Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you 21 thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom 22 events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three of four 23 retain any specific, personal experiences. A variety of explanations have been 24 by psychologists for this “Childhood amnesia” (儿童失忆症). One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature 25 about the age of two. But the most popular theory 26 that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot 27 childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or 28 –one event follows 29 as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental 30 for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fits the 31 . It’s like trying to find a Chinese word in an English Dictionary.
Now psychologist Annette Simmons of the New York State University offers a new 32 for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply 33 any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use 34 spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short–term, quickly 35 impressions of them into long-term memories. In other 36 , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about 37 ——Mother talking about the afternoon 38 looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this 39 reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form 40 memories of their personal experiences.
1. A. listened B. felt C. touched D. heard
2. A. involve B. interpret C. recall D. resolve
3. A. largely B. rarely C. merely D. really
4. A. canceled B. figured C. proposed D. witnessed
5. A. until B. once C. after D. since
6. A. magnifies B. intervenes C. contains D. maintains
7. A. reflect B. attain C. access D. refer
8. A. narratives B. forecasts C. regulations D. descriptions
9. A. the rest B. another C. the other D. others
10. A. outputs B. dreams C. flashes D. files
11. A. footstep B. pattern C. frame D. landscape
12. A. emphasis B. arrangement C. explanation D. factor
13. A. aren’t B. weren’t C. isn’t D. wasn’t
14. A. anyone else B. anyone else’s C. some else D. someone else’s
15. A. forgotten B. remembered C. forgetting D. remembering
16. A. senses B. cases C. words D. means
17. A. him B. theirs C. it D. them
18. A. used B. chosen C. taken D. spent
19. A. habitual B. verbal C. pretty D. mutual
20. A. permanent B. conscious C. subordinate D. spiritual
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANAWER SHEET 1 (40 points)
Text 1
