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Some people seem to have unusual memories. Zheng Aiqiang, a "memory athlete" on TV show Super Brain, can remember 2,660 numbers in just one hour!
You would think people like him must have special brains. But according to a recent study by researchers from America and Holland, the brain structure (结构) of ordinary people and 23 of the world’s leading memory athletes shows no difference.
Good memories can be trained. New research in the magazine Neuron suggests that a person will get a super memory with just six weeks of hard training.
Researchers found that a technique (技巧) called loci, invented by the ancient Greeks, can greatly help improve memory.
By using loci, you are using your imagination to improve the brain's memory networks. You can link (关联) something you need to remember with a place that you know very well. For example, to remember a list of numbers, imagine yourself walking through your house. Each thing is linked to a number. For example, zero could be the handle on the door and five could be the painting on the wall.
In one study, some ordinary people were given 20 minutes to remember 72 nouns. At the beginning, they could only remember 26 words, but when they were taught loci, they could remember 62 words.
“Not everyone can become a memory winner. But everyone using the technique can improve his memory greatly,” said Boris Konrad, one of the researchers in the study.
请根据短文内容，完成下列任务。
1.From the recent study, we know that ordinary people and memory athletes have similar _______.
2.To memorize a list of numbers by using loci means you are using your __________to link it with a __________ you know well according to the passage.
3.请根据短文内容回答问题。
What does the new research in the magazine Neuron suggest?
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4.请用一句话概括段落大意。
Paragraph 6 tells us that _____________________________________________________
5.请将文中划线句子译成汉语。
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阅读表达 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Some people seem to have extraordinary (非凡的) memories. Zheng Aiqiang, a “memory athlete” on TV show Super Brain (《最强大脑》), can remember 2,660 numbers in just one hour!
You would think people like this have special brains. But according to a recent study by researchers from the United States and the Netherlands (荷兰), the brain structure (结构) of ordinary(普通的) people and 23 of the world’s leading memory athletes shows no difference.
That’s because good memories can be trained. New research in the journal Neuron (《神经元》) suggests that you can become a super memorizer with just six weeks of hard training, reported The Guardian.
Researchers found that a technique (技巧) called loci, invented by the ancient Greeks, can greatly help improve memory.
By using loci, you are using your imagination to improve the brain’s memory networks. You can link (关联) something you need to remember with a place that you know very well. For example, to remember a list of numbers, imagine yourself walking through your house. Each thing is linked to a number. For example, zero could be the handle (把手) on the door and five could be the painting on the wall.
“Not everyone can become a (memory) champion. But everyone using the technique can improve a lot from the level they’re at,” said Boris Konrad, one of the researchers in the study.
回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过7个词。
1.How many numbers can Zheng Aiqiang remember in just one hour?
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2.Are the brain structure of ordinary people and 23 of the world’s leading memory athletes different or similar?
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3.When using loci to remember something, what do you link something with ?
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4.How long does it take an ordinary person to train hard to be a super memorizer?
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5.Who was loci invented by?
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VI. 任务型阅读。（每空2分，共8分）
阅读下文并回答问题。
Some people seem to have extraordinary (非凡的）memories. Zheng Aiqiang, a “memory athlete” on TV show Super Brain, can remember 2,660 numbers in just one hour!
You would think people like this have special brains. But according to a recent study by researchers from the US and the Netherlands, the brain structures（结构）of ordinary people and 23 of the world’s leading memory athletes show no difference.
That’s because good memories can be trained. New research in the journal Neuron (神经元期刊) suggests that you can become a super memorizer with just six weeks of hard training.
Researchers found that technique (技巧）called loci, invented by ancient Greeks, can greatly help improve memory. By using loci, you are using your imagination to improve the brain’s memory networks. You can link（关联）something you need to remember with a place that you know very well. For example, to remember a list of numbers, imagine yourself walking through your house. Each thing is linked to a number. For example, zero could be handle（把手）on the door and five could be the painting on the wall.
In one study, some ordinary people were given 20 minutes to remember 72 words. First they could only remember 26 of them. But when they were taught loci, they could remember 62 words.
