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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问题    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、since
B、hence
C、that
D、although

答案C

解析此处的考点是对句式结构的正确理解。Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency and that there’s less activity in the brain．这句话中suggests后面是一个并列宾语：suggest that…and that，其他选项连接均搭配不当，不合题意。

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