问题 填空题

阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为1-10的相应位置上。

     This Saturday morning I was having a walk around, enjoying the quiet morning, beautiful weather and lovely life, with my dog Jett running   _1_  (enjoy) beside me.  

     At one home I passed, I noticed a newspaper that    2__ (lie) by the roadside instead of near the door. Thinking I would make someone else's life a little   _3__(easy), I picked up the paper and gently threw it towards their door.   _4__  instead of landing on the doorstep, the paper sailed    _5__   the wrong direction because of the strong wind and landed on the roof of a big truck in the driveway.  

     No one saw the funny scene but me and I burst out laughing. It was very quiet and they were probably still sleeping. It was too early to knock on the door and tell the homeowner  __6__ their newspaper was.   __7_  , instead I walked home, got dressed and went to the store to make it right.  

     I returned a little later with a new newspaper and a basket of strawberries freshly  _8__(pick) from my garden. I found the homeowner in the driveway with some of his friends. With a deep breath I came up to him and said, "I hope you have a great sense of humour." I explained what had happened to    _9__  newspaper.  

     Hearing this they all laughed loudly and I couldn't help but smile all day. I've heard it said. "Character is what you do  _10 _  nobody is looking." I should be a man of character!

答案

1. enjoyably   2. was lying   3. easier  4. But  5. in   6. where  7. So  8. picked    

9. his    10. when /while/as

单项选择题
单项选择题

What’s your earliest childhood memory Can you remember learning to walk Or talk The first time you heard thunder or watched a television program Adults seldom (1) events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, (2) children younger than three or four (3) retain any specific, personal experiences.

A variety of explanations have been (4) by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia". One argues that the hippo-campus; the region of the brain which is (5) for forming memories, does not mature until about the age of two. But the most popular theory (6) that, since adults don’t think like children, they cannot (7) childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or (8) one event follows (9) as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental (10) for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the (11) . 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 (12) for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to (13) . According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else’s spoken description of their personal (14) in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten (15) of them into long-term memories. In other (16) , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about (17) --Mother talking about the afternoon (18) looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this (19) reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form (20) memories of their personal experiences.

Notes: childhood amnesia 儿童失忆症。

(4)()

A.refuted

B.defied

C.proposed

D.witnessed