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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.
【B18】
选项 A、used
B、chosen
C、taken
D、spent
答案D
解析 考查动词辨析。从句子结构和所给的选项可知，画线处的词是过去分词作后置定语修饰时间名词afternoon，而且其相应的动词能用在“动词+时间+doing something”这一结构中。四个选项中，used意为“使用”，通常不用来修饰时间；chosen意为“选择”，可以说挑个时间去做某事，但意思与句子的要求不符，也不能用作choose time doing something；taken可以用来表示时间，但常用在It takes+time+to do something的结构中，不能用作过去分词作定语；D．spent意为“花费；花(时间)；消耗(精力、力气)”，常用作spend______(time，money or energy) doing something或spend(time，money or energy)on something，符合语境，故选D。
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