“Not everyone can become a memory champion. But everyone using the technique can improve a lot from the level they’re at,” said Boris Konrad, one of the researchers in the study.
1.Is Super Brain a TV show?
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2.Who was loci invented by?
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3.How can you remember more words in twenty minutes according to Paragraph 5?
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4.Is loci helpful to you? Why or why not?
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Some people seem to have a secret for learning language. They can pick up new vocabulary, master rules of grammar, and learn to write in the new language __1__than others. Perhaps if we take a close look at these successful language learners, we may discover a few__2___ which make language learning easier for them.
First of All, __3__ language learners are independent(独立的) learners. __4__, Successful language learning is active learning. They look __5__every chance to __6__the language bravely. Finally, successful language learners are learners with a purpose(目的).
What kind of language learner __7__ you?
| 1. | | A．more quickly | B．quickly | C．slowly | D．more slowly | |
| 2. | | A．skill | B．skills | C．books | D．book | |
| 3. | | A．unsuccessful | B．successful | C．beautiful | D．outgoing | |
| 4. | | A．next | B．first | C．in the end | D．At last | |
| 5. | | A．at | B．into | C．after | D．for | |
| 6. | | A．use | B．make | C．dance | D．teach | |
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In today’s world many people seem to be hungry for money. Some of them even have lost their lives for it. Money does have a great effect on the poor, but if a person has a rich life, a lot more money doesn’t mean more happiness.
If money were everything, all millionaires(百万富翁)would have true love, real friendship, health and a long life. However, this is not always true.
Nothing else is more pleasant than the three words “I love you”, but can love be bought? I’m afraid not. Love means “give”, not “ take”. Health and a long life are precious(宝贵的)things for every person. Well, can health and a long life be bought with money? The answer is “No”. Of all the people who live longest in the world, few of them are millionaires. Real friendship can’t be bought, either.
In a word, where money is worshiped, money can cause brothers to quarrel, lovers to hate, strangers to fight and so on. No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough to make you a happy person if you have no one to laugh with and no one to cry for.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内
1.What’s the most pleasant thing in the writer’s opinion?
A. Money. B. Health and a long life.
C. Friendship. D. Love.
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. If you don’t have much money, you can’t get happiness.
B.You may have a long life even if you are poor.
C. Every year many people die because they are poor.
D. If you are rich, you will have real friendship.
3.The underlined word “ worship” means “_____” in Chinese.
A. 崇拜 B. 贬低 C. 鄙视 D. 挥霍
4.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. Money is as important as true love.
B. Money isn’t necessary.
C. Money is important, but not the most important.
D.Money can cause some problems.
5.What does the underlined word “it” refer to?
A. To make you a happy person.
B. To have someone to laugh with or cry for.
C. The money you have.
D. Your opinion about money.
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Some people do not seem to have a mind of their own. They never express their own ideas and they do not decide to do what to do themselves. My brother is one of these people. Last night, for example, he was going to read at home. At about seven thirty, his friend Tom came in, “Let’s watch TV.” “OK.” my brother answered. By ten o’clock my brother was tired and sleepy, and he wanted to go to bed. But Tom said, “ Let’s go out and get something to eat.” “ Good.” my brother answered. He often says things he does not mean and does thing he really does not want to. Worse than that, he does not say the things he would like to say or do a lot of things he would like to do.
1.When did Tom come?
2.What does the writer think of his brother?
3.Does the writer’s brother do a lot of things he would like to do?
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①In today’s world many people seem to be hungry for money. Some of them even have lost their lives for it. Money does have a great effect on the poor, but if a person has a rich life, a lot more money doesn’t mean more happiness.
If money were everything, all millionaires would have true love, real friendship, health and a long life. However, this is not always true.
Nothing else is more pleasant than the three words “I love you”, but can love be bought? I’m afraid not . Love means “give”, not “take”. Health and a long life are precious things for every person. Well, can health and a long life be bought with money? The answer is “No”. Of all the people who live longest in the world, few of them are millionaires. Real friendship can’t be bought, either.
In a word, where money is worshiped, money can cause brothers to quarrel, lovers to hate, strangers to fight and so on, ②No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough to make you a happy person if you have no one to laugh with and no one to cry for.
