近义词，而且符合下文对其特点的描述，即one events follows______—as in a novel or film(像在小说的电影里一样，事情一件接一件地发生)。forecasts“预报”；regulations“规章，制度”，均不符合文意，故排除。A．narratives和D．descriptions都有“描述，叙述”的意思。description强调“描述”，说明事情、事物或人物是怎么样的。narrative强调“叙事，讲述”，指像讲故事一样把事实叙述出来，因此A．narratives是正确答案。
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