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With everything he needed ________, she left the supermarket. ( buy)

If selected, he promised he would do all he could ________ public welfare. (promote)

You are wasting your time __________ him; he’ll never take your advice. ( persuade)

We can do no nothing now but _________him. ( encourage)

I meant _______  you last weekend, but I was too busy and could not afford any time. ( visit )

Don’t let those who are not old enough ________ the video game arcade. ( enter)

Do you feel like ________ a walk along the river? ( have)

________ to eat in the school cafeteria every day made me sick.  (force)

Up to now, I ________ four cups of coffee this morning. ( drink)

All of the students _________ attentively when someone made a loud noise. (listen)

By the time I went to bed last night, Tom ________ asleep. (fall)

It was insisted that the man ________ to prison because he committed a serious crime. ( send)

This is the very motor cycle _________ to my desk-mate that was stolen last week. (belong)

That novel written by the famous writer from Hong Kong is certainly worth _______ twice. (read)

There are a number of students _________ to get examined. ( wait)

The gangsters _______ out in a remote cabin until it was safe to return to the city. ( hide)

He is such an _______ man. No one likes him. ( annoy)

The driver of the car probably holds the key to _______ the crime. ( solve)

I spoke to her kindly ________ her. ( not frighten)

It _____ ten years before we meet again. ( be)

It is hard to find a time that _______ everyone. ( suit)

I first met Tom 10 years ago. He _______________ in a radio factory at that time. (work)

Don’t bother to look for my dictionary, for it ____________ up some day. (turn)

Some of our students do need ____________ highly because they perform well in every task they carry out. (praise)

I know Mr. Brown; we ________________ to each other at an international conference. (introduce)

_________ in 1950, this company has a history of over 50 years. (found)

After _________________, the applicants will be required to take a language test. (interview)

His works are said ______________________ into dozens of languages in the past few years. (translate)

I found it no good ____________ to do it again. (continue)

The flowers __________ so sweet that I decided to buy some. (smell)

He came into the classroom, _____________ by many students. (follow)

The terrible sound from downstairs made children _____________. (frighten)

You’d better _______________ to know how to do it. (not pretend)

Neither his parents nor his wife ______________ him well. (understand)

You can hardly imagine the difficulty the woman had ____________ up her children. (bring)

Though _________ money, his parents managed to send him abroad. (lack)

He told us the story of a practical joke __________ on the man working with us. (play)

38.The matter ___________________ now will be settled at today’s meeting. (discuss)

答案

1. bought   2. to promote  3. persuading  4. encourage

5. to have visited  6. enter   7. having  8. Being forced  9. have drunk  

10. were listening  11. had fallen  12. should be sent    13. belonging   14. reading     15. waiting 16. hid  17. annoying  18. solving   19. not to frighten

20. was    21. suits  22.was working 23. will turn up 24.praising/ to be praised

25.were introduced 26.Founded 27.being interviewed 28. to have been translated

29.continuing 30.smelt 31.followed 32.frightened 33.not pretend 34.understands

35.bringing 36.lacking 37.played 38. being discussed

阅读理解

Reading comprehension.

     We may all have had the embarrassing moment: Getting half-way through a story only to realize that we've

told this exact tale before, to the person we're boring with it now. Why do we make such memory mistakes?

     According to research published in Psychological Science, it may have to do with the way our brains

process different types of memory.

     Researchers Nigel Gopie, of the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, and Colin MacLeod, of the University

of Waterloo, divided memory into two kinds. The first was source memory, or the ability to keep track of where

information is coming from. The second was destination memory, or the ability to recall whom we have given

information to.

     They found that source memory functions better than destination memory, in part because of the direction

in which that information is travelling.

     To study the differences between source and destination memory, the researchers did an experiment on 60

university students, according to a New York Times report. The students were asked to associate 50 random

(随意的) facts with the faces of 50 famous people. Half of the students "told" each fact to one of the faces,

reading it aloud when the celebrity's picture appeared on a computer screen. The other half read each fact

silently and saw a different celebrity picture afterward.

     When later asked to recall which facts went with which faces, the students who were giving information

out (destination memory) scored about 16 percent lower on memory perfonnance compared with the students

receiving information (source memory).

     The researchers concluded that outgoing information was less associated with its environmental context (背

景) that is, the person-than incoming information.

     This makes sense given what is known about attention. A person who is giving information even little facts,

will devote some mental resources to thinking about what is being said Because our attention is finite (有限的),

we give less attention to the person we are giving information to.

     After a second experiment with another group of 40 students, the researchers concluded that self-focus is

another factor that undermines destination memory.

     They asked half the students to continue giving out random information, while the other told things about

themselves. This time around, those who were talking about themselves did 15 percent worse than those giving

random information.

     "When you start telling these personal facts compared with non-self facts, suddenly destination memory

goes down more, suggesting that it is the self-focus component (成分) that's reducing the memory," Gopie told

Live Science.

1. The point of this article is to _____. [ ]

A. give advice on how to improve memory

B. tell what causes the memory to worsen

C. explain why we repeat stories to the same person

D. introduce different kinds of memories

2. Those who read each fact silently and saw a different celebrity picture afterwards _____.  [ ]

A. can memorize more information

B. have worse memory

C. are more likely to repeat stories

D. paid more attention to themselves

3. The person who is giving information _____. [ ]

A. may receive little facts

B. focuses more on what he is saying

C. has finite attention

D. pays much attention to his own behavior

4. Theunderlinedword "undermines" probably means _____. [ ]

A. Aweakens

B. benefits

C. explains

D. supports

5. What did the scientists conclude from the second experiment? [ ]

A. Destination memory is weaker than source memory.

B. Focusing attention on oneself leads to relatively poor source memory performane.

C. ASSociating personal experience with information helps people memorize better.

D. Self-focus is responsible for giving information twice or more to the same persor.

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