阅读上面短文，根据所给语境，按要求完成下列各题。（每空一词）
1.根据①处完成下面的句子。（每空一词）
It that many people hungry for money in today’s world.
2. 根据短文内容，完成下面的句子。（每空一词）
__________ love _______health can be bought with money.
3.将②处译成中文.
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People all over the world have some strange hobbies, and one of the most unusual in Britain is “trainspotting.” It's usually men over the age of 40, but not always. You'll see them standing around at railway stations and other places where trains pass by, and you'll see them taking photos and exchanging notes with each other. So, what are they doing?
Well, they're collecting information about trains — the numbers on the front of the trains, or the make and model of the“ locomotive (火车头)” —the part of the train which pulls all the other parts. In the same way that some people collect toys or stamps, these men collect and exchange all kinds of details about trains and railways.
The idea goes back as far as 1942. That year, a young man named Ian Allan was working at Waterloo rail-way station in London. It was his job to answer letters from people about trains, and quite a lot of the questions he received were very similar, so he had a word with his boss. He asked if he could write a booklet (小手册) giving the answers to the most frequently asked questions - an early version of the FAQs you see on websites nowadays. His boss said if he wanted to waste his time on such a project, he should do it in his own time.
So he did. The first 2,000 copies were all sold in days, and by the 1950s, a million copies of British Railways Locomotives were selling every year. Ian Allan went on to become a successful publisher, and got an Order of the British Empire (OBE,大英帝国勋章) from the Queen in 1995. He died in 2015, but his trainspotting hobby lives on.
1.What do trainspotters do?
A.They collect railway toys and stamps.
B.They observe the scenes at railway stations.
C.They gather and exchange details about trains.
D.They build and collect model trains based on photos.
2.When answering letters from people about trains, Iran Allan most probably felt________.
A.amazed B.impatient C.satisfied D.stressed
3.From the passage, we know that________.
A.his boss gave him a lot of help to publish his booklet.
B.his booklet wasn't popular when first introduced.
C.his work published in the 1950s is not popular anymore.
D.his project on train-related questions earned him great fame.
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Some people have very good memories（记忆力）and can ___learn quite long poems（诗歌）by heart. __ people have poor memories and can’t remember things ____they have said them over and over again.
The famous English writer, Charles Dickens, said that he could walk down any long street in ____ and then tell you the names of all the shops he had __. Many great men of the world have wonderful memories.
A good memory is a great help __a language. Everybody learns __ own language by remembering the things he heard when he was a small child. Some children like those who live in foreign countries with their parents, seem to learn two languages as ___ as they do one. In school it is not so easy for pupils to learn a second language because they have very __ time for it.
Memory ___a diary that we keep every day.
1.A. easy B. easier C. easily D. hardly
2.A. Some B. Other C. The others D. Others
3.A. until B. after C. when D. but
4.A. Beijing B. Paris C. London D. Moscow
5.A. went B. walked C. came D. passed
6.A. learning B. in learning C. with learn D. learn
7.A. his B. their C. your D. our
8.A. good B. better C. well D. more easily
9.A. few B. a little C. little D. a few
10.A. looks like B. does like C. likes D. is like
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We each have memory (记忆力). That’s why we still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things in a shot time, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have surprising memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He learns the sounds, remember them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages easily because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the students have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.
But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.
1.Why can some people easily learn many things in a short time?
A. They always sleep very well
B. They often eat good food and fish.
C. They read a lot of books.
D. They have very good memories.
2.When does everyone learn his mother language?
A. At the age of six.
B. When he is a small child.
C. After he goes to school.
D. When he can read and write.
3.What does a child need to do before he can speak?
A. He must read and write.
B. He must chat with others.
C. He must hear and remember the sounds.
D. He must think hard and listen to much music.
4.What can you do if you want your memory become better?
A. You must eat a lot of food, especi
ally lots of fish.
B. You must keep practicing it.
C. You must say or do things only once.
D. You must become a great man.
5.Why can a Chinese learn English easily if he is in England?
A. Because he must speak English every day.
B. Because he will have a good memory in England, not in China.
C. Because his father is an English man.
D. Because his English teacher is better in England.
ally lots of fish.