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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 watc

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

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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.  
【C19】
选项 A、habitual
B、verbal
C、pretty
D、mutual
答案B
解析 考查形容词辨析。空格处的形容词修饰reinforcement(强化)，而画线处前面的this指的是上一句谈到的儿童讲述他们的经历和听别人讲述他们的经历这一情况。habitual意为“习惯上的”，文章中并没有提到父母和孩子经常这样做，已形成了习惯，故排除；pretty意为“漂亮的，可爱的，恰当的”，不符合文意；mutual意为“相互的”。如果用在此处，应指父母与孩子相互强化彼此的记忆，这显然不符合文意。文章仅提到儿童通过自己讲和听别人讲来强化他们的记忆。B．verbal意为“语言的”。不管是听还是讲，都是用语言的方式进行的，verbal符合这一意思，故选B。
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