One of the most important results of research into ageing has been to pinpoint the significance of short-term memory. This facul

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问题     One of the most important results of research into ageing has been to pinpoint the significance of short-term memory. This faculty is easily (1)_____ as ageing advances. What seems to (2)_____ is that information is received by the brain, (3)_____ scans it for meaning in order to decode it at some future time. It looks as if the actual (4)_____ of the short-term memory itself may not change too much (5)_____ age. A young man and a man in his late fifties may (6)_____ be able to remember and repeat a(n) (7)_____ of eight numbers recited to them. But what (8)_____ change is that when the older man is asked to remember anything (9)_____ between the time he is first given the numbers to memorize and the time he is asked to (10)_____ them, he will be much less likely to remember the (11)_____ numbers than the young man. This is because the scanning stage is more easily (12)_____ by other activities in (13)_____ people.
    In (14)_____ living one experiences this as a fairly minor (15)_____—a telephone number forgotten while one looks (16)_____ an area code, or the first part of (17)_____ street directions confused with the last because the last ’turn lefts’ and ’turn rights’ have interfered (18)_____ remembering the first directions. In more formal learning, however, the (19)_____ of short-term memory is more than just a mild social embarrassment. It can be a serious bar to further (20)_____ or indeed to any progress at all.


选项 A、attainment
B、acquisition
C、learning
D、reaching

答案C

解析 本句是说短期记忆的衰退会对进一步的学习造成阻碍。故这里应用"learning",它与前面的"formal learning"相呼应。acquisition虽然有"习得"的意思,但一般它不表示"学习"的意思,而是常与某一学科连用,比如"language acquisition"。attainment表示已获得的东西或已取得的成就,一般不与further连用。reaching表示"到达"的动作,较易排除。
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