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  3. What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you【B1】______thunder or watche

What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you【B1】______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【B1】______thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom 【B2】______ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four【B3】______retain any specific, personal experiences.
    A variety of explanations have been 【B4】______ 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【B5】______about the age of two. But the most popular theory【B6】______that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot 【B7】______ childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or 【B8】______ — one event follows 【B9】______ —as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental【B10】______for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fits the【B11】______. 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【B12】______for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply【B13】______any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use【B14】______spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly【B15】______impressions of them into long-term memories. In other【B16】______, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about【B17】______—Mother talking about the afternoon【B18】______looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean park. Without this【B19】______reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form【B20】______memories of their personal experiences.
【B20】
选项 A、permanent
B、conscious
C、subordinate
D、spiritual
答案A
解析 考查形容词辨析。此处句意为：“没有这种语言上的强化，儿童就无法形成有关他们的亲身经历的______记忆。”从上文可知，儿童的记忆是短期的、很快被忘记的(short-term and quickly forgotten)，他们需要学习别人，用语言讲述他们的经历，才能把自己的经历变成长期的记忆(long-term memories)。因此画线处的词应与short-term，quickly forgotten等词意思相反，与long-term意思相近。A．permanent意为“永久的，长期的”，符合语境，是正确答案。subordinate“从属的”；spiritual“精神的”；conscious“有意识的”，均不符合文意。
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