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(江西省瑞昌一中2010屆高三上學(xué)期期中考試)
Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory,right ? Dana Denis is just 40 years old, but 36 she's worried about what she calls “my rolling mental blackouts” . “I try to remember something and I just blank out.” she says. You may 37 about these lapses, calling them “senior moments ”or blaming “early Alzheimer's (老年癡呆癥)”. Is it an inescapable fact that the older you get, the 38 you remember? Well, sort of. But as time goes by, we tend to blame age 39 problems that are not necessarily age-related.
“When a teenager can't find her keys, she thinks it's because she's distracted or disorganized”, says Paul Gold. “A 70-year-old blames her 40 ”. In fact,the 70-year-old may have been 41 things for decades.
In healthy people, memory doesn't worsen as 42 as many of us think. “As we 43 , the memory mechanism isn't 44 ”, says psychologist Fergus Craik. “It's just inefficient”.
The brain's processing speed 45 over the years,though no one knows exactly 46 . Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency 47 there's less activity in the brain. But, cautions Barry Gordon, “It's not clear that less activity is 48 . A beginning athlete is winded(氣喘吁吁)more__49__than a senior athlete. In the same way, 50 the brain gets more skilled at a task, it expends less energy on it.”
There are 51 you can take to compensate for normal slippage in your memory, though it 52 effort. Margaret Sewell says “We're a quick-fix culture, but you have to 53 to keep your brain 54 . It's like having a good body. You can't go to the gym once a year 55 expect to stay in top form”.
36. A. almost B. seldom C. already D. never
37. A. joke B. laugh C. blame D. criticize
38. A. much B. little C. more D. less
39. A. since B. for C. by D. because
40. A. memory B. mind C. trouble D. health
41. A. organizing B. misplacing C. putting D. finding
42. A. rapidly B. frequently C. timely D. quickly
43. A. mature B. progress C. age D. grow
44. A. broken B. poor C. perfect D. working
45. A. falls down B. slows down C. sets down D. turns down
46. A. why B. how C. what D. when
47. A. although B. so C. since D. that
48. A. irregular B. better C. normal D. worse
49. A. difficultly B. easily C. common D. fast
50. A. as B. till C. though D. yet
51. A. stages B. steps C. advantages D. purposes
52. A. tries B. takes C. does D. spends
53. A. rest B. come C. work D. study
54. A. in peace B. in detail C. in fashion D. in shape
55. A. so B. or C. and D. if